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October 05, 2021 08:43 AM UTC
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This is about rebuilding the GOP bench, so making their school board candidates recite Trump's litmus tests makes sense.
Schools are a natural target for hyper-polarization by Republicans. What you teach kids is fundamental to their strategy to return the nation to Stone Age understandings of our world where lightning is the work of gods. Reminds me of the loyalty tests in Catch 22 which the poor saps had to recite to get into the mess hall. And the pricks who created these questionnaires probably thought they were righteous and holy when creating them. Such awful people with so little respect for our common bonds as Americans.
Lest we forget, Marilyn Musgrave started out as a school board member:
(A timely quote and reminder from Bret Stephens/Gail Collins from their most recent The Conversation op-ed in the NYT.)
Going to be quite a statement by some who say "I'm answering the relevant questions, the others have nothing to do with my race.". Putting the answers up on their webpage or sending out a news release with a short explanation of what issues matter in the school board race.
I'm also wondering if and when there will be enough of a rift between Republicans in El Paso county to trigger some sort of evident hit — voter registrations, donations for party operations, attendance at events, that sort of thing.
The Washington Post has this today
It’s is incredibly timely:https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/10/05/garland-educators-threats-masks-fbi/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_national
This may not work out well for Republicans. In 2014, two of the three County Commissioners in Jefferson County were Republicans. Every other county office, Sheriff, DA, Assessor, Clerk and Recorder, and maybe even the coroner, were all Republicans.
That year, the newly elected partisan Republican majority of the School Board decided to change the AP History curriculum, fire the superintendent, and move funding from community schools to charters. The three partisans were recalled. Now, there are no Republicans in Countywide office.
Maybe it is just changing demographics, but it sure seems like the nutjobs on the school board did a great service in energizing the rational, sometimes indifferent, voters of the County.
Steve Bannon said, “The path to save the nation is very simple — it’s going to go through the school boards.”
Or, as one of his ideological heroine was urged to do, "Get them while they're young, Evita! Get them while they're young!"
Partial problem with Pols' penultimate paragraph – I don't think it's "fine" to partisanize nonpartisan elections even if it smokes out some bad quotes from candidates. There are other ways to either get candidates on the record or show them ducking questions.
While most everybody who pays attention instinctively wink-wink knows that "conservative" or "liberal/progressive" groups probably align with a major party (sure, with exceptions), it's a major problem in my book for those major parties to drop the force of their weight on nonpartisan races.
https://gazette.com/news/el-paso-county-gop-condemned-after-asking-if-covid-19-is-a-hoax/article_e9bc8650-7490-11ea-a089-0b9f510f6f99.html
She should not resign. Her views are not outside of what passes as the "mainstream" for El Paso County Republicans.
This is the same county party that gave us Charlie Duke, the entire Tebedo family, Amendment Two, Doug Bruce, TABOR, Doug Lamborn, Betty Breedy, Dave Schultheis, Bill "the Fister" Cadman, Dr. Chaps, and Dave Williams.
She is an able and effective spokesperson for the El Paso GOP.