Anyone more first hand familiar with the politics of Chino Valley? At a glance, it’s a solidly blue district and not where I’d expect this sort of culture war grand standing. Feels like an artifact of the weird nature of school boards where usually sleepy off year elections sometimes explode and elect crazies who have a small dedicated groups of voters.
Mrs. Shaw received 51.58 percent of the votes (5,190) and Mrs. Gagnier received 48.42 percent (4,873).
Not to be not alarmed, but seems more like an aberration. There’s a good reason why school board candidates tend to run on this:
Mrs. Shaw, who campaigned on parental rights, said her goals include getting the school district back to the basics with reading, writing, and math, teaching age-appropriate curriculum, and ensuring transparency with parents.
And not culture war nonsense. I feel like Cruz and Na have likely avoided too much attention, but tying themselves to a kook who is turning school board meetings into a circus with national attention is a bad strategy going into an on-cycle election in a blue district. Unless they don’t want their seats, then maybe it’s a great strategy.
Anyone more first hand familiar with the politics of Chino Valley? At a glance, it’s a solidly blue district and not where I’d expect this sort of culture war grand standing. Feels like an artifact of the weird nature of school boards where usually sleepy off year elections sometimes explode and elect crazies who have a small dedicated groups of voters.
Not to be not alarmed, but seems more like an aberration. There’s a good reason why school board candidates tend to run on this:
And not culture war nonsense. I feel like Cruz and Na have likely avoided too much attention, but tying themselves to a kook who is turning school board meetings into a circus with national attention is a bad strategy going into an on-cycle election in a blue district. Unless they don’t want their seats, then maybe it’s a great strategy.