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This is what happens when you have out of control growth. Plenty of blame to go around to commissioners and the city council! The Hendersonville City Council last week fired a preemptive strike as the decades long city-county water war erupted again, spelling out to the county’s legislative delegation the ways the city had tried to “resolve the long-standing dispute over governance of the utility system.” https://www.hendersonvillelightning.com/news/13808-legislators-want-city-and-county-to-work-out-utility-and-growth-dispute.html

Scott Walter on the Jesse Kelly Show: Capital Research Center that uncovered Zuck Bucks exposes the who and the why so many rich guys throw money at overthrowing our Constitutional Republic without a monetary return. Arabella: https://youtu.be/EuIsff6uSJM?si=BaEcEoBHdnG2umXs Ugly Resources: Accountable.US’s Unaccountable “Dark Money” Rootshttps://capitalresearch.org/article/accountable-uss-unaccountable-dark-money-roots/ Democratic Arabella dark money network faces IRS complaint over lining ex-Clinton aide’s pockets Nonprofit groups in the largest Democratic-linked dark money network in the United States may have illegally "diverted substantial portions... . Aug 15, 2023 Capital Research Center Require Nonprofits to Disclose Their Foreign Grantmaking The House Ways and Means Committee recently announced an examination of, among other things, “whether foreign sources of funding are being... . Sep 12, 2023 The New York Times Democrats Decried Dark Money in Politics, but Used It to Defeat Trump A New York Times analysis reveals how the left outdid the right at raising and spending millions from undisclosed donors to defeat Donald... . Aug 21, 2022 The Maine Wire Arabella Advisors, the Left's Dark Money Juggernaut, Must Open Books Following Lawsuit The liberal non-profit New Venture Fund, the largest subsidiary of the leftist dark-money organization Arabella Advisors, will be forced to... . 2 weeks ago OpenSecrets Liberal 'dark money' groups' revenue soared ahead of 2020 elections Liberal “dark money” groups got a fundraising boost in 2020 as they funneled millions of dollars into political contributions and spending. . Dec 23, 2021 Politico Documents reveal massive 'dark-money' group boosted Democrats in 2018 A little-known nonprofit called The Sixteen Thirty Fund pumped $140 million into Democratic and left-leaning causes. . Nov 19, 2019 Free Beacon Top Democratic Operatives Were Quietly Pulling the Strings at a Voting Rights Group. Lawyers Say They May Have ... In the months before the 2020 elections, the New Venture Fund had a problem. The dark money behemoth, an arm of Arabella Advisors' sprawling... . Jul 10, 2023 The Federalist WaPo Carries Water For 'Dark Money' Behind Biden's SCOTUS Nominee Arabella Advisors is the most powerful liberal lobbying force in Washington, but Glenn Kessler aims his fire at conservative groups. . Mar 14, 2022 Capital Research Center The Shadow over America: Arabella Advisors $635 Million Empire in 2018 In The Shadow over America we continue to pull back the curtain on this vast political machine known as Arabella Advisors. . Sep 16, 2020 Capital Research Center Accountable.US's Unaccountable “Dark Money” Roots Against a backdrop of corruption allegations and partisanship, three “progressive” watchdog groups have formed Accountable.

