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Nevilledog

(51,005 posts)
Mon Oct 25, 2021, 09:01 PM Oct 2021

Mother featured in Youngkin ad, pushed to ban Toni Morrison's book "Beloved"



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Julia Manchester
@JuliaManch
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Oct 25, 2021
Laura Murphy, the mother featured in this ad, pushed to get Toni Morrison’s novel “Beloved” banned from her son’s AP English curriculum in 2013

Glenn Youngkin
@GlennYoungkin
What's it like to have Terry McAuliffe block you from having a say in your child's education?

This mom knows – she lived through it. Watch her powerful story. #VAgov
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Julia Manchester
@JuliaManch
.@TerryMcAuliffe issued this statement in response to the ad this evening 👇
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Surprise, surprise.....the little snowflake is now a lawyer with the NRCC


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Mother featured in Youngkin ad, pushed to ban Toni Morrison's book "Beloved" (Original Post) Nevilledog Oct 2021 OP
What a strange ad before election. Please tell me virginia polls can't be close in this one! FloridaBlues Oct 2021 #1

FloridaBlues

(4,004 posts)
1. What a strange ad before election. Please tell me virginia polls can't be close in this one!
Mon Oct 25, 2021, 09:38 PM
Oct 2021

Find it hard to believe it would be such a drop of Democratic support in9 short months.
Please Dems we are rooting for your victory in large numbers up and down the thicket. You don’t want to end up like us here in Florida or Texas.

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