Conservative PACs Inject Millions Into Often-Ignored School Board Races

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A growing collection of conservative political action groups is targeting its efforts closer to home: by pouring millions into often-ignored school board races

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Conservative PACs Inject Millions Into Often-Ignored School Board Races
In the run-up to the midterm elections, a growing number of conservative groups are turning their attention to local school races.
8:45 AM · Oct 11, 2022

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/conservative-pacs-school-board-races_n_63453a82e4b03e8038cd0223

As Republicans and Democrats fight for control of Congress this fall, a growing collection of conservative political action groups is targeting its efforts closer to home: at local school boards.
Their aim is to gain control of more school systems and push back against what they see as a liberal tide in public education classrooms, libraries, sports fields, even building plans.

Once seen as sleepy affairs with little interest outside their communities, school board elections started to heat up last year as parents aired frustrations with pandemic policies. As those issues fade, right-leaning groups are spending millions on candidates who promise to scale back teachings on race and sexuality, remove offending books from libraries and nix plans for gender-neutral bathrooms or transgender-inclusive sports teamsand

Democrats have countered with their own campaigns portraying Republicans as extremists who want to ban books and rewrite historyof

At the center of the conservative effort is the 1776 Project PAC, which formed last year to push back against the New York Times’ 1619 Project, which provides free lesson plans that center U.S. history around slavery and its lasting impacts. Last fall and this spring, the 1776 group succeeded in elevating conservative majorities to office in dozens of school districts across the U.S., propelling candidates who have gone on to fire superintendents and enact sweeping “bills of rights” for parentsto

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[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. Book banning and RW grooming -- just like Ronald McDonald, you train 'em young.

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

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[Midnight Writer]

2. Republicans are building "farm teams" from which they will recruit players for the big league.

Odd that the "top-down" party outdoes the "little guy" party at grassroots organizing, at least in rural areas.

I'm afraid the Democrats have ceded the rural and small town votes to the Republicans and rely too heavily on the city votes to give them wins.

I think Beto has the right idea of planting progressive seeds in the rural areas of Texas. Hopefully, enough of those seeds will grow and influence folks to vote in their own best interests. Parties need to be built on a wide foundation.