Mail-in ballots without dates, or with incorrect dates, should not be counted, federal appeals court rules. View Epoch Times Post here. A state law in Pennsylvania that requires mail-in ballots to be dated is legal, a federal appeals court has ruled. The law, which says that voters must fill out, date, and sign envelopes containing the ballots, is not prevented by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a majority said in the March 27 ruling. That act bans denying “the right of any individual to vote in any election because of an error or omission on any record or paper relating to any application, registration or other act requisite to voting.” But that provision “only applies when the state is determining who may vote,” U.S. Circuit Judge Thomas Ambro, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, wrote for the majority of a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit panel. “In other words, its role stops at the door of the voting place. The provision does not apply to rules, like the date requirement, that govern how a qualified voter must cast his ballot for it to be counted.” The same court ahead of the 2022 election ruled that state officials must count undated ballots, but the U.S. Supreme Court vacated that order. After the state’s acting secretary of state said counties should still count undated ballots, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that counties could not count mail-in ballots with missing or incorrect dates. About 7,900 ballots were not counted in the 2020 election because they were missing a signature or date or had an inaccurate date, according to state officials. U.S. District Judge Susan Paradise Baxter later ruled that the Pennsylvania law violated the Civil Rights Act provision, meaning Pennsylvania officials had to count mail-in ballots even if they lacked dates or contained inaccurate dates. RELATED STORIES RNC Files Election Integrity Lawsuit Targeting Michigan’s Handling of Absentee Ballots 3/28/2024 Behind Massive Mail-in Ballot Push Is a Little-Noticed Executive Order 3/28/2024 “Federal law prohibits a state from erecting immaterial roadblocks, such as this, to voting,” Judge Baxter, appointed by former President Donald Trump, wrote at the time, referring to the Pennsylvania law. According to the law, a voter casting a ballot by mail must mark the ballot and then place it inside a provided envelope. That envelope must then be placed into a second envelope, which contains the areas for the date and signature. “The elector shall then fill out, date and sign the declaration printed on such envelope,” the law states. “This is a crucial victory for election integrity and voter confidence in the Keystone State and nationwide. Pennsylvanians deserve to feel confident in the security of their mail ballots, and this Third Circuit ruling roundly rejects unlawful left-wing attempts to count undated or incorrectly dated mail ballot,” Michael Whatley, the RNC’s chairman, said in a statement after the new ruling was handed down. Groups that sued over the law expressed disappointment. “If this ruling stands, thousands of Pennsylvania voters could lose their vote over a meaningless paperwork error. The ballots in question in this case come from voters who are eligible and who met the submission deadline,“ Mike Lee, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, said in a statement. ”In passing the Civil Rights Act, Congress put a guardrail in place to be sure that states don’t erect unnecessary barriers that disenfranchise voters. It’s unfortunate that the court failed to recognize that principle. Voters lose as a result of this ruling.” The ruling can be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the groups have not yet indicated whether they'll appeal. Justice Samuel Alito has said that the Pennsylvania law did not appear to violate the Civil Rights Act provision because it did not deny people the right to vote. “When a mail-in ballot is not counted because it was not filled out correctly, the voter is not denied ’the right to vote,'” he said previously. “Rather, that individual’s vote is not counted because he or she did not follow the rules for casting a ballot.” Several other justices supported his view, offered in a dissent when the rest of the court initially said Pennsylvania counties could keep counting undated ballots. Judge Ambro offered a similar rationale, writing that the provision “targets laws that restrict who may vote” and “does not preempt state requirements on how qualified voters may cast a valid ballot, regardless what (if any) purpose those rules serve.” He was joined by U.S. Circuit Judge Cindy Chung, who was appointed by President Joe Biden. U.S. Circuit Judge Patty Shwartz, an appointee of President Barack Obama and the third member of the panel that ruled, said in a dissent that the provision “means that state actors cannot deprive a voter of the right to vote due to an error or omission he makes on papers that he must complete to have his ballot counted, including on papers distinct from application or registration forms, if the mistake is not relevant to the State’s ability to ascertain whether he is qualified under state law to vote in the election.