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Bus Driver Fired After Bullying Child Over Romney Sign

Bus Driver Fired After Bullying Child Over Romney Sign

Oct 11, 2012

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By Todd Starnes

A Wisconsin bus driver has been fired after telling a 12-year-old boy that he should have been aborted because his parents had a Mitt Romney campaign sign in their yard.

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Durham School Services confirmed in a statement to Fox News that the 78-year-old driver “engaged in a political debate with students” and “made an inappropriate remark to a child.”

After a brief investigation, the driver was subsequently fired, the statement read.

“The driver’s remark was insensitive and inappropriate,” the statement read. “Durham has apologized to the family.”

The incident was first reported by the Freedom Eden website. The child’s mother was a guest on Fox News Radio affiliate WISN where she told her side of the story.

She said the trouble started two weeks ago when they put a Romney sign in their front yard.

“The only reason your parents are Romney fans is because they’re rich,” she allegedly told the child.

The boy’s mother – who was only identified as Debbie – told the radio station that several days ago some students in the back of the bus were chanting “Romney, Romney.”

“She made my son come up to the front (of the bus) and told him all Republicans are liars,” she said. “He didn’t want to take it. He said Obama is pro-abortion. She said, ‘Well, maybe your mom should have chosen abortion for you.’”

The mother said her son was crying and said he never wanted to get on the bus again.

“He goes to a Catholic school,” she said. “He was told that he should have been aborted.”

After she notified the bus company the driver was immediately removed from service until they completed the investigation. The company stated the driver had an incident-free record for more than 20 years.

271 comments

  1. This is the MENTALITY AND SCUM that are DEMORATS.

  2. This is the MENTALITY AND SCUM that are DEMORATS.

  3. 78! Get off the bus.

  4. What a country we live in. So divided.

  5. Glad she was fired. Picking on a 12 year old is just dumb.

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  7. No child should be told that they should have been aborted. Period.

  8. Look at How United We All Are! Good Job Barry!

  9. Pathetic. Arguing with a bunch of elementary/middle school children.

  10. Pam Andler /

    Why not publish the drivers name? Clearly people need to know what kind of a person this is. Arguing with a 12 year old…pathetic.

  11. Pam Andler /

    Why not publish the drivers name? Clearly people need to know what kind of a person this is. Arguing with a 12 year old…pathetic.

    • Thanks for posting, I think the reason that the driver's name was not revealed was Wisonsin doesn't endorse lynch mobs, should have been aborted, pathetic is right.

    • Thanks for posting, I think the reason that the driver's name was not revealed was Wisonsin doesn't endorse lynch mobs, should have been aborted, pathetic is right.

  12. Good job to the school for firing that driver. Liberals have engaged in bullying tactics for years; if the schools are going to tell the kids bullying is not acceptable, they will have to deal with the liberal adultas as well, whether teacher, bus driver, or principle.

  13. Good job to the school for firing that driver. Liberals have engaged in bullying tactics for years; if the schools are going to tell the kids bullying is not acceptable, they will have to deal with the liberal adultas as well, whether teacher, bus driver, or principle.

  14. There are those who watch things happen, MAKE THINGS HAPPEN, and those who sit and wonder at what just happened…the real movers and shakers are on the right…and the bystanders and whiners are on the left…just another whiner…78 years old who should know better!

  15. Kara Bridges /

    How awful that a supposed adult spoke so inappropriately to a child. Thank goodness action was taken.

  16. would you feel comfortable having a 78 year old drive your child's school bus?

  17. The Great Uniter strikes again.

  18. That bus driver is damn lucky that was not my kid she did that to. Otherwise I'd be spending Christmas in jail for defending him. I've had just about enough of these Progressives getting asway with murder when it comes to other thinking people and what they do to them without consequences. This case is the exception to the rule but in the larger picture, they continuosly get away with trashing anybody they like in any manner they like.

  19. Before all the facts came out, Obama was heard stating if he had a grandmother, this is what she (buss driver) would look like.

  20. In Montana, this piece of scum bus driver would have been challenged by a parent to a shoot out or at minimum, a fist fight. He may even have been tied to a tree by a bunch of parents.

  21. Alan Delk /

    That 12 year old should have kicked his ass.

