To help you understand why the NHGOP is failing so miserably, I give you Virginia Governor-Elect Youngkin’s take on CRT and New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu’s.
First, Youngkin:
“But friends, let me be clear. One of the things we’re not going to do in our schools is teach our children to view everything through a lens of race. We know it’s not right. We know in our heart. I mean, we’re all of one body in Christ,” Youngkin said at a recent campaign event. “How in the world can we teach our children to be divided up into buckets with one group being privileged, another group being victims? That’s just not right. It steals their dreams. We know that. … So let me just be clear on day one, I will ban critical race theory. It will not be in our schools. It just won’t.”
Sununu interview with NHPR:
Question: Several listeners have asked about HB 544, which would prevent educators from teaching about systemic racism and sexism in public schools and state funded programs. Molly in North Conway asks: Governor, if this bill passes the House and Senate, will you veto it?
Sununu: “Probably, yeah. I don’t support it. Look, that bill, as I’ve read it to date, it really limits free speech. We might not like, you know, agree with certain things that may be said in a public setting or school or whatever it is. But that’s the beauty of local control, that’s working with your teachers, your school administrators, as a parent, on what’s going on in the classroom, having that connectivity. But you don’t control that by having a big government law that says you can’t say certain things. I’m shocked. I hate that concept. So, yeah, my guess is if it didn’t change, I’d probably very likely veto it.”
Stated more succinctly, Yougkin is saying “I am on your side and I will fight with you and for you” … while Sununu is saying, “Sorry … not sorry.” And … yes I do know that Sununu subsequently signed a budget that supposedly “bans” CRT … and I say “supposedly” because the law is milquetoast.
