Des Moines Schools' Dumpster Fire

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The words des Moines are of French a derivation. It
means of the monks. Monks are intensely private people. They
live behind tall walls and spend their lives in quiet contemplation.
Most of the two hundred and ten thousand good Americans
who now called des Moines Iowa home must wish for

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just such an existence. In the last five days, des
Moiner's far and wide have become a national punchline. Their
public school system, hundreds of millions of dollars, thirty thousand kids,
five thousand employees, is managed by a collective group of
recklessly incompetent, woke progressives so blinded by ideology they placed

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a convicted felon illegal immigrant as CEO and paid him
three hundred thousand dollars per year plus benefits. All came
out when Ice arrested him. So dreadful is the life
resume of mister Ian Roberts, and we can't confirm that's
his real name, now locked up inside an Immigrations and
Customs enforcement facility, even a Joe Biden appointed immigration judge

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ordered him out of the country before he became des Moines's.
A super is the face of and des Moines is
now ground zero in the national disgrace that is illegal immigration.
It was President Kennedy who said success has many brothers,
but failure is an orphan. Not this time, this failure

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has drawn a crowd to catch you up. He's a
criminal here from Guyana. Illegally fled arrest late last week
in a school district issue vehicle in illegal possession of
a loaded gun and hunting knife. He is illegally registered
to vote in the state of Maryland, also a felony.
In the last five years, he has conned American taxpayers

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out of more than one million dollars in salary and benefits,
plus four hundred thousand to settle lawsuits from his time
in Pennsylvania. Public documents show he has made many outrageous
and contradictory claims about his life history and supposed education,
including an outlandish claim he once worked on the security

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detail of Queen Elizabeth and yet in closed session, the
Des Moines Board of Education voted to approve his hire
with what appears to be little, if any vetting of
him or his credentials. They defend it now by saying
he provided a driver's license and Social Security card, neither

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of which proved citizenship. The consulting firm used to find
him has scrubbed its website of anything Ian Roberts or
Des Moines Public Schools, which appears quite rife with incompetence
and corruption. They spend seventeen thousand dollars a year per student,
while bringing up the rear in math and reading proficiency.

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One in seven Des Moines Public school kids is chronically truant,
that is, eighteen days a year at least not in school.
To execute a woke DEI strategic plan, Roberts and the
board hired an organization called New Leaders specializes in DEI hires,
illegal under Iowa law. The US Justice Department has launched

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an investigation, and yet in its March twenty six board
meeting minutes, Roberts recommended their hire while not disclosing New
Leaders credentialed him. The school district has yet to disclose
how much New Leaders is paid. The Des Moines School
Board president is an avowed liberal, Jackie Norris, former Obama

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White House staffer. She and her husband owned the Horizon
Group company, which holds contracts tied to immigrant research and settlement.
A federal audit has flagged over seven hundred thousand dollars
in payments to Horizon Group. As questioned Costsoe, she claims

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ignorance of Robert's immigration status in her line of work.
How is that possible unless you're not telling the truth.
She is running for the US Senate, which may be
hard while facing criminal indictments from the Horizon Group. But
is this story a one off or another example of
how American education and immigration is corrupted. Perhaps he's simply

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more adept at the practice of fraud. But the entire
system that promoted, paid, celebrated, rewarded, and is incredibly defending
of this con artist is itself a massive scam. We
don't even know how old this guy is, and yet
he maneuvered through the country and the education system for
twenty five years. Mister Roberts is a crook, but also

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the inevitable product of a system that is unaccountable to
laws and elected officials. Remember how this failure is no orphan.
Iowa has been almost entirely run over the last ten
years by Republicans,