Dot Heffron, the vile, repugnant Chair of the Chesterfield County School Board who celebrated Charlie Kirk's murder, and I go WAY back.
It's true.
The year was 2020, and I was a panicked parent in Chesterfield County, Virginia, begging our school board to stop using ridiculous metrics that we could never hit to keep our kids out of the classroom. If you didn't live in a disastrous blue state, you probably didn't see anything like this, where the teachers' unions controlled the governor and, by default, our school board. They would use these made-up metrics to determine when our kids could be in the classroom—metrics we could never achieve because they were BS to begin with.
At the time, I didn't know it was all being done to facilitate mail-in voting and other tactics Democrats were using to 'fortify our election,' that year.
Their words, not mine.
Finally, they decided our kids could go to school TWO DAYS A WEEK with only half the kids. Hey, to me, that was a win, I'd take it. But then we had Dot Heffron (you guys have been hearing about her a lot these days) on our school board, who fought tooth and nail to keep the schools closed because that was what the union wanted. She threw a fit, but luckily, lost.
After the meeting, though, she took a selfie, ran to Twitter, posted said selfie, and wrote all in caps, I DISSENT!
Pissed. Me. Off. But even though I was angry, I never got nasty with her, and if you know me, you know that's a big deal. She got snippy, then her supporters started calling me names and accusing me of being a racist (guys, Dot is white), and even a Republican operative.
Seriously.
Well, Dot decided to delete her account at this point. The next day, our local NPR wrote an entire story about how she had been bullied off Twitter for simply disagreeing about the kids going back to school.
From that very article from VPM, our local NPR rag:
The timing of her “dissent” post also came after the school district’s health committee approved sending more students back to part-time, in-person instruction -- despite state guidelines that call for a pause when cases increase.
Heffron questioned the recommendation.
“I just didn't understand how if we have these guideposts, are we committed to them? Or are they still arbitrary? Is there still some subjectivity within these metrics?,” she asked. “I would take the criticism better if it was, ‘why didn't you ask these questions?’ Rather than ‘why are you asking questions?’”
Heffron said she always brings pages of notes and questions to board meetings as a way to understand information being presented.
“I feel like I've been trusted to really dig into this,” she said.
Now Heffron is pondering reactivating her Twitter account, which she started as a way to reach parents.
“How do I balance being accessible to constituents with not opening myself up to just this free-for-all of what felt to me like outright bullying,” Heffron said.
In the meantime, Heffron says concerned parents can reach her through email or phone.
See?
Poor Dot. We were so mean to her.
*eye roll*
Oh, did I mention she's also now the Chair of our school board now? Yeah. That's her.
It’s been more than 48 hours, and Abigail Spanberger is nowhere to be found.
— Winsome Earle-Sears (@winwithwinsome) September 14, 2025
No statement. No condemnation. No removal of the endorsement from Dot Heffron, who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination, saying it’s ‘OK to shoot Nazis.’ pic.twitter.com/I8RUfXtSVC
She was awful then.
She's awful now.
They've asked her to resign. I can only hope she does what she should do, but knowing her, I'm not holding my breath.
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