  22. So what about that teacher. Can we get a "You're Fired!" on her as well? if your going to do it to the bus driver do it to the teacher. I know different zones but still.

  23. Lisa L. Rose-Hawkins /

    Sorry but I would have had to knock her frikkin teeth out for talking to MY kid like that!

  24. The company stated the driver had an incident-free record for more than 20 years.

    Most murderers have an incident-free life, until they commit their crime.

  25. Can anyone imagine if it were the other way around? And the bus driver said something equally disgusting about a child`s family that had an Obama sign in their yard? There would be death threats from the Black Panther`s to the driver , Obama would pick up the phone and call for civility , Spike Lee would post her address on the internet! But since it was against a Republican the driver was simply let go! With an apology no doubt? So who is the real problem in this country these days Liberals or Conservative`s? The reason the driver said it in the first place is because in the Liberal climate of today she assumed it was acceptable. and why is that? Who`s to blame? I know it`s the Tea Party!

  26. Uh, shouldnt the issue maybe uh be, The SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS A 78 YEAR OLD DRIVER! Oh, and Ken – "Libtards" Really? Wouldn't Sarah Palin be proud of you.

  27. maybe he can get a job as a joe biden speech writer – you know joe, the laughing boy of the obamalama ding dong team – of course the ol' boy has to learn to plagerize to fit in with joe, but he seems otherwise to be right on target.

  28. Aubrea Carriger /

    I find it very interesting that a teacher who bullied a student for a Romney shirt was only reprimanded and transferred but a bus driver was fired. I guess there are no union lawyers threatening to sue the school for the bus driver.

  29. Somebody in New Bern do me a favor? Find out where that bitch lives and go paste her one in the mouth.

  30. Michelle Anderson /

    The left preaches about tolerance and yet they have no tolerance! If you don't go along with their views then you're the one that's prejudice of everyone and everything. I'm tired of their rhetoric. I'm tired of their demagoguing. I'm finished with the rudeness. These people have no manners. I guess they were all raised by wolves!

    • That's why the guy in the White House has a sheep skin coat in his closet. He loaned it to his VP the other night but didn't cover him up too well. Woof. Woof.

  31. 78 and still driving a SCHOOL BUS? well, looks like romney saved another bunch of kids! hope the witch ends up on welfare.

  32. 78 and still driving a SCHOOL BUS? well, looks like romney saved another bunch of kids! hope the witch ends up on welfare.

  33. It's clearly time to bring back that age old correctional tool. It is singularly the reason that people credit for the low crime rate in Singapore. There, you will not find so much as a gum wrapper that was tossed to the ground. One unsuspecting American lad learned of this tool a few years ago when he bought some spray paint and decided to go on a tagging spree in Singapore. The tool? Publisc Lashing! Oh I know, it sounds cruel and unusual. Law-abiders in Singapore LOVE IT! Their nation is now considered the cleanest, safest country on Earth. It would drastically reduce a lot of the downward spiral we see each day in our society. Now this woman will file for unemployment and food stamps, etc., and you and I now have to pay for her stupidity! Okay. But if I have to pay, I want to know that CORRECTION! I should, after all, get some satisfaction for my very hard earned tax dollar.

  34. It's clearly time to bring back that age old correctional tool. It is singularly the reason that people credit for the low crime rate in Singapore. There, you will not find so much as a gum wrapper that was tossed to the ground. One unsuspecting American lad learned of this tool a few years ago when he bought some spray paint and decided to go on a tagging spree in Singapore. The tool? Publisc Lashing! Oh I know, it sounds cruel and unusual. Law-abiders in Singapore LOVE IT! Their nation is now considered the cleanest, safest country on Earth. It would drastically reduce a lot of the downward spiral we see each day in our society. Now this woman will file for unemployment and food stamps, etc., and you and I now have to pay for her stupidity! Okay. But if I have to pay, I want to know that CORRECTION! I should, after all, get some satisfaction for my very hard earned tax dollar.

  35. Richard Figueroa /

    Now he's eligible for Obama care.

  36. Richard Figueroa /

    Now he's eligible for Obama care.

  37. Millers Crossing /

    Why was a 78 year old driving a school bus to begin with?

