Video: Dem Mayor Asks for Translator Since He Can’t Speak English—While Bus Driver Loses Job for Asking Students to Speak English!

In a bizarre twist of irony, Democrat Mayor Brian DePena of Lawrence, Massachusetts, requested a translator during a recent hearing because he couldn’t speak English, while in Pennsylvania, a beloved school bus driver was fired for asking students to do the same. The video of DePena’s hearing, held via Zoom, shows him struggling to communicate, with subtitles revealing his concern about not understanding Spanish translations. “The division has a concern and raised an objection based on the fact that counsel, much like me in my capacity as a hearing officer, don’t speak Spanish. And therefore we’re unable to decide independently whether questions are being translated both directions from attorney or witness accurately,” he said.

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Meanwhile, in Juniata County, Pennsylvania, Diane Crawford, a 66-year-old bus driver with over 30 years of service, posted a handwritten note on her bus: “Out of respect to English-only students, there will be no speaking Spanish on this bus.” Signed “ownership/management,” it was aimed at one bilingual student she believed was riling up others. “I didn’t mean to be racially insensitive or anything like that,” she later told CBS 21. “Maybe it should have said, ‘No bullying in any language,’ but I didn’t mean it to be anything but to correct him.” Within a week, she was fired on February 1, 2025, labeled “racially insensitive” by Juniata County School District and Rohrer Buses. They claimed a quick investigation, but Crawford insists no suspension or probe happened—just termination. Now on Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, and antidepressants, she’s asking for $30,000 to cover losses. “I dedicated everything I had to driving the bus… And it was for the kids. I loved the kids,” she said.

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The sign’s image is simple: black marker on white paper, taped inside the bus window—clear, direct, in a county where 94% are white and just over 900 residents are Hispanic or Latino. Crawford wasn’t banning Spanish out of hate; she wanted fairness.

But the woke outrage machine crushed her, while DePena, a mayor who can’t speak English, gets a translator. This is the left’s double standard: punish the working class for common sense, coddle elites who can’t communicate in the national language.

Voters, this hypocrisy must end. Demand leaders who uphold English as the common tongue, not undermine it. Crawford’s story is a wake-up call; DePena’s, a disgrace.

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