Juarez Tries To Silence TUSD Activists Again, Jumps Shark

Cam Juarez | David Morales Facebook posts

First he tried to silence him at a Governing Board meeting and now Tucson Unified School District Governing Board member Cam Juarez is falsely accusing David Morales and other education activists of inciting violence. Juarez took to Facebook to allege that signs reading “Boot the TUSD majority,” promote “violence against a woman and a person of color with a disability.”

Jumping the shark, Juarez concludes:

“This is what they have to offer. Civility is something they claim they can provide, when in fact it’s something they should try to embody.

I expected personal attacks, but this is well beyond what our community should tolerate.”

According to The Free Dictionary, the idiom “give the boot” means:

1. (informal) to stop employing someone. They gave him the boot for swearing at his manager. (informal)

2. (informal) to end a romantic relationship with someone. She gave him the boot because he wouldn’t stop talking about his ex-girlfriends.

According to Wikipedia, an idiom is “a phrase or a fixed expression that has a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning.”

Given that Morales appears to be a pacifist based on the writings that appear on his website, The Three Sonorans, it is highly unlikely that Morales would support the literal interpretation.

However, given the failing nature of Juarez’s candidacy, any attention is good attention as long as it takes the public’s attention away from the fact that he accepted an allegedly illegal campaign contribution from a vendor after the vendor was awarded a $21 million contract by Juarez, Kristel Foster, and Board president Adelita Grijalva.

Although Juarez said he would return the contribution, records indicate that he was unable to do so. Because he failed to raise enough money from TUSD residents, returning the money would have put him in the red.

According to The Free Dictionary, “being in the red” is an idiom that means:

experiencing the situation of spending more money than you earned. Tourism is down and many hotels are operating in the red. The phone company found itself about $1.8 billion in the red. Opposite of: in the black

Morales stated, “It is unconscionable for a person such as Cam Juarez to compare a political cartoon about booting incumbents out of office to the very real and horrific violence that occurs every day to women and children within TUSD. More revealing, however, is the reality that instead of promoting their campaigns, Kristel Foster and Cam Juarez have had to scrape the bottom of the barrel to create an illusion that justifies their reality; that they are indeed good for TUSD, teachers and parents, when in fact nothing could be further from the truth. This is evidenced by the hundreds of teachers and the thousands of students that have left TUSD under their watch.”

TUSD Governing Board candidate Lori Riegel stated, “At the TUSD Governing Board Candidate Forum on October 4, each time the issue of illegal and immoral campaign finance was mentioned, Cam Juarez compared it to bullying. This is insulting to students who are actually experiencing bullying at TUSD schools. If Cam can’t handle criticism of actions that he knowingly took, he should consider whether or not holding a public office is something he wishes to pursue.”

“This crew regularly claims they’re victims when they are the victimizers. Foster claimed her posts were deleted from TKF’s Facebook and ADI articles. They weren’t! Instead Foster has selectively deleted large numbers of posts from her Facebook page. Known TUSD activists, other candidates and their supporters were blocked from her Facebook early on. By blocking other candidates from her Facebook page, they aren’t able to see and respond to her personal attacks on them,” stated education activist and retired TUSD teacher Lillian Fox.

Governing Board member Michael Hicks told the ADI, “Cam, Kristel, and Adelita gave Mr. Morales the boot, so to speak, and now Cam is trying once again to silence the public? If he wants to talk about violence, he needs to look in the mirror. The Board majority has allowed teachers, parents and staff to be intimidated and violated. They even tried to smear a former teacher after she spoke out about classroom violence. Once again, if it weren’t for double standards, King Sanchez and the G-Crew would have no standards at all.”

Hicks said he would contact Morales to see how he could get a sign for his own front yard.

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From Wikipedia: “Jumping the shark” is an expression that historically was a pejorative idiom used to describe a moment of television in which there is a gimmick or unlikely occurrence that is seen as a desperate attempt to keep viewers’ interest. Therefore, moments labeled as “jumping the shark” are often considered indications that the writers have run out of ideas; that the show has strayed irretrievably from an older and better formula; and/or even that the series as a whole is declining in quality.