This one’s from York, Pennsylvania:
The York Suburban School Board race was, by any measure, a messy affair.
‘Parents are rising up’: York County school board races now a battlefield in culture war
Opponents of one candidate, Quentin Gee, brought up past social media posts expressing relief in the deaths of Republican Sen. Mike Reese and an Arkansas GOP county chairman – both against COVID-19 mask mandates – and posted a Facebook video of him receiving a lap dance at the Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota. “I don’t think they really became an issue,” Gee said. “But I did not expect that to happen in a school board race.”
Another candidate, Cecilia Marie Clark, had her past criminal record, including a 2016 DUI, posted on Facebook by political opponents. Clark, in an email, acknowledged “the mistake I made over seven years ago” and wrote that she was “grateful I have corrected course through hard work and my faith in God.”
Gee won a seat on the board. Clark did not.
Conservative candidates benefited from a $10,000 campaign contribution from a PAC that opposes COVID restrictions placed on schools and the inclusion of critical race theory in the curriculum. (York Suburban does not teach critical race theory.)
The voters spoke on Tuesday – selecting four members of the board and rejecting candidates who were most vocal in their opposition to mask mandates and critical race theory.
Three incumbents will return to the board, led by Democrats Steven Sullivan and Ellen Freireich, who has served as a school director for 24 years. Democrat Gee came in third and incumbent James Sanders, a Republican who had teamed up with Nicole McCleary during the campaign, came in fourth. McCleary and Clark, finished out of the money.
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The Democratic candidates raised their campaign funds from the community – the only donations to come from outside the district were from a Suburban teacher who lives in Dallastown and an alum who lives in Washington, D.C. The Republican candidates received a contribution from the Back To School PA political action committee, which backed conservative candidates throughout the state.
“My No. 1 concern was how these races were funded,” she said. “At the end of the day, money talks in terms of influence.”
There are a lot of these school board CRT election stories bubbling up. I wonder if maybe the focus on Virginia, being the “home state” of so many DC reporters might just be slanting the coverage just a tad.
This is the Village in action: they believe they speak for America. They don’t.