A Christian news service quotesState Board of Education member Connie Morris as blaming the "lying liberal media" for her primary defeat. "The media assassinated me," she said. "They did everything they could to ruin my character, my reputation." She also described those who campaigned against her and the other anti-evolution candidates, which likely includes much of the state’s scientific community, as "a lot of well-funded, loud, obnoxious, rude people who have no ethics and morals, and they don’t bat an eye at lying and manipulating the truth." And she said, "I feel bad for them when they face God on Judgment Day."
Agape Press also stated that "four born-again Christians remain on the State Board of Education" — meaning that it apparently doesn’t consider the other six members to be Christians. And Morris said that the new board majority likely would pass new science standards that "let government schools teach children that we are no more than chaotic, random mutants."
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I can’t imagine who would give a RA what she thinks about anything, assuming she has that capability!
“we are no more than chaotic, random mutants.”Words of the infamous Connie, “hey, I ain’t no chimp” Morris. What more needs to be said?
Damn, didn’t I post this story about a week ago?
Oooooh, Connie is casting hexes on people like the witchdoctor nut she is. If anyone has been in her presence they know they don’t need the media to assassinate her character, she does just fine on her own.
Connie, Connie, Connie,Oh you poor baby! Did the nasty media actually report what you said and did? Shame on them!As for Judgement Day, it doesn’t worry me in the least. What does is that there might still be some of those nude photos you posed for out there someplace. I don’t think my poor mind could take running across one.
I’m a liar. It wasn’t a week ago.It was six days ago.Anyone interested in science education should visit this website that I always steal from.(with permission from writer Pat Hayes at Red State Rabble)
Saturday, August 12, 2006Judgement DayAccording to Agape Press, that ever reliable fount of news from a Christian source, Kansas state school board member Connie Morris has undergone a period of deep introspection following her loss to Sally Cauble in the Republican primary.
After Connie’s dark night of the soul, she’s concluded that the “lying liberal media” is responsible for her defeat.
“The media assassinated me,” Morris contends. “They did everything they could to ruin my character, my reputation. I wish I could go through all the stories to tell you how they were either blatant lies or gross misinterpretations of the facts,” she says.(In this sense, all the stories Morris wishes she could tell are much like the evidence for intelligent design. Often alluded to, but never enumerated.)
It wasn’t just the media, either. Opponents of Kansas’ recently enacted science standards worked, she says, to derail her campaign.
“We just had a lot coming against us,” explains Morris, including “a lot of well-funded, loud, obnoxious, rude people who have no ethics and morals, and they don’t bat an eye at lying and manipulating the truth.”
Moreover, says Morris, liberal opportunists don’t mind “slandering people and harming their families and their reputation and their business and their communities and their state. It’s a shame,” she adds. “It’s a shame, and I feel bad for them when they face God on Judgment Day.”
Although four born-again Christians remain on the State Board of Education, Morris believes the newly empowered liberal majority will waste no time adopting new science standards. In January, she says, when the new members are sworn in, the Board will likely rescind the existing standards and adopt new ones that “let government schools teach children that we are no more than chaotic, random mutants.”Although Morris undoubtedly numbers Red State Rabble among the loud, obnoxious, rude people who have no ethics and morals, and who don’t bat an eye at lying and manipulating the truth, we’d like to take a moment to thank her for her public service. After all, without sweet, sweet Connie, RSR would not exist.
All you people here who called her out during the campaign–Well, you’re going to hell because Connie says so.Maybe she’ll read this and send me her picture?
Well, I’ll say one thing for Kansas. We sure come up with the colorful kooks. But in a little while we get tired of them and wait for the next dingbag to appear and entertain us.
Do we EVER get to not see this unattractive woman popping up here.
Actually I’ glad to see this thread. I am SURE a cult of personality like Connie will read it.
Gives me a chance to say
“Oh Connie dear? YOU LOST!! YOUR AGENDA LOST!!
Suck on it!
JR, I just love it when you gloat.
Oh CONNIE??
Pull a Lieberman and run as an independent so you can get your butt handed to you again!
How’s that Trace?
“… we are no more than chaotic, random mutants…”As opposed to… ?
Connie Morris is, well…nucking futs. You know what I mean.
Her appearance on the PBS pre-primary candidate forum was AMAZING. After the eventual winner basically called her a nutcase and pledged to return sanity to the State Board of Education, Ms. Morris started ranting about how she’s regular person, lived without water or electricity last while she and her husband remodelled their farm, and that “somebody needs to step up and make tough decisions.” It was pretty much the best thing I’ve seen on television in some years.
No surprise that she’s now caught up in a big victim complex and blaming everyone else for her political overreach.
