Podcaster Fakes Address to Rage Against Trans Kids in School

[Jilly_in_VA]

Right-wing troll Matt Walsh bragged to Fox News on Tuesday night about circumventing a Virginia school board’s rules just so he could deliver a transphobic speech at a meeting, acknowledging that he pretended to be a local resident in order to deliver his attention-seeking rant.

Walsh, who hosts a podcast for Ben Shapiro’s right-wing website The Daily Wire, took to Facebook last week to proclaim that he would lead a “Protect Your Kids” rally outside Loudoun County’s weekly school board meeting on Tuesday. Over the past year, the county’s school board has become ground zero in the conservative culture-war fight against critical race theory and trans-inclusive policies.

In a press release last week, the Loudoun County School Board announced new guidelines for those seeking to publicly comment at the weekly meetings, including that commenters must be local residents if they weren’t LCPS students, parents, teachers, or local business owners.

Claiming this was an effort to block him from speaking at the meeting, Walsh announced over the weekend that he had leased a home in the area. (According to Fox News, Walsh merely rented a room from a friend for one dollar.)

“Loudoun County changed the rules so that only residents can speak at the school board,” he tweeted on Friday. “In unrelated news, I’m proud to announce that I am now a resident of Loudoun County. Just rented a home in the area. I’ll have the lease agreement. See you at the meeting!”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/right-wing-podcaster-matt-walsh-fakes-living-in-va-just-to-go-on-anti-trans-rant-at-school-board?ref=home

[ZonkerHarris]

1. Karma knows where he really lives.

[haele]

2. Well, I'm sure the school board will recognize him as a disrupter.

Unless, of course, he's chickenshit enough not to use his real name.
Even if he's become a "resident" for the purposes of speaking at the board meeting, they have every right to identify him in public as a political operative not concerned about local kids and education, but just attending to make a scene for his podcast.

They can also point out the lengths he, an outsider, has gone to just to crash the meeting and disrupt the community so that important business cannot be done.

Haele

[Karadeniz]

3. He should not be recognized as a resident.