Conservative candidates won BIG in the Tarrant County Texas school board elections this weekend.
Tarrant County includes Fort Worth and has a population of around 2.1 million.
It is Texas’ third-most populous county and the 15th-most populous in the United States.
In a monumental blow to the radical left, all but one of the 11 conservative candidates scored victory in their election races.
The removal of Critical Race Theory indoctrination in the classroom was one of the primary tenets of the conservative platform for the election.
The candidates also spoke out against the pornography in books discussing LGBT issues.
In Tarrant County, Texas which includes Fort Worth–the last major urban red county standing in the US, and targeted by the Dems for several years–lots of conservatives won in key local elections yesterday. School boards retained/flipped, mayors, city council seats.
— Texas Rocks Right🇺🇸 (@NoSoyBoy1) May 8, 2022
The Texas Tribune reported:
All but one of the 11 Tarrant County conservative school board candidates, who were backed this year by several high-profile donors and big-money PACs, defeated their opponents during Saturday’s local elections, according to unofficial results. The one candidate backed by the groups who didn’t win outright advances to a runoff election in June.
The 10 candidates won the school board races for the Grapevine-Colleyville, Keller, Mansfield and Carroll school districts.
The candidates’ sweep shows a large swath of voters across the county responded to their calls to eradicate so-called critical race theory from classrooms and remove books discussing LGBTQ issues, which concerned parents have described as “pornographic.” Education experts, school administrators and teachers all say that critical race theory, a university-level concept that examines the institutional legacies of racism, is not taught in elementary, middle or high school classrooms.
The victories also show that the staggering amounts of money that were poured into the once low-profile and nonpartisan local races are producing their intended effect. PACs organized by parents, as well as a newly formed PAC from a self-proclaimed Christian cellphone company, collectively raised over half a million dollars for the local races this year. They spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on top political consulting firms that bolstered an anti-CRT platform with flyers saying the candidates were “saving America.”
This year’s school board races across Texas, and notably in Tarrant County, have been hyperpoliticized as school board meetings have become the center of culture war debates over COVID safety policies, library book bans and discussions of racial issues and history. The school board races drew intense scrutiny from conservative parents and deep-pocketed donors. Even state GOP chair Matt Rinaldi weighed in.
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