July 30, 2025 • 45 mins
Will the real racist in the room please identify yourself! This hour I read a letter written in response to the deplorable (yes! I can use that word, too, #clintonbodycount) performance of one Trustee Gabe Medina of the PVUSD School Board. We are up against another fun-filled meeting this week where Medina's grievance-based acting skills are on full display. Boy is he a lot of fun. Anyways, I read a letter from local Pastor Brandon Johnson speaking to the absolute wrecking ball that is Medina (he is his own worst enemy, really). I love how these "activists" have co-opted a so-called "vulnerable" population of people, who are perfectly fine on their own and really just want to be left alone, in the name of "Equity." Oh, the irony.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
The California Mama Bears have been forced out of hibernation.
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defense of the family, and God given freedoms everywhere. You're
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Kristin Hurley.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Welcome to Mama Bear's Radio. Kristin Hurley Here, safe and
effective radio.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
As always.
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I'm back in the saddle here after I was absent
last week where we officially passed the.
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Four year mark of Mama Bears Radio.
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I'm just gonna call that date my birthday, if you know,
the years are a bit hazy, and I know my
first show on radio as Mama Bear's Radio was right
around my birthday, so I'm just gonna call it. My
family and I took a little road trip the last week,
so I think we played some repeats here, although I
don't know when the cat's away the mice will play.
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I actually have no idea what happened here at the
radio station in my absence, but at any rate, I
was off driving ground. My husband and I love a
good road trip because it's like you capture your children,
you put them in the car they're captive. We always
have a good time, and you know, we're pretty cheap.
We're a cheap date. We're like a road trip and
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a cheap airbnb somewhere we don't even care. Go to
the grocery store and get some sandwich stuff and sit
around and play some games and hang out is a
good time. So I got treated to that before my
little family disperses when school's starting, which is a whole
nother subject here.
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So anyways, I'm back.
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I will be gone again in another couple of weeks,
and then I think we're in it to win it.
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Then for the fall.
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Season, everybody's you know, gonna have to start school soon.
I want to say, like next week, the iron doors
of school will clang down upon all the young heads
around here.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
So sorry about that.
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All good things must come to an end, unless, of course,
you're homeschooling, and so the party just keeps on going.
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But at any rate, so.
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Yeah, I'm back here in the saddle for Mama Bear's
Radio gold Standard broadcasting here at AM thirteen forty komy.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I was thinking earlier, you know, it's so much fun
to go away, get a little break, get the heck.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Out of town. We all deserve that. Get out of
your head space for a while, and then you come
back and you're like, oh, and in my case, I came.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Back to a house overrun with ants. Darn it. In
Santa Cruz County, you can't live without ant invasions.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And the night before we left, we had like a
raccoon invasion as well. Want the cat food and they
go after the cat food. So the house is a
bit in chaos. But here we go as usual here
at Mama Bear's Radio.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I've got a full.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Dock at today. So okay, this is really silly, but
like late night TV, if you've ever been like in
a hotel late at night, this is of course years ago,
my younger years, and you're flipping through the channel. So
there was one time my husband and I were in
a hotel. I forget where, and it's, you know, this
softcore porn show called Girls Gone Wild. I don't know
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why that's stuck in my head. But today, and as
every day here at Mama Bear's Radio, it's humans gone Wild.
We've really just let go of all sense of decorum
and dignity and oh say, rule of law, a general
nice living, and we're all just at each other's throats
and it's go for the gold. At this point, I
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think it's a race to the finish line for do
we finish off the job in terms of just breaking
it all down and just finding the absolute bottom of
ourselves or are we turning it around and we're gonna
save ourselves just barely hanging off the side of the cliff.
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Jury's still out on that one, and it's good times
for everyone. But I do want to take a second.
Were somewhere along the wide open road me and my family.
I turned on the one of the more recent Tucker
Carlson podcasts where he had on Charlie Kirk, and I
think my kids had their little earplugs in and we're
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listening to their own music kind of thing. I think
only my husband and I really caught much of this interview,
and I just wanted to share some of the thoughts
with you guys. And as usual in my world, this
is how it goes. Here's something cool, See something cool,
think of something cool. Oh okay, Kristen, remember that later
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for your next show, or tuck that one away in
your brain and come.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Back to it.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Or my favorite is like, oh yeah, send that article
to yourself in an email and then read it before
you get on air next time, because you want to
talk about it, so you want to actually like read
the article or the piece or subseack or whatever of
like does that.
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Ever get done?
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No?
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So it's the same kind of thing. I was like, Oh,
note to self.
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Re listen to the Charlie Kirk interview with Talker and
write down a bunch of stuff that he was talking
about that really hit home for me that I thought
were just fantastic points.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
And did I do that?
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No?
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So I think I think my main message is here
if if you follow Charlie Kirk at all, And of
course you know, good old Tucker.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
He's in it.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
He's in it for the long haul. Here he's been
a little all over the place. Everybody's got their damn opinions.
I can't handle it that like we're all fighting one
another again. Human's gone wild. Some people are all like
sour on Tucker Carlson now. And I always appreciated him
for some out of the box interviews, and I you know,
I appreciate a lot of his viewpoint and sentiments. But
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Charlie Kirk, I am a big fan of I have
yet to find anything that Charlie says or the organization
TPUSA does that I'm.
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Like, oh, well, I get on my high horse.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I genuinely, genuinely appreciate his viewpoint, nearly always agree with him, and.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
He I found I have found that he's been actually
kind of.
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A tempered voice and tempered head in the last number
of weeks, as you know, kind of everybody's at one
another's throats on a few political items. But I think
at the core, his core vision and his core messaging,
his poor m O, Like, what does he spend his
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time doing in the trenches on college campuses, challenging students
to open their minds and hear some widely different messaging
than what they're getting in the classrooms at you know,
these so called institutions. And he is the one that
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can speak for that generation, this up and coming college
agent's somewhere in the middle of the older gen zs
and the younger millennials. He really really does, I think,
out of all of us, have claim to be able
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to accurately represent their their generational viewpoints, their woes, their ills,
their miss their misconceptions, the full package of what it's
like growing up as that generation or the kind of
the amalgam of the two generations, and he really really
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succinctly set that forth on this Tucker interview. I encourage everyone,
if you've got the opportunity and you want to hear something.
I actually told my kids, Sorry, bugs, but I rarely
force anything on you. I rarely force anything down your throat.
They all think I'm nuts somewhat, but like, you're listening
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to this, like it is imperative that you take the
two hours or whatever it was to listen to this,
because I felt like Charlie Kirk just super super poignantly
pointed out there he inside their head from their perspective,
what the heck is up with the world?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Why do they think the way they do?
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A lot of it is economics based, and as as
we know, we have sniffers and whispers of what's generally
at the heart of like a communist revolution or you know,
the socialism cry is some people have all the money
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in Europeans screwed, and and that's a rallying cry class wise,
right to incite the anger and the vitriol from the
underclasses of the poor, the oppressed people. And it's working
really well on college campuses these days. Obviously, the guy
in New York, mom Donny is like riding high on
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that flavor of that of digging into that the depths
of that, of the economic problems, and our younger people
in our nation, the younger generation that are the beneficiaries
of just screwed up priorities from those are the rest
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of us. And I will contend, you know, not particularly
my my era, my gen X generation may be somewhat culpable,
but definitely you know, as Tucker Tucker was actually funny.
