TX: Frisco, Plano And McKinney Voted Against Conservative School Boards

[RandySF]

While most people’s attention during the May 6 elections was centered on specific items on the ballots like McKinney’s airport and city council seats, a trend shifting the politics at North Texas’ school board races flew under the radar.

Since the pandemic, heated discussions have taken over school board meetings centered around conservative talking points like bathroom policies, book bans and curriculum content that touches on sexual identity, sex education and critical race theory.

In August 2022, this unusual focus on school politics caused for Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District to pass a sweeping set of policies targeted at transgender pronouns, library books and race. The next day school board vice president Shannon Braun published an opinion piece in The Dallas Morning News celebrating the policy and saying that it was the result of a political action model.

According to The Dallas Morning News, the wave of conservative new school board members elected in many Tarrant County schools was influenced by Patriot Mobile Action (PMA), a Texas nonprofit created in 2022 by a group of Patriot Mobile executives. The goal of the group is, according to Patriot Mobile’s website, “to further expand our Christian conservative impact.”

Following its mission statement, which includes saving America by saving schools, educating children with the values of American exceptionalism, banning “critical race theory and Marxist policies” and supporting candidates that stand for Christian conservative values, the PAC participated in the latest May elections by endorsing several candidates to occupy trustee places on several Collin County ISD boards.

However, despite PMA’s support, voters in Frisco, McKinney and Plano rejected candidates backed by the conservative movement.




https://localprofile.com/2023/05/16/frisco-plano-mckinney-school-boards/

[marble falls]

1. This is bigger than it seems. This is exactly where we have to fight for the fututre ...

... this is where RW politics gets its start.

These are three very RW areas.

[tanyev]

2. Yes. I was amazed.

An election where nearly all the candidates I voted for won? That's never happened here.

This article didn't even mention the Collin College trustee elections. Collin College has been in the news quite a bit lately for all the wrong reasons. One board incumbent who previously headed up the Collin County GOP lost outright. Two more seats are going to runoff and the preferred RW candidates were not in the lead in either race. I don't know how the candidates who are out leaned, though--whether their voters will gravitate to the RW candidate or the sane, normal person.

[marble falls]

3. I think the RW is losing it's mojo. They'll either vote for a sane board or not vote.

[JCMach1]

4. Exactly, this is a very big deal. North DFW burbs are just turning purplish

From about R+20 when I moved here.

It stands at about R+4 at the moment (about where Texas is statewide in a close race).

Consequently, it's a good place to watch as a bell weather.

[kimbutgar]

6. I'm glad the more sane candidates were able to get their message out to parents and

The constituents of that district that this patriot mobile action group is nuts!

Whenever i see funding by any group that has liberty, or freedom or patriot in its name i will never vote for them.

[Ishoutandscream2]

7. This is Collin County, significantly red

My county, Rockwall, is next to it and is a bedrock of fascism. This is a very big development. Shocking, as a matter of fact. Great job, Collin County.

Just to give you a reminder, the city of Allen, where the mass shooting took place, is also in Collin County.

[cab67]

8. Plano?

My family moved there after I finished high school in New Jersey in the mid-80’s. The place was sickeningly conservative at the time.

I never called it home.

This seriously surprises me.