Ex-Google exec resigns from school board after wife’s vile tweet about Kamala Harris
A FORMER Google executive has resigned from a California school board after his wife shared a vile tweet about Kamala Harris. Jon Venverloh stepped down from his position on Sunday following his wife Mehridith Philips Venverloh’s offensive social media post, according to The Almanac. Jon worked as the president for the Las Lomitas Elementary School […]
A FORMER Google executive has resigned from a California school board after his wife shared a vile tweet about Kamala Harris.
Jon Venverloh stepped down from his position on Sunday following his wife Mehridith Philips Venverloh’s offensive social media post, according to The Almanac.
Jon worked as the president for the Las Lomitas Elementary School District in the San Francisco Bay Area.
His wife’s since-deleted post read: “All she needs to be qualified is a black p***y!
“No brain needed!”
Mehridith was referring to vice-president elect Kamala Harris – who will break through another racial and gender barrier in United States politics.
Following Mehridith’s distasteful actions, Jon wrote an apology on Facebook and announced his resignation.
He wrote: “My wife and I have volunteered in the district for over a decade while our four girls have gone through our amazing schools with our world class teachers.
“I stood for election to be a trustee because I care about doing the right thing for ALL of our kids in our district.
“However, given my wife’s social media posts, which expressed reprehensible views that I do not agree with, I know that my continued service would be a distraction from the work that needs to be done in the district over the two years remaining in my term.”
His decision to step down was prompted by a petition letter denouncing his wife’s tweets.
The letter slammed her words as “bigoted statements that question the integrity, accomplishment and character of people of color, of women, of LGBTQ people and of people who live at the intersections of these community are intolerable and have no place in our Las Lomitas family or on either of our campuses.”
According to the Associated Press, Mehridith eventually expressed regret over her hurtful words.
Her apology read: “Some of you know I suffer from a debilitating neurological disease, and as a result I take various medications.
“Over the past several days I have been weaning off of my meds to prepare for a hospitalization that is scheduled to start tomorrow.
“I believe that the change in my medication reduced my judgment between right and wrong when I made the posts.”
Mehridith also admitted her words were made in “a moment of disappointment.”
Jon followed up by insisting his wife is “not a racist in the least” as she has “done a lot of great work for underprivileged communities.”
Members of the school board reached out to parents in a Monday email, The Almanac reported.
They said: “We are deeply saddened that this happened and are committed to take action to address the harm done to our community.
“We acknowledge that there is much more that we can and should be doing to confront and address racism and inequality every day, and we commit ourselves to that task.”
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Her tweets came one day after Joe Biden was announced the winner of the 2020 presidential election.
On Saturday, Harris praised Biden as a “healer, a uniter” and told voters they chose “decency, science and truth” in her first speech to the nation as Vice President-elect of the United States.
Harris paid tribute to women as she shattered barriers to become the first female veep.