Jay Weber Show transcript 8-15-23
We started the week with the Milwaukee public teacher’s union-the MTEA- threatening any hotel or conference center in the Milwaukee area that they’d be targeted for protests and hate- if they dared to host a republican presidential event sponsored by the Mothers for Liberty group.
This is a pro-choice, pro-educational alternatives group that the democrat extremists- so hate! - that the extremists at the southern poverty law center have labeled them a hate group.
They are not. The founders and members of Moms for Liberty have neither done- nor said-anything racist, but because they were formed to push back on the left’s organized indoctrination in our schools- including their gender-bullying issues and the left’s attempt to re-teach racism- and a poisonous new version of it- thru critical race theory-
Because this group of grassroots moms was willing to stand up and fight against those things-they have been very unfairly maligned as a hate group-
And even – to their shame as so-called reporters-
Even the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel made sure to suggest this was a hate group in the very first line of a story that they wrote about Moms for Liberty wanting to organize a town hall event here in Milwaukee for the GOP candidates.
Any credible news editor or journalist would know that this isn’t a hate group and would know the back story behind it-
But there was the j/s leaping to malign this organization- proving again what a propagandist rag this really is now, for today’s left.
Well, these initial MTEA threats scared off one of the group’s first choices -as a venue- the Italian Community Center agreed to host it. A contract was signed. Deposit money was given.
Good- Moms for Liberty had a venue.
Aahh,...but only for a few days. Wisconsin Right Now reported yesterday that- management of the Italian Community Center suddenly canceled the contract on Saturday morning- without providing a reason-
And so, now the group doesn’t have a venue- but what they-do- have- is commitments from several of the presidential candidates to attend- including former president trump.
So, imagine this:it’s rare to get a ‘yes’ from these campaigns and organize an event like this just a few days before they will all be in town for the debate-
And yet, they managed to get a yes from the frontrunner, Donald Trump, as well as from Vivek Ramaswamy, who is running second in a few polls now- questionable as they are-
And that means other candidates are going to rework their schedules to be part of it- but the town hall suddenly doesn’t have a venue.
This is a dirty move, quite frankly, from the Italian Community Center. If you took the reservation and took the deposit- knowing it was a short-notice event and it was important for this to come together for the client-
Then you should honor the contract and do the decent thing. Don’t let some pathetic group of left-wing bullies turn you around on it.
This isn’t even ‘caving to the mob’.
It’s caving to a rather pathetic teacher’s union. And one that is threatening- what?
Did the MTEA leaders make specific? Or generic? Threats to the Italian Community Center to get them to drop the reservation?
I’d love to know.
So would Jim and Jessica at Wisconsin Right Now- who say they have been trying to get a few answers from the Italian Community Center for nearly a day, now, with no response.
Moms for Liberty co-founder, Tiffany Justice, tells them:
Yeah-consider that: you’ve got a former president of the United States who is-again-in the midst of a high-profile campaign- and you don’t want the publicity?
You don’t want the event he’s participating in- at your venue?
How myopic and dimwitted is that? Every business in America has -always wanted-that campaign stop from the famous candidate...regardless of party. Bill Clinton stops at Miss Katie’s diner- business booms for months- George Bush does the same-again- business booms for months.
It's free national publicity-but it’s especially effective local publicity.
The Italian Community Center would rather set itself up for -negative? -publicity?
They’d rather be known for caving to pathetic threats from a teacher’s union-than be adults and have a spin and host the sort of political event that they’ve been hosting-occasionally-for decades?
What a stupid move, they’ve made.
And of course, the event was going to be held the day before the big national debate-from Milwaukee here- later the same day. This was set for next Wednesday at ten in the morning. The debate is later that night.
And no, that doesn’t necessarily mean that Donald Trump will be here in Milwaukee to participate in the debate. His team didn’t commit to doing this town hall in person-or via video- to keep the mystery alive... Apparently-
But-he is absolutely confirmed for the town hall, either way.
This is -really- a dumb decision by the Italian community center-and given how hostile Milwaukee leaders and left wing activists are starting to become when it comes to hosting GOP or conservative events in Milwaukee- we may need to go out of our way to find reliable right wing owners of bigger venues who will have some stones and host right-wing events...or start pushing back on venues who bow to left wing political pressure like this.
I expected better from the Italian Community Center. I really did. Because they’ve hosted political events of all sorts- from both sides and all sides-over the years.
Now? They’re feeling too bullied to allow right wing events there.
That’s sad about what it says about the current political environment-but it’s also sad to see event managers with no guts, nor the integrity to push back on the MTEA’s pathetic gambit, here to blackball a right wing special interest group that they hate because it’s disrupting some of the left’s best-laid plans to quietly indoctrinate our children into left wing radicalism before parents ever notice it.
photo and story credit: Wisconsin Right Now