MON brief 5.9.22

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May 10, 2022

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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.

Matt Rinaldi @MattRinaldiTX

The far left is taking a beating in school board races across North Texas. Wow.

Election Wizard 🇺🇸 @ElectionWiz

School board candidates opposed to CRT and mask mandates swept elections across Texas last night. Wins in Frisco, Clear Creek, Grapevine, Southlake, Keller, Carroll, Spring Branch, Richardson, and even in Dripping Springs (Austin, TX), where conservatives flipped the board.

InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022

Breaking: All Fifteen 1776 Project Conservative PAC-backed candidates for school board in Texas have Won or Leading in the vote total tonight!

MayesMiddleton @mayes_middleton

Jim Rice, the President of taxpayer funded lobbying group(Texas Association of School Boards)that supports critical race theory indoctrination, loses his election to pro-parental rights, anti-indoctrination candidate Rick Garcia for Fort Bend ISD trustee

communityimpact.comUPDATE: Unofficial voting results show Garcia wins race over incumbent Rice for FBISD board of trustees Position 3In the race for Fort Bend ISD board of trustees Position 3, Rick Garcia wins against incumbent Jim Rice.

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.