  38. Who lets a 78 year old drive a school bus? Fire the one that hired her.

  39. Derrick Phillips /

    FoxNews is propaganda made for brainwashed people. As you can see by the false headlines on almost every Fox article, it begins with Obama doing something wrong blah blah blah. You people need to have some respect for the other team, I don't go around and rant about how bad Obama is (and I am not a liberal) but all of this senseless bashing of the other team is a waste of time. What's disgusting is how you guys portray the President as if he is some criminal mastermind, but truth be told, unless you are a multi millionaire/billionaire like the owners of FoxNews, then he has nothing for you. The only jobs he wants to create are factory jobs for people without a higher education. Did you really expect Obama to just magically clean up the shitty mess that Republican President George Bush got us into from the beginning? Are you forgetting the two wars he put us through, and the Hurricane Katrina incident? What weapons of mass destruction? No one talked about those much, but you talk about the evil of medicaid? I just do not understand. When you bash one, but fail to speak about the actions of another , it makes you people look more like tools.

    Lambs to the slaughter.

    • Derrick Phillips /

      Edit: but truth be told, unless you are a multi millionaire/billionaire like the owners of FoxNews, then he has nothing for you (Mitt Romney). The only jobs he wants to create are factory jobs for people without a higher education.

    • Derrick Phillips /

      Edit: but truth be told, unless you are a multi millionaire/billionaire like the owners of FoxNews, then he has nothing for you (Mitt Romney). The only jobs he wants to create are factory jobs for people without a higher education.

    • Derrick Phillips /

      Edit: but truth be told, unless you are a multi millionaire/billionaire like the owners of FoxNews, then he has nothing for you (Mitt Romney). The only jobs he wants to create are factory jobs for people without a higher education.

  40. Derrick Phillips /

    FoxNews is propaganda made for brainwashed people. As you can see by the false headlines on almost every Fox article, it begins with Obama doing something wrong blah blah blah. You people need to have some respect for the other team, I don't go around and rant about how bad Obama is (and I am not a liberal) but all of this senseless bashing of the other team is a waste of time. What's disgusting is how you guys portray the President as if he is some criminal mastermind, but truth be told, unless you are a multi millionaire/billionaire like the owners of FoxNews, then he has nothing for you. The only jobs he wants to create are factory jobs for people without a higher education. Did you really expect Obama to just magically clean up the shitty mess that Republican President George Bush got us into from the beginning? Are you forgetting the two wars he put us through, and the Hurricane Katrina incident? What weapons of mass destruction? No one talked about those much, but you talk about the evil of medicaid? I just do not understand. When you bash one, but fail to speak about the actions of another , it makes you people look more like tools.

    Lambs to the slaughter.

  41. Derrick Phillips /

    Godbless the USA!

  42. Derrick Phillips /

    Godbless the USA!

  43. Judy S. Brooks /

    This is a despicable woman and she should be so ashamed of herself, but I'm betting that being the unhinged libnut that she clearly is, she is not one bit ashamed or sorry about what she said to this boy…Absolutely pathetic.

  44. This is the mentality of someone who supports Obama.

  45. they should force him to vote for romney.

  46. they should force him to vote for romney.

  47. Guess the unemployment rate just went up again. Of course the way they keep playing with the numbers it may have went down again.

    • Scott Cottingham /

      100 thousand bus guards just hired to keep this from happening again Lol

    • Scott Cottingham /

      100 thousand bus guards just hired to keep this from happening again Lol

  48. Guess the unemployment rate just went up again. Of course the way they keep playing with the numbers it may have went down again.

  49. That incident where the teacher at a school made a 13 year girl leave his class room and accused her of being KKK. The facts of that statement need to be brought to the attention of a lot more people. The democratic party organized, funded, controlled and directed the Klu Klux Klan from it's inception up to and including today. Throw that verifiable fact in their face and watch them squirm. They have no come back to the truth. Most of the uniformed liptards will deny it of course. It is verifiable, the demodorks have tried to hide that fact in the last 25 years. Too many places to prove the facts though. Harry Tryman was a grand master of the Klan. Lyndon Johnson had four generations of family members in the klan. Woodrow will was a chapter leader. There are others, but the list is to long to publish here.

  50. That's the world of frantic detached liberals. They pick on the weak and link up with gangs and coalitions in order to look tough. What's the name of this smarta** driver?

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