{"id":1517890,"date":"2022-06-15T20:19:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T00:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1517890"},"modified":"2022-06-15T20:19:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T00:19:57","slug":"a-drag-queen-for-every-school-michigan-ag-makes-startling-statements-on-drag-queens-later-claims-she-was-just-joking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-drag-queen-for-every-school-michigan-ag-makes-startling-statements-on-drag-queens-later-claims-she-was-just-joking\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Drag Queen For Every School\u2019: Michigan AG Makes Startling Statements On Drag Queens, Later Claims She Was Just Joking"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/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%2Fa-drag-queen-for-every-school-michigan-ag-makes-startling-statements-on-drag-queens-later-claims-she-was-just-joking%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=1517890&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--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/more-chaos-hits-the-michigan-gop-primary-race-after-candidate-arrested-by-fbi-heres-whats-happening\">Michigan<\/a> Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel made some startling statements Wednesday about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/drag-queen\">drag queens<\/a> in schools, but then tried to clarify that her comments were made in jest.<\/p>\n<p>Nessel, who made Michigan history in 2018 as the first openly gay person elected to a statewide office, was speaking at a civil rights conference in Lansing when she decided to talk about drag queens, Detroit News\u2019 Craig Mauger reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrag queens make everything better. Drag queens are fun,\u201d Nessel said, according to Mauger, before adding, \u201cA drag queen for every school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Drag queens make everything better. Drag queens are fun,&#8221; 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>&#8220;A drag queen for every school,&#8221; 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<p>Following her comments, Nessel responded to a critical tweet from Michigan GOP gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon later in the day, claiming her comment was \u201cmade in jest.\u201d The attorney general said she joked around to make the point that concerns with children being exposed to drag queens is a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgemi.com\/michigan-government\/nessel-jokingly-calls-drag-queen-every-school-gop-not-laughing\">fake issue<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAttorney General Dana Nessel \u2018proudly\u2019 announced she is coming for our kids,\u201d Dixon accused. \u201cWhen I am governor, schools will answer to local parents, not progressive activists, drag queens, and trans-supremacists. The days of radical activist politicians sexualizing our kids are over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nessel hit back at Dixon, calling her tweet a \u201chumorless take,\u201d and criticizing one of her supporters, former Trump Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the most humorless take imaginable on a comment made in jest,\u201d Nessel wrote. \u201cI expect more from the star of Buddy BeBop vs the Living Dead. Your benefactor, Betsy DeVos, has been a greater threat to school children in Michigan than drag queens have ever been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is the most humorless take imaginable on a comment made in jest. I expect more from the star of Buddy BeBop vs the Living Dead.<\/p>\n<p>Your benefactor, Betsy DeVos, has been a greater threat to school children in Michigan than drag queens have ever been. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mdkDHxN7XU\">https:\/\/t.co\/mdkDHxN7XU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dana Nessel (@dananessel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dananessel\/status\/1537180292724948992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Nessel says she intended her drag queen comments as a joke, Matthew DePerno, who is one of the three Republicans running to unseat Nessel in November, took her words seriously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDana Nessel continues to show just how out of touch she is with Michiganders,\u201d DePerno <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathanoosting\/status\/1537174872022994944\/photo\/3\">said<\/a> in a statement Wednesday afternoon. \u201cOur students suffered through some of the most extreme measures put in place backed by Dana Nessel that kept them away from the classroom and her answer is to over-sexualize elementary schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nessel\u2019s drag queen comments come as parents and politicians across the country express anger over those targeting children with radical gender theories, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/drag-the-kids-to-pride-libs-of-tiktok-shares-roundup-of-drag-events-targeting-children\">exposing<\/a> kids to drag shows.<\/p>\n<p>Another Michigan GOP gubernatorial candidate is set to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/michigan-gubernatorial-candidate-to-air-new-ad-targeting-radical-gender-theory-in-schools-calling-out-woke-whitmer\">release<\/a> an ad Thursday targeting radical gender theories in public education. In the 30-second ad, Garrett Soldano takes aim at what he calls the \u201cwoke groomer mafia,\u201d who he blames for pushing radical gender theory on Michigan kids. He is one of a handful of Republican candidates on the August 2 primary ballot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t co-parent with the government,\u201d Soldano says. \u201cMy pronouns: conservative, patriot. The woke groomer mafia wants to indoctrinate and subjugate our kids to their woke fantasies. It\u2019s time to fight back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel made some startling statements Wednesday about drag queens in schools, but then tried to clarify that her comments were made in jest. 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