He went on and on and on and on and
on about how much he dislikes the boomers. And there's
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a lot of truth in that. I you know, you
probably want a little bit overboard, but at any rate,
the mistakes of the past, however, you know, whatever the
motivations behind that was for our national economic strife. That again,
our kids and our grandkids and the generations that.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Don't even exist yet.
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The little stars in somebody's eyes or maybe even a
lack thereof. Actually, so our poor boys are missing if
some sperm count some destosterone levels, but if there were
to be stars in someone's eyes and that materializes as
babies down the line, the prospects for them are are
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are rough and they know it, and the you know,
so a lot of that of Charlie's take on that
I thought was just so brilliant and so spot on,
and again he's the one to know. So I encourage everyone,
if you get a minute, go and tune in, maybe
share it with your kids. Kind of a thing, and
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it's not it's it is a little bit of a hey, yeah,
this is what your generation thinks. Charlie actually is able
to walk that out a few steps on on the
trucker's board of well, you know, here's the boots on
the ground financial realities for that generation. This is how
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it's morphing and translating into their worldview and why they,
you know, are expressing themselves in the way that they do.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Of a thing.
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So I'm going to leave it there because I could
probably babble on about that for another half hour, but
I'm going to take my break here.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
When we come.
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Back, we'll get to my Girl's Gone Wild, Human's Gone wild.
Pile of stuff to talk about, but again, you want
to know what's ticking in our younger generation. It's a really, really,
really great portrait of what we're up against. Okay, everybody, Well,
this is Mama Bear's Radio. Kristen Hurley here.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Back in the saddle, and I'll take my break. Be
right back.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Mama Bear's Radio.
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We'll be right back.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
What what.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Welcome back to Mama Bear's Radio. Kristin Hurley here, safe
and effective radio.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
So I'm going to start close to home and then
branch out to the state and the nation.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
People gone wild. Here we go. So I wanted to
you know, charity starts at home.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
We we need to support the people around town here
that are doing the Lord's work to either participate in
self governance and in local government and representing us on
whatever level. We need to support organizations that are lifting
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up kids and independent schools, people that want to prosper generation,
empower them, you name it.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
So part and parcel of that.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Actually, the ven diagram of that are the people on
the school boards. Now, this is a right. It's supposed
to be a non partisan position. These people are elected.
They are meant to be community representatives, community voices. They
don't have to be parents, they don't have to have
kids in the district. They just have to live in
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the trustee areas for said school districts, and they are
supposed to be the finger on the pulse of the
community and what people in the community want from out
of our school districts. If you leave the government entity
school districts on their own volition, they will run amok.
Talk about girls gone wild, will go bonkers. So we're
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meant to have the community really guiding and making the
ultimate decisions for what happens in the districts. Now, that's
gone a little while too, as we well know, because
our schools are in complete and total disarray, still losing enrollment,
particularly here in California like a sieve.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
In fact, I have an article about that. I probably won't.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Get to it today because it's really far down in
the pile over here. But the enrollment is dropping still
and schools, if you're paying attention, are crying right now
about budget.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Now. This is also due to just some national and.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
State malfeasance on the part of like where does all
the money go? Well, sure doesn't trickle down to the kids.
Poof disappears out of your tax paying dollar pocket. Wait
a minute, your taxpayer pocket dollars shoot and then it
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just like magic, poof it's gone before it sees a classroom. Okay,
case in point. What are you talking about, Kristen Focus? Okay,
so there is. There's another papro val Unified School District
board meeting coming up this Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I encourage everyone to go.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I believe the last time we talked actually a couple
of episodes ago I had on the board president Olivia Flores,
and we talked a little bit about it was particularly
the School Resource Officer agenda item that was coming up
for that next meeting.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
The board in general has had a hell of.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
A year since January. New board members elected that are
really just bringing the house down. So what I want
to say is, while you're out there doing good work
on other facets of the diamond that is raising our kids,
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don't drop the ball on the school boards.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Now you may have totally.
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Given up on public education, and all of those feelings
are just rightfully so right there with you. It's a mess. However,
what else are we going to do? But still stick
it out to pay attention? And there are good people
out there trying to do the right thing, represent the
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community and do their darnedest to make do with what
they have and provide a good public education for the
kids till the whole thing comes tumbling down. It is
our charge from the founding fathers on down that we
have to take self responsibility for the the disaster we've
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brought ourselves. But at anyway, thinking positive. Pahr Valley has
another school board meeting this Wednesday, July thirtieth. Encourage everyone
to be down there. It's at their boardroom at the
district offices.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
You can look that up online. I think it starts
at six o'clock.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
These are some reflections from last board meeting, so that
was two weeks ago.
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There were a lot of us.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I'm not sure if I had a chance to actually
recap on this. There were a lot of us that
attended that meeting. And board of the school Resource Officer
program again that's at our high schools where there is
a uniformed officer on campus to help keep the peace.
Is a preventative measure and is a support mechanism for
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the entire staff and faculty and the kids in the
whole nine yards and so, but it's a hell of
a hot button issue because there's people who proclaim that
all law enforcement is bad and oppressive, and they want
the kids to live in fear of police and law
enforcement unfairly. So so I'm going to read a letter.
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This is from Brandon Johnson, who's a friend of mine,
sort of associate in the you know, the greater freedom
type movement around town. People thinking about self governance, what
that means, trying to help other people get engaged. Brandon
wrote this beautiful piece about that board meaning and I
wanted to read it to you to encourage you to
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just take your part and pay attention. Whether it's Pavo
Valley which needs needs help, or another local school district,
this is what's going on. So this is from Brandon Johnson,
and I hope I'm going to fit all this in.
I'm gonna read fast.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Last night's PVUSD sorry PVUSD board meeting. So this was
written a couple of weeks ago.
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Was a sobering reminder of both the deep divisions within
our community and the urgent need for respectful, reasoned civic engagement,
especially when it comes to the safety and well being
of our students. I attended the meeting to speak and
strong support of renewing the school Resource Officer program. Again,
this is from up Brandon Johnson, which places trained law
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enforcement professionals paired with mental health clinicians on pvusd's three
high school campuses. I was joined by fellow community members,
local parents, pastors, and representatives of the Sandracruz County Republican
Central Committee came to voice a clear and consistent message
student safety must not be sacrificed to satisfy political pressure. Sadly,
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what we witnessed was a toxic atmosphere, fueled by a
vocal group of activists, including trustee Gay Mendina and supporters
associations associated with Barrios Unitas. Medina's conduct throughout the meeting
was both unprofessional and deeply troubling, frequently interrupting his fellow trustees,
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speaking over the board president, and making divisive, racially charged remarks.
His rhetoric not only violated basic decorum, but he betrayed
the very values of unity and mutual respect that leaders
should embody. And Brandon says, anyone in the general public
who doubts this, I urged them to watch the meeting's broadcast.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
It's there on full.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Display, and I'm going to pause here and say, yes,
all of these board meetings are a broadcast live in
be recorded. You can go to the Paro Valley Unified
School District web page and look into the archives of
the meetings. Sorry quick drink, Okay, I'm gonna get back
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to his letter again. This is the takeaway from last
it I think it was the sixteenth board meeting in
Paro from Brandon Johnson who wrote this. He says even
more disturbing was the bizarre irony that Medina, who insists
law enforcement officers are not needed on school campuses, proved
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the opposite with his own behavior. His hyperbolic, inflammatory rhetoric
and that of his supporters easily could have sparked unnecessary
escalation multiple times during the meeting. It was frankly a
relief that two very large, visibly fit, and well armed
officers were present in the room to de escalate any
potential physical confrontation. Their calm presence served as a real
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time demonstration of exactly why SROs are so crucial. They
prevent heated differences from boiling over into inappropriate conflict. Trustee
Medina should be modeling good behavior and respectful leadership, but
instead he models bullying, intimidation, and chaos. His behavior was
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so unhinged, that it bordered on a kind of demonic manifestation,
not merely political theater, but reckless, damaging, divisive, and dangerous.
