Longing for the good ol’ days of the Confederacy? Wanna party down with your anti-woke book banning, beer drinking buddies? Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has the KKKoozie for you.

In his guest opinion column, Ward Welty writes:

Governor Ivey isn’t there yet, but every day brings her closer to out-Trumping Trump and out-DeSantising DeSantis. Her latest move, firing Dr. Barbara Cooper, Secretary of the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education, is a perfect example.

Related: Gov. Kay Ivey denounces ‘woke’ preschool training book, ousts state official – al.com

Related: Kay Ivey hawking ‘real women’ koozies in dig of Bud Light, trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney – al.com

Related: The Confederate governor: Kay Ivey promised to do better. She hasn’t. – al.com

Why was Dr. Cooper fired? According to the governor, for being “woke.”

Unfortunately, Governor Ivey is going to leave a shameful legacy. She will be remembered as the governor who would rather build prisons than expand Medicaid. The governor who shamelessly advocates permit-free, open-carry gun laws. The governor who sacks education officials because all they want to do is to inform students truthfully about Alabama’s cultural history. Alabamians deserve a governor who will give them leadership, not political grandstanding.

Read all of Welty’s words here: Guest opinion: Reactionary right-wing of GOP has co-opted “woke,” – al.com

In his ‘The Confederate governor’ column, Kyle Whitmire writes:

Gov. Kay Ivey promised to do better.

First, she lied about having worn blackface in college.

Then she got caught.

She said she was sorry and that she would work with Black lawmakers until she “exhausted every effort” to heal the state.

And they forgave her.

Finally, she reverted back to her old ways — defending Confederate iconography, telling lies about CRT, celebrating Alabama’s treasonous past, and now hijacking pre-K education for the sake of anti-“woke” hysteria.

Read all of Whitmire’s column here

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JD Crowe is the cartoonist for Alabama Media Group and AL.com. He won the RFK Human Rights Award for Editorial Cartoons in 2020. In 2018, he was awarded the Rex Babin Memorial Award for local and state cartoons by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Follow JD on Facebook, Twitter @Crowejam and Instagram @JDCrowepix.

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