Posted on 02/26/2024 10:31:27 AM PST by T Ruth
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued a local school district, alleging it engaged in illegal electioneering by using official email accounts to encourage employees to vote for specific legislative candidates who opposed school choice vouchers.
The lawsuit filed this week against the Denton Independent School District alleges a director of special programs and as many as two principals sent emails on official school district account encouraging employees to vote for legislative candidates who oppose school choice candidates.
One of the email “encourages the staff of Borman Elementary School to vote in the Republican primary, even if the staff member is not a Republican, ‘for candidates who support public education and school funding,’” the lawsuit noted. “It states that ‘historically, 85% of PRIMARY voters3 in TX want vouchers. That’s why it is so important that teachers and public school and funding advocates show up at the primaries.’”
Paxton said state law strictly prohibits the use public education funds and resources for election activities.
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And the LEO will lose his job, maybe charged with kidnapping and end up in jail while the conservative politicians who ordered him to cower in the corner or forget they even gave the order. Write the legislation correctly or don’t pass it!
Qualified immunity. And with the right police unit doing it he wont’ lose his job.
In Texas, if our kids were stuck in a low preforming school district, we had the option to transfer them to another school. But I don’t think the tax money was re-routed to the new school district.
Yes. Just kidding. Now if it was New York...
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