Now, a little more about the November 8th, 2021 School Board Meeting-along these same lines.
Twelve citizens signed up to speak during the Nov 8th school board meeting “Public Participation” part of the agenda. I will have to state right now that nothing I can write can adequately describe what these 12 citizens told the School Board, except go to the CCS website and watch the video of the meeting for yourself. Have a Dictionary by your side as these members of the public thoroughly scolded the School Board in general and most specifically Robert “Luke” Queen in particular. None of these 12 speakers used profanity so Luke could not hammer down with his gavel. However, Luke did manage to hammer down on the audience a few times as they loudly applauded speaker after speaker. As I often did myself. Basically, each speaker denounced Luke and the Rogue Republicans for secretly scheming to get rid of Danny Blanton in the 2022 Republican Primary, for CCS teaching the Critical Race Theory under that name or other names such as Social Emotional Learning, etc., mask mandates, for trying to shut down citizens from knowing what was going on at CCS and lastly, bringing shame down on the Republican Party.
Chairman Luke Queen’s and Ron Humphries’ looks could have killed. Democrats Phillip Glover, Coleman Hunt and Dena Green sat there silently through it all. Apparently glad that the Rogue Republicans were committing political suicide and THEY were not going to stand in their way. This was a smart move on the Democrat’s part.
But, I predict that all the four seats on the School Board will be filled by Republicans and Unaffiliated or other party candidates running as a “Petition Candidate.” I will also state that any candidate, Republican, Democrat, Unaffiliated and anything else may run as a Petition Candidate and avoid any allegiance to any political party in a partisan Primary Election. These petition candidates, with over 2,400 signatures will have their names go directly onto the 2022 General Election in November 2022. Completely avoiding the likes of a Dennis Bailey, et. al. and whatever “losers” are now running the Democrat party in Cleveland County. Call Clifton Philbeck at the Cleveland County Board of Elections for additional information.
After the last speaker finished, Luke Queen, violating his own policy, stated a denial for mandating vaccines. Apparently trying to deflect attention to somewhere else. He was spectacularly wrong in saying that as it had not been particularly alleged. But mostly for not being able to deny anything else that he HAD been accused of. It will also be telling if Luke’s comment shows up in the meeting minutes and everybody else’s words are left out.
Like I suggested previously. Pull up the CCS Website and watch the Public Participation part of the November 8, 2021 school board meeting video. YOU will surely get the same effect as I did sitting there in attendance. All 12 speakers lowered the boom on Luke and the School Board as a whole. Note: I predict that the final minutes of this Nov. 8, 2021 meeting will not include one word of what any of those 12 speakers had to say. I predict that with 99.999999% confidence. Luke Queen has, some time back, taken to dummying up the minutes of school Board meetings. For instance, in the previous meeting, October 11, 2021 the minutes for the Public Participation of the September 13, 2021 School Board meeting stated: “Marjorie Hooper, Ronnie Grigg, Nanette Leonhart, Dena Spangler and Marshal Allen addressed the Board of Education.” Fifteen minutes of speaking time by members of the public and Chairman Luke Queen ILLEGALLY blanks out every word. Luke has been doing this very same thing for a long time now and I expect the minutes for this November 8th, 2021 school board meeting will be done exactly this very same way.
For your information, North Carolina State Law requires that minutes of meetings are to be a clear and accurate description of what transpired in a meeting such that a person who did NOT attend the meeting could read the minutes and understand what transpired in the meeting. I am offering a $100 reward for the first person that can read the approved minutes quoted above and accurately state what was actually stated by the five speakers based on the “approved” meeting minutes provided above. Note that I have made such offers many times before and have never paid out one red cent of a reward. Therefore, I have to conclude that the Cleveland county School Board under Robert “Luke” Queen as Chairman are conspiring together in clear violation of state law to provide falsified governmental documentation of their school board meetings. Conspiracy and the falsification of records are both felony crimes.
Of course, only one felony crime prosecuted by District Attorney Mike Miller would put a stop to this kind of corruption!!! On the School Board as well as everywhere else. It goes like this “When corrupt governmental officials are jailed, citizens may again have trust in out government.” DA Mike Miller included.
But the DA will have to have some incentive to start doing his job. He did take an oath to enforce ALL the laws on the State of North Carolina as well as the USA. Which, to date, DA Miller has NOT done. And, according to documents I have received copies of, DA Miller has been asked in writing to investigate felony crimes (Perjury) committed by City of Shelby Officials with the proof provided. So far, DA Miller has done nothing. Perhaps the voters of Lincoln and Cleveland County should find and elect a replacement for DA Miller that will finally do the job they promised to do and swore on a Bible to do and is required by law to do. The 14th Amendment first comes to mind. However, that will be the subject of another article that will be coming out soon.
In the meantime, all of us should remind ourselves that at the end of the day, it is us citizens of Cleveland County’s responsibility to get rid of bad, inept and often corrupt governmental officials at the ballot box AND the jury box. Or any other way that is according to the law. If the laws don’t provide ways to get rid of such dunderheads such as Robert “Luke” Queen before the 2024 Elections, we need to impress the idea on our lawmaker representatives such as Tim Moore, Kelly Hastings and Senator Ted Alexander, all up for re-election in 2022, that they should pass the appropriate laws to impeach or otherwise remove Luke Queen and perhaps others from office before their terms are up. Remember that Luke Queen, along with Ron Humphries, Dennis Bailey, Kevin Whisnant, Wes Westmoreland, and David Allen are actively and secretly scheming and plotting to run school board member Danny Blanton off the School Board in the 2022 Elections, if not sooner. When what is needed is for Danny Blanton to be selected as the School Board Chairman at the December 14, 2021 School Board meeting. That should definitely be the first short-term goal for the citizens of Cleveland County.
Now, if you watch more than the Public Participation on the Nov. 8th 2021 School Board meeting video, you will see many other instances, mostly hidden-but some blatant, where the public is not welcome and is not wanted by CCS to get involved in the processes of the education of our children. I will point those out in another article. I am trying to point out more briefly the problems and issues, one at a time. As the Holiday Seasons and filing for elections is in everybody’s minds.
So, please stay tuned.
PS: Filings for the 2022 Elections (ALL offices) must be submitted between noon, Monday December 6, 2021 and noon, Friday December 17, 2021. The filing fee for the school board election is $20. Please don’t forget to sign up if you are so inclined. There are four seats on the school board that are up for election.
Be sure to call Clifton {Philbeck at the Cleveland County Board of elections if you are thinking about running as a Petition Candidate.