Rebecca Whiting
One of the problems that I see that will really take time and dedication to fix is the division in the community. As a school board member, I would not be able to draft policy that could fix that. There is nothing you can put on paper that would create an easy solution. But this is what I can tell you- I would advocate at all times that the schools only focus on education. Not one groups ideas of what education means over another, but the basics. I believe that school means factual based education and a strong ability to read and understand. Teach how to think, not what to think. I bring up indoctrination, not because I am a right person or a left person, but because I have been asked by people what my stand is since it's been mentioned and on every level from any group it's a bad idea. Again, school is for education. I would help heal a community from the division that's here by simply not being divisive. It does not matter to me what your background is, where you are from, what you do with your life. My purpose is to simply be a voice of reason in a sea of uncertainty where I treat people equally. I don't believe that politics should be a driving factor in a School Board. I have tried to make it a point to reach out to people who are politically opposite from me and build these bridges that need to happen going forward. We all have differences, but in the schools we are equal. It must stay that way. I believe that progress can only happen through civil discourse and respect. It's okay to have hard conversations where we don't reach an agreement, but that in the end allowing the space to believe that we all act in good faith. Will that always be true? No. But that the only true way forward is by making the assumption the default. There are a lot of people that seem to believe just because you talk to one group or associate with another or have ties to a third that you must think and feel exactly like them. I reject that. I reject the need to put people in a box that defines people individually from an incomplete understanding. A school board focuses on the policy that drives the education in our schools. Let's keep it simple and focus first on maintaining the quality of education that drives our future. Until we can say that it is as good as it can get, everything else is a distraction. Look for me on the ballot November 8th! #whitingforbemidji
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| Overall score | 25.8/100 |
| Spend / Reach / Long. / Eff. | 0.0 · 39.6 · 0.8 · 62.6 |
| Spend range | <USD 99 |
| Impressions | 2,000 – 2,999 |
| CPM (≈ $/1k impr) | USD 19.8 |
| Est. audience size | 10,001 – 50,000 |
| Days live | 4 (2022-10-14 → 2022-10-18) |
| Created | 2022-10-13 |
| Creative variants | 1 body · 0 headline |
| Platforms | |
| Languages | en |
| Candidate | MN — Rebecca Whiting |
| Surfaced by | “senate:Rebecca Whiting” |
| Issue | education |
| Framing | issue advocacy |
| Message type | persuasion |
| Emotional appeal | empathy |
| Production tier | diy amateur |
| Who pictured | none |
| Symbols | none |
| Call to action | none |
| Standout element | Sketch of a struggling student hunched over a desk paired with a Diane Ravitch quote challenging standardized testing |
| Tactic | The ad uses a sympathetic illustration and an authoritative education-reform quote to signal that the candidate values holistic, basics-focused education over ideologically driven curricula, appealing to parents frustrated with current school culture debates. |
| Minnesota | 100.0% |
| 18-24 · unknown | 0.2% |
| 45-54 · female | 12.1% |
| 25-34 · unknown | 0.3% |
| 18-24 · male | 0.5% |
| 55-64 · male | 7.1% |
| 55-64 · female | 15.9% |
| 35-44 · male | 6.8% |
| 35-44 · female | 11.7% |
| 25-34 · female | 6.0% |
| 35-44 · unknown | 0.2% |
| 65+ · female | 19.0% |
| 45-54 · male | 5.7% |
| 65+ · unknown | 0.2% |
| 65+ · male | 8.5% |
| 18-24 · female | 1.5% |
| 25-34 · male | 4.3% |
| 45-54 · unknown | 0.1% |