Good thing I saved the full text of Cynthia Dunbar‘s insane rant about Obama which I posted last night. That pile of tripe has been removed from the Christian Worldview Network web site today. Well, I haven’t forgotten it, and no one else should either.
In other Texas education news, I discovered that in 2007 a bill was brought forth before our legislature that would have mandated that all Board of Education members run as Independent candidates, so straight party voting or party voting at all wouldn’t influence the outcome. It was referred to committee, and I will be writing some emails to find out whether or not they plan to move forward with this and inform them they should.
I will also be emailing the Texas Democratic Party to find out why they didn’t run anyone against her. In a choice between a Libertarian and a Republican, most people who aren’t informed voters (and many who are) will choose the Republican over the Libertarian every time, what with the Lib’s being somewhat out on the fringe these days.
My head hurts from all the research I have been doing today. I still haven’t found the one thing I was looking for: information on how to file to run for positions on the SBOE.
I’m with you. When I heard Michele Bachmann’s nutty McCarthyite bit, I was stunned. When I saw Elizabeth Dole’s whacky attacks on Kay Hagan in North Carolina, I got out my wallet.
But this is nutjob is in my own state — in my own city if I’m understanding how the SBOE is organized — and making decisions that affect my 5th and 7th graders.
I’ve been researching, too. I haven’t posted on my blog yet, but I will, and then some. I’ll be working hard to take this woman down in 2010. She is unacceptable.
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My head exploded when I heard Bachmann going on about anti-American ideas and how someone needed to check out our elected officials for having them. WTF? Didn’t we already go through that in our history, and wasn’t it ugly? Ugh.
But yes, Dunbar and the others like her on the SBOE need to go. Every one of them makes decisions, most especially on textbooks, that can do nothing but screw our educational system up worse. It’s already bad enough, thank you.