Jeff Rubino - Social Media Posts
As mentioned in Part 2 of my Sunlight series about candidate Tami Rubino, her husband Jeff Rubino was a candidate two years ago. He lost badly after being exposed as a racist.
There are things we really all should know about the candidates. I was struck by Tami's absolute rejection of equity standards described in her letters. She wrote pages of arguments against the equity standards and her personality came through as angry.
Here are some of the screenshots found in past years from Jeff's far right social media platforms. Warning, these are disturbing posts. This is the man that almost got a seat on our school board!
These screenshots, to be clear, are from Tami's husband, Jeff Rubino. Two years ago he was exposed for his very racist and extremist posts on far-right social media accounts.
Jeff advertised their PAC, Warriors and Wolves, on Gab, and received out of state donations. Also, his handle consistently uses the number 88. In white supremacist circles this stands for the 8th letter in the alphabet, “H”, meaning Hile Hitler. It’s impossible to know Jeff's mindset. But when he was called out, he removed the 88 from all of his profile names. But they’re all back now. Why? It appears he didn’t really believe there was an error in his judgement. He just waited sometime after the election 2 years ago and then added the 88 back in. This shows a consciousness of guilt.
Even though these posts are disgusting and very disturbing, the more important questions to ask are those specific to the board candidate Tami. What does Tami think about these racist and extremist posts? She has come out as strongly anit-vax in the past. Shouldn’t this matter in our school board members? Does she condone the racist and extremist posts made by her husband? Is she an election denier also, like her husband Jeff? Does she agree with him that Trump should have been the president? Does Tami Rubino agree with the attempted coup? Has she disavowed the repost shown above of the infamous white supremacist Jared Taylor? These are important matters that have not been addressed and to this day we simply don’t know.
This, in addition to her support for school vouchers, is enough to tip the scales against her, in my mind. Voucher support should disqualify anyone from a public school board position, in my mind.
We need to vote for the candidates who have shown support for equity, librarians, and public money for public schools.
