"Fortunately, the voters saw through the hidden extremists who were running for school board — across the [Chicago] suburbs especially," Gov. JB Pritzker told reporters after last week’s election. | Susan Walsh/AP Photo
The results could also serve as a renewed warning to Republican presidential hopefuls like Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis: General election voters are less interested in crusades against critical race theory and transgender students than they are in funding schools and ensuring they are safe. are set for later this year in some two dozen states. They are often low turnout, low profile, and officially nonpartisan affairs, and conservatives say they are competing aggressively.
Labor groups and Democratic operatives are nevertheless flexing over the defeat of candidates they opposed during races that took place near Chicago, which received hundreds of thousands of dollars in support from state Democrats and the attention of Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker, and in Wisconsin. Conservative board hopefuls also saw mixed results in Missouri and Oklahoma.
But why do you treat these school board races as though they come out of nowhere (or out of genuine grass roots concern) when you yourselves have done the reporting on the oceans of money being poured into them?
Don't over-think it. Too many of the MAGA-inspired local school board candidates were well-known local cranks with a record of nay-saying. That doesn't work in local elections. As the NEA official said, local voters support 'strengthening our public schools, not abandoning them.'
Parents should def have a say in what their kids are taught but the problem has been it's the crazies that are the loudest about those issues
'National reckoning with gender identity' 🤣🤣 When like 15% of the country believes something, but won't debate it on facts with the bat majority who disagree, it's kind of a stretch to label it a reckoning
It's because the GOP isn't popular with Americans as a whole. They appeal to extremists in rural and underdeveloped areas to hold onto power through a minority of votes. Thankful the GOP is done with younger voters moving away from the bigoted policies.
The 1776 candidates took on some school district races where they really had no chance. They actually fared pretty well where it made sense to run.