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As someone who was in attendance said “If you weren’t able to watch the forum live, please watch the replay. It was great, sad, hilarious and stupid at the same time.”

Sad, hilarious and stupid
I watched the replay and have to agree. This was the first time Joe Machol faced the public and he didn’t disappoint. He was clearly out of his league and should not be running for the School Board. He mentioned, a number of times, he was an NFL referee. He struggled with simple questions like “What is the difference between charter and private schools?”. (23:07) At 38:30 he believes that bringing prayer back to school would stop school shootings. (He should google Christian school shootings to see how well that works) Machol only repeated his 3Rs once instead fumbling through most of the questions with either deflections or answers with little or no depth. He claimed school taxes were going up, but they actually have been significantly cut. (29:20)

Machol claims he will report all donations from outside resources but failed to mention he did not file a campaign finance report and just recently filed an appointment of treasurer. He also had his signs available, signs that do not have the required notices and does not indicate what he is running for. Machol wanted the teachers to be paid more but didn’t want to raise taxes. He wanted CCISD to embrace NASA not knowing that CCISD already does that. (For those that don’t know Systems Go is a high school course where students design, build and launch rockets.)

Machol should be thrown out of this game. Unfortunately I believe he has been promised by Trustee Bowen that he will have support from the Harris County Republic Party. I expect a mailer to his district paid for by the party and supporting Bowen and Machol. He will then claim ignorance.

More on the forum tomorrow.

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