{"id":1593779,"date":"2022-08-08T07:17:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T11:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1593779"},"modified":"2022-08-08T08:36:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T12:36:29","slug":"woke-school-board-member-caught-bragging-working-from-the-best-strategic-spot-from-the-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-school-board-member-caught-bragging-working-from-the-best-strategic-spot-from-the-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"Woke School Board Member Caught Bragging: \u2018Working From The Best Strategic Spot \u2026 From The Inside\u2019"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fwoke-school-board-member-caught-bragging-working-from-the-best-strategic-spot-from-the-inside%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=1593779&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 Sarasota, Florida school board member who ran for his office in 2020 pledging \u201cno hidden agendas\u201d told a woke-supporting crowd that he supported them, bragging that he was \u201cworking from the best strategic spot because we\u2019re working from the inside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Edwards, who tweeted in 2017, \u201cI view Trump, his regime, his supporters, and his voters as Nazis,\u201d was elected to his position in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards was taped telling a crowd of woke supporters, \u201cI just wanted to give a little reassurance that here in the state of Florida, there are school board members that are woke. We\u2018re here! (applause) And we\u2019re working. We have your backs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to know we have your backs and we\u2019re working from the best strategic spot because \u2026 we\u2019re working from the inside,\u201d he boasted. \u201cWe\u2019re working from the inside. And it\u2019s, from my point of view, I\u2019ve spent not quite two years to earn credibility and to earn trust and that is a long, slow process. But I\u2019m not the only one in the state of Florida. And I need to tell you so that you feel a little better, there are coalitions forming to protect you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cHere in Florida, there are school board members that are woke. We are working from the best strategic spot because we\u2019re working from the inside.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarasotaschools?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sarasotaschools<\/a> board member <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TPqmBfghQe\">pic.twitter.com\/TPqmBfghQe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1556418342625222657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an April, 2022 op-ed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/story\/opinion\/columns\/guest\/2022\/04\/05\/passing-divisive-laws-wont-help-educate-floridas-schoolchildren\/9463128002\/?fbclid=IwAR02YjvnBVcOi71ry89SmKF00m3lDUP0PIhBpBsUkeCXSVzPR56Ou0JtL5o\">Herald-Tribune<\/a>, Edwards accused the GOP-led Florida legislature of \u201cstoking the flames of a culture war,\u201d then attacked Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) for \u201ctrying to disguise\u00a0what they are doing as protecting the rights of parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Stop WOKE\u00a0Act \u2013 yet another law supported by the governor and passed by the Legislature \u2013 is highly offensive to teachers and administrators,\u201d Edwards declared.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards claimed that Florida\u2019s conservative politicians \u201cclearly\u201d appeared to have \u201can alternative motive for providing \u2018solutions\u2019 to\u00a0parents\u2019\u00a0rights problems that don\u2019t exist, allowing books to be banned\u00a0and imposing\u00a0measures to sue school districts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo these laws simply serve as a way to attack public education and increase the expansion of\u00a0for-profit charter schools? Have they been designed\u00a0to simply\u00a0help elected officials win re-election and boost their future political ambitions?\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2020, campaigning for the school board position, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CC8hgAeHrC4\/?hl=en\">wrote<\/a>, \u201cTo have real change we must do two things: a) positively affect the education of our students, and b) replace ineffective, divisive, incumbent officials. Replacing Eric Robinson removes the drama, divisiveness and hidden political agendas from the school board, allowing me to utilize my consensus building skills to heal the relationships with our community, our teachers and the union.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sarasota, Florida school board member who ran for his office in 2020 pledging \u201cno hidden agendas\u201d told a woke-supporting crowd that he supported them, bragging that he was \u201cworking from the best strategic spot because we\u2019re working from the inside.\u201d Thomas Edwards, who tweeted in 2017, \u201cI view Trump, his regime, his supporters, and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1898573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Woke School Board Member Caught Bragging: \u2018Working From The Best Strategic Spot \u2026 From The Inside\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1593779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Woke School Board Member Caught Bragging: \u2018Working From The Best Strategic Spot \u2026 From The Inside\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593779","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1593779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1593779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1593779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1593779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}