Texas education board candidate known for conspiracy posts

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Texas education board candidate known for conspiracy posts

Paul J. Weber, Associated Press

Updated 3:31 pm, Tuesday, May 24, 2016


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FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2010 file photo, Anthony Bruner and Mary Lou Bruner, right, pray at the start of a meeting of the Texas State Board of Education to discuss Islam and Christianity in textbooks in Austin, Texas. Mary Lou Bruner, a retired Texas schoolteacher who claims President Barack Obama is a gay prostitute is the Republican front-runner in a primary runoff for a seat on the influential state education board. Bruner is back on the ballot Tuesday, May 24, 2016, after nearly clinching the Republican nomination outright in March. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File) AUSTIN CHRONICLE OUT, COMMUNITY IMPACT OUT, INTERNET AND TV MUST CREDIT PHOTOGRAPHER AND STATESMAN.COM, MAGS OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — She is a retired Texas schoolteacher who has claimed President Barack Obama is a gay prostitute, Democrats orchestrated the assassination of John F. Kennedy and that the flood from the biblical story of Noah's Ark is what destroyed the dinosaurs.

Mary Lou Bruner is also the front-runner in a Republican primary runoff Tuesday for a seat on the influential state education board — a nomination the 69-year-old nearly clinched outright despite a lengthy social media history of posting about conspiracy theories and fringe screeds. In March, she fell just two percentage points shy of avoiding a runoff altogether.

Her election would be stunning, even given that the Texas State Board of Education was chaired until 2011 by a creationist who tried weakening evolution lessons in science classrooms. The 15-member board that sets curriculum standards for 5.2 million Texas schoolchildren has more recently fought over whether history textbooks promote Islam or contain anti-American biases.

Bruner has called climate change a hoax concocted by Karl Marx and suggested that the federal health care overhaul is a part of a government plot to reduce the U.S. population, according to since-deleted Facebook posts captured by the Texas Freedom Network, a left-leaning watchdog of the state education board.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Texas-education-board-candidate-known-for-7941397.php

[Jackie Wilson Said]

1. Fucking children making adult decisions.

[procon]

2. There is a clear need for a tinfoil hat concession... LOL! nt

[Judi Lynn]

3. Texan who called Obama a prostitute runs for school board seat

Texan who called Obama a prostitute runs for school board seat

By Marice Richter
May 24, 2016

DALLAS (Reuters) - Texas voters went to the polls on Tuesday to decide if they want the state's school board to include a retired teacher who claimed President Barack Obama was a gay prostitute and said dinosaurs might still be around if Noah had more room on his biblical ark.

Mary Lou Bruner, 69, an arch-conservative with a penchant for conspiracy theories, is a Republican candidate in a race for the board that sets policies for the nation's second-largest school system. She is in a run-off vote and if she wins, will be considered a front-runner in the general election in November in her heavily Republican district.

Bruner has captured national attention this year with anti-Islam comments and by saying U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan’s beard made him look like “a terrorist.”

She also made contentious Facebook posts in recent years that include saying: “Obama has a soft spot for homosexuals because of the years he spent as a male prostitute in his twenties. That is how he paid for his drugs."

More:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/texan-called-obama-prostitute-running-school-board-seat-151603140.html?nhp=1

[uhnope]

4. what's her DU user name?

[Shandris]

5. I just love how people are being subtly primed to hate people who 'think wrong'.

It's been quite telling over a length of time to watch it, but it's really getting out of hand. You might want to realize what's happening here, why, and put an end to it before it ingrains itself much deeper.