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Frisco, Plano, McKinney rejected conservative school board push Votes suggest North Texas’ politics is shifting
dallasnews ^ | 05/16/2023

Posted on 05/16/2023 6:46:10 AM PDT by devane617

It would be wrong to say that the dust has settled from the May 6 municipal elections, since there was never much dust kicked up in the first place.

But something important happened that you might have missed, and it signals a shift in our politics in the region.

You had to be paying close attention to school board races in Frisco, Plano and McKinney to catch it. But, in a nutshell, voters in those cities rejected candidates who represent a conservative movement aimed at taking control of local government offices, and especially school boards, in the suburbs.

In Frisco, it was the defeat of candidates Reed Bond and Susan Kershaw, both of whom had the backing of Patriot Mobile Action, a political committee devoted to challenging what it calls Marxist policies and critical race theory teaching in public schools.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: publicschool; texas
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21 posted on 05/16/2023 8:07:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: dfwgator

Same here in Valley Ranch, Indians account for 60% of K-12 students.


22 posted on 05/16/2023 8:15:00 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: dfwgator
Brother just moved back to Michigan from Frisco.

You're right...pretty much everyone that looked at his house.

Veddy gude!

23 posted on 05/16/2023 8:19:36 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: devane617

Heh-heh! The slave empire expands.


24 posted on 05/16/2023 8:19:39 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: devane617

It also happens because R county officials say school board races are nonpartisan. They do not get involved or provide the slightest bit of information on the candidates.

At least that is how it is locally here.


25 posted on 05/16/2023 8:38:39 AM PDT by pas
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To: dfwgator

BTTT


26 posted on 05/16/2023 8:46:28 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: klb99

Really? You think?


27 posted on 05/16/2023 9:06:38 AM PDT by Rich21IE
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To: devane617

Possibly or......it’s about the demographics of the voters interested in the election, i.e., the parents of kids who attend the public schools. I’d wager that a very large number of conservatives eligible to vote in the school board elections do NOT send their kids to the public schools. They probably could care less what’s going on in the public schools. Their kids go to private schools, church schools or are home schooled. Hence.....the low turnout.


28 posted on 05/16/2023 9:09:05 AM PDT by Rich21IE
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To: dfwgator
Problem also is....nobody voted.

Retail politics is just plain hard work. And it requires perseverance, something that the left is very, very good at. Most conservatives just want the government to fix the potholes, arrest criminals, and just leave everyone else alone. The left is driven by the desire for power, and they're like the terminator: they can't be bargained with, they can't be reasoned with, they don't feel pity or remorse or fear, and they absolutely will not stop… EVER, until you are dead (or enslaved)!

But there does seem to be a new sprit on the populist right that seems to understand this, and care enough to interrupt their lives by doing things like running for school boards, city and county councils, and perhaps even more importantly for local GOP county central committee seats. Any path that retains some vestiges of liberty will lead through the GOP, as depressing as that sounds. And it's important after a loss to just pick yourself up, brush off the dust, and then continue the fight.

The old Barry Goldwater warriors understood this after 1964, and they were the heart and soul of grass roots politics for a generation. They were a great example of refusing to give up, and there's some hope that the populist right understands the nature of the fight that we're in.

29 posted on 05/16/2023 12:30:05 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: zeestephen

Asian Indian Americans are probably the most Hard Left voters of all major USA immigrant groups.


30 posted on 05/16/2023 12:39:46 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: devane617

Then recall them !


31 posted on 05/16/2023 1:13:07 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: devane617
".... and it signals a shift in our politics in the region."

What a joke.

Anyone who is just NOW noticing that places such as Collin County is moving to the left along with lots of the rest of suburban Texas counties (such as Fort Bend, Williamson, Hays, Denton, etc.) has obviously not been paying attention.

The "shift" has been obvious for merely the past DECADE or two. Once upon a time Collin was rock-solid Republican, now -- and it's not just the deteriorating area around Plano -- the county is to the LEFT of the state as a whole; the state of Texas has been moving leftward, but Collin is moving leftward even faster due to the invading forces from the Turd World.

Collin was 75% White as recently as the 2000 census; now it is only 50% White and dropping rapidly. These same people are going to act shocked when Collin, which hasn't voted Democrat for President since LBJ, finally flips to the dark side in 2024, or 2028 at the latest.

Collin County demographics

Collin County election results

Collin County 2020 presidential election results by municipality

Same, for 2016

32 posted on 05/16/2023 1:31:04 PM PDT by PermaRag (Joo Biden is not my President)
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To: cgbg; zeestephen; dfwgator

“That means they vote for anything that helps their “tribe” and could not care less about the society as a whole.”

Plus their idea of what society ought to be differs from American natives.

In SoCal I’ve had years to get to know Asian Indians. Regardless of education or income they are way to the Left. It came as little surprise to me that the ringleaders of old Twitter’s anti-Free Speech regime were all from the Subcontinent.

But the dimwits of the GOP will of course celebrate their mass immigration here as the arrival of more “natural conservatives” as they wonder why the entire country goes the way of California.


33 posted on 05/16/2023 6:44:03 PM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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