This is precisely the kind of disruptive, destabilizing conduct we
want to prevent on.
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Our school campuses.
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And yet here he is in a position of leadership,
modeling the exact opposite of what our children need to see.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
This man needs to go.
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Brandon Johnson goes on to write, it is no wonder
the schools terminated their contract with Barriosunidos. The rhetoric Medina
and his allies promote Foster's toxic division and grievance based activism.
Their so called mentorship programs would not have uplift students.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
They would raise up.
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Aggressive little racists, trained to see the world through a
lens of skin color, perpetual victimhood, and distrust of those
men to protect them. This is not mentorship. That is
in doctrination. Let's be clear. This is not progress, its regression.
This kind of behavior sits back doctor Martin Luther King's
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dream by decades and weaponizes identity for political leverage.
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All people should.
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Be judged by the content of their character and not
the color of their skin, and yet that is exactly
what Medina's minions made make issue with. The disparities that
some decry as white privilege are in truth better understood
as generational blessing, not privilege. The fruit of families who,
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regardless of ethnicity, immigrate to America, work hard, build stability,
and pass on good values and opportunity to their children.
These outcomes are not the result of skin color, but
of good choices, perseverance, and sacrifice. In our Western constitutional Republic,
the law ensures equal opportunities, but not equal outcomes. Your
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outcome is based on your efforts and ingenuity. I'm going
to pause here and take my break lest I go
super far afueled. When we come back, I'm going to
finish this letter. I have a few more paragraphs to
get to, and it's so important that you hear this.
I just think it's beautifully written. It sums up that
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it actually sums up the situation at this particular board
of trustees for the school district. It doesn't necessarily sum
up the flavor and feeling of what it's like to
watch this particular board member, Gay Mendina at work. I've
seen him before in board meetings, both before when he
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would attend board meetings before he got elected to the
board and afterwards.
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And he is.
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Monstrous in his demeanor and his in his tactics.
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He's a complete and utter destructive force.
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And as Brandon says, not representative of what we want
to model is like good citizenship and you know clear,
you know, conversation and an altruistic view of getting the
right thing done. He's a wrecking ball. So, and I'm
putting that politely, So I really do want to read
the rest of this. I think it's very instructive. Let
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me take my break and we'll be back in just
a minute.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
So where are we.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
This is AM thirteen forty KO m y home a
schoolhouse radio. You're listening to Mama Bears Radio Kristin Hurley here.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
I'll be right back.
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Good money for nothing, actually what some people in this
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nation think they should get, and that I'm going to
pay for it, all right, everybody, Welcome back to Mama
Bearr's Radio, Kristin Hurley here, safe and effective radio. I
am in the middle of reading a letter written by
Pastor Brandon Johnson. In fact, this got sent out to
be published in one or two of the local newspapers.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
I don't know if it ultimately was.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
He wrote this up after the last he was July
sixteenth board meeting. The Papo Val Unified School District board meeting,
A bunch of us attended. This was his takeaway. I
think it's very poignant. I really liked it, so I'm
reading it. It gives everyone a glimpse into what's going
on on this particular board, and I really hope everyone's
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takeaway is again, you may be ready to throw in
the stupid towel and darn it, so aren't like most
of the rest of us, and public educations total disaster
on a number of levels. Good people trying to make
it work, but there's just some and I hate to
wear say the word systemic, but we've got some major, major,
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major systemic hurdles to overcome to improve ourselves, improve this
whole system. But we're, you know, for the better or worse.
We're stuck with what we've got for right now. And
it still behooves every single one of us to take
part the kids that are in the public schools. So
at any rate, Brandon Pastor Brandon Johnson wrote this, and
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I really appreate his take on what happened at that meeting.
He's talking about Trustee Gabe Medina, who raises actual AHLLL
at these board meetings. So Brandon goes on to say,
despite the disruptions and intimidation, he was speaking about Gabe
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Mendina trying to bust up the meeting. The board ultimately
voted to renew the SRORO contracts with the Santa Cruz
County Sheriff and Watsonville Police Department, a victory for common sense,
community will and campus safety. Trustees Flores, Turley, Dodge Junior,
and Navarro voted in favor, while only Medina and Carrosco opposed.
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Trustee Flynn was absent for medical reasons. Medina also tried
to shut down the vote on the sroros multiple times,
likely due to the strong and undeniable show of support
from the community in favor of the program. This is
supported by two separate twenty twenty five surveys which showed
nearly eighty percent favorability for the SRO program among parents',
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school staff, and the broader community, with most minor students
remaining neutral on the subject, which makes perfect sense.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
It's up to the adults in the room to make the.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Best decisions regarding campus safety and not leave it to
the whims of impressionable youth and the fears perpetuated by
a small group of aggressive activists. Adults should be modeling
how to interact positively with law enforcement, an essential institution
in any free society, not pitting themselves against it. So
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Brandon Johnson goes on to say, I would suggest that
Medina and those who still oppose the SRO program hire
a non partisan, independent agency to conduct another professional survey
of parents and staff. However, I would certainly not trust
the acquisition or presentation of such data to those who
behaved so unprofessionally and divisively at last night's meeting. In
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my own comments, this is Brandon Johnson writing this. I
shared how my background as a pastor, teacher, lifeguard, and
first responder has taught me that safety requires both education
and proximity. Just as the lifeguards don't wait until someone
is drowning to intervene, SROs provide a consistent, present and
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positive influence before crisis, ever strikes.
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Their role is not to intimidate, but.
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To engage, to build relationships, model integrity, deter violence, and
respond quickly when emergencies occur tragically. It took the fatal
stabbing of as student at Aptas High in twenty twenty
one to bring this program back after it was recklessly
removed in twenty twenty amid national protests. We must not
repeat that mistake. Parents, staff and students overwhelmingly support the
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presence of the SROs, and it is our duty to
honor that collective voice rather than capitulate to a disruptive minority.
Brandon ends his letter like this. He says, this meeting
was also a wake up call. PVUSD is in crisis,
not because of external forces, but because of internal dysfunction.
With four board seats up for election in twenty twenty six,
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and these are Flores, Navarro, Dodge, Junior, and Flynn, we
must act.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
As a community.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
We can all allow agitators like Medina, whose agenda serves
political ambition rather than student welfare, to dominate the conversation
or the boardroom. It's time to raise up new leadership
committed to transparency, student success, and real equity rooted an opportunity,
not grievance. Thank you to everyone who showed up to
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speak truth with grace and clarity. Let us continue to
be faithful stewards of liberty, truth and common sense. And
this is again by Brandon Johnson. Well so well written.
I was so impressed. I'm glad to read it here again.
There is another meeting this Wednesday, the thirtieth, down in
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Paharo Valley at the district offices. This has caught your attention.
