COPIED FROM JOE BECIGNEUL: THIS IS PROBABLY GOING TO TICK SOME PEOPLE OFF, AND I HOPE IT DOES. BUT I’M GOING TO KEEP ON SHARING IT AND SAYING IT. AND ONCE AGAIN, I AM NOT A SWIFTIE, BUT I AM A HUMAN BEING, A DAD AND, A MONSTROUS FOOTBALL FAN.
I am extremely disappointed in so many of you who think that "not being a fan" of someone means you're entitled to shit all over them.
I want to remind you of something.
Your children are watching you complain about Taylor Swift sitting at a football game, being happy, and cheering for a man she loves in what appears to be a very loving, respectful relationship.
Your Children are watching you judge a woman for literally just EXISTING and taking up space happily.
And you know what? Ms. Swift has won 324 awards? How many do you have?
She brought $5 BILLION dollars in consumer spending and boosted the U. S. economy so significantly, that leaders from other countries actually beg for her to play there?
Did you know that there are over 20 college courses about her skills as an artist, lyricist, and musician - including at places like Harvard, Stanford & UC Berkeley?
Did you know that Taylor Swift quietly donates mass amounts of money to local food banks in every city she performs in?
AND DID YOU KNOW …
That Taylor Swift was sexually assaulted by a radio DJ, and she got him fired? When he sued HER for over $3 million for defamation, she counter sued for a symbolic $1 in a court case that took 2 YEARS for her to win. And, she did that just to show women that fighting for what's right has no price tag & to never be silent in the face of oppression.
WELL IF YOU DON’T CARE BY NOW, YOU SHOULD.
Because your daughters, nieces, and your nephews are watching you run your mouth. And they are seeing the world hate a woman who does so much good, simply because she exists in their line of sight.
DO BETTER PEOPLE.
Teach your boys to respect women. Teach your girls that as women - they are ALLOWED to take up space.
Fix it. Become aware of your words. Because we all have the ability and the obligation to fight for the future of our children with simple moments. And we need to consciously choose to be better for them.
@rjhansen13 Barr said free speech does not mean you can make misleading and fraudulent statements and try to make a connection with conspiracies. 🤔 makes me think of …
🚨BREAKING NEWS: Orange County Supervisors @OCGovCA agree to $4.5 million settlement in failure to report child abuse allegations
@ocregister Destiny Torres @yagurldest July 26, 2023
Orange County [taxpayers] will pay $4.5 million to settle a claim that the OC Social Services Agency failed to report a 2011 child abuse complaint to police, a failure the lawsuit said allowed alleged abuse to continue for six years.
The payout, which the OC Board of Supervisors agreed to in closed session on Tuesday, July 25, comes more than a decade after a county social worker discounted a mother’s allegation that her two children, then 5 and 1 year old, were being abused by Alex Beltran, a family friend on their father’s side.
The mother later filed suit, saying the social worker’s decision led to the abuse continuing until 2018. Beltran later was arrested and charged with 26 counts of sexually abusing several minors. Beltran pleaded not guilty in 2021 and the case is still ongoing.
Christopher Taylor https://t.co/BlbSxrjYXV, lawyer for the plaintiffs, said the family had lost faith in the social welfare system and the payout “makes them hopeful this won’t happen to anyone else.” The settlement money will allow the children to seek psychological help.
“The conclusion of this case, which took six years to litigate, makes plaintiffs and their mother hopeful the young men can now live as thriving teenagers instead of victims,” Taylor said in an email.
Supervisors agreed that compensation was warranted.
“I voted to settle because I think the bureaucratic failure to cross-report to law enforcement could have caused harm,” Fifth District Supervisor Katrina Foley said, adding that since then much has changed within the OC Social Services Agency and California to better protect children.
“What I want to see, always, is that we protect kids. When we have complaints that we thoroughly investigate, that we cross-report when there is a suspicion of child abuse and that we make sure that the law enforcement investigate if necessary.”
It’s unclear if other victims were molested by Beltran after the social worker didn’t act on the 2011 complaint. But @SupervisorFoley said the board was not concerned that agreeing to the payout in one case would open the county to other claims because the facts of the case were very specific.
Third District Supervisor Don Wagner dissented, saying the payout could have been smaller.
“I felt that the argument that the county had done something wrong that justified paying such a large settlement was very weak,” @DonWagnerCA said.
The @OrangeCountySSA declined to comment on the case.
Staff Writers Anthony Saavedra @TonySaavedra2 and Sean Emery @semeryOCR contributed to this story.
https://t.co/Q5roAqpxXH
🚨 POSTSCRIPT: How much are Orange County taxpayers going to pay mom @julie_holburn for what they’ve done to her children & her?👇@itsjustadivorce@MeghanWalsh_@mikevolpe@TheEmmapreneur@letshearthetru@NoogaJack@brideofChrist83 @TheBdNvestments @werisemovement@bleacherbling@ex_silicon
#AngelLaw @SenDaveMin@annemarieuci #SusanBassi @DavisVanguard
This is ridiculous. Random notes from some lawyer from long ago. Wooo. No there there. What an investigative journalist you are. Oh you blocked me. That’s right.
This is ridiculous. Random notes from some lawyer from long ago. Wooo. No there there. What an investigative journalist you are. Oh you blocked me. That’s right.
This is ridiculous. Random notes from some lawyer from long ago. Wooo. No there there. What an investigative journalist you are. Oh you blocked me. That’s right.