[FOX] A California women’s sports advocate and candidate for office says organizers cleared the audience from a school board candidate forum after a dispute over her "Save Girls Sports" shirt.
Shannon Kessler, the Republican candidate for California’s 30th Assembly District and founder of Save Girls Sports Central Coast, told OutKick she was instructed to cover the shirt at a Sept. 21 forum for Lucia Mar Unified School District trustee candidates in Arroyo Grande.
The shirt also carried her name and Assembly campaign information on the back, Kessler acknowledged. She said she offered to cover that portion before eventually agreeing to conceal the front as well.
The League of Women Voters of San Luis Obispo County hosted the forum with the American Association of University Women’s 5 Cities Pismo Beach Branch. Footage shows the host of the forum announcing a "violation," before instructing everyone to leave.
"From this point on, this forum has been cancelled, because of that violation, we can not proceed," he said, as seen in footage provided by Kessler. "We will ask you to leave now, yes, due to the violation. The violation that there are not to be any slogans, no campaign slogans in the forum, we can not continue."
The candidate forum continued without an audience, with participants answering previously submitted written questions on camera. The event was held at Arroyo Grande High School, rather than being a regular school board meeting.
Kessler said the confrontation began when she entered wearing the shirt and was told its message violated the event’s rules.
"It’s just a women’s rights shirt," she said.
She said organizers suggested she turn the shirt inside out in a bathroom, but she initially refused. Kessler argued that the slogan reflected her advocacy against transgender athletes competing in girls’ sports and was not specific to her Assembly campaign.
[RedState] Something rather strange has happened in the Texas Senate race.
The Democrat nominee, state Rep. James Talarcio, has been missing from the campaign trail for 12 days now. The most recent word from him was on September 30 during a Zoom call, when he told the U.S. Hispanic Business Council that he had the flu, which he said was diagnosed at a local urgent care.
"I was ready to eat my favorite quesadilla tacos, but I was starting to feel kind of under the weather a few days ago, and last night it got so bad that I went to the urgent care here in Dallas," he reportedly said on the call, adding that his goal was to "put safety first" and get better.
Talarico going MIA down the homestretch in this pivotal race has drawn the attention of his opponent, Texas Attorney General and GOP Senate nominee Ken Paxton, whose campaign effectively "milk cartoned" Talarico on Wednesday, as RedState reported:
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...The rumor (stressing rumor) at this point is that Jim had a nervous breakdown and is safely under a doctor's care...but won't be able to finish the race.
If true, I genuinely feel bad for him and his families - I've seen some spectacular breakdowns at extremely close range, and I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.
On the other hand, if there's some other explanation for this, he is in deep kimchi.
Lots of tweets at the link, each with a clip from the debate so you can judge for yourself, dear Reader.
[Townhall] Abdul El-Sayed
…more fully Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, though the Egyptian version is probably longer still. He is the child of Moslem Egyptian immigrants, an epidemiologist who graduated from medical school on a Soros scholarship — but has no medical license — and a PhD in public health. He was the VP of his college Muslim Students Association, the youth branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in North America, then started his political career as a Bernie Bro, joined four national labour unions, pronounces Israel an evil rogue state, and refused to condemn Iran’s slain supreme leader. All in all, he epitomizes the new red-green DSA…
and Mike Rogers debated for the first time tonight in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
In November, voters will decide who to send to Washington, D.C., to represent the Wolverine state. The two traded attacks on investments, whose funding their campaigns, and immigration policy.
El-Sayed called for price controls on gasoline, but also called to “hold oil and gas companies accountable.”
“Look, I definitely think that’s something we should consider,” El-Sayed said. "Look, we’re in an emergency. When you’re paying $5 gas and $8 diesel, that’s an emergency, and I think we have a responsibility right now to make sure we do everything we can to address it.”
The two talked about tariff policy, the Iran war, and grocery prices.
El-Sayed says he supports targeted tariffs. Rogers initially supported tariffs but last week said that some of the tariffs were hurting Michigan.
Rogers said that he’s running in Michigan because of a failing economy.
“First of all, I’m running because in the last quarter century, we’ve lost 200,000 manufacturing jobs in Michigan," Rogers said. "The last eight years, we have the highest utility rates in the Midwest, highest auto insurance rates in the Midwest, highest auto insurance rates in the country. Now, you have to be 40 years old, or the average homeowner is 40 years old. Our education is now 45th in the country.”
Michigan Republican Party Senior Communications Advisor Greg Manz said that the debate showed El-Sayed's true nature.
"Tonight in Grand Rapids, Abdul El-Sayed presented the same clumsy, contradictory conman act that defines his entire campaign," Manz told Townhall in an email. "This debate showcased Conman Abdul's anti-American, extremist policies which Mike Rogers, a former FBI agent, decisively exposed. “Conman Abdul cares more about Palestine than Michigan, which should concern every Michigander, given that the same radical Islamists who fund him also fund the Muslim Brotherhood.”
Jordan Domingue, a top staffer who worked two of Abdul El-Sayed’s campaigns has quit the Democrat’s U.S. Senate race and is now talking. What he describes is a candidate who has faked his way through public life, right down to the “physician” title. This is a lengthy article, but every American needs to understand, from an insiders perspective, how dangerous this man would be if elected to the U.S. Senate.
In a post on X, Jordan Domingue outlines his decision to defect from Abdul’s campaign after working first on his failed gubernatorial campaign and again on his current Senate campaign.
“His foreign policy was driven by a desire to invoke what seemed like misplaced revenge.”
I protected Abdul for two years, I worked as his personal assistant/executive protection lead on his campaigns. I departed two jobs early from working abroad, moved to Michigan twice, and took paycuts averaging 50,000k.
I took his lovely wife to the hospital for visits when she was pregnant. His youngest daughter called me Mr. Jorjan. I painted him an original piece of artwork for his birthday.
I was happy to do and experience all of this. For his gubernatorial run he never mentioned foreign policy. During his senate run, his foreign policy was driven by a desire to invoke what seemed like misplaced revenge.
When I finally realized he didn’t actually care about civilians and peace, everything I had previously ignored or excused made it obvious to who he was and that I was on the wrong side.
Jordan Domingue’s profile on X reads more like that of a Republican: USMC Combat Veteran – International Security Professional – Bjj Brown Belt – Lockheed Liberal – Anti DSA – Democratic Field Organizer – Rugged Individual
After leaving Abul’s campaign, Jordan Domingue became the founder of Democrats for Mike Rogers.
Domingue uses the Dems for Mike Rogers X account to expose the truth about El-Sayed’s support for Hezbollah and Hamas. And so forth at great length at the link.
El-Sayed’s Sister-in-Law Was on the Terror Watchlist in 2016
[PJMedia] The Federalist has unearthed documentation about Sarah Jukaku, sister to El-Sayed’s wife. Apparently the Obama administration put Jukaku on the terrorist watchlist, which is particularly ironic since Barack Obama is set to campaign with El-Sayed this month.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
BREAKING: Israel says pilot tried to hijack flydubai flight to Tel Aviv that diverted, landed in Saudi Arabia
