2aguy
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Here is what I found. This school Leander High has some really conservative parents who's kids go to school there and they are trying to get conservatives on the school board. So I don't know
How political action committees transformed school board races in Round Rock and Leander
Political action committees don't typically get involved in local school board races. But money and endorsements from local, state and national PACs ultimately helped determine the results of school board races in Round Rock and Leander.www.kut.org
You guys spent an unusual amount of money trying to take over a school board.
"It’s my understanding that there is substantial amounts of money being raised and spent by individuals and groups that really care about hot-button issues," Cousar said.
Some of those "hot-button issues" include critical race theory, gender issues and sex education, he said.
Don Zimmerman, a former Austin City Council member, was one of five vetted "conservative" candidates for the school board who were endorsed and financially supported by the Round Rock One Family PAC.
The PAC sought to bring conservative values to the school district. Zimmerman's campaign received thousands of dollars from the group.
It's "unusual to see a lot of money being spent to back candidates who have an ideological agenda on the school board," Cousar said.
Why is so much money going into these local school board races?
First, Cousar said, it's important to note that school board members are unpaid.
"They’re frequently just, you know, doing it as a community volunteer service," he said. "A lot of them don’t even really think of themselves as politicians."
He also notes it has always been legal to spend money on school board races; most people just haven't viewed them as the kind of place where you make large financial contributions.
So what's different? It all comes back to those "hot-button issues."
"What we are seeing now is people with a very partisan agenda on these issues ... trying to push [them] into the lap of the school board, rather than the school superintendent and the professional educators," Cousar said.
Historically speaking, he said, education has not been seen as a partisan issue. That's not the case in today's campaign environment, where school board candidates are taking on the roles of politicians.
"What we’re seeing is school board races looking more and more like legislative races," Cousar said. "People talking about issues that traditionally a school board wouldn’t even really address and raising money to do that and trying to line up voters as if this were a traditional Democratic, Republican, liberal, conservative split.”
The candidates secured endorsements from the 1776 Project, a national PAC dedicated to electing school board members committed to abolishing critical race theory, as well as thousands of dollars in financial support from the Republican Party of Texas.
Despite this effort, all five Round Rock One Family PAC candidates failed to win.
So even in Texas the cons lost. I can't speak for a top rated school in Texas and why they teach 14 year olds about bj's. Did you see her son? He looks old enough to know about BJ's.
And again......you are not responding to the actual video of men in dresses and underwear gyrating in front of small children, of the moms reading the explicit books in their kid's school libraries, where the books have young children performing oral sex on each other and on adult males...
You know it, you have seen it, you know it is vile and disgusting behavior, but you lack the spine to say it is wrong...you are a coward.
