MON brief 5.9.22
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Today’s Stories
EDUCATION is the story of the day, as conservatives were very successful in school board races over the weekend.
This marks the expansion of at least two trends, both good.
Conservatives are simply getting better at organizing in low-turnout May elections. At this point, the winning percentage is well north of 50%. This is a sea change from ten years ago.
The second, more significant trend is that parental involvement overwhelms the educrat establishment. Even at this late date, there are more of us than there are of them. The key is getting “us” to show up.
As parental involvement grows, so does attention to the activities of school district employees.
Over the weekend, a principal at an unnamed Northside ISD elementary school was called out for emailing teachers ahead of early voting, telling them “all employees will be expected [by the superintendent] to vote for this Bond.”
Whoops. If true, that’s illegal.
Yet, for all this movement, the nuts and bolts of governance are still likely to attract far more insiders than citizens. Then again, the recent electoral victories followed unprecedented levels of parental involvement at school board meetings.
The degree to which this impacts the next session remains TBD, but things could get interesting if the current level of involvement continues (admittedly, a big “if”). (AC)
2000 MULES sketches out a plausible hypothesis for how fraud might have swung the 2020 presidential election. However, it also highlights how the Trump team’s clown show effort that year was a catastrophically missed opportunity.
D’Souza’s film isn’t the “smoking gun” its most fervent supporters claim, but it ought to be the starting point for a more thorough investigation. TL;DR version:
The enjoyable film, which took time to make, does feel as though it’s too little too late. This is unfortunate because there were plenty of opportunities to present a coherent
“CHUCK U” SCHUMER will force a vote on a bill to legalize infanticide. This follows last week’s leaked SCOTUS draft overturning Roe v. Wade. Schumer hypothesizes that this will rally public opinion around his party’s position on ritualistic child sacrifice.
Our hypothesis: This is a terrible vote for at least half, if not as high as 80%, of Schumer’s conference to take.
Hit the Links
More Transgender Lunacy at UT-Austin
RIP Former U.S. Senator Bob Krueger (appointed to fill interim between Bentsen and KBH)
Thousands of Dollars Allegedly Missing from County GOP bank account.
The Battle for Williamson County continues.
Claude High School senior wins seat on school board
WillCo Republican Leaders: Stay in your lane or have your membership revoked
New York’s redistricting chaos is now the nation’s problem.
Corporations stay silent on abortion after Disney’s Disastrous Tangle with DeSantis
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