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It’s truly sad that the control of the community’s non-partisan school board was almost taken over by a couple of extreme white wing members of the Republican Party. 

In last night’s election Krysten Garcia, an excellent candidate, former teacher, almost knocked off the sitting board member, Scott Bowen. Overall most voters wanted Bowen out of office splitting their votes between Carl Nunn and Krysten. Bowen paid out his ass to win this race. He spent at least $17,000 and we will not know how much he used of the $20,000 loan he made to the campaign. He still has an ethics charge pending against him at the Texas Ethics Commission.

In the shocker, Misty Dawson, probably the worst candidate in the history of the CCISD School Board, second only to Bowen, lost by under 100 votes. To say Dawson was an ignorant a**hole when it came to education and CCISD policies would be an understatement. This lady was truly a political moron and yet she almost won. She lent her campaign $20,000 in her losing effort. It truly is sad that the voters in that district were more interested in supporting their far white wing political party filth instead of voting for who is best for the students, parents, and teachers. Hopefully Dawson will not join Stephanie Parizo and start screaming voter fraud much like Steve Hotze did……and is now charged with a number of felonies that could send him to jail for 20 years.

On a very good note, Jessica Cejka, Dawson’s opponent, and one of the most qualified candidates will be taking a seat at the next board meeting. Thank you Jessica for running!

Thanks to Carl Nunn and Krysten Garcia for running. It’s always hard to run especially when up against endless money and partisan party filth.

Damn. There is no bottom to Scott Bowen

Julie Pickren has been a Trustee for Alvin ISS since 2015. Pickren is now running for the State Board of Education with the blessings of Scott Bowen. Pickren is a special kind of Qanon candidate. According to Phil Archer of KPRC she attended the Stop the Steal insurrection on Jan 6.

In one of her Facebook posts, she described singing God Bless America outside while some of the protesters forced their way into the capitol building, alleging the false claim that the rioters were actually ANTIFA members, not Trump supporters.

Bowe is pictured above with Pickren. Bowen’s next photo op will be with Vladimir Putin. 

This is what happens when candidates (Misty Dawson and Scott Bowen) for CCISD School Board are more concerned about their Party than the parents of CCISD school kids. 

Texans for Excellent Education is a PAC created last year. They have 2 donors, Kathaleen Wall and Holloway Frost, two extremely rich, far right, republican donors. Wall is well known for spending about $13 Million trying to win a primary in two different congressional districts. She lost both in epic fashion. She is now helping out her buddy Bowen and has donated $25,000 to the special interest PAC.

Holloway Frost is the former CEO of Texas Memory Systems and has donated over $1.8 Million to various far right candidates. He has donated $90,000 to this new PAC. The PAC specifically supports a couple of candidates including Misty Dawson. His PAC’s treasurer is Larry Hicks who is the treasurer for a number of extreme right wing candidates and organizations.

What they intend to do with their money in support of Misty Dawson is unknown at the time but with that kind of money they can easily blanket the district with paid block walkers, paid phone bankers, and paid mailers by The Yates Company, Scott Bowen’s favorite advertising agency. Dawson brags about self financing her campaign wit her $20,000 loan from her company but she fails to mention this PAC’s contributions.

Party Politics over School Parents. It’s happening here in the district. 

The 7 day out reports for the CCISD elections have been filed. Here is a summary of the candidates fundraising and spending activity. The reports can be found at https://www.ccisd.net/elections#filing-rosters Note: Carl Nunn has not filed. 

Misty Dawson. Raised $0. Loan from her company for $20,000. $600 in expenditures. With only a week until the election I’m not sure what she could do with her $20,000 loan. (Note: She is getting support from a new PAC out of houston  more late)

Scott Bowen. Raised $2304. Spent $14,789. Cash on hand $10,686. Of the $2304 raised $1000 came from a consultant with The Yates Company, a republican consulting firm and $1000 came from his mom. He spent $14,040 to The Yates Company for his mailers with the kids. Has a $20,000 outstanding loan.

Krysten Garcia. Raised $3809. Spent $3114. Has a $1060 outstanding loan. Cash on Hand $2388. 

Jessica Cejka. Raised $695. Spent $568. Has a $4010 outstanding loan. Cash on Hand $1634.

Carl Nunn. Raised $50. Spent $0. Has a $1200 outstanding loan. Cash on Hand $817. But….Texans for Stronger Schools is a local PAC supporting Carl Dunn. They raised $3590, with $1900 coming from one individual in Georgia. They have $74 Cash on Hand.

I thought this was coming and it did last night at the CCISD board meeting.

The public comment section of the CCISD board meeting had the usual conspiracy theorist spouting off some random talking points. Followed by an individual who pointed a finger at Scott Bowen for bringing partisan politics into the board. That was followed by a couple of people wearing matching t-shirts and attacking our schools concerning the gay community. This activity has Scott Bowen written all over it.

Scott and his supporters hammered the dead horse of CRT (that has never been taught in schools, isn’t being taught in schools, and will never be taught in schools). Now that that issue has fizzled they seem to have been given new marching orders, attack the gay community. Attack the schools for “indoctrination” of kids, as if our teachers have the time to do that. It’s nothing more than another made up controversy probably orchestrated by the Republican Party and Scott Bowen. This is what they do.

One individual claimed that the board was not sensitive to his “family values”. I would bet he is the same guy who voted for the former guy who porked a porn star, paid her off, and then lied about it to his supporters. He is the same guy who watched as TFG mocked a disabled American, the same guy who supports a habitual liar, the same guy who watches TFG lie, cheat, steal, and encourage violence. Yep. Family values.

The gay community is here, in our schools, as teachers, as students, as parents, as family members. They want nothing but to live and learn in peace without being targets of hate. They are our kids, our students, our teachers, our friends, our family members. Bowen should know that. 

So in the coming months this will probably be the new target of the Bowen Bunch after attacking our teachers, our school board, the voting systems, and education in general. I hope his $20,000 loan to his campaign doesn’t pan out. He is a cancer.