Actually, polls show most Americans oppose evolution.
The votes that result in the removal of the IDers are done out of embarrassment, not from disagreeing, but from all the attention and mocking done from New York City.
Case in point: KS. We removed the pro-IDers the first round after the national embarrassment. Then, when they campaigned again on the issue, we voted them back in. But, now that we are getting the attention again, probably they will be thrown out next year.
However, I will agree that spending is a big problem.
Actually, polls show most Americans oppose evolution.
...and believe in UFOs and ghosts and assorted other nonsense (it's even possible that over half may actually believe Madonna in an 'artist'). And over half of college students didn't know which century the Civil War was fought in. My conclusion is that polls are not a reliable test of truth.
At least one of the creationists on the board ran a stealth campaign (at least as far as the general public is concerned):
Just before the June 24 (2002) filing deadline, the executive director of a conservative Republican group, Kris Van Meteren, asked his mother to run for office on the school board to challenge the moderate [Republican] incumbant, Val DeFever, and she accepted. Iris Van Meter of the southeastern Kansas town of Thayer astonished even the conservatives with a big win in the Aug. 6 Republican primary. ... [Van Meter was unopposed in the general election.] ... Most moderates didn't know Van Meter was Van Meteren's mother until after the primary.... DeFever said no one knew who Van Meter was for weeks. Shortly before the election, radio ads began attacking her unfairly, DeFever said: One insinuated she was an atheist, and others misrepresented her as someone who believed money solved all problems. Mailers making the same allegations also went out, DeFever said. ...
- Infidels.org