A North Carolina congressman’s choice for the new presidential administration closest to home is, he claims, exactly what the people desire.
Dr. Greg Murphy, a Republican from North Carolina, is a urologist who practices in Greenville. Linda McMahon’s alma mater is East Carolina University. President-elect Donald Trump has nominated her to serve as Secretary of Education.
“We saw the absolute disaster of what’s happened with the Biden administration in every Cabinet secretary’s position,” Murphy told the press. “Talking with people, talking with patients: what do they want?” They seek to restore common sense to governance.
And McMahon says he’ll do it in the eastern North Carolina style. Her nomination is pending Senate confirmation.
“We saw the wokeness, we saw the far left, we saw the teachers union scream left because they wanted to indoctrinate people – kids, the most vulnerable of our children – into their way of thinking about politics,” Murphy said during an appearance on Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street.
“Take politics out of school, and the best way to do that is to make things local, rather than a partisan government agency of cramming things down kids’ throats.”
McMahon was appointed to the Connecticut State Board of Education in January 2009. She served 15 months.
The New Bern native served as the Small Business Administration’s administrator from 2017 to 2019 during Trump’s first term.
She is known for several roles, including co-founding Titan Sports with her separated husband Vince, which later became World Wrestling Entertainment, running twice for the United States Senate while living in Connecticut, supporting Special Olympics, and numerous million-dollar philanthropic efforts, including those benefiting ECU.
The wrestling arena has received the heaviest criticism, ranging from a federal steroids inquiry into the sport 15 years ago to last month’s “ring boys” lawsuit charge of carelessness. Her lawyer, Laura Brevetti, has stated that the civil litigation is “baseless,” meaning it is without veracity, and that the FBI investigated it years ago but found no evidence to seek prosecution.
She has received accolades from school choice supporters.
According to the agency’s official website, “the secretary is responsible for the overall direction, supervision, and coordination of all activities of the department and is the principal adviser to the president on federal policies, programs, and activities related to education in the U.S.” This includes overseeing federal money, students’ access to education, school compliance with the law, and issues like as Title IX.
