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Socialist school board president resigns over wife's racist tweets about whore Kamala Harris

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A California school board president has resigned amid outrage 
over racist and sexist slurs his wife posted about Vice 
President-elect Kamala Harris.

Former Google executive Jon Venverloh resigned from the Las 
Lomitas Elementary School District in the San Francisco Bay Area 
on Sunday — while distancing himself from the “reprehensible 
views” his wife, Mehridith Philips Venverloh, had tweeted hours 
earlier.

In one disturbing post, she dismissed Harris’ place in history 
as both the first black vice president as well as the first 
female one.

“All she needs to be qualified is a black p—y! No brain needed!” 
Philips Venverloh wrote on her Twitter account, which has since 
been deleted.

Another post suggested that Harris had used sex to “whore” her 
way to her history-making position, with other posts also 
attacking the LGBTQ community.

One local mom, Brianna Caldwell, told KGO that it was like was 
“watching systemic racism happening, on display in my own 
children’s school in our backyard.”

“I almost vomited, then I cried a little bit and then I was just 
shaking and I was so angry,” Caldwell told the station.

Philips Venverloh’s husband resigned from the school board after 
a petition was signed by more than 100 people in just hours, 
according to the Mercury News.

“Given my wife’s social media posts, which expressed 
reprehensible views that I do not agree with, I know that my 
continued service would be a distraction from the work that 
needs to be done in the District over the two years remaining in 
my term,” Venverloh said in a statement.

Before deleting her account, Philips Venverloh apologized for 
her “vulgar” words that she said were written “in a moment of 
disappointment.”

“I am deeply sorry and ashamed,” she said and added that she has 
been taking medications for a “debilitating neurological 
disease” but had been weaning herself off them in preparation 
for a scheduled hospitalization.

“I believe that the change in medication reduced my judgment 
between right and wrong when I made the posts,” she said.

The trustees of the board — which includes a middle school in 
Menlo Park and an Atherton elementary school — condemned the 
“abhorrent … racially based and gender-based hatred” shared in 
the posts.

The statement said the egregiousness of Phillips Venverloh’s 
posts has “undermined Jon’s ability to serve effectively on our 
governance team.”

With Post wires

https://nypost.com/2020/11/10/school-board-president-resigns-
over-wifes-racist-tweets-about-kamala-harris/
  

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