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| Kyle Mantyla |
In September, Right Wing Watch reported that Rick Scarborough, a self-described “Christocrat,” strident anti-LGBTQ activist, and longtime critic of public education, had begun raising money through his group Recover America to fund an effort to elect right-wing candidates to school boards in three Houston-area school districts.
In October, Scarborough announced that if his group was successful in taking over these three school boards, he planned to raise millions of dollars to mobilize thousands of Texas pastors who will activate their congregations to ensure that conservative Christians “take over their local school boards” across the state.
In Tuesday’s election, five of the nine trustees on the Houston Independent School District board of education were up for reelection, and they were all targets of Scarborough’s effort. While Scarborough did not succeed in defeating any of them, four of them have been forced into runoff elections in December, which is required if no candidate secures more than 50 percent of the vote.
In Tuesday’s election, five of the nine trustees on the Houston Independent School District board of education were up for reelection, and they were all targets of Scarborough’s effort. While Scarborough did not succeed in defeating any of them, four of them have been forced into runoff elections in December, which is required if no candidate secures more than 50 percent of the vote.
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