How a rising conservative movement in Delaware is targeting school board elections

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On the steps of Legislative Hall on a March afternoon, five school board candidates stood before a crowd calling for a complete reopening of Delaware public schools.

“We have a lot of radicals that are controlling our school boards,” said Lisa McCulley, a lead organizer of Stand Up Delaware. Since the start of the pandemic, the grassroots group had held rally after rally calling Gov. John Carney’s COVID-19 restrictions an infringement on individual liberties.

She pointed to Appoquinimink School District as an example, a school board with “one awesome conservative” overruled by “three women who control the whole board.”

“We have to stop that, guys,” she told the crowd. “It may take us a few years. But we can change things. Within three years, we can change things completely. But we have to stop being complacent.”

Read more: https://www.doverpost.com/story/news/2021/05/03/patriots-delaware-conservative-group-targeting-school-board-races/7319761002/

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1. this is how repubs took over a majority of the states, from the bottom up nt

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3. EXACTLY

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4. +1...

... yep. And many with money from a Pat Robertson PAC, putting deluded fundies on local school boards.

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2. This is where the war will be fought.

Unless we capitulate and "don't want to create a problem". The problem is already created if you do not confront and object.