You don't have to have kids in the schools. You
don't even have to be a parent. You have to
be a community member that's interested in common sense, self governance,
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just doing the absolute best job we can for our students,
eliminating the divisive and the angry, the politics, the activist
mindset that only causes more problems. We have enough to
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deal with. So if you'd like to take part, join us,
I guess I'll be there at any rate. Charity starts
at home. That's how I started this segment out. When
I come back, let me just do my next break
right now. When we come back, I am going to
talk a little bit more about God bless them. God
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bless the teachers and the administrators that are actually doing
the work of honoring and educating our kids and doing
right by them. There are many in that milieu or
however you pronounce that word, that that's not their priority.
So I'm going to talk a little bit about the NEA,
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and again this is the same flavor perhaps that trickles
down to people like Gabe Medina, who brings this divisiveness
and disaster to tangibly to the board meetings. But this
is what's coming from the top the ANA, the National
Education Association, this is the largest teachers union in the nation.
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To give you a flavor, we will discuss that when
I come back. All right, Well, I'm Kristin Hurley. This
is Mama Bear's radio.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Stand by. I'll be back in a couple of minutes.
Mama Bear's Radio.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
We'll be right back outside this thing.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
This is Mama Bear's Radio. Kristin Hurley here. We are
just going to finish off the hour here with a
little bit of sentiments from the n e A, the
largest teachers' union in the nation. This is trickling down
into classrooms near you. Sadly, uh, this is what the
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teachers do. Go towards this kind of stuff, so that
you know, as I said previously this hour, we all
know there's fantastic people doing what they can in the
classrooms in our community and across the state and whatever,
but they're under heavy attack with just the most ridiculous
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is so anti anti I love like that the semantics
just kept me this is not progress, right, progressive ism
is not progress. It's it's division and hate and taking
us all back into like the series Dark Ages. So
that I just want to say that the any A
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scrubbed their their handbook, the twenty twenty five handbook was
scrubbed from their website. I believe they had their twenty
twenty five conference or whatever. I think I've reported on
that a few weeks ago, read some stuff I'm doubling
down here. So they caught such flak for this. They
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scrubbed it from their website. They actually scrubbed it from
like web archives. Although the guy I follow on Twitter,
Corey de angelis who's after these, you know, following these guys,
he has managed to.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Get a copy of it.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
He recorded a bunch of stuff, took screenshots before they
deleted it, and then he actually does have the PDF document.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
But anyways, but so he.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Has posted some of the stuff that was in there,
and I just want to call attention to this that
National Education Association handbooks, as quote, educators must acknowledge the
existence of white supremacy culture as a primary root cause
of institutional racism, structural racism, and white privilege. Educators must
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also work to prohibit institutionally racist systems. Now, this is
a number I dash fifty five, or maybe that's one
dash fifty five in their handbook twenty twenty five handbook.
The entire section is titled white supremacy Culture. The National
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Education Association believes that in order to achieve racial and
social justice, educators must acknowledge the existence of white supremacy
culture as a primary root cause of institutional racism.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
So this is what we're hearing out of.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Trustee Gay Medina and Brandon alluded to this in his
letter that he wrote after being at that meeting, the
board meeting, Trusty Medina is the most racist person in
the room.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
He was caught was like trying.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
To accuse us who are for the SRO program. We
were there to speak in favor of it, as white supremacists.
He made so many racially motivated remarks, and the rest
of us, you know, we're kind of sitting.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
In an audies like jaws on the floor.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Like what, it's something that wouldn't really even cross our
paths in terms of like thinking to say, make racial
remarks in a big public meeting like this, like openly
publicly accuse someone.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Because of their skin color of something. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (38:46):
But he's fully emboldened to drop the racist remarks right
and left against other people of other skin callers, and
it just is it's blatant and it's disheartening. So the
ANYA handbook goes on to say, the NEA will push
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strategies fostering the eradication of institutional racism and white privilege
perpetuated by white supremacy culture. School districts must provide training
and cultural competence, implicit bias, restored practices and techniques, and
racial justice. That's what your ultimately tax dollars are at work.
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And teachers does towards this union, whoever belongs to this,
this is what they're after and this is what is
everything that they are instructing here in this handbook is
parroted in particular by Trustee Medina on the PV School Board.
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The Teachers' Union Handbook calls for educational reparations that any
a believes that in order to achieve racial and social
justice for descendants of formally enslaved peoples, educational reparations must
be made.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Racial quotas.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
The National Education Association believes that at every phase of
governance and on all decision making levels of the Association,
there should be minority participation at least proportionate to the
identified ethnic minority population of that geographic level. The NEA
handbook also says, quote that homeschooling programs based on parental
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choice cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
What really they say?
Speaker 2 (40:43):
When homeschooling occurs, students enrolled must meet all state curricular requirements.
Homeschooling should be limited to the children of the immediate family,
with all expenses being bored by the parents and guardians.
Instruction should be by persons who are licensed by the
appropriate state Education Licensure agency and curriculum approved by the
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state Department Education.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
The Association also believes that homeschooled students should not participate
in any extracurricular activities in the public schools.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
What's that about? Talk about exclusionary? Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
The NEA handbook basically erasist Jews from the Holocaust.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
This is their section number eighty three International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
ANYA shall promote the celebration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day
on January twenty seventh annually on its website and through
other appropriate media, to recognize the more than twelve million
victims of the Holocaust from different faiths, ethnicities, races, political beliefs,
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genders and gender identification, abilities, disabilities, and other targeted characteristics. So,
like the Holocaust is for everyone, it needs to be equitable.
Everyone can claim that they were victims of the Holocaust,
especially people with varying political beliefs or genders or gender identification.
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The Holocaust was for you too, Oh my gosh. So
if you wanted to search for it, the pe pdf
is available if you follow Corey de Angelus online or
whatever he's he's posted it you can read it for yourself.
It's it's gross and disgusting things like this that are
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that that we're up against now again, am I speaking
out of both sides.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Of my mouth here?
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Like we should care and get involved and at the
same time, like whoa, there's not a you know, like wow,
this is a heavy lift. Currently not a ton we
can do about it as we slowly chip away to
reverse on a lot of this. But at the same time,
I'm like, you must care. Sorry, life is a pilot conflict.
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But at any rate, I'm there. I still do care to,
you know, to as much as I'm able. I'm not
sure I can live with sitting around and complaining and
sitting around and like knowing what's going on and being like, eh,
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I really want to lift a finger.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
Can't be bothered? Oh, nothing we can do about it.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
That's not my personality, which is why I continue to
speak about all this stuff and try to take whatever
sort of measures I can to participate. One quick thing,
So Sonya shaw I believe is running for state Superintendent
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of Public Instruction, which is currently Tony Thurmand occupies.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
That seat at the state level, so she has been involved.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
If anybody has been paying attention, there's a number of
school districts that have really fought back against the state,
starting back in like the crazy COVID days and all
of this. She let me read this about her real quick.
She never planned on running for office. The Chino native,
whoever came a challenging childhood, she was content as a
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soccer mom, but when California sidelined parents during debates of
her closures and mandates, she could not stay a spectator
like the rest of us. So she's been involved in
the Chino Valley Unified school Board. I believe she's the
president of that school board's champion parents' rights.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
She has actually won.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
Legal battles against Sacramento, including a lawsuit against Attorney General
Rob Bonta. She has really taken the stance that again
the education in the school boards need to have local control,
not bow to the state, and she's challenged the state
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on a number of levels. I wanted to read something
from her about PRISM California dot org, but I am
up against the top of the hour here, So when I.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Come back, perhaps if I feel like it will.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Get into that that's kind of the down and dirty.
Girl's gone wild, but you know, state of California gone wild.
