NY: Republicans Are On A Losing Streak
We had our local school board elections here in Western New York State this past week. It was a little worrying because school boards have become the focused of an organized, homophobic, and racist right wing. All over the country, the right is going to the first line of elected official — school boards — to try to advance their power. They are looking to ban books, remove any mention of gay people, and eliminate any diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. In many ways this mirrors their efforts 15 years ago to take over local and state government.
One way in which it differs from that effort is in its embarrassing and amazing failure to win most of its elections.
Yup “Moms for Liberty” that lovely organization looking to ban books ran candidates in 11 local school board elections and won (checks notes) 0 seats. Zero. None. Nada.
None of these are the urban school districts full of progressive voters. Some of them are bluish suburbs, some are reddish suburbs, and others are rural areas and Republican strongholds. They failed everywhere.
And it wasn’t just in my neck of the woods.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/5/20/2170320/-Republicans-Are-On-A-Losing-Streak-Saturday-s-GNR
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