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/aclu-threatens-sue-georgia-over-181909654.html The Georgia legislature passed new election ballot reforms that could have a big impact in the 2024 election in the key battleground state, should Gov. Brian Kemp sign the bill into law. The Georgia state legislature passed GOP-backed Senate Bill 189 last week, which now awaits Kemp’s signature or veto. The bill would grant access to Georgia’s ballot to any political party that has qualified for the presidential ballot in at least 20 states — a change that could boost independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and potentially draw votes away from President Biden. The bill also makes ballots, once certified, immediately available as public record in an effort to increase the scope of poll watchers on Election Day. It also makes audits of voter rolls easier, to ensure deceased residents or those who have moved out of state are no longer eligible to vote. LIBERAL GROUPS SUE TO BLOCK NEW ALABAMA VOTING LAW BANNING BALLOT HARVESTING Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp. Hans von Spakovsky, an election law expert and former member of the Federal Election Commission, said the Georgia legislature, through measures like Senate Bill 189, is trying to address several administration problems highlighted in the 2020 election. "The Georgia legislature has been trying to correct the vulnerabilities that allowed some of those administrative problems to creep in," von Spakovsky told Fox News Digital in an interview. Von Spakovsky, who also served on the Board of Advisors of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and on the Fulton County Board of Registrations and Elections, praised the measure as an effort to make future elections "as transparent as possible." MAIL-IN BALLOTS MUST HAVE DATES ON ENVELOPES, PENNSYLVANIA APPEALS COURT RULES Georgia's Senate Bill 189 will make ballots, upon certification, public record in an effort to increase the scope of poll watchers. Andrea Young, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in Georgia, has said the legislation violates the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), and threatened to sue if it becomes law. Among other things, the NVRA, signed by President Bill Clinton in 1993, bans states from removing registered voters from voter rolls unless certain criteria are met. "The majority in the Georgia General Assembly persists in passing laws that will undermine our democracy," Young told local news station FOX 5. "This is a recipe for election chaos, and we strongly urge the governor to veto it." But von Spakovsky said he doesn’t see anything in the state’s measure that would violate the NVRA, and says that similar legal challenges in other states have failed. He also noted that claims by President Biden two years ago that other Georgia election reforms — like requiring ID for absentee ballots — were a mechanism to suppress minority voters and amounted to "Jim Crow 2.0" have proven to be false. Von Spakovsky noted that a survey conducted by the University of Georgia found that precisely 0% of Black respondents said that they had a "poor" experience voting in 2022, compared to 0.9% of White voters. AG GARLAND PLEDGES TO FIGHT VOTER ID LAWS, ELECTION INTEGRITY MEASURES split image of Trump, Biden "I have a lot more confidence that we're going to have a good election this year than I did in 2020," von Spakovsky said. Janae Stracke, vice president of outreach at the conservative group Heritage Action, said that lawmakers in Georgia "deserve a lot of praise for their work to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat through commonsense proposals that are often supported by a bipartisan majority of Americans." "Free and fair elections are the bedrock of our republic, and everyone deserves to know their vote will be counted accurately this November," she said. The ACLU did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Original article source: ACLU threatens to sue Georgia over election bill conservatives praise as 'commonsense' reform

Manym many thanks to Craig Seibert from Mecklenburg County for organizing this material from EIN. It's awesome! Craig also runs Christian Civics. You need to check out the work he does. Craig Seibert Director www.ChristianCivicsTraining.org www.ChristianCitizenshipTraining.org MASTER CLASS - ONBOARDING VIDEO LINKS – Categorized by the 8 Lanes Provided by EIN – The Election Integrity Network These video links will introduce you to the type of activities that are involved in each of the areas.   Some of the videos will mention all the research you can do or need to get up to speed on.   GOOD NEWS… a lot of that has been done in many areas… so you will not be starting from scratch !!! Get a Citizens Guide -  Go to https://whoscounting.us/citizensguide/ supply your email and get download Task Force – Launching a Task Force Lesson 1 by Cleta Mitchell: Overview of your Election Integrity Infrastructure – 5m Lesson 2: Forming your Local Election Integrity Task Force – 5m Lesson 3: How to Grow your Local Election Integrity Task Force & Working Groups – 5m 1~ County Board of Election Liaison (Leads all local Task Force interactions with CBE)​ Lesson 4: Researching your Local Election Office – 3m Lesson 5: Working Groups in Election Integrity are Necessary – 5m 3~ Mail Voting Processes  (Monitors how USPS & CBE handles all absentee ballots)​ Lesson 6: Get Knee Deep in Voting by Mail – 6m Lesson 7: Know the Role of the USPS in Voting by Mail –7 m 2~ Poll Observers, employees, and greeters (Recruited & trained at all voting locations Lesson 8: Becoming an Election Worker – 3m Lesson 9: Becoming a Poll Watcher – 5m Lesson 10: The Difference Between Poll Workers & Watchers – 5m Lesson 11: Regulations and Requirements for Poll Watchers – 5m 4~ List Maintenance (Analyzes voter rolls and monitors SBE voter roll maintenance Lesson 12: Cleaning Voter Rolls – 7m 5~ Vulnerable Voters (Assists with elder care, handicapped, and military ballots.)