Thanks Connie – you just made my day!!!!!!
Dang I wish I’d seen that.
WELL DONE JR.I’ve been following these antics since they started.
CF,Didn’t you mean, “Her appearance on the PBS pre-primATE candidate forum was AMAZING.”?
What a nutcase. How did she ever get elected to begin with?
Connie Morris got much out of state support for her position on not providing public education to children of illegal immigrants. She called her opponent an illegal alien – he had a spanish surname, but was born in this country. I believe she was able to capitalize on some good old fashion Kansas bigotry.
She ran on her history of being a teacher. I am assuming she moderated, or was stealth, on some of her evolution views.
Connie is pretty imbalanced, I think, so it is kind of surprising that the stress of a campaign did not reveal her more interesting qualities.
For some guilty-pleasure laughs, see these Amazon reviews of Connie’s Autobiography:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1563841940/102-7333622-1018510?v=glance&n=283155
I read the reviews Steven. That was a hoot!The whackos may have lost this round, but they’re still out there and Kansas is full of people who can be fooled by their BS. We can’t let our guard down like we did last time.
Those reviews : game, set and match on that moron!!
Well, we can be relieved that Connie lost, but she didn’t lose by much – about 8%.
It’s stunning that 46% of those who voted in District 5 wanted to return her to office.
Maybe the church-sponsored emails that circulated throughout the state the weekend before the primaries had something to do what that number.
That email was originally written by creationist activist Dave Penny of Lawrence, and was forwarded to the members of a least one District 5 congregation by their minister.
The email explicitly endorsed Connie Morris for the KBOE seat.
Parts of the letter:*****************************Your friend has forwarded this to YOU because we all need to act now!
As you know, there has been a conservative majority on the Kansas State School Board for the past two years. This coming week the August 1st primaries will essentially determine who will control our State School Board for the next two years, conservatives or moderates.
. . .
YOU have to choose sides and then vote. If you believe that:1) Students should learn scientific evidence both FOR and AGAINST evolution;2) Parents should know well in advance what the teachers will tell their children about sex and drugs;3) Students should have character-building and American-honoring reading assignments rather than works of vulgarity, profanity, obscenityand sexual perversion…
…then the choice will be as easy for you as it was for me this coming Tuesday, August 1, 2006! It is the conservatives, NOT the moderates, who support these common sense practices in K-12 education.
I’m asking you to vote for one of the following conservative candidates if he or she is in your district:*Jesse Hall–District #1 *John Bacon–District #3 *Connie Morris–District #5 *Ken Willard–District #7 *Brad Patzer–District #9. . .
NOT ONLY do you need to vote for the above conservatives, but YOU NEED TO FORWARD THIS E-MAIL to all of your friends and neighbors and your entire CHURCH ROSTER immediately!!! This e-mail must sweep the state! This is YOUR opportunity to stand up for what is true and right just as Jesus called us to do.
CAUTION! Most people ignore the primaries. You must not! Read once again the positions of the conservatives listed next to numbers 1, 2,and 3 above. Don’t all children deserve to know scientific problems with ape-to-man evolution? Don’t they deserve a descent parent-approvedschool experience? Isn’t it society’s duty to protect children from obscene literature that assaults the mind like child molesters who assault the body?
If you care for the welfare of all children in our Kansas public schools, please forward this e-mail now.
May God Bless your effort,
A Sixth Generation Kansan and graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Dave PennyLawrence, Kansas
I loved this whine from her: “they don’t bat an eye at lying and manipulating the truth.”
Moreover, says Morris, liberal opportunists don’t mind “slandering people and harming their families and their reputation and their business and their communities and their state. It’s a shame,”"
Having been targeted by her ally Bryan Brown (now with Kline’s office) with deliberate and specific lies and slander she is really a hypocrite.
Connie, want some cheese with that whine?
The reason Connie lost is because there is public discourse in America. People got tired of her rants, her accusations, her lying about trips on the public dole, and her stance on education.
Her accusations of people lying about her, and her statement, “”They did everything they could to ruin my character, my reputation.” She also described those who campaigned against her and the other anti-evolution candidates, which likely includes much of the state’s scientific community, as “a lot of well-funded, loud, obnoxious, rude people who have no ethics and morals, and they don’t bat an eye at lying and manipulating the truth.” And she said, “I feel bad for them when they face God on Judgment Day.”", show she is hardly a Christian.
A true Christian would never make statements like that, nor would they whine about losing. Connie, you should read the bible a bit closer. Jesus would definetly frown on your actions. You are a false christian hypocrite and a sore loser. Grow up.
