@DataRepublican It's a federal pardon a state could prosecute lying to the health department. Some senator needs to grow a pair and compel the testimony. Refusal would be contempt under Brown V Walker with a couple of years jail time at a club fed or stern letter from a no nut senator.
@BillAckman@HiltonHotels Mr. Ackman, if the franchisor of a Hampton Inn in a remote area of Wyoming suddenly lost 60% of their January bookings, and the hotel primarily serves employees of mining services and oil well drilling companies, could they sue Hilton for breach of the franchisor's obligations?
Utah School Board Member Quits, Warns Parents to Withdraw Children from Public Education
A sitting Utah State Board of Education member is walking away, and not quietly.
In a blistering farewell statement, she describes a system she believes is irredeemably corrupt and urges parents to remove their children from public schools altogether.
On January 2, Christina Boggess, a member of the Utah State Board of Education representing District 8, publicly announced that she will not seek reelection.
Her statement was not framed as a routine departure or a personal change of plans. It was a resignation in spirit, and a warning.
“I will not seek re-election,” Boggess wrote, “because I am done lending my name, my vote, and my silence to a broken, corrupt, and morally bankrupt system that no longer serves the children or families of this state.”
According to Boggess, corruption within the Utah State Board of Education is not incidental or isolated.
She describes it as “brazen” and “pervasive,” driven by political ambition, financial incentives, and institutional self-preservation rather than student outcomes.
In her telling, governance has become performative. Good ideas are buried. Dissent is punished. The appearance of reform is carefully managed, while the underlying system remains untouched.
She places part of the blame on the Utah Legislature as well, describing a feedback loop of dysfunction in which theatrical outrage substitutes for meaningful action.
Boggess says she ran for office to represent parents and families, but found that even those who campaign as conservatives often abandon their stated principles once inside the system.
“The Republican Party platform means nothing inside those walls,” she wrote. “The Word of the Lord means even less.”
She specifically cites parental concerns that many Utah families will recognize: explicit materials in school libraries, gender ideology in classrooms, declining academic standards, and the steady erosion of parental authority.
Her claim is not merely that these concerns go unaddressed, but that they are actively dismissed, mocked even, by decision-makers insulated from accountability.
At a certain point, she says, participation itself becomes a form of complicity.
“I refuse to be a prop in their theatre of fake reform,” she wrote. “Walking away is not surrender—it is the only honest act left to me.”
That framing is important. Boggess is not presenting her exit as exhaustion or defeat. She is presenting it as testimony.
And that testimony culminates in a stark recommendation.
“My final message to every parent in Utah is blunt and urgent,” she wrote. “Get your children out of Utah’s government schools as quickly as possible. Real change is not coming.”
As Boggess is exiting the system, many Utah parents already have.
Utah has seen a steady rise in homeschooling, private schooling, and alternative education models over the past several years.
Whatever one thinks of those trends, they are not happening in a vacuum.
Wait so a bunch of Somalians came into our country and stole $1 Billion of our tax dollars that was meant to feed hungry children, all under the watch of Tampon Tim???
This should be the biggest story rn
Democrats haven’t had this many people slaving away for free since 1861. I think this rerun ends just as badly for them—minus the hoop skirts, plus a lot more crying on TikTok
Comments disabled? Charlie left his on, ready to debate and defend his views. If you can't handle discussion, are your opinions too weak to stand up to scrutiny?
🚨 AMAZING: Life-long Democrat since 18 years old Deon Joseph departs the Democrat Party after the left's involvement and reaction to Charlie Kirk's assassination. https://t.co/6Ig4HKv2bP
"[Charlie] just wanted to talk. And he was assassinated for it...I can't be part of a party that fostered that."
"It's become demonic, and barbaric, and as a Christian, I can't be part of that anymore. I am a proud black man...Democrats used to stand for the right thing...but before I am black, and a member of any party, I am a born-again Christian. And the Democratic Party doesn't represent my values...I can't support the barbarism they've been engaged in."