The conservative leaders of the Conservative Action Project just released a Memo for the Movement entitled "Conservatives call on Miguel Cardona to resign his position as United States Secretary of Education."
The open letter was prompted by the revelation that Secretary Cardona had conspired with the National School Boards Association (NSBA) to malign parents across the country who have been demanding accountability from their local school board members. According to emails obtained via FOIA request, the NSBA’s letter to the Biden administration last September which compared the actions of concerned parents to “domestic terrorism” was sent at the request of Cardona.
If the NSBA’s letter was indeed crafted at Cardona’s request, this would mean that the DOJ’s action was based on a “crisis” that the Biden administration itself created.
The full text of the “Memo to the Movement” follows:
January 24, 2022
Washington, DC
On January 11th, evidence emerged that Secretary Cardona had conspired with the National School Boards Association (NSBA) to malign parents across the country who have been demanding accountability from their local school board members. According to emails obtained via FOIA request, the NSBA’s letter to the Biden administration last September which compared the actions of concerned parents to “domestic terrorism” was sent at the request of Cardona.
Secretary Cardona’s involvement in the conception of this letter is especially alarming considering that it was subsequently used by the Department of Justice to legitimize a new initiative cracking down on vaguely defined “threats” to school boards — and threatening the First Amendment rights of parents to speak freely and petition their government. If the NSBA’s letter was indeed crafted at Cardona’s request, this would mean that the DOJ’s action was based on a “crisis” that the Biden administration itself created.
Parents are not “domestic terrorists.” They have numerous serious reasons to be upset at the way public school officials have acted in recent months, including their unnecessary and harmful closure of schools, implementation of onerous and needless COVID-19 restrictions like student mask mandates, and injection of left-wing propaganda like critical race theory and gender ideology into the classroom. The Biden administration’s vilification of these parents is contemptible.
Given his apparent role in this effort to infringe on the rights of concerned parents, it is clear that Secretary Cardona can no longer credibly lead the U.S. Department of Education nor play a significant role in implementing federal education policy. We call on him to resign immediately.
We also call on Congress to further investigate the origins of the September NSBA letter to ensure any other Biden administration officials who were inappropriately involved are held accountable.
Organizations and titles for identification purposes only:
The Honorable Edwin Meese III
Attorney General
President Ronald Reagan (1985-1988)
Terry Schilling
President
American Principles Project
David N. Bossie
President
Citizens United
The Honorable David McIntosh
President
Club for Growth
Thomas E. McClusky
Principal
Greenlight Strategies, LLC
Alfred S. Regnery
President
Republic Book Publishers
Lori Roman
President, ACRU Action Fund
L. Brent Bozell III
Founder and President
Media Research Center
The Honorable Bob McEwen
U.S. House of Representatives
Former Member, Ohio
Star Parker
Founder & CEO
Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE)
Chad Connelly
Founder and President
Faith Wins
Wesley Denton
Chief Operating Officer
Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)
David Bozell
President
ForAmerica
Rachel A. Bovard
Senior Director of Policy
Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)
The Honorable Becky Norton Dunlop
White House Advisor
President Ronald Reagan (1981-1985)
Myron Ebell
Director, Center for Energy and Environment, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Tom Jones
Co-Founder
American Accountability Foundation
William L. Walton
The Bill Walton Show
Resolute Protector Foundation
Michael Farris
President & CEO
Alliance Defending Freedom
The Honorable Gary L. Bauer
President
American Values
James C. Dobson, Ph.D.
Founder & President
Dr. James Dobson Family Institute
Rod D. Martin
Founder & CEO
The Martin Organization, Inc.
Christina Murphy Lusk
President
The Martin Foundation
Sherri R. Martin
Executive Vice President
The Martin Organization, Inc.
Haley E. Martin
Past President
The Martin Foundation
The Honorable Steve Stockman
U.S. House of Representatives
Former Member, Texas
Robert Chambers
Executive Vice President
AFA Action
Ron Pearson
Executive Director
Conservative Victory Fund
Judson Phillips
Founder
Tea Party Nation
Gary Marx
President
The Concord Fund
Richard Norman
Founder and President
The Richard Norman Company
The Honorable George K. Rasley Jr.
Managing Editor
ConservativeHQ.com
Brian Rogers
President
The Jesse Helms Center
Jack Park
Conservative Activist and Donor
Law Offices of Jack Park
Floyd Brown
Founder
The Western Journal
Allen J. Hebert
Chairman
American-Chinese Fellowship of Houston
The Honorable Mike Hill
Former Member
Florida State Representative
Marc Little
Executive Director
CURE America Action, Inc.
Saulius "Saul" Anuzis
President
60 Plus Association
Augusta H. Petrone
Board Member
Center for Security Policy
James L. Martin
Founder/Chairman
60 Plus Association
Kevin Freeman
Founder
NSIC Institute
Robert D. Thompson
Former Administrator
The Weyrich Lunch (1999-2016)
Paavo Ensio
Chairman
Universal Minerals Group
Sean Noble
President
American Encore
Joan Holt Lindsey
President
Lindsey Communications
Andresen Blom
President
Hawaiian Values
Dr. Allen Unruh
Founder
National Abstinence Clearinghouse
Melvin Adams
President
Noah Webster Educational Foundation
Richard Wright
Owner
R & S LLC
G. Eric Georgatos
Executive Producer
America Can We Talk?