​ Lesson 13: Protecting Vulnerable Voters – Assisted Living– 4m Lesson 14: Protecting Vulnerable Voters! Military Voters - Part 2 – 6m 6~ Machines & Technology  (Monitors certification of machines & software)​ Lesson 15: Citizen Oversight of Voting Machines - Part 1 –4m Lesson 16: Citizen Oversight of Voting Machines - Part 2 –10m Task Force – Best Practices Lesson 17: The Virginia Model – 6m Freedom of Information Act and Public Records Request Research Lesson 18: Citizens Research Project – 6m Task Force – Best Practices Lesson 19: Supporting your Local Election Integrity Task Force -7m 7~ Statutory Provisions & Compliance (Legislative oversight and advocacy)​ Lesson 20: Legislative Success Part 1: First steps in developing legislator relationships – 8m Lesson 21: Legislative Success Part 2: Principles and procedures of the legislative process – 9m ============================ NATIONAL TASK FORCE CALLS Based on your interest area, begin to join these national calls that will train and equip you in everything you need to know and can bring back to the NCEIT-Mecklenburg County Team.   You need to click on the link in advance of the call and register in order to attend the call.   A best practice is to do this several hours in advance of the call. This link will be the most accurate and current of scheduled calls. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P1eS6ldu4CjIr45YbGENL2GzR3ITo2fm7vRqExaNIEU/edit#gid=1645296819 The general schedule is as follows:

Monday, April 15th, 2024 AT 7pm, the third Monday of the month, is a regularly scheduled Zoom meeting with County Coordinators, Task Forces, amd newcomers to NCEIT. Please invite new folks in your county and in neighboring ones. We continue to grow our County Task Forces. Agenda For Those New to NCEIT 1) Think Big. Start Small. Learn Fast. How to organize your county/precinct for election integrity. 2) Threats: Old and New that should be addressed. 3) Legislation for the short session/Action Items Time: Apr 15, 2024 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87409151309?pwd=SzU2b3dJc1lGWEJtczJkOGttVTdNUT09 Meeting ID: 874 0915 1309 Passcode: 793860 --- One tap mobile • +1 929 436 2866 US (New York) Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbL8rpMaAV

Show up on April 24th or Sign the Petition Gun Rights Supporters: Last year, as House Bill 189 for permit-less concealed carry stalled, Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger said: “We've done away with the pistol purchase permit, which was the No. 1 goal of many of the gun rights groups for a long period of time. I just don't know if there's a need for us to delve into additional issues dealing with guns and people's 2nd Amendment rights.” While partially true – and we thank Republicans for passing the pistol purchase permit repeal – Phil Berger is effectively saying that he believes HE should decide which of your rights you “need.” Meanwhile, Florida and Nebraska, Louisiana, and South Carolina passed constitutional carry, bringing the number of states with permit-less carry to 29. Yes, North Carolina now lies within the minority of states which continue to deny this basic civil right to their citizens. Thanks to Berger and other “you-have-enough-rights” naysayers at the General Assembly, HB 189 continues to languish in the House Rules Committee while North Carolina falls behind other freedom-loving red states. Yes, North Carolina Republicans are falling behind even their own party in restoring your Second Amendment freedoms. GRNC holds Republicans’ feet to the fire (again) As always, Grass Roots North Carolina will follow through on its promises by delivering a petition with thousands of signatures calling for constitutional carry to Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger on April 24, on the opening day of the second year of the two-year legislative session. And unlike certain other phony gun groups which exist solely to take your money, when GRNC delivers a message to the NC General Assembly, legislators listen. If HB 189 doesn’t pass in this session, the bill will be dead. What we need YOU to do RIGHT NOW  ATTEND the April 24 petition presentation: Please RSVP to DirectorOfDevelopment@GRNC.org to confirm you attend. Take a day from work if you need to. Showing Berger we are serious is a lot easier if a few dozen constitutional carry advocates show up at his office.  Constitutional carry Petition presentation details: WHAT: A limited gathering to present a hand truck with thousands of petitions to Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger, thereby delivering a clear message that Republicans should “remember who ‘brung ‘em to the dance.” We will also do a limited distribution of talking points to relevant Republicans. WHEN: April 24, 10:00 AM EDT WHERE: NC General Assembly Printed Bills office, 16 West Jones Street, Raleigh, NC 27601. SEE MAP AT BOTTOM BELOW. WHY: To tell legislators loud and clear that you will not let them dictate your civil rights  ASK OTHERS TO SIGN the petition: Even if you have signed (and we need you to sign if you haven’t), please pass the link along to like-minded friends and relatives, asking them to sign the petition. TIME IS GROWING SHORT. You can find the constitutional carry petition by going to: grncalert.com/pass-constitutional-carry-2023-h189/ You will note that I’m not asking for money. (At least not right now.) What GRNC needs – what YOU need – is to SHOW UP at the NC General Assembly at 16 West Jones St., Raleigh, NC 27601 on April 24 at 10:00 AM. Please note that no legislative experience is required. We will have volunteers to guide you, including distributing literature to legislators. With your help, GRNC will continue its nearly three decades of victory. Armatissimi e liberissimi, F. Paul Valone President, Grass Roots North Carolina Executive Director, Rights Watch International Host, Guns, Politics and Freedom Author, Rules for ANTI-Radicals: A Practical Handbook for Defeating Leftism

