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From the Foward
“Under President Donald Trump, Orthodox Jews, who have long sought government funding for one of their highest priorities, their schools, loved what they heard from the administration.

Education Secretary Betsy Devos, a mega-donor to conservative education reform efforts, championed private and religious schools at every turn, and federal lawmakers paid them renewed attention.

“School choice has been so important to the Orthodox Jewish community, and finally got its due not only among the administration but also in Congress,” said Rabbi Abba Cohen, vice president for government affairs at the umbrella Orthodox group Agudath Israel.

Now, that’s likely over.

President-elect Joe Biden expressed skepticism about public charter schools on the campaign trail and is expected to name an education secretary close to the labor movement, which generally opposes charter schools and programs that send public dollars to private schools.”

@theprohet and the connection to drug couriers???

@ari256, I wish they would ask a Rov before they would carry drugs to Europe.
@Goldilock and Rational, I have a son who is on the naïve side and a gitter neshumah, when he went to learn in Israel he was told in no uncertain terms that he told not do any favor and take anything back for anyone.

@Charlie, Sadly attacking the frum community in Rockland is a bipartisan sport, some of the most vicious attacks and legislation came from the State Delegation, Ellen Jaffee was a Democrat who cause a tremendous amount of grief to the frum community and we finally showed her the door, the fact that the frum vote threw her out was duly noted in her classless concession speech, the other Democratic Assemblyman who represents Rockland and is equal to Jaffee’s hate stands a good chance of the same in 2022.

In the State Senate race it was two flawed candidate, Elijah Melnick who made it a point to attack the frum community v Bill Weber one of the leaders of Preserve Ramapo, quite a number of people skipped this vote or voted for Weber holding the nose viewing him as the lesser of two evils.

In the congressional race Jones is a protégé of AOC and that was enough for a lot of people to skip that on the ballot.
The fact is that the storm is brewing failed to get the desired results and the Democrat’s control the County Legislature and the district lines that will follow next year.
BTW the population power shift is to the Frum community who will now control Rockland County Legislature after redistricting, if the GOP runs against the community they will stay in the minority otherwise they will get a shot the majority.
PS the frum vote went to the Democrat for county clerk

@CharlieHall
“Trump didn’t “flip” the Rio Grande Valley. He just did better than Republicans usually do there.”

This is what happened in Starr County. After losing the county by 60 percentage points to Hillary Clinton, President Donald Trump lost it by just 5% to Joe Biden.

In neighboring Zapata County, which Clinton won by 33 percentage points in 2016, voters didn’t just swing more to the right — the county flipped all the way red.

And that trend continued all the way up and down the Texas-Mexico border, where Trump won 14 of the 28 counties that Clinton had nearly swept in 2016 while winning by an average of 33 percentage points.
Btw the two congressional seat that flipped in Florida had Cook Report PVI of D+5 and D+6 and were rated Safe Democratic

@Ct Lawyer, anti Israel is the new anti semitism a/k/a anti Jew, sadly black anti Jewish sentiment is alive and well in the black community, proof the 3 Jews murdered in a hate crime in the US in 2019 were killed by Blacks.

@Jackk The only campaign who I worked on was a local assembly race that btw flipped red, Just was reading up on the Candidates and what I read about Warnock scared the daylights out of me, I check with a few of my friend who live in Atlanta and he has ZERO relationship with the Orthodox community there. He is and has been a vocal anti Israeli.

@CharlieHall, its fine I made a campaign contribution to Loeffler to counterbalance yours, I also suggest you spend some time learning hilchos Loshen Hora and the definition of motzi shem ra and toles.

@huju, I wrote notwithstanding Trump’s loss, this is not about him, he lost, its about how the blue wave morphed into a red riptide and what caused it