Posted on 06/14/2026 11:12:05 AM PDT by Round Earther
Mark Hill, a conservative lawyer who served on the local school board, won a divisive mayoral runoff on Saturday in Frisco, Texas, that turned into a referendum on the city’s diversity and a testing ground for the power of anti-Muslim messaging.
Mr. Hill defeated Rod Vilhauer, a retired construction company owner who gained a following on the hard right with his promises to keep “terrorists” from gaining a foothold in Frisco and to prevent Shariah, or Islamic religious codes, from taking precedence over local and federal law.
The nonpartisan race was one of the earliest tests of whether attacks on Islam, increasingly prevalent among Republican politicians and primary candidates this year, would be effective with a broader set of voters.
Mr. Hill prevailed with 58 percent of the vote
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was the NYSlimes article this biased when the woman who wanted to throw American Zionists into internment camps lost her primary in Texas??? Somehow i doubt it....
Visited DFW area earlier this year.
I love Turkish coffee and Middle East inspired cafes.
Not so much the Islam brochures on display when drinking it.
But TX is also the only state I noticed normal-seeming young people out and about proselytizing for Christianity…
So I guess the religiosity goes both ways.
Except Islam is a cult or war plan...or both.
.....In California “Turkish coffee” is “Armenian coffee.” ....
When I was a Harvard grad student, a Cambridge Greek restaurant called “The Acropolis” was a favorite place to eat.
We always finished off our meals with Greek coffee!!
Oh, that makes sense! 🙂 The Persians too! ☕️ But I find their tea more distinctive.
I voted for Vilhauer.
I am looking to move out of this dump.
It takes a lot of courage to admit that you went to Harvard.
When I voted yesterday, the lines were relatively long, considering it was a Mayoral election.
But in the end, there was only about 25% turnout, of the registered voters.
That’s what’s killing this country, apathy.
No luck with NYT.
Subscribe - or, research else where.
Accept islam as just another religion and the American dream is over.
“But in the end, there was only about 25% turnout, of the registered voters.
Twenty Five percent is a really high number for a local election held on a Saturday after Memorial Day.
Twenty Five percent is a really high number for a local election held on a Saturday after Memorial Day.
The fact that it’s considered a really high number, says it all.
Time will prove him right. Obama won. Clinton won. Biden “won”. America lost.
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