https://grncalert.com/pass-constitutional-carry-2023-h189/ Pass NC Freedom to Carry (Constitutional Carry) H189 Show up in Raleigh on April 24th or Sign the Petition. It's Our Inalienable Right! Read the details here. Sign this online petition to the NC Legislature to demand that they pass Constitutional Carry for North Carolina Now: I, the signatory of this petition, do hereby affirm that: Whereas, the Supreme Court of the United States has three times ruled that the Second Amendment reinforces a fundamental, natural right of individuals to keep and bear arms; Whereas, no other right enumerated in the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights requires governmental permission merely to exercise a fundamental natural right; Whereas, twenty-eight (28) states have now passed some form of permitless or “constitutional” concealed carry of handguns, leaving North Carolina in a disadvantaged minority; Whereas, none of the states which have adopted permitless or constitutional carry have experienced the problems predicted by naysayers; Whereas, the North Carolina General Assembly now has supermajorities in both chambers, rendering them capable of overriding a probable veto by Governor Roy Cooper; and Whereas, Second Amendment voters were in large part responsible for wins in the 2022 elections which gave Republicans the supermajorities needed to override a veto by Governor Roy Cooper; I do hereby call upon Republican leaders in the North Carolina Senate and North Carolina House to give prompt consideration via a committee hearing to House Bill 189, “NC Constitutional Carry Act.” Additionally, I call upon all members of the NC General Assembly to support HB 189 by all means, procedural and substantive.

A new battle front: States Rush to Combat AI Threat to Elections Another new battle front: Remember Zuck Bucks? Well, NC passed a ban in S747 passed a ban on private money infiltrating ourBOEs and Commissioners. Twenty two other states did too. Good, right? S747 (t) The State Board shall not accept private monetary donations or in-kind contributions, directly or indirectly, for conducting elections or employing individuals on a temporary basis." ... (18) County boards of elections shall not accept private monetary donations or in-kind contributions, directly or indirectly, for conducting elections or employing individuals on a temporary basis....(b) County boards of commissioners shall not accept private monetary donations or in-kind contributions, directly or indirectly, for conducting elections or employing individuals Page 2 Session Law 2023-140 Senate Bill 747 on a temporary basis. This subsection does not prohibit the in-kind donation or use of a voting site, if that voting site is used for the purpose of conducting elections." However, Evil doesn't quit. A new 501c3 Leftist partisan group called Cities Forward has set up a trial balloon in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to infiltrate - are you ready - Libraries! Yes. So all of those states like ours who have enacted those laws to ban outside influence money and are fronts for GOTV and ballot harvesting, have to go back to the drawing board and tweak our ban on private money and people. Reaffirm the commitment as permanent watchdogs. Please Join NCEIT.org.

North Carolina’s 2024 Second Primary on May 14th 2024 Republican Only Primary Vote These Proven Constitutional Conservatives Who Can Vote:  All registered Republicans and unaffiliated voters who did not vote or voted the Republican ballot in the first primary would be eligible. Voter ID required.Early voting begins April 25th.  Vote early! Jim O'Neill for Lt. Governor Jack Clark for NC Auditor Paid for by Asheville Tea PAC and not by any candidate or candidates’ committee.

Tea Time Meetings: The 3rd Thursday of the month at noon at Bay Breeze Restaurant. 1830 Asheville Hwy, Hendersonville, NC 28791 (828) 697-7106. We will be meeting here until further notice. Henderson County School Board Meetings: The Second Monday of the MonthApril 8th at 4PM Here is the School Board Meeting website and schedule and where to see the agenda… https://www.hendersoncountypublicschoolsnc.org/district/administration/school-board10/board-meeting-notices-2/board-minutes/board-agendas-and-minutes-school-year-2023-24/ Henderson County Board of Elections Meetings: Check schedule on the website Buncombe County Board of Elections Meetings: Schedule here. •Henderson County Commissioners Meeting: Commissioners Meetings the First Monday @5:30PM and the Third Wednesday @9:30AM of the Month Old Historic Courthouse on Main Street. (Parking is horrid.  Get there early. Paid parking.) Tuesday, May 14th at 5:30PM DEI (Marxist group: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) Proposing an offensive exclusionary flag (see below) to be painted on the side of a building to greet Hendersonville visitors. Let's not let that happen.) www.hendersonvillenc.gov 160 Sixth Ave E, Hendersonville, NC 28792 · (828) 697-3000 •The next DEI meeting is not until May 14 at 5:30. •https://hendersonville-nc.municodemeetings.com/ •The Marxists flag in their suggested mural is EXCLUSIVE not INCLUSIVE. The US Flag represents all of us and needs to replace the 'Pride Flag' that sends the wrong message and does not represent the good will of Henderson county as a welcome place for all. •All they need is one private property owner to say yes to this and it will become part of Henderson.  Is this what you want?  Make it unpopular and uncomfortable.

