Caroleene Dobson condemns 'liberal lunacy' at her former university, pledges to fight it in Washington

Caroleene Dobson is an alumna of Harvard University. She is also a Republican candidate running for Alabama’s Second Congressional District.

This week, Dobson publicly called for the immediate firing of the college’s president after she approved calls for Jewish genocide during testimony in a congressional committee on the grounds of “free speech.”

“The moment that Claudine Gay sat before Congress, endorsed antisemitism, and approved calls for the genocide of the Jewish people, Harvard University should have fired her for cause and pointed her toward the unemployment line,” Dobson said in a statement. “Instead, they turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to her offensive testimony and offer a free pass to a darling of woke liberals.”

“The extremists who control Harvard are entirely intolerant of Judeo-Christian faith and cheer violence against Jews by Palestinian Hamas terrorists,” Dobson continued. “I accepted the opportunity to attend Harvard when offered, but as a lifelong conservative Republican, I witnessed firsthand that free speech on that campus applies only to those with the most extreme leftist beliefs, and incidents like this illustrate why.”

Harvard University officials announced on Tuesday that they will ignore the pleas of Jewish Americans and will allow Gay to remain as president. Gay made national headlines with her refusal to say, “Yes,” when New York Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik asked if calls by students for Jewish genocide violated the college’s policies.

“There is a reason that last week’s hearing the university presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT made history as the most watched congressional testimony in history with over one billion views,” Rep. Stefanik said afterwards. “And that’s because their testimony was the most morally bankrupt testimony in the history of the United States Congress.”

“When asked the very specific question, ‘Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate your code of conduct on bullying and harassment?’ the world watched, and the world heard their answers in horror,” Stefanik continued. “As the President of Harvard, the President, now former, of Penn, and the President of MIT equivocated, dehumanized, and failed to answer ‘Yes.’ Anyone with a sliver of decency, humanity, and morality knows that the answer to that question is ‘Yes’.”

Since the October 7 attacks on the people of Israel by Hamas terrorists, the Harvard campus has proven to be a boiling hotbed of anti-Jewish sentiment and pro-Hamas support coming from Muslim students and their Progressive allies on campus, but neither Gay nor other officials have taken steps to quell the unrest.

“We have a saying in the South about not letting the door hit you in the behind on the way out, and that’s what Harvard should have told Claudine Gay,” Dobson said. “The woke elements in our society demand strict deference to every group they consider disenfranchised, but if you believe in the Bible, pray to God, and embrace conservative values, those same leftists attack you with hate, violence, and vitriol, often with the full support of the liberal mainstream media.”

If elected to Congress Dobson pledged to battle liberal policies and leftist indoctrination.

“As congresswoman, I will go toe-to-toe against the liberal lunacy and woke virtue signaling espoused by Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and other extremists like them,” Dobson said. “In order to win the culture war, Republicans must elect those who are willing to fight.”

Dobson is a real estate attorney, wife, mother, and serves on both the Alabama Forestry Commission and the Southeastern Livestock Exposition Board. She grew up on a cattle farm near Beatrice. In high school she excelled both academically and in rodeo. In addition to her Harvard undergraduate degree, she has a law degree from Baylor University Law School.

Dobson faces several other Republican opponents in the March 5 Republican primary for Congressional District 2.

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