Speaker 3 (45:27):
Perhaps we will foray into other matters.
Speaker 2 (45:30):
So anyways, this is Mama Bears Radio, Kristin Hurley here,
I'm at the top of the hour.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
Break. I'll be back in just a minute. Everybody, stay
with me. Was a hero.
Speaker 4 (45:44):
You're listening to kom wy Selva beach home of schoolhouse radio,
The California Mama Bears have been forced out of hibernation.
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Kristin Hurley.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Welcome to Mama Bear's Radio. Kristin Hurley Here, safe and
effective radio.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
As always.
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I'm back in the saddle here after I was absent
last week where we officially passed the.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Four year mark of Mama Bears Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I'm just gonna call that date my birthday, if you know,
the years are a bit hazy, and I know my
first show on radio as Mama Bear's Radio was right
around my birthday, so I'm just gonna call it. My
family and I took a little road trip the last week,
so I think we played some repeats here, although I
don't know when the cat's away the mice will play.
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I actually have no idea what happened here at the
radio station in my absence, but at any rate, I
was off driving ground. My husband and I love a
good road trip because it's like you capture your children,
you put them in the car they're captive. We always
have a good time, and you know, we're pretty cheap.
We're a cheap date. We're like a road trip and
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a cheap airbnb somewhere we don't even care. Go to
the grocery store and get some sandwich stuff and sit
around and play some games and hang out is a
good time. So I got treated to that before my
little family disperses when school's starting, which is a whole
nother subject here.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
So anyways, I'm back.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I will be gone again in another couple of weeks,
and then I think we're in it to win it.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Then for the fall.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Season, everybody's you know, gonna have to start school soon.
I want to say, like next week, the iron doors
of school will clang down upon all the young heads
around here.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
So sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
All good things must come to an end, unless, of course,
you're homeschooling, and so the party just keeps on going.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
But at any rate, so.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, I'm back here in the saddle for Mama Bear's
Radio gold Standard broadcasting here at AM thirteen forty komy.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I was thinking earlier, you know, it's so much fun
to go away, get a little break, get the heck.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Out of town. We all deserve that. Get out of
your head space for a while, and then you come
back and you're like, oh, and in my case, I came.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Back to a house overrun with ants. Darn it. In
Santa Cruz County, you can't live without ant invasions.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And the night before we left, we had like a
raccoon invasion as well. Want the cat food and they
go after the cat food. So the house is a
bit in chaos. But here we go as usual here
at Mama Bear's Radio.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I've got a full.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Dock at today. So okay, this is really silly, but
like late night TV, if you've ever been like in
a hotel late at night, this is of course years ago,
my younger years, and you're flipping through the channel. So
there was one time my husband and I were in
a hotel. I forget where, and it's, you know, this
softcore porn show called Girls Gone Wild. I don't know
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why that's stuck in my head. But today, and as
every day here at Mama Bear's Radio, it's humans gone Wild.
We've really just let go of all sense of decorum
and dignity and oh say, rule of law, a general
nice living, and we're all just at each other's throats
and it's go for the gold. At this point, I
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think it's a race to the finish line for do
we finish off the job in terms of just breaking
it all down and just finding the absolute bottom of
ourselves or are we turning it around and we're gonna
save ourselves just barely hanging off the side of the cliff.
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Jury's still out on that one, and it's good times
for everyone. But I do want to take a second.
Were somewhere along the wide open road me and my family.
I turned on the one of the more recent Tucker
Carlson podcasts where he had on Charlie Kirk, and I
think my kids had their little earplugs in and we're
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listening to their own music kind of thing. I think
only my husband and I really caught much of this interview,
and I just wanted to share some of the thoughts
with you guys. And as usual in my world, this
is how it goes. Here's something cool, See something cool,
think of something cool. Oh okay, Kristen, remember that later
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for your next show, or tuck that one away in
your brain and come.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Back to it.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Or my favorite is like, oh yeah, send that article
to yourself in an email and then read it before
you get on air next time, because you want to
talk about it, so you want to actually like read
the article or the piece or subseack or whatever of
like does that.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Ever get done?
Speaker 4 (05:23):
No?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
So it's the same kind of thing. I was like, Oh,
note to self.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Re listen to the Charlie Kirk interview with Talker and
write down a bunch of stuff that he was talking
about that really hit home for me that I thought
were just fantastic points.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
And did I do that?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
So I think I think my main message is here
if if you follow Charlie Kirk at all, And of
course you know, good old Tucker.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
He's in it.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
He's in it for the long haul. Here he's been
a little all over the place. Everybody's got their damn opinions.
I can't handle it that like we're all fighting one
another again. Human's gone wild. Some people are all like
sour on Tucker Carlson now. And I always appreciated him
for some out of the box interviews, and I you know,
I appreciate a lot of his viewpoint and sentiments. But
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Charlie Kirk, I am a big fan of I have
yet to find anything that Charlie says or the organization
TPUSA does that I'm.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Like, oh, well, I get on my high horse.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I genuinely, genuinely appreciate his viewpoint, nearly always agree with him, and.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
He I found I have found that he's been actually
kind of.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
A tempered voice and tempered head in the last number
of weeks, as you know, kind of everybody's at one
another's throats on a few political items. But I think
at the core, his core vision and his core messaging,
his poor m O, Like, what does he spend his
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time doing in the trenches on college campuses, challenging students
to open their minds and hear some widely different messaging
than what they're getting in the classrooms at you know,
these so called institutions. And he is the one that
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can speak for that generation, this up and coming college
agent's somewhere in the middle of the older gen zs
and the younger millennials. He really really does, I think,
out of all of us, have claim to be able
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to accurately represent their their generational viewpoints, their woes, their ills,
their miss their misconceptions, the full package of what it's
like growing up as that generation or the kind of
the amalgam of the two generations, and he really really
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succinctly set that forth on this Tucker interview. I encourage everyone,
if you've got the opportunity and you want to hear something.
I actually told my kids, Sorry, bugs, but I rarely
force anything on you. I rarely force anything down your throat.
They all think I'm nuts somewhat, but like, you're listening
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to this, like it is imperative that you take the
two hours or whatever it was to listen to this,
because I felt like Charlie Kirk just super super poignantly
pointed out there he inside their head from their perspective,
what the heck is up with the world?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Why do they think the way they do?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
A lot of it is economics based, and as as
we know, we have sniffers and whispers of what's generally
at the heart of like a communist revolution or you know,
the socialism cry is some people have all the money
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in Europeans screwed, and and that's a rallying cry class wise,
right to incite the anger and the vitriol from the
underclasses of the poor, the oppressed people. And it's working
really well on college campuses these days. Obviously, the guy
in New York, mom Donny is like riding high on
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that flavor of that of digging into that the depths
of that, of the economic problems, and our younger people
in our nation, the younger generation that are the beneficiaries
of just screwed up priorities from those are the rest
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of us. And I will contend, you know, not particularly
my my era, my gen X generation may be somewhat culpable,
but definitely you know, as Tucker Tucker was actually funny.
