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Tanuki

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Thu Apr 1, 2021, 12:22 PM Apr 2021

Grotesque bigot/antivaxer Laurie Cardoza Moore poised for seat on state textbook board

https://www.memphisflyer.com/this-anti-muslim-insurrectionist-vax-hoaxer-wants-to-pick-your-childs-textbooks

"Last week an anti-Muslim activist who rallied at the January 6th insurrection in Washington, D.C. and claims Black Lives Matter is against Jesus and churches got one step closer to helping pick what textbooks Tennessee school children should read. 

The Tennessee House Education Instruction committee approved Laurie Cardoza-Moore to sit on the state’s textbook commission. The Franklin resident was nominated to sit on the board by House Speaker Rep. Cameron Sexton (R-Crossville). 

Resolutions to formally appoint Cardoza-Moore to the board are moving through the legislature’s committee system. The Senate Education Committee will review the appointment during a meeting Wednesday afternoon.

Cardoza-Moore came to the public eye in 2010 when she publicly fought against the construction of a mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. On The 700 Club television show, she told host Pat Robertson the mosque was a front for terrorists."...(more)

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