Sneaky Snakes in Williamson County

(Williamson County Schools Superintendent Mike Looney)

When I first read this article about a local “well-funded conservative group’s secret game plan for Williamson County Schools” and read the list of secret activist members who want to keep “the ugly stuff private and out of the press”, I was intrigued. The names included in the list of sneaky snakes were my friends. The last time I met with my conservative friends, Debbie Deaver and candidates Candy Emerson, Susan Curlee, Dr. Beth Burgos and Paula Uhlir, we were addressing envelopes, (that doesn’t seem sneaky), at a round table, sipping lemon water. Most of us have never run for office before. It’s my first time. (WC Commissioner District 2) I have no strategy. I tell the truth. I bought 10 signs. 3 disappeared. I bought 3 more. I made up some glossy “push cards” as they are called, (Daren at UPS Cool Springs did a great job), with bullet points of what I believe in. I’m passing them out door to door. I have 3000 more doors to visit.

When I discovered what Common Core actually was, (my six pages of research here) I attended some WC School Board meetings and some Education Committee meetings at the Capitol, in an effort to learn how I could help fight for the repeal/defunding of ObamaCore, this federal government power-overreach similar to ObamaCare, in that it was implemented before it was read; and it is socialistic/communistic in nature, and expensive, and pushed by Progressives, and those who will profit financially. (i.e. Bill Gates). (It did not begin at a Governors’ meeting as the liberal media likes to suggest).

In these recent articles, here and here, Kent R. Davis, retired engineer, is named as the “master-mind” behind this secret conservative-group plan to oust WCS Superintendent Mike Looney. I don’t know who Kent Davis is. If I’ve met him, I don’t remember. And, I don’t remember anyone in my group talking about firing Mike Looney. (I posted “Vote for James Amundsen, Fire Looney, Huffman, and Haslam” on my FB, but it was my idea for the title of my article on James). I only hear them talk about Common Core, and how we can get rid of it. Can we persuade the state legislature? Can they give the money back to the federal government? Do we go back to our old standards? Do we make up new standards? How do our kids take the federal tests to enter college if we aren’t teaching the curriculum that goes with the federal mandate? Should we get a meeting with Gov. Haslam? Huffman? Replace Haslam? How can we fire Huffman if he wasn’t even elected but appointed? Etc., etc. I never heard our group talk about firing Looney. Although, come to think of it, a Superintendent with our passion for repealing Common Core would help our cause. The main topic our non-secret group discussed was that the School Board was made up mostly of liberals, progressives and RINOS who support Common Core and who would do whatever Looney asked of them, i.e. giving him a raise when Williamson County is over 600 million in debt. (Looney then donated $ 1500 to School Board member Pro-Common-Core-Cherie Hammond’s campaign for state representative. Cherie Hammond, Republican (?), was also endorsed by the AFL-CIO! I verified this by asking her. She did not deny it.)

(Cherie Hammond says she’s a Republican)

The current school board members do not support parental involvement in textbook selection. They are apathetic to the fact that the Pearson textbooks are in error, liberally-biased, anti-Christian, anti-American, and pro-Islam. And, the school board members are downright rude when concerned parents speak their 90 seconds at the podium. Yes, 90 seconds.

Who is putting out these articles slandering my conservative friends and this retired engineer named Kent Davis? I don’t know. It’s secret. It’s a secret twitter account from what I can tell. So, who is the real sneaky snake?

A Facebook and web site called “Williamson Strong” suddenly popped up, about a day or two after James Amundsen proved factually that Mike Looney told a lie; Looney claimed publicly, on the Internet, that Williamson County Schools were rated # 1 in the nation. I guess this was an attempt to prove Common Core is working or that Mike Looney is doing a great job. Williamson Strong is filled with liberal propaganda. I started posting rebuttals on it and got banned. One of it’s founding “team” members was Susan Drury. When it was exposed that she was being paid $ 92,000 by the SEIU for her “grassroots” efforts at Williamson Strong, her bio disappeared from the web site. Poof!

Who is the real sneaky snake?

According to “x,” a well-informed source, a current school board candidate who has been watching this circus from close-up, Mike Looney has a little secret. Like Drury, he has been involved since the beginning with “Williamson Strong;” although it professes to be a non-partisan, neutral community of concerned Williamson County citizens, it is a liberally-biased, agenda-driven tool.

When Williamson Strong began, 2 organizers of the group were aggressively targeting Facebook accounts of anti-common core school board candidates while being very nice and “liking” everything the pro-common core Democrat-endorsed incumbents and pro-common core, Democrat-endorsed Melody Morris had to say.

Jennifer Smith, PTO head and key organizer of Williamson Strong, also endorsed (Democrat-endorsed) Melody Morris and (AFL-CIO-endorsed) Cherie Hammond on her page before any surveys went out. Not very “objective.”

“Williamson Strong purchased/promoted “likes.” Strangely thousands of “likes” suddenly poured in from Istanbul! Williamson Strong used their # of likes to make a PR release to the local papers, proposing they were objective, but they really were not. They continued to use fear-mongering tactics to trash challengers and even used sitting board members to do it on their behalf.”

“Then we found out that SEIU was behind Williamson Strong.”

“Williamson Strong is not objective. They have been exposed as biased and the whole “we’re #1 in the country” claim from “School Digger,” the primary reason to believe all is well at WCS, has been proven to be a lie.”

“In the meantime, we’ve found company with like-minded conservatives and tried to run our campaigns honestly. Some good conservative members of the community have been trying to help us navigate the waters.”

My source continues, “I’ve personally spoken out against charter schools at a forum, but wasn’t quoted. Guess that was missed in the “Complete Coverage” as Williamson Strong called it… more like a re-writing of the event to make Eric Welch look less like a jerk and more like a paralegal parrot.”

(photo: Jennifer Smith)

“Jennifer Smith is really the spin doctor.”

“Jennifer Smith – President of the PTO – sending out a PTO letter driving people to a site she is responsible for (Williamson Strong) for voting info.”

“Jennifer Smith is using Williamson Strong to slander challengers and praise incumbents.”

“Jennifer Smith is obviously a buddy of Mike Looney (they were the first ones to “like” an article on Williamson Strong when there were only 13 likes and their page was hard to find!”

Oh. And…Censis Technologies is GSA healthcare (ObamaCare!!). CEO is married to Jennifer Smith. Could ObamaCare be funding ObamaCore or at least the sham parent group propping up pro-commie core incumbents and candidates?!!

“Guess we really should invite the Koch brothers to our next session of addressing envelopes!”
That last sentence is a joke, for you liberal local newspapers, who only publish pro-common core articles and editorials. Shame on you.

Who are the real sneaky snakes in Williamson County?

(I sent this article to Maria Giordano at The Tennessean and to the Williamson Herald editor. Has it been posted yet?)