This is the list of the 53 Republican House members who signed a letter asking President Obama to fire Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings.
I can’t vouch for the accuracy of the list.
Is your Representative on this list ?
List of Republicans who signed the letter:
State Representative
1 IA King, Steve , 5th IA (Author)
2 AL Aderholt, Robert B. , 4th AL
3 AL Bachus, Spencer , 6th AL
4 AL Rogers, Mike , 3rd AL
5 AR Boozman, John , 3rd AR
6 AZ Franks, Trent , 2nd AZ
7 CA Hunter, Duncan , 52nd CA
8 CA Issa, Darrell E. , 49th CA
9 CA McClintock, Tom , 4th CA
10 CA McKeon, Howard P. “Buck” , 25th CA
11 CO Coffman, Mike , 6th CO
12 CO Lamborn, Doug , 5th CO
13 FL Mica, John L. , 7th FL
14 FL Miller, Jeff , 1st FL
15 FL Posey, Bill , 15th FL
16 FL Rooney, Thomas J. , 16th FL
17 GA Broun, Paul C. , 10th GA
18 GA Gingrey, Phil , 11th GA
19 GA Westmoreland, Lynn A. , 3rd GA
20 IN Pence, Mike , 6th IN
21 KY Davis, Geoff , 4th KY
22 LA Alexander, Rodney , 5th LA
23 LA Fleming, John , 4th LA
24 MD Bartlett, Roscoe G. , 6th MD
25 MN Bachmann, Michele , 6th MN
26 MO Akin, W. Todd , 2nd MO
27 MO Luetkemeyer, Blaine , 9th MO
28 NA Foxx, Virginia , 5th NC
29 NC McHenry, Patrick T. , 10th NC
30 NC Myrick, Sue Wilkins , 9th NC
31 NC Jones, Walter B. , 3rd NC
32 NJ Garrett, Scott , 5th NJ
33 NJ Smith, Christopher H. , 4th NJ
34 OH Austria, Steve , 7th OH
35 OH Jordan, Jim , 4th OH
36 OH Latta, Robert E. , 5th OH
37 OK Cole, Tom , 4th OK
38 OK Fallin, Mary , 5th OK
39 PA Pitts, Joseph R. , 16th PA
40 PA Shuster, Bill , 9th PA
41 SC Brown, Henry E. Jr., 1st SC
42 TN Wamp, Zach , 3rd TN
43 TX Barton, Joe , 6th TX
44 TX Carter, John R. , 31st TX
45 TX Conaway, K. Michael , 11th TX
46 TX Gohmert, Louie , 1st TX
47 TX Marchant, Kenny , 24th TX
48 TX Neugebauer, Randy , 19th TX
49 TX Olson, Pete , 22nd TX
50 TX Smith, Lamar , 21st TX
51 UT Chaffetz, Jason , 3rd UT
52 WA McMorris Rodgers, Cathy , 5th WA
53 WI Ryan, Paul , 1st WI
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OTHER RESOURCES:
53 Republicans demand firing of ‘safe schools czar’ Kevin Jennings
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List of members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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AngryCalifornian blog: Kevin Jennings Safe Schools Czar – Age 15, or 16, What’s the Difference ?
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Representative Steve King, Website.
(Letter sent to President Obama)
October 15, 2009
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President,
We respectfully request that you remove Kevin Jennings, the Assistant Deputy Secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, from your Administration. It is clear that Mr. Jennings lacks the appropriate qualifications and ethical standards to serve in this capacity.
As the founder of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), Mr. Jennings has played an integral role in promoting homosexuality and pushing a pro-homosexual agenda in America’s schools—an agenda that runs counter to the values that many parents desire to instill in their children. As evidence of this, Mr. Jennings wrote the foreword for a book titled Queering Elementary Education: Advancing the Dialogue About Sexualities and Schooling. Throughout his career, Mr. Jennings has made it his mission to establish special protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered students to the exclusion of all other students. The totality of Mr. Jennings’ career has been to advocate for public affirmation of homosexuality. There is more to safe and drug free schools than can be accomplished from the narrow view of Mr. Jennings who has, for more than 20 years, almost exclusively focused on promoting the homosexual agenda.
Equally troubling is Mr. Jennings’ self-described history of ignoring the sexual abuse of a child. In his book, One Teacher in Ten, Mr. Jennings recounts a 15-year old student confiding in him that he had a sexual relationship with a much older man. Mr. Jennings’ only response was to ask if the underage boy used a condom. As a mandatory reporter, Mr. Jennings was required by law to report child abuse, including sex crimes. Mr. Jennings cannot serve as the “safe schools” czar when his record demonstrates a willingness to overlook the sexual abuse of a child.
As the “safe schools” czar, Mr. Jennings is also charged with ensuring our schools and students are drug free. It is clear that Mr. Jennings is unfit to serve in this capacity, as well. His own history of unrepentant drug and alcohol abuse indicates that he is of the opinion that getting drunk and high as a young person is acceptable. In his memoir, Mama’s Boy, Preacher’s Son, Mr. Jennings describes his use of illegal drugs, without expressing regret or acknowledging the devastating effects illegal drug use can have on a person’s life.
Everyone that deals with the education of the most vulnerable must be a positive role model. Our children are not blessed with the wisdom to discern and reject. Children presume the adults who educate them are approved by the larger society and their parents. Kevin Jennings cannot gain the approval of parents who want their children safe and their schools drug free. You should replace him with someone who has a record of educating children in a safe and moral environment.
Given these very serious issues with Mr. Jennings’ record, we urge you to remove him immediately.
Sincerely,
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