CCS School Board–Dumb and Dumber, or just Plain old Stupid?? Only Danny Blanton Passes test. Votes NO on illegal Document!! Eye Witness Report by Robert A.

It’s an election year for the Cleveland County School Board and dirty tricks by the Rogue Republicans are flying. Trying to get Danny Blanton off the school board just because he asks questions and wants to do what is right for the children. Parents and taxpayers too. Candidates Ronnie Grigg and Annette Fain want to do that very same thing. That is why I recommend Danny Blanton, Ronnie Grigg and Annette Fain for the School Board.

So, it’s Monday Evening and I signed up for Public Participation at the 6:00 PM May 9, 2022 School Board Meeting. For me, every School Board meeting is a candidate’s forum. I watch what the school board does, not what they say. I have two criteria.
1.You, as a school Board member, are either a part of the solution or YOU are part of the PROBLEM.
2.It is NOT what you SAY, it is what YOU DO that counts.

For this particular School Board meeting, I had looked over the agenda in advance and read the Draft Minutes for the April 11, 2022 School Board Meeting that was up for approval. This April 11, 2022 meeting was the meeting where School Board Chairman, Robert “Luke” Queen, at the urging of Parliamentarian Ron Humphries had one female Public Participation speaker forcibly removed from the meeting by TWO Shelby uniformed and armed City of Shelby Police Officers for no good reason and threatened another woman with the same treatment. However, all the minutes said, and Board Meeting Minutes are legally required to capture what happens at such a meeting such that a person not attending that meeting could read the minutes of the meeting and understand what transpired at the meeting as if they were actually there.

However, all the Draft minutes said about that event was to say that “ABC and XYZ addressed the School Board.” Not a peep about ABC, under direction of Luke Queen was forcibly removed from the meeting by armed police officers and XYZ was threatened with ejection by the same method was captured in the meeting minutes. And not a word ABC and XYZ they said and did was captured in the meeting minutes.

So, at this May 9, 2022 School Board meeting I signed up to speak during Public Participation. I stated to the FULL School Board that the draft minutes of the April 11, 2022 were incomplete and described exactly what had happened. And that if the women sued CCS for Violation of their right to speak, nothing would be in the agenda but that I was only 10 feet away and would testify on their behalf. That the School Board should consult their attorneys and get some training and legal advice on meeting the legal requirements of keeping board meeting minutes.

The School Board Chairman, Luke Queen, asked the board members for a motion to approve the minutes, A Motion was made and seconded. The vote to approve was 8-1. Only Danny Blanton had voted to reject the illegal minutes of the April 11, 2022 School Board Meeting.

So, eight School Board members; Robert Queen, Joel Shores, Ron Humphries, Greg Taylor, Rodney Fitch, Dena Green, Coleman Hunt and Phillip Glover voted to approve an illegal document AFTER they had just been clearly informed in great detail about the illegality of the document, why it was illegal and recommended to get legal advice from their attorneys who were right there; they voted to approve the document. How dumb and stupid is that??? NONE of these eight should ever again be elected or reelected to the Cleveland County Board of Elections because of their willful and collective action to commit an illegal act.

So, what else can I say but this. Only Danny Blanton of these NINE School Board Members did and does the right and legal thing. Only School Board member Danny Blanton deserves to be re-elected to the School Board in the 2022 School Board Republican Primary Election. I believe that School Board Candidates Ronnie Grigg and Annette Fain are the only two other candidates who would have joined with Danny Blanton to reject the approval of an illegal document.

So, MY recommendations for candidates in the 2022 School Board Republican Primary Elections are this:

Vote for Danny Blanton for the School Board

Vote for Ronnie Grigg for the School Board

Vote for Annette Fain for the School Board

Leave everybody else blank!

Remember folks, Early voting is going on right now and election day is next Tuesday!!! May 17, 2022

Get out to vote. Take a crowd with you!!!