“Especially if the person speaking to “the government official,” er the elected School Board President and bringing up the fact that he and the Board gave him (the Board President) “a five figure raise but the teachers hadn’t had a permenant wage increase in five years!””
I think you mean the School Superintendent not the Board President. Being on a school board is a non-paid elective office. The Board President was simply trying to stifle her for exposing the “sweetheart deal” the board has given the superintendent. BTW School Superintendents are the highest-paid “migrant workers” in the country. They wander from district to district, f*cking things up, being asked to leave, and taking the unpaid part of their contracts with them to the next district, to do it all over again.
Punishment still fits for serfs questioning their betters:
OFF WITH HER HEAD!