He went on and on and on and on and
on about how much he dislikes the boomers. And there's
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a lot of truth in that. I you know, you
probably want a little bit overboard, but at any rate,
the mistakes of the past, however, you know, whatever the
motivations behind that was for our national economic strife. That again,
our kids and our grandkids and the generations that.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Don't even exist yet.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
The little stars in somebody's eyes or maybe even a
lack thereof. Actually, so our poor boys are missing if
some sperm count some destosterone levels, but if there were
to be stars in someone's eyes and that materializes as
babies down the line, the prospects for them are are
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are rough and they know it, and the you know,
so a lot of that of Charlie's take on that
I thought was just so brilliant and so spot on,
and again he's the one to know. So I encourage everyone,
if you get a minute, go and tune in, maybe
share it with your kids. Kind of a thing, and
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it's not it's it is a little bit of a hey, yeah,
this is what your generation thinks. Charlie actually is able
to walk that out a few steps on on the
trucker's board of well, you know, here's the boots on
the ground financial realities for that generation. This is how
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it's morphing and translating into their worldview and why they,
you know, are expressing themselves in the way that they do.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Of a thing.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So I'm going to leave it there because I could
probably babble on about that for another half hour, but
I'm going to take my break here.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
When we come.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Back, we'll get to my Girl's Gone Wild, Human's Gone wild.
Pile of stuff to talk about, but again, you want
to know what's ticking in our younger generation. It's a really, really,
really great portrait of what we're up against. Okay, everybody, Well,
this is Mama Bear's Radio. Kristen Hurley here.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Back in the saddle, and I'll take my break. Be
right back.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Mama Bear's Radio.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
What what.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Welcome back to Mama Bear's Radio. Kristin Hurley here, safe
and effective radio.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
So I'm going to start close to home and then
branch out to the state and the nation.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
People gone wild. Here we go. So I wanted to
you know, charity starts at home.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
We we need to support the people around town here
that are doing the Lord's work to either participate in
self governance and in local government and representing us on
whatever level. We need to support organizations that are lifting
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up kids and independent schools, people that want to prosper generation,
empower them, you name it.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
So part and parcel of that.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Actually, the ven diagram of that are the people on
the school boards. Now, this is a right. It's supposed
to be a non partisan position. These people are elected.
They are meant to be community representatives, community voices. They
don't have to be parents, they don't have to have
kids in the district. They just have to live in
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the trustee areas for said school districts, and they are
supposed to be the finger on the pulse of the
community and what people in the community want from out
of our school districts. If you leave the government entity
school districts on their own volition, they will run amok.
Talk about girls gone wild, will go bonkers. So we're
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meant to have the community really guiding and making the
ultimate decisions for what happens in the districts. Now, that's
gone a little while too, as we well know, because
our schools are in complete and total disarray, still losing enrollment,
particularly here in California like a sieve.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
In fact, I have an article about that. I probably won't.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Get to it today because it's really far down in
the pile over here. But the enrollment is dropping still
and schools, if you're paying attention, are crying right now
about budget.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Now. This is also due to just some national and.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
State malfeasance on the part of like where does all
the money go? Well, sure doesn't trickle down to the kids.
Poof disappears out of your tax paying dollar pocket. Wait
a minute, your taxpayer pocket dollars shoot and then it
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just like magic, poof it's gone before it sees a classroom. Okay,
case in point. What are you talking about, Kristen Focus? Okay,
so there is. There's another papro val Unified School District
board meeting coming up this Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I encourage everyone to go.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I believe the last time we talked actually a couple
of episodes ago I had on the board president Olivia Flores,
and we talked a little bit about it was particularly
the School Resource Officer agenda item that was coming up
for that next meeting.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
The board in general has had a hell of.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
A year since January. New board members elected that are
really just bringing the house down. So what I want
to say is, while you're out there doing good work
on other facets of the diamond that is raising our kids,
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don't drop the ball on the school boards.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Now you may have totally.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Given up on public education, and all of those feelings
are just rightfully so right there with you. It's a mess. However,
what else are we going to do? But still stick
it out to pay attention? And there are good people
out there trying to do the right thing, represent the
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community and do their darnedest to make do with what
they have and provide a good public education for the
kids till the whole thing comes tumbling down. It is
our charge from the founding fathers on down that we
have to take self responsibility for the the disaster we've
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brought ourselves. But at anyway, thinking positive. Pahr Valley has
another school board meeting this Wednesday, July thirtieth. Encourage everyone
to be down there. It's at their boardroom at the
district offices.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
You can look that up online. I think it starts
at six o'clock.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
These are some reflections from last board meeting, so that
was two weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
There were a lot of us.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I'm not sure if I had a chance to actually
recap on this. There were a lot of us that
attended that meeting. And board of the school Resource Officer
program again that's at our high schools where there is
a uniformed officer on campus to help keep the peace.
Is a preventative measure and is a support mechanism for
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the entire staff and faculty and the kids in the
whole nine yards and so, but it's a hell of
a hot button issue because there's people who proclaim that
all law enforcement is bad and oppressive, and they want
the kids to live in fear of police and law
enforcement unfairly. So so I'm going to read a letter.
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This is from Brandon Johnson, who's a friend of mine,
sort of associate in the you know, the greater freedom
type movement around town. People thinking about self governance, what
that means, trying to help other people get engaged. Brandon
wrote this beautiful piece about that board meaning and I
wanted to read it to you to encourage you to
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just take your part and pay attention. Whether it's Pavo
Valley which needs needs help, or another local school district,
this is what's going on. So this is from Brandon Johnson,
and I hope I'm going to fit all this in.
I'm gonna read fast.
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Last night's PVUSD sorry PVUSD board meeting. So this was
written a couple of weeks ago.
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Was a sobering reminder of both the deep divisions within
our community and the urgent need for respectful, reasoned civic engagement,
especially when it comes to the safety and well being
of our students. I attended the meeting to speak and
strong support of renewing the school Resource Officer program. Again,
this is from up Brandon Johnson, which places trained law
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enforcement professionals paired with mental health clinicians on pvusd's three
high school campuses. I was joined by fellow community members,
local parents, pastors, and representatives of the Sandracruz County Republican
Central Committee came to voice a clear and consistent message
student safety must not be sacrificed to satisfy political pressure. Sadly,
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what we witnessed was a toxic atmosphere, fueled by a
vocal group of activists, including trustee Gay Mendina and supporters
associations associated with Barrios Unitas. Medina's conduct throughout the meeting
was both unprofessional and deeply troubling, frequently interrupting his fellow trustees,
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speaking over the board president, and making divisive, racially charged remarks.
His rhetoric not only violated basic decorum, but he betrayed
the very values of unity and mutual respect that leaders
should embody. And Brandon says, anyone in the general public
who doubts this, I urged them to watch the meeting's broadcast.
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It's there on full.
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Display, and I'm going to pause here and say, yes,
all of these board meetings are a broadcast live in
be recorded. You can go to the Paro Valley Unified
School District web page and look into the archives of
the meetings. Sorry quick drink, Okay, I'm gonna get back
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to his letter again. This is the takeaway from last
it I think it was the sixteenth board meeting in
Paro from Brandon Johnson who wrote this. He says even
more disturbing was the bizarre irony that Medina, who insists
law enforcement officers are not needed on school campuses, proved
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the opposite with his own behavior. His hyperbolic, inflammatory rhetoric
and that of his supporters easily could have sparked unnecessary
escalation multiple times during the meeting. It was frankly a
relief that two very large, visibly fit, and well armed
officers were present in the room to de escalate any
potential physical confrontation. Their calm presence served as a real
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time demonstration of exactly why SROs are so crucial. They
prevent heated differences from boiling over into inappropriate conflict. Trustee
Medina should be modeling good behavior and respectful leadership, but
instead he models bullying, intimidation, and chaos. His behavior was
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so unhinged, that it bordered on a kind of demonic manifestation,
not merely political theater, but reckless, damaging, divisive, and dangerous.
