001hear virginia school board meetings getting heated over the last year well now a group in fairfax once member laura jane cohen kicked off the county school board one of their complaints she didn't push hard enough to reopen schools after the health department found it could be done so safely cohen is blasting that group back calling them a bunch of gop anti-vax operatives and as bruce leshan explains recalling a school board member though is harder than you might think you need to be arrested the anger that's exploded at school board meetings in loudon and across the nation now focused on fairfax the group open fcps says it has filed 8 thousand signatures demanding the recall of fairfax school board member laura jane cohen that is enough to send the issue to a fairfax county judge who
002will decide if she should be pushed first and foremost this recall is about accountability right when you make that kind of decision that impacts families and students alike you have to you have to be able to face the voters i'm so grateful that we're able to start the 21-22 school year together the group says cohen should have pushed harder to reopen schools right from the start of the pandemic at the end of the day i i think all of us worked every day woke up and and went to bed thinking about how can we best protect our kids while they get the best quality education they can cohen sent out a fundraising letter this week calling open fcps a group of gop operatives part of a national right-wing effort to overturn elections and take back
003our schools she said it is rabid in support of book banning and burning misinformation from anti-vaxxers and anti-masters and for hateful speech attacking lgbtqia plus students that's the most absurd thing and most insulting thing i've ever heard open fcps is a non-partisan organization are you a gop operative if i if i'm an operative i better start getting paid by somebody because right now i'm not this past summer a judge dismissed the group's petitions against another fairfax school board member and cohen predicts the same thing will happen this time bruce leshan wusa