The Republican nominee for State Superintendent of Public Instruction is a homeschooling parent who has espoused extremist views, calling for the deaths of Obama, Biden, and other prominent Democrats. She attended the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, though she says she did not enter the building. Her opponent in the race is Mo Green, who was educated at Duke University, practiced law, worked at a major foundation, served as school superintendent of Guilford County Schools, and supports public schools.
Ned Barnett, an opinion writer in the North Carolina News & Observer said that Morrow could be elected with Trump at the top of the ballot. Barnett wrote:
A low-turnout primary dominated by the party’s most conservative voters denied the Republican nomination to incumbent Superintendent of Public Instruction Catherine Truitt. The party’s nominee is Michele Morrow, a relatively unknown conservative activist whose caustic social media posts put her not only on the far right, but around the bend.
CNN discovered her incendiary tweets and sent a crew to interview her.
The far-right Republican candidate running to oversee public schools in North Carolina decried “extreme agendas that threaten our children’s future”, after being confronted by reporters over tweets in which she called for the executions of Barack Obama and Joe Biden.“Don’t let extreme agendas threaten our children’s future,” Michele Morrow said on social media on Thursday, posting an address in which she said she was “facing the most radical extremist Democrats [that] have ever run for superintendent in the history of North Carolina”.
But Morrow, who is running for superintendent of public instruction, also had to respond to a CNN crew who confronted her about posts, unearthed by the same network, in which she advocated violence against leading Democrats.
Comments made by Morrow between 2019 and 2021 and reported by CNN included a May 2020 tweet in which Morrow said Obama should be the subject of “a Pay Per View of him in front of a firing squad”, adding: “I do not want to waste another dime on supporting his life. We could make some money back from televising his death.”
In December 2020, when Biden, as president-elect, said he would ask Americans to wear masks against Covid-19 for 100 days, Morrow – a nurse – wrote: “Never. We need to follow the constitution’s advice and KILL all TRAITORS!!!”
Other Democrats that Morrow said should be executed, CNN said, included the Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar; the North Carolina governor, Roy Cooper; former New York governor Andrew Cuomo; the former first lady, senator, secretary of state and presidential nominee Hillary Clinton; and the New York senator Chuck Schumer.
Morrow also called for the executions of Anthony Fauci, a senior public health adviser to Donald Trump during the Covid pandemic, and Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and vaccination campaigner.
She also promoted slogans and claims associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory….
With a bigot running for Governor of North Carolina on the GOP slate along with an extremist running for state superintendent of schools, this once sane and progressive state is in a heap of trouble unless citizens rise up and demand responsible leadership.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
I saw the CNN piece yesterday and was shocked that someone with such crazy and hateful views was in the running. I just made a donation to Mo’s campaign. https://www.mogreenfornc.com/
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I have a friend who practices law here in Tennessee. He is around 40, and constantly voices frustration with people he knows that do not vote.
I am with him. This fiction that there is equivalence between parties is poisonous. candidates who espouse government as the problem and try to erode confidence in our system are inherently toxic to the body politic. Candidates who espouse policy might not be perfect, but at least they offer solutions to problems.
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Blow the system up is not a policy.
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It certainly seemed some years ago that North Carolina was changing for the better, politics-wise. Much of this I attributed to the fact that the state was attracting new blood to its research triangle and that the trend seemed to be toward a forward-looking, more cosmopolitan society.
Then came Trump, who unleashed, not the Kraken, but the racism and hostility perpetually battling the facade of enlightenment.
What has been ignored for years now is just how many Americans have no use for enlightenment, tolerance or science.
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Jsrtheta,
Trump invited the Klan and other racists to come out from whatever rock they were under.
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Perhaps what you mistook as a move toward progressive politics or moderation in NC. politics was actually the massive turn out of Black and Minority Voters in 2008 (95%). A slightly lower turnout since has consistently left the state Legislature in Republican hands. Those Republican legislators did what Republicans,(formally known as Dixiecrats ) will do gerrymandered Black districts and disenfranchised voters.
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That’s partly true. But it was also based on conversations with friends in NC.
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For many years, NC elected forward-looking Democrats like Terry Sanford and Jim Hunt. It was considered the most progressive state in the South.
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In the 1990s, NC was way ahead of the rest of the South in the sanity of its standards and its progressive K-12 education policies. No more.
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