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Major Nikon

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4. School board members tend to be the most wingnutty of wingnuts

Reply to Turbineguy (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 12, 2013, 07:40 PM

Dec 2013

The reason is because school board elections are typically held outside of presidential and mid-term elections when nobody bothers showing up. Churches have a constant get out the vote effort which means their influence is multiplied greatly in low turnout elections. That's how Texas wound up with a flat earth state school board chairman who believes the earth is 6,000 yrs old.

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The ADL responds... Behind the Aegis Dec 2013 #1

Good. n/t lumberjack_jeff Dec 2013 #5

The stupid is strong with this one Major Nikon Dec 2013 #2

I wouldn't make too much of that remark. Turbineguy Dec 2013 #3

School board members tend to be the most wingnutty of wingnuts Major Nikon Dec 2013 #4

The Moral Majority taught them to win the school board races in the 80's ProudToBeBlueInRhody Dec 2013 #6

The Moral Majority was neither Major Nikon Dec 2013 #7

Standard operating procedure ProudToBeBlueInRhody Dec 2013 #8

The sad part is they don't have to be all that smart themselves to do it Major Nikon Dec 2013 #9

"They're neither moral nor majority..." L7 earworm! nomorenomore08 Dec 2013 #13

Disgusting, and a link to an article about the transgender battle in CO I posted. RiffRandell Dec 2013 #10

That's absolutely horrible! In_The_Wind Dec 2013 #11

She's a monster. HappyMe Dec 2013 #12

Maybe I'm a bit late, but I just wanted to chime in about how disgusting this is. nomorenomore08 Dec 2013 #14

Well there's one more example of the rape culture at work. westerebus Dec 2013 #15