{"id":1517826,"date":"2022-06-15T18:19:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T22:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1517826"},"modified":"2022-06-15T18:19:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T22:19:25","slug":"michigan-ag-dana-nessel-calls-for-a-drag-queen-for-every-school-during-woke-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-ag-dana-nessel-calls-for-a-drag-queen-for-every-school-during-woke-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan AG Dana Nessel Calls For \u2018A Drag Queen For Every School\u2019 During Woke Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichigan-ag-dana-nessel-calls-for-a-drag-queen-for-every-school-during-woke-conference%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1517826&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel called for \u201ca drag queen for every school\u201d during a Wednesday conference in which attendees \u201clook[ed] at discrimination through a systems lens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrag queens make everything better. Drag queens are fun,\u201d Nessel said at the 2022 Michigan Civil Rights Summit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/06\/15\/nessel-jokes-a-drag-queen-every-school-speech-against-fake-issues\/7639375001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to<\/a> audio obtained by The Detroit News. The summit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/mdcr\/news\/releases\/2022\/05\/24\/michigan-department-of-civil-rights-to-host-civil-rights-summit-in-june\">hosted<\/a> by the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, <a href=\"https:\/\/whova.com\/web\/DBikXqwfZz4zmOl7PmLcdX-1ysoendokkjdO54OIHv4%3D\/\">featured<\/a> several top Michigan state officials, as well as Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge, who addressed the crowd virtually.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrag queens are entertainment. And you know what I\u2019ll say that was totally not poll tested, I\u2019d say this, \u2018A drag queen for every school,&#8217;\u201d Nessel added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cDrag queens make everything better. Drag queens are fun,\u201d Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says at a civil rights conference in Lansing while speaking out against what she describes as efforts to divide people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA drag queen for every school,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Craig Mauger (@CraigDMauger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CraigDMauger\/status\/1537147134142824448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In her speech, Nessel spoke out against \u201cfake issues\u201d being used to divide people. \u201cI am so tired of having prominent members of our state government create wedge issues that don\u2019t help, that don\u2019t heal us but divide us. And that\u2019s all they do,\u201d Nessel also said.<\/p>\n<p>The Michigan Civil Rights Summit\u2019s 2022 conference is dedicated to \u201canalyz[ing] equity in education, housing, health care, voting rights, and economics,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/mdcr\/news\/releases\/2022\/05\/24\/michigan-department-of-civil-rights-to-host-civil-rights-summit-in-june\">according<\/a> to a press release from the Department of Civil Rights. In addition to Nessel and Fudge, Michigan Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist and Secretary of State Joscelyn Benson made appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Nessel\u2019s comments were an apparent tongue-in-cheek reference to former President Herbert Hoover, who apocryphally <a href=\"https:\/\/iowaculture.gov\/history\/education\/educator-resources\/primary-source-sets\/great-depression-and-herbert-hoover\/chicken\">promised<\/a> a chicken in every pot during the 1928 election cycle. The promise was widely mocked after the U.S. fell into the Great Depression in 1929. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/11\/dana-nessel-michigan-attorney-general-drunk-tailgate-football-game-facebook\/\">(RELATED: State AG Comes Clean, Says She Got Too Drunk Before College Football Game And Required Assistance Leaving Stadium)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nessel, a former criminal defense attorney, is the first openly LGBTQ person elected to statewide office in Michigan. She has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/03\/02\/nessel-michigan-law-bans-discrimination-based-sexual-orientation\/9340574002\/\">argued<\/a> in state court that Michigan law prohibits discrimination based on gender or sexual orientation, and was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/05\/21\/dana-nessel-michigan-donald-trump-face-mask\/\">lauded<\/a> by Democrats after she banned then-President Donald Trump from the state after he refused to wear a mask during a tour of a Ford auto plant.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Nessel did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TudorDixon\/status\/1533261671610961921\">pledged<\/a> criminal penalties for \u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">adults who involve children in drag shows<\/span>,\u201d describing it as \u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">sexually abusive activity<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel called for \u201ca drag queen for every school\u201d during a Wednesday conference in which attendees \u201clook[ed] at discrimination through a systems lens.\u201d\u201cDrag queens make everything<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}