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School Board Member Apologizes For Uproar After Comparing Flag To Toilet Paper
CBS Chicago ^ | 10/3/2017 | Mike Krauser

Posted on 10/03/2017 11:57:21 AM PDT by simpson96

CHICAGO (CBS) — An Elgin school district board member has apologized to fellow board members, after creating a firestorm of criticism when she wrote on Facebook that the American flag “means nothing more than toilet paper to me.”

Last month, Elgin Area School District U-46 board member Traci O’Neal Ellis wrote on Facebook wrote a Facebook post supporting NFL players who chose to kneel during the national anthem.

In her post, Ellis wrote the flag “means nothing more than toilet paper to me.” At the district’s board meeting Monday night, she stood by her original comments, but apologized for the “distraction” her words caused.

“I make no apologies for my comment about the flag. I made them as a private citizen, and taxpayer in this country, on my personal Facebook page, about a matter of import in the current national discourse, and based upon my personal lived experiences,” she said. “However, I could have been much more circumspect in my criticism and more elegant in my language. Please accept my apology for this.”

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To: simpson96

She be activated. Bet she woke, too.


21 posted on 10/03/2017 12:11:15 PM PDT by VietVet876
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To: simpson96

She has no problem with “private” postings being made public:

https://www.facebook.com/tracionealellisboardmember/photos/a.675892492448291.1073741826.208165105887701/1480714708632728/?type=3&theater


22 posted on 10/03/2017 12:11:30 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: simpson96

Okay, then. Let’s see if she can do without toilet paper.


23 posted on 10/03/2017 12:12:18 PM PDT by fwdude
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To: simpson96

i think she should be banned from using toilet paper, and then see how she thinks...

hehehe


24 posted on 10/03/2017 12:13:19 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: simpson96

The left just gets more and more nuts every day. I was looking at the instagram posts of Tom Pettys daughter yesterday, and while her father was dying, she still found the time to bash Trump. How’s that for dedication?


25 posted on 10/03/2017 12:13:56 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan taking office.)
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To: arrogantsob
And people wonder why the public school system is hopelessly ruined.

Sadly, she was probably the product of the long-degenerate public school system, and is just regurgitating the venom.

26 posted on 10/03/2017 12:14:21 PM PDT by fwdude
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To: NohSpinZone

“This isn’t who I am”, a statement even more shallow and meaningless than “he was just starting to turn his life around”.


27 posted on 10/03/2017 12:14:35 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
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To: simpson96

F you too Ellis!

POS


28 posted on 10/03/2017 12:17:46 PM PDT by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: SMARTY

They come from American public school education.


29 posted on 10/03/2017 12:19:54 PM PDT by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: simpson96

Mrs. Traci O’Neal Ellis, Member
355 E. Chicago St.Elgin, IL 60120

Phone: (847) 888-5000 x 5032
E-mail: TraciONealEllis@u-46.org


30 posted on 10/03/2017 12:21:04 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: simpson96

B*tch is not a credit to her race.


31 posted on 10/03/2017 12:22:40 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The DemocRAT party has been taking a knee on America for decades.)
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To: Westbrook

Isn’t she elected. That’s why Waters and Jackson-Lee are still there. Their voters are idiots.


32 posted on 10/03/2017 12:23:01 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: simpson96
Here is the African racist in action. He, she, it needs to shave!


33 posted on 10/03/2017 12:24:32 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Now, that Trump is kicking their asses, they, _______, want to quit. (Fill in the blank!))
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To: simpson96

I never would have guessed!!


34 posted on 10/03/2017 12:35:05 PM PDT by clintonh8r (AMERICA! THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY SCREEN NAME OBSOLETE!)
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To: Westbrook

She’s elected, I think..................


35 posted on 10/03/2017 12:37:28 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: laweeks

Next election, maybe........a BIG maybe.............


36 posted on 10/03/2017 12:38:14 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: oh8eleven

Looks like a good place to send some gently used “bathroom tissue.”


37 posted on 10/03/2017 12:38:14 PM PDT by clintonh8r (AMERICA! THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY SCREEN NAME OBSOLETE!)
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To: simpson96

That’s no apology.


38 posted on 10/03/2017 12:39:32 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the SEALs of Extortion 17 - and God Bless The United States of America.)
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To: simpson96

Maybe Afrika would be more to your liking, Traci.

Give it a try.


39 posted on 10/03/2017 12:40:52 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: laweeks
And she was fired when?????

School Board Members are generally elected officials. It is up to the voters now.

40 posted on 10/03/2017 12:44:36 PM PDT by jeannineinsd
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