Alan Sears
Founder
Alliance Defending Freedom
Steve Berger
President
ASI
The Honorable Diana Denman
President
The Reagan Legacy Forum
Kelly M. Kullberg
Senior Advisor, American Association of Evangelicals (AAE)
Lee Beaman
CEO
Beaman Ventures
Michelle Easton
President, Clare Boothe Luce Center for Conservative Women
Anne Schlafly Cori
Chairman
Eagle Forum
Phil Kerpen
President
American Commitment
Peggy Dau
Activist
Nationnet.org
Tim Throckmorton
President
Lifepointe Ministry
The Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell
Chairman, Conservative Action Project (CAP) and Constitutional Congress, Inc.
The Honorable Jim DeMint
Chairman, Conservative Partnership Institute
Member, US Senate (SC 2005-2013)
Penny Y. Nance
President & CEO
Concerned Women for America
The Honorable Brooke Rollins
President and CEO
America First Policy Institute (AFPI)
Ed Corrigan
Vice Chairman, Conservative Action Project and President & CEO, Conservative Partnership Institute
The Honorable Ken Cuccinelli, II
Senior Fellow
Center for Renewing America
Cleta Mitchell, Esq.
Jenny Beth Martin
Chairman
Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund
Kelly J. Shackelford, Esq.
President and CEO
First Liberty Institute
Marty Dannenfelser
Director of Governmental Relations
Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE)
Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin (Ret.)
Executive Vice President
Family Research Council
The Honorable Mary Vought
Executive Director
Senate Conservatives Fund
The Honorable Morton C. Blackwell
President
The Leadership Institute
Scott T. Parkinson
VP for Government Affairs
Club for Growth
The Honorable Donald Paul Hodel
U.S. Secretary of Energy (1982-1985)
U.S. Secretary of Interior (1985-1989)
The Honorable T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.
Chief Domestic Advisor
President Ronald Reagan (1987-1988)
The Honorable Tony Perkins
President
Family Research Council
Andrew Roth
President
State Freedom Caucus Network
Carey Woodruff
Executive Vice-President, Foundation for American Christian Education
Justin Danhof
Executive Vice President, National Center for Public Policy Research
Nancy Schulze
Founder & President
RCW Speakers
Guillermo J. Aragon
Chief Strategy Officer
Martin Capital
Lourdes Cosio
Campaign for the American Future
Shawn A. Mitchell
Former National Chaplain, National Federation of Republican Assemblies
Craig Shirley
Reagan Biographer
Presidential Historian
Seton Motley
President
Less Government
Karen England
President, Capitol Resource Institute & Nevada Family Alliance
Kay R. Daly
President
Coalition for a Fair Judiciary
Brigitte Gabriel
Founder and Chairman
ACT For America.org
C. Preston Noell III
President
Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.
Penna Dexter
Co-host
Point of View Radio
Richard Scurry
Mario Navarro da Costa
Director, Washington Bureau
Tradition, Family, Property
E.C. Sykes
General Partner
Aslan Ventures
Dr. Teryn Bree Clarke
Neurologist
Private Practice
Kristen Waggoner
General Counsel
Alliance Defending Freedom
Richard Rounsavelle
Trustee
MRC
Sheryl Kaufman
Board Member
Americans for Limited Government
Don Woodsmall
Interim President
Center for Security Policy
Khadine Ritter
President
Eagle Forum of Ohio
Jay Mount
President
MDS Communications Corporation
The Honorable Peter J. Thomas
Chairman
Conservative Caucus
Gerard Kassar
State Chairman
NYS Conservative Party
Tom DeWeese
President
American Policy Center
Elaine Donnelly
President
Center for Military Readiness
Ralph A. Rebandt II
Michigan Gubernatorial Candidate
Ralph Rebandt for Governor- Michigan
Eunie Smith
President Emeritus
Eagle Forum
William W. Pascoe, III
Our Man in Washington
Tea Party Patriots Action
Dr. Virginia Armstrong
National Court Watch Chairman
Eagle forum
Rick Scarborough
President
Recover America
William Shaker
CEO
Washington Marketing Group
The Honorable David Schultheis
Former State Senator
Colorado Legislature
Carolee Adams
President
Eagle Forum of New Jersey
Kielle C. Horton
President
The Lindsey Foundation
Dr. Everett Piper
University President
Emeritus
Eaton Hopkins
President
Liberty Surgical, Inc.
The Honorable Scott Walker
President
Young America's Foundation
Joseph A. Morris
Partner, Morris & De La Rosa
Assistant U. S. Attorney General (President Reagan)
Rod Vandenbos
CEO
R2
Tim Macy
Chairman
Gun Owners of America
public schools
education policy
teachers unions
school choice
school vouchers
homeschool
private schools
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
quality education
Charter schools
Education Savings Accounts (ESA)
National School Boards Association (NSBA)
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona
Assuming the next Congress is actually run in a manner consistent with conservative principles, they need to take up legislation to begin abolishing federal agencies that are not in accordance with the Constitution. They could start with the Department of Education, as good a choice as any.
The House of Representatives can impeach cabinet secretaries. But won't. I sent a letter to my despicable representative, Adam Schiff. There is a box on his form to ask "do you want a response?" I always check that box, but never get a response. You should send a letter to your representative, to demand that Cardona be impeached and removed from office.
Key words in this writing, "Crisis, that the Biden Administration itself created." Besides Education, think International, Border, National Security, Inflation, Crime, Energy, Supply Chain, Mandates, Health (Covid). Wish we could turn the clock back about 18 months?