https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/03/professor-banned-from-christian-campus-for-criticizing-identity-politics-settles-case/ A professor and ordained pastor who was kicked off his campus two years ago for opposing “diversity, equity, and inclusion” initiatives has settled with Concordia University Wisconsin in a confidential agreement, his lawyer told The Federalist Tuesday. Philosophy professor Greg Schulz “alleged they breached the contract by violating his academic freedom, and he believes he’s been satisfactorily made whole,” said Dan Lennington, deputy counsel at the Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty, a nonprofit public interest law firm that took up Schulz’s case on behalf of free speech. When he was booted off campus without warning in February 2022, Schulz still had five years left on his tenured contract. After Schulz published an article criticizing his and other campuses’ use of race and sex as hiring criteria, acting university president William Cario ordered campus security to ban Schulz from campus, Schulz and Lennington told The Federalist then. Schulz couldn’t even clean out his office or access his campus email, he said. Several lawyers argued this clearly breached Schulz’s contract with Concordia. That contract required that all firings be voted on by the university’s board of regents and that tenured professors have access to a detailed dispute resolution process before any adversarial actions. CUW has not responded to a Federalist request for comment. The situation became a minor uproar in the church body in control of Concordia, the 1.8-million-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (of which this author is a communing member). Pastors, professors, and church members across the denomination expressed concern publicly and privately to church leadership. Local, regional, and national church councils expressed disapproval of CUW’s actions and opposition to identity politics, also known as leftist racism and cultural Marxism. Two years ago, after visiting campus and interviewing approximately 80 people who did not include Schulz, LCMS President Matthew Harrison issued a public letter. It called for two of the 18-member board of regents to resign, the university to review its “diversity” initiatives and align them with Christian theology, and for the university to “demonstrate repentance” for its “…adoption of secular worldviews and agendas.” The two regents Harrison identified did resign. Cariou retired in December. Lennington says the church district overseeing CUW plans to appoint a “circuit visitor” to review diversity initiatives at Concordia, which has long offered a Black Student Union and recently opened a Latino Student Union. The Black Student Union recommended the historically inaccurate 1619 Project and Ibram X. Kendi’s work to students. Kendi openly advocates for systemic government discrimination against people with lighter skin colors. Concordia also maintains a “bias reporting system.” Those are known for harassing students and professors for their speech. After The Federalist reported on the system last year, its name appears to have been changed. On Monday, Concordia announced layoffs to address annual deficits of $2 million to $6 million in five of the last six years, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Earlier this year, CUW announced it intends to close its campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, also due to budget concerns. “Enrollment fell from nearly 6,000 students in 2016 to nearly 4,400 in the 2021-22 school year, the latest federal data available,” according to the Journal-Sentinel. Including Ann Arbor, the LCMS will have closed four colleges since 2018 due to declining enrollment and resulting budget crises. The closed colleges also had problems with leftist race and sex politics conflicting with Christian teaching. The LCMS is currently in a legal dispute with Concordia University Texas in Austin, which rejects church attempts to assert authority and address serious theological problems at the school. In the two years he’s been suspended, Schulz has written a book about his experiences with DEI in the church and taught theology abroad. Schulz has two doctorates and is a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel. While Schulz’s contractual concerns are resolved with this agreement, Lennington said, his concerns as a pastor and theologian about his former employer’s embrace of anti-Christian and discriminatory “diversity, equity, and inclusion” initiatives are not. “We would like the university to reaffirm its commitment to academic freedom,” Lennington said. “It’s not going to help its reputation and recruitment if they can’t make a simple statement that they will respect professors’ free speech and due process rights.” ========================================================================== Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist, a happy wife, and the mother of six children. Her ebooks include "Classic Books For Young Children," and "101 Strategies For Living Well Amid Inflation." An 18-year education and politics reporter, Joy has testified before nearly two dozen legislatures on education policy and appeared on major media from Fox News to Ben Shapiro to Dennis Prager. 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