What is this current Republican ploy that if they don’t get elected something horrendous is going to happen. See we have Connie not getting elected so Jesus will return and kill all the Jews, Lieberman wasn’t elected so we’ll have more terrorist attacks, and if Kerry got elected some guys in a cave will launch a nuclear missle at us.
No doubt they’ll say with a stern face that they aren’t trying to use scare tactics.
She can switch to the Democrat Party. They will welcome her.
No Joe I think she could be well welcome as a Islamic fascist. LoL
Joe, the dems put her out, not welcomed her!
More from RSR: (Pat Hayes)
Connie’s CompetenceCindy Duckett, a conservative activist from Wichita, tells Scott Rothschild of the Lawrence Journal World that the defeat of right-wing school board incumbent Connie Morris, and drive-by candidate Brad Patzer, in the Republican primary doesn’t represent an anti-conservative trend among Kansas voters.
Morris was weakened by charges of exorbitant travel expenses, while Van Meter’s district had no incumbent, she said.
“I’m not sure it is a backlash against conservatives. The primary elections were really about competence,” she said.
Say what you like about right-wingers, it didn’t take them long to put that knife into Connie’s back.
Notice that he calls Brad “a drive by candidate”?If we back up to a time just before the election, we find Brad moving here from Idaho, because he was soooo concerned about educating our kids in Kansas.He was sooo concerned that after he lost the election, and 12 days prior to starting his TEACHING JOB at Caney, HE “R-U-N-N O-F-T”.Leaving Caney up the creek.Whatta guy!Conservative compassion, and only concern for the poor godless kids of Kansas.Okay Caney kids, today’s spelling.Can you spell cut-and-run?
Oh, I forgot. Hi Cindy!!You look sweet!
What exactly is “scientific evidence both FOR and AGAINST evolution”? I know scientific evidence supports evolution, but what scientific evidence is against evolution? The only crap I’ve ever heard against evolution is theology inspired rhetoric.
Their evidence seems to simply be anything that we do not have evidence of.
Absence of evidence is the evidence of absence, is that it?
Yes that’s it.The unknown is apparently some kind of scientific proof of God.Make sense?I didn’t think so.
And from the LJ World:
But Cindy Duckett, a conservative activist from Wichita, predicted Bacon and Willard would withstand the challenges.
“I think John and Ken are really secure,” Duckett said.
She said the GOP primary didn’t represent an anti-conservative swing.
Morris was weakened by charges of exorbitant travel expenses, while Van Meter’s district had no incumbent, she said.
“I’m not sure it is a backlash against conservatives. The primary elections were really about competence,” she said.
And she predicted that in 2008, conservatives will retake the board.
“The pendulum will swing in two years,” she said.
Bob Beatty, a political science professor at Washburn University, said moderates will have a tough time toppling Willard and Bacon in the general election because much of the attention on the Board of Education races has subsided.
“The national attention is certainly off, so that will not be as big of a campaign factor,” Beatty said.
During the primaries, the challengers framed the debate as a board in crisis that needed to be “retaken,” he said.
“Now it is retaken,” he said, and it will be more difficult to drum up interest in the campaigns.
Read Thomas PM Barnett’s “Blueprint: A Future Worth Creating.” I caught him on TV last night and this is one smart cat. Arrogant and professorish, but he sees way beyond the short-sighteneness of the bible-thumping LRBs of the world. His take on the recent flare-up is that Iran got tired of waiting for the U.S. to attack it, so it used and armed its proxy, the Hezbollah, brilliantly to show us and the Isrealis what can happen. Excellent diplomatic/military work from a part of the world that has been doing it for centuries and a country that is run by pragmatic people instead of idiots like Bushco. He’s my new intellictual hero.But then I believe in thinking about consdquences and diplomacy, which of course, are two concets foreign to the LRB Bush apologists of the world.To borrow a quote: Worst President Ever!!!
Hey Tracy,”The unknown is apparently some kind of scientific proof of God.”Have you noticed that over the last couple centuries, as the unknown has shrunk, their rhetoric keeps getting more and more shrill?
I find it fascinating when a fundamentalist Christian states that they “worry” about how someone who disagrees with them is going to be “judged by God”. It’s so obvious that they would love nothing more than to see all the “sinners” who don’t see things they way they do burn in hell.
Mary,I think the joke will be upon them when the sinners are judged worthy to enter The Kingdom! Let them worry about their own Judgment Day. To paraphrase, God alone knows what’s in the Man’s hearts.
Like a great woman once said, “If you think you’re going to heaven, then you’re not humble enough to go”
Thanks Mary.I forgot that saying, which is pretty much my feeling when I read the rants by the obviously ’saved’.
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