This is precisely the kind of disruptive, destabilizing conduct we
want to prevent on.
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Our school campuses.
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And yet here he is in a position of leadership,
modeling the exact opposite of what our children need to see.
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This man needs to go.
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Brandon Johnson goes on to write, it is no wonder
the schools terminated their contract with Barriosunidos. The rhetoric Medina
and his allies promote Foster's toxic division and grievance based activism.
Their so called mentorship programs would not have uplift students.
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They would raise up.
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Aggressive little racists, trained to see the world through a
lens of skin color, perpetual victimhood, and distrust of those
men to protect them. This is not mentorship. That is
in doctrination. Let's be clear. This is not progress, its regression.
This kind of behavior sits back doctor Martin Luther King's
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dream by decades and weaponizes identity for political leverage.
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All people should.
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Be judged by the content of their character and not
the color of their skin, and yet that is exactly
what Medina's minions made make issue with. The disparities that
some decry as white privilege are in truth better understood
as generational blessing, not privilege. The fruit of families who,
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regardless of ethnicity, immigrate to America, work hard, build stability,
and pass on good values and opportunity to their children.
These outcomes are not the result of skin color, but
of good choices, perseverance, and sacrifice. In our Western constitutional Republic,
the law ensures equal opportunities, but not equal outcomes. Your
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outcome is based on your efforts and ingenuity. I'm going
to pause here and take my break lest I go
super far afueled. When we come back, I'm going to
finish this letter. I have a few more paragraphs to
get to, and it's so important that you hear this.
I just think it's beautifully written. It sums up that
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it actually sums up the situation at this particular board
of trustees for the school district. It doesn't necessarily sum
up the flavor and feeling of what it's like to
watch this particular board member, Gay Mendina at work. I've
seen him before in board meetings, both before when he
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would attend board meetings before he got elected to the
board and afterwards.
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And he is.
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Monstrous in his demeanor and his in his tactics.
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He's a complete and utter destructive force.
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And as Brandon says, not representative of what we want
to model is like good citizenship and you know clear,
you know, conversation and an altruistic view of getting the
right thing done. He's a wrecking ball. So, and I'm
putting that politely, So I really do want to read
the rest of this. I think it's very instructive. Let
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me take my break and we'll be back in just
a minute.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
So where are we.
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This is AM thirteen forty KO m y home a
schoolhouse radio. You're listening to Mama Bears Radio Kristin Hurley here.
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I'll be right back.
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Good money for nothing, actually what some people in this
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nation think they should get, and that I'm going to
pay for it, all right, everybody, Welcome back to Mama
Bearr's Radio, Kristin Hurley here, safe and effective radio. I
am in the middle of reading a letter written by
Pastor Brandon Johnson. In fact, this got sent out to
be published in one or two of the local newspapers.
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I don't know if it ultimately was.
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He wrote this up after the last he was July
sixteenth board meeting. The Papo Val Unified School District board meeting,
A bunch of us attended. This was his takeaway. I
think it's very poignant. I really liked it, so I'm
reading it. It gives everyone a glimpse into what's going
on on this particular board, and I really hope everyone's
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takeaway is again, you may be ready to throw in
the stupid towel and darn it, so aren't like most
of the rest of us, and public educations total disaster
on a number of levels. Good people trying to make
it work, but there's just some and I hate to
wear say the word systemic, but we've got some major, major,
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major systemic hurdles to overcome to improve ourselves, improve this
whole system. But we're, you know, for the better or worse.
We're stuck with what we've got for right now. And
it still behooves every single one of us to take
part the kids that are in the public schools. So
at any rate, Brandon Pastor Brandon Johnson wrote this, and
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I really appreate his take on what happened at that meeting.
He's talking about Trustee Gabe Medina, who raises actual AHLLL
at these board meetings. So Brandon goes on to say,
despite the disruptions and intimidation, he was speaking about Gabe
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Mendina trying to bust up the meeting. The board ultimately
voted to renew the SRORO contracts with the Santa Cruz
County Sheriff and Watsonville Police Department, a victory for common sense,
community will and campus safety. Trustees Flores, Turley, Dodge Junior,
and Navarro voted in favor, while only Medina and Carrosco opposed.
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Trustee Flynn was absent for medical reasons. Medina also tried
to shut down the vote on the sroros multiple times,
likely due to the strong and undeniable show of support
from the community in favor of the program. This is
supported by two separate twenty twenty five surveys which showed
nearly eighty percent favorability for the SRO program among parents',
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school staff, and the broader community, with most minor students
remaining neutral on the subject, which makes perfect sense.
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It's up to the adults in the room to make the.
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Best decisions regarding campus safety and not leave it to
the whims of impressionable youth and the fears perpetuated by
a small group of aggressive activists. Adults should be modeling
how to interact positively with law enforcement, an essential institution
in any free society, not pitting themselves against it. So
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Brandon Johnson goes on to say, I would suggest that
Medina and those who still oppose the SRO program hire
a non partisan, independent agency to conduct another professional survey
of parents and staff. However, I would certainly not trust
the acquisition or presentation of such data to those who
behaved so unprofessionally and divisively at last night's meeting. In
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my own comments, this is Brandon Johnson writing this. I
shared how my background as a pastor, teacher, lifeguard, and
first responder has taught me that safety requires both education
and proximity. Just as the lifeguards don't wait until someone
is drowning to intervene, SROs provide a consistent, present and
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positive influence before crisis, ever strikes.
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Their role is not to intimidate, but.
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To engage, to build relationships, model integrity, deter violence, and
respond quickly when emergencies occur tragically. It took the fatal
stabbing of as student at Aptas High in twenty twenty
one to bring this program back after it was recklessly
removed in twenty twenty amid national protests. We must not
repeat that mistake. Parents, staff and students overwhelmingly support the
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presence of the SROs, and it is our duty to
honor that collective voice rather than capitulate to a disruptive minority.
Brandon ends his letter like this. He says, this meeting
was also a wake up call. PVUSD is in crisis,
not because of external forces, but because of internal dysfunction.
With four board seats up for election in twenty twenty six,
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and these are Flores, Navarro, Dodge, Junior, and Flynn, we
must act.
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As a community.
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We can all allow agitators like Medina, whose agenda serves
political ambition rather than student welfare, to dominate the conversation
or the boardroom. It's time to raise up new leadership
committed to transparency, student success, and real equity rooted an opportunity,
not grievance. Thank you to everyone who showed up to
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speak truth with grace and clarity. Let us continue to
be faithful stewards of liberty, truth and common sense. And
this is again by Brandon Johnson. Well so well written.
I was so impressed. I'm glad to read it here again.
There is another meeting this Wednesday, the thirtieth, down in
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Paharo Valley at the district offices. This has caught your attention.
You don't have to have kids in the schools. You
don't even have to be a parent. You have to
be a community member that's interested in common sense, self governance,
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just doing the absolute best job we can for our students,
eliminating the divisive and the angry, the politics, the activist
mindset that only causes more problems. We have enough to
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deal with. So if you'd like to take part, join us,
I guess I'll be there at any rate. Charity starts
at home. That's how I started this segment out. When
I come back, let me just do my next break
right now. When we come back, I am going to
talk a little bit more about God bless them. God
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bless the teachers and the administrators that are actually doing
the work of honoring and educating our kids and doing
right by them. There are many in that milieu or
however you pronounce that word, that that's not their priority.
