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So in a previous post, which has since been deleted, I referred to a picture from a tweet. The Twit claimed these women were celebrating the retirement of the CCISD Superintendent due to an illness in the family and setting their sights on Trustee Jay Cunningham. It seems that this is NOT an accurate description of those in the picture.

Glad you asked…. Parizo lost by 25 percentage points in 2021 to Jay Cunningham. It was clearly a no contest. After her epic defeat she demanded a recount, complained to the Texas Attorney General’s office, and forced CCISD to spend resources to respond. The cost to tax payers? $44,590. 

Now Misty Dawson, another loser in the CCISD elections, has filed suit asking the courts to declare the 2022 election void and to require another election. She also asked for $100,000 cash money. Parizo never filed suit. Dawson’s suit will now require the district to spend taxpayers money on legal fees. 

Here is the information request concerning Parizo:

1) Cost of the recount(s) requested by Christina Parizo in her epic loss to Jay Cunningham

2) Cost to CCISD to provide information concerning the multiple open records requests submitted by Christina Parizo in reference to her epic loss to Jay Cunningham.

3) Cost of responding to the Texas Attorney General’s investigation/ complaint filed by

And the response from CCISD:

1) Clear Creek ISD paid $2,690 in May of 2021 for the recount and $2,690 for HART to return in September 2021 to retrieve internal memory data from the eSlates. Total cost for the recount would be $5,380. Ms. Parizo paid $335 which covered the pay to the recount committee and a service fee. CCISD only paid for HART’s services.

2) Clear Creek ISD employees have spent approximately 28 hours gathering responsive information and redacting protected information.

 3) Clear Creek ISD paid $30,830.34 on investigations/complaints filed by Ms. Parizo.

Misty Dawson, probably the worst candidate to ever run for the Clear Creek Independent School District, lost the recent election by 43 votes. She has now filed a lawsuit calling for the election to be voided and a new election to be held. 

According to the petition which can be found here:

She seeks monetary relief of $100,000
Seeks to have the 2022 election voided
Seeks to have a new election
Claims there were illegal votes and some voters prevented from voting
Claims these votes total more than the difference in her loss

While we are waiting for the Republican Party to find their moral compass, here is an update from the last CCISD meeting.

Scott Bowen spent somewhere along the lines of $50,000 to get re-elected. Even after spending $50,000 he couldn’t break 50% of the vote (48%). More than 50% of the voters in this election wanted someone else besides Bowen to be on the CCISD School Board.

It also spread to the board itself. Bowen was nominated for President of the Board and failed. He was nominated for VP and failed. He was nominated for Secretary and failed. Usually you are not nominated unless you know you have the votes to win. Someone forgot to give Bowen that memo.

Thanks to the Board Members for keeping Bowen in the shadows where he belongs. Bowen was only 41 votes shy of being the President. If Misty Dawson had been elected she would have been the deciding vote. Dawson has to be one of the worst, if not the worst, candidate ever to run for the board.

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.