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Category: The Farrell Report

Commentary

Democrats’ Challenges for Black Voters in 2020

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

Republican focus on uniting their base and refining their voter turnout methods, and Trump’s development and exploitation of anti-immigrant and anti-minority sentiments. Democrats are na�ve in their lack of understanding that Republicans are systematically moving the nation toward economic, political, and judicial Apartheid in plain sight.

Black voters were targeted for suppression by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2013 voting rights decision, Shelby County (AL) v. Holder, and Russian trolls on the Internet…

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Commentary

Countering Republican Strategies for 2020 Victories

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

Along with anti-abortion measures, the Trump coalition continues to push anti-immigrant/anti-minority policies to ramp up his base to turn out in large numbers and to widen cleavages in the Democratic base—between the socialist left and the mainstream, and within the African American community.

Republicans are pursuing multiple, interrelated strategies in their efforts to win 2020 national and local elections. Among them are anti-abortion laws: 250 restrictions in 11 states…

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Commentary

School Choice Promoters ‘Snitch’ on Their Benefactors

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

The key issues for the Democratic constituency in the upcoming election are: larger paychecks, support for public education, health care, and honest government. Public school teachers, through their on-the-ground work stoppages and legislative activism, have placed K-12 education on the front political burner.

Times are a changing in the school choice and public school privatization debate and controversies. After years of expensive lobbying and political campaign contributions by the…

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Commentary

Missing ‘Wow’ Factor Among 2020 Dem Presidential Candidates

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

there is a lack of ‘Wow,’ - significant feelings of admiration, delight, and excitement - about the more than 20 announced and/or rumored candidates for the office.

A careful assessment of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates has revealed that there is a lack of ‘Wow,’ - significant feelings of admiration, delight, and excitement -…

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Commentary

Milwaukee’s School Choice Links to Sen. Cory Booker

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

The wave of teacher activism sweeping the nation, in the wake of assaults on teachers and public education and Booker’s participation in them should send him packing in the presidential primaries sooner rather than later. Educators need to remind Booker of who he actually is—a front for the Cartel lobby for the privatization of K-12 public education. It can start in Milwaukee.

It is ironic that Sen. Cory Booker visited Milwaukee a few weeks after the indictment of Dr. Michael Bonds, former Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) Board President…

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Commentary

Board Member Indicted in Milwaukee School Choice Mecca

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

Wisconsin teachers are a bellwether of teacher power in the political arena, and teachers will loom large in the 2020 presidential election.

The long-term corruption behind the school choice (voucher and charter school) initiative is now being exposed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Viewed as the mecca for public school…

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Commentary

Public Education, 2020 Dem Presidential Candidates and Fundraising

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

The signature efforts to advance publicly-funded private school vouchers, corporate charter schools, and other public school privatization initiatives occurred while Democrats were in control of the House, the Senate, and/or the U.S. Presidency.

K-12 Public Education is slowly becoming a factor in the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination contest. Sen. Kamala Harris has made the biggest splash with her proposal…

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Commentary

Gov. Murphy (D-NJ), Beto, Uncle Joe, AOC, Dem Implosion

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

Presently, there are too many fissures within the Democratic Party for it to win the Presidency or to regain the Senate. It appears to be experiencing a self-induced implosion.

Democrats are reeling from self-inflicted wounds that are imperiling their upcoming 2020 Democratic campaigns for: retention of control in the House of Representatives, hopes for retaking…

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Commentary

Two Davids Defeat Two Goliaths’ NJ Marijuana Bill

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

many members of the corporate billionaire school choice Cartel that promotes publicly-funded, private school vouchers, charter schools, and charter management companies are also heavy investors in the cannabis industry. The Cartel has been created to wring profits out of the public sector—public schools, prisons, state and city governments, and other public entities.

Congressional Democrats must avoid falling into the political trap of advocating and voting for Trump’s impeachment as they head toward the 2020 presidential election. Otherwise, it’s…

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Cover Story

Cory Booker, School Choice ‘Trojan Horse’ for Privatization

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

In an increasingly progressive-oriented Democratic Party, Booker is scrambling with an ‘electric slide’ dance routine to change his political colors. But so far, it has not resulted in his rising in the national polls, where he hovers around three percent.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) is the 2020 Democratic ‘Trojan Horse’--a stealth candidate for conservative proponents who have spent tens of billions of dollars on initiatives to…

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