So I'm going to talk a little bit about the NEA,
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and again this is the same flavor perhaps that trickles
down to people like Gabe Medina, who brings this divisiveness
and disaster to tangibly to the board meetings. But this
is what's coming from the top the ANA, the National
Education Association, this is the largest teachers union in the nation.
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To give you a flavor, we will discuss that when
I come back. All right, Well, I'm Kristin Hurley. This
is Mama Bear's radio.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Stand by. I'll be back in a couple of minutes.
Mama Bear's Radio.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
We'll be right back outside this thing.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Welcome back.
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This is Mama Bear's Radio. Kristin Hurley here. We are
just going to finish off the hour here with a
little bit of sentiments from the n e A, the
largest teachers' union in the nation. This is trickling down
into classrooms near you. Sadly, uh, this is what the
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teachers do. Go towards this kind of stuff, so that
you know, as I said previously this hour, we all
know there's fantastic people doing what they can in the
classrooms in our community and across the state and whatever,
but they're under heavy attack with just the most ridiculous
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is so anti anti I love like that the semantics
just kept me this is not progress, right, progressive ism
is not progress. It's it's division and hate and taking
us all back into like the series Dark Ages. So
that I just want to say that the any A
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scrubbed their their handbook, the twenty twenty five handbook was
scrubbed from their website. I believe they had their twenty
twenty five conference or whatever. I think I've reported on
that a few weeks ago, read some stuff I'm doubling
down here. So they caught such flak for this. They
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scrubbed it from their website. They actually scrubbed it from
like web archives. Although the guy I follow on Twitter,
Corey de angelis who's after these, you know, following these guys,
he has managed to.
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Get a copy of it.
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He recorded a bunch of stuff, took screenshots before they
deleted it, and then he actually does have the PDF document.
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But anyways, but so he.
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Has posted some of the stuff that was in there,
and I just want to call attention to this that
National Education Association handbooks, as quote, educators must acknowledge the
existence of white supremacy culture as a primary root cause
of institutional racism, structural racism, and white privilege. Educators must
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also work to prohibit institutionally racist systems. Now, this is
a number I dash fifty five, or maybe that's one
dash fifty five in their handbook twenty twenty five handbook.
The entire section is titled white supremacy Culture. The National
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Education Association believes that in order to achieve racial and
social justice, educators must acknowledge the existence of white supremacy
culture as a primary root cause of institutional racism.
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So this is what we're hearing out of.
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Trustee Gay Medina and Brandon alluded to this in his
letter that he wrote after being at that meeting, the
board meeting, Trusty Medina is the most racist person in
the room.
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He was caught was like trying.
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To accuse us who are for the SRO program. We
were there to speak in favor of it, as white supremacists.
He made so many racially motivated remarks, and the rest
of us, you know, we're kind of sitting.
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In an audies like jaws on the floor.
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Like what, it's something that wouldn't really even cross our
paths in terms of like thinking to say, make racial
remarks in a big public meeting like this, like openly
publicly accuse someone.
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Because of their skin color of something. Are you kidding me?
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But he's fully emboldened to drop the racist remarks right
and left against other people of other skin callers, and
it just is it's blatant and it's disheartening. So the
ANYA handbook goes on to say, the NEA will push
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strategies fostering the eradication of institutional racism and white privilege
perpetuated by white supremacy culture. School districts must provide training
and cultural competence, implicit bias, restored practices and techniques, and
racial justice. That's what your ultimately tax dollars are at work.
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And teachers does towards this union, whoever belongs to this,
this is what they're after and this is what is
everything that they are instructing here in this handbook is
parroted in particular by Trustee Medina on the PV School Board.
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The Teachers' Union Handbook calls for educational reparations that any
a believes that in order to achieve racial and social
justice for descendants of formally enslaved peoples, educational reparations must
be made.
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Racial quotas.
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The National Education Association believes that at every phase of
governance and on all decision making levels of the Association,
there should be minority participation at least proportionate to the
identified ethnic minority population of that geographic level. The NEA
handbook also says, quote that homeschooling programs based on parental
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choice cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience.
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What really they say?
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When homeschooling occurs, students enrolled must meet all state curricular requirements.
Homeschooling should be limited to the children of the immediate family,
with all expenses being bored by the parents and guardians.
Instruction should be by persons who are licensed by the
appropriate state Education Licensure agency and curriculum approved by the
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state Department Education.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Listen to this.
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The Association also believes that homeschooled students should not participate
in any extracurricular activities in the public schools.
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What's that about? Talk about exclusionary? Listen to this.
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The NEA handbook basically erasist Jews from the Holocaust.
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Listen to this.
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This is their section number eighty three International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
ANYA shall promote the celebration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day
on January twenty seventh annually on its website and through
other appropriate media, to recognize the more than twelve million
victims of the Holocaust from different faiths, ethnicities, races, political beliefs,
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genders and gender identification, abilities, disabilities, and other targeted characteristics. So,
like the Holocaust is for everyone, it needs to be equitable.
Everyone can claim that they were victims of the Holocaust,
especially people with varying political beliefs or genders or gender identification.
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The Holocaust was for you too, Oh my gosh. So
if you wanted to search for it, the pe pdf
is available if you follow Corey de Angelus online or
whatever he's he's posted it you can read it for yourself.
It's it's gross and disgusting things like this that are
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that that we're up against now again, am I speaking
out of both sides.
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Of my mouth here?
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Like we should care and get involved and at the
same time, like whoa, there's not a you know, like wow,
this is a heavy lift. Currently not a ton we
can do about it as we slowly chip away to
reverse on a lot of this. But at the same time,
I'm like, you must care. Sorry, life is a pilot conflict.
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But at any rate, I'm there. I still do care to,
you know, to as much as I'm able. I'm not
sure I can live with sitting around and complaining and
sitting around and like knowing what's going on and being like, eh,
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I really want to lift a finger.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
Can't be bothered? Oh, nothing we can do about it.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
That's not my personality, which is why I continue to
speak about all this stuff and try to take whatever
sort of measures I can to participate. One quick thing,
So Sonya shaw I believe is running for state Superintendent
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of Public Instruction, which is currently Tony Thurmand occupies.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
That seat at the state level, so she has been involved.
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If anybody has been paying attention, there's a number of
school districts that have really fought back against the state,
starting back in like the crazy COVID days and all
of this. She let me read this about her real quick.
She never planned on running for office. The Chino native,
whoever came a challenging childhood, she was content as a
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soccer mom, but when California sidelined parents during debates of
her closures and mandates, she could not stay a spectator
like the rest of us. So she's been involved in
the Chino Valley Unified school Board. I believe she's the
president of that school board's champion parents' rights.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
She has actually won.
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Legal battles against Sacramento, including a lawsuit against Attorney General
Rob Bonta. She has really taken the stance that again
the education in the school boards need to have local control,
not bow to the state, and she's challenged the state
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on a number of levels. I wanted to read something
from her about PRISM California dot org, but I am
up against the top of the hour here, So when I.
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Come back, perhaps if I feel like it will.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Get into that that's kind of the down and dirty.
Girl's gone wild, but you know, state of California gone wild.
Speaker 3 (45:27):
Perhaps we will foray into other matters.
Speaker 2 (45:30):
So anyways, this is Mama Bears Radio, Kristin Hurley here,
I'm at the top of the hour.
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Break. I'll be back in just a minute. Everybody, stay
with me. Was a hero.
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