This School Board Member Can’t Stomach Ron DeSantis’ ‘Insanity’

The New Abnormal

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🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Ron DeSantis’ war on public education is going national. At least that’s the fear of Jennifer Jenkins, a member of the Brevard County School Board, one of several Florida school boards that have undergone a rightward shift. The county’s highly accomplished superintendent, Mark Mullins, was essentially pushed out this month after candidates backed by the conservative group Moms for Liberty won election. Also in his episode, Daniel Nichanian, editor-in-chief of Bolts magazine, which focuses on local government and local elections, reveals just how good this past election was for Democrats. And co-host Danielle Moodie breaks down Sen. Raphael Warnock’s victory over scandal-scarred Herschel Walker in the Georgia Senate election. You can listen for yourself, but let’s just say she thinks “the force” was with him.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN HLN Guy and current cable news conscientious
0:05.4	objector.
0:06.4	I'm a former libertarian who now sits pretty comfortably on the left.
0:09.4	Hi, I'm Danielle Moody, former educator and recovering lobbyist, but today I'm an
0:14.4	unapologetic woke commentator on America's threats to democracy.
0:18.6	And I produce her Jesse Cannon and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off
0:22.0	the rails.
0:23.0	We're here to have fun, smart conversations with some of the most knowledgeable and entertaining
0:27.2	people in politics, media and beyond.
0:29.9	Our goal is to try and make sense of our current crazy world, our new abnormal and hopefully
0:35.3	even make you laugh through the tears.
0:37.3	What an excellent show we have today.
0:39.6	First we're going to be joined by Jennifer Jenkins, who's a Brevard County Florida school
0:43.2	board member in District 3.
0:45.2	She's going to talk to us about all the wacky stuff going down there with Governor Ron
0:49.1	DeSantis.
0:50.1	Then we'll talk to Daniel Nicanian, who's the editor-in-chief of Bolts Magazine about
0:54.2	what he sees in the data after the midterm election.
0:57.4	First, let's have some fun.
1:00.0	Andy, it is not often that we have a good week in this country called the US of A, but
1:05.9	when we have, Herschel Walker, who first of all should have never, should have never been
1:13.3	in a close race with Reverend Warnoch in Georgia.
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