How George Soros Has Taken Over Your Local Government
By Jose Nino
BigLeaguePolitics.com
Oct 10, 2019
Cities and counties across the nation are witnessing George Soros-backed networks push race-based policies in order to disrupt localities.
According to Luke Rosiak of the Daily Caller, these groups in tandem with local politicians are “redrawing school boundaries to dismantle schools with too many white or Asian students.”
Some of these proposals are so radical that even casual, left-leaning constituents are starting to worry. The justification of these policies is done under the guise of “equity.”
Margaret McCreary, a parent in Fairfax County, Virginia, said that “School board meetings suddenly became like Mad Libs. They started repeating certain phrases, jamming them into every sentence. It was very odd.” She was referring to a proposal that board members put forward that would have McCreary’s children moved out of her school district.
“It seemed like they were all in cahoots to do something, but at first we didn’t know what to make of it, because we didn’t know what they were talking about,” McCreary continued.
Fairfax was one of the first counties to pass drastic measures that required every policy to be viewed “through the “lens” of race.” The justification for these changes came from research that the University of Southern California (USC) conducted. This USC research argued that these racial policies would benefit the cities and could gain them “billions of dollars” if USC’s policy suggestions were carried out.
The Daily Caller News Foundation found that these policy proposals being shoved down local governments’ throats are funded by a network of groups with similar funders, which include George Soros. According to DCNF, “One of those groups alone is active in 33 cities and counties covering 1 in 10 Americans.”
A group affiliated to USC called the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) works to conduct research — at their funders’ request — that will allegedly rake in billions of dollars of economic growth. Other groups provide research to individual cities and counties, where it is used to justify “equity” mandates in all policymaking.
Then the government follows advice from a third set of groups who want local governments to implement radical policies that they are supposedly obligated to carry out.
These groups share funders and board members who work together to share information in a synergistic fashion.
Fairfax County was originally sold on this radical policy after county employees participated in a 2014 conference associated with a group called the Local and Regional Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE). At the event, GARE assisted unelected bureaucrats in influencing the elected politicians they worked for by substituting “politically difficult” language with the more neutral “equity.”
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