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OUCH!

I am not a reddit user. I’ve heard about it but nothing more. But I was forward an interesting post titled “Scott Bowen-unflushable turd“. Needless to say it piqued my interest and I visited the site. OH MY GAUD! The original posting has been removed by the moderators but the comments about Scott are still there and they are NOT good. Some are comical, most are not flattering and they are coming from people who know him! But don’t believe me, you can read them yourself here.

Prior to the CCISD election I wrote “Bowen: A Thread to CCISD Education” documenting his troubling associations with extremist organizations, his support for school vouchers, his billionaire buddies donations, and the chaos he brought to CCISD. Thanks to the voters Bowen was defeated and CCISD is much better for it. Bowen is now running for State Representative against a great conservative, Bob Mitchell, former President of the Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership. Hopefully conservatives throughout the district will vote for the conservative in the primary and put Bowen to rest.

But, back to the Reddit post. Again, don’t believe me, go read the comments. These are coming from inside Bowen’s house, people who know him. Here are some examples:

And here are more:

This happened just days after a crushing defeat of two highly partisan candidates for the CCISD School Board, Trustee Bowen and Joe Machol.

According to the Houston Chronicle article “Far-right school board candidates rejected right-wing school board candidates” the far-right extremist 1776 PAC from New York got it’s ass kicked in last weeks elections. It’s a good read and maybe shows that parents, teachers, and tax payers have had enough of partisan politicians infecting our schools. According to the article:

Major political action committees, including the 1776 PAC, True Texas, Patriot Mobile and Mom’s for Liberty, saw their preferred candidates lose even in conservative areas of Texas. 

I’ve written about the 1776 PAC back in 2024 when they endorsed CCISD Trustee Jeff Larson. This is an extreme far right organization supported by Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro. CCISD Trustee Jeff Larson is/was on their list of endorsements. The PAC has since removed any mention of their endorsement of Larson on their website. In 2024 many received texts paid for by the PAC proudly endorsing Larson. They posted their endorsement on their Facebook page. He won. How much they spent helping Larson win is hard to determine but you can peruse the data at Open Secrets. Most of their funding came from areas outside CCISD.

This PAC did not meddle in the 2025 CCISD election, in fact, besides the Harris County Republic Party no outside partisan organizations tried to sway voters in our last election. Besides Trustee Bowen spending $20,000 of his own money in his losing effort it was a pretty clean election.

As it should be.

Last night the Conservatives, Democrats, and Independents of the district found common ground and returned Trustee Jessica Cejka to the school board and elected Rebecca Lilley. People said loudly “PARTISAN POLITICS DO NOT BELONG IN OUR SCHOOLS!”.

CCISD voters have bucked the billionaires from Dallas, Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks. These two have spent millions financing candidates for school boards across the state including CCISD. Scott Bowen took their money as did his recruit Peter Lauzon. Both have lost. Lauzon was primarily funded by Wilks PAC, Defend Texas Liberty with $5000. DTL also gave $5000 to another candidate. She returned it.

Bowen spent almost $20,000 of his own money in his losing effort while others spent a couple of thousand. Joe Machol who challenged Jessica Cejka didn’t have much of a campaign and spent little if any. He did get a bit of help from the Harris County Republic Party with some texting.

Thanks to the voters CCISD will be a shining example across the state. We stood up to the billionaires. We put kids, parents, teachers, and tax payers over political parties. It doesn’t matter what party you align with just as long as you run for the right reasons. Congratulations to Jessica and Rebecca and to the voters of the district!

It’s Scott Bowen again.

Scott’s latest mailer criticizes his opponent for her support of masking during the COVID Pandemic that killed over 1 million Americans. She was clear in her support and for good reason. She works in the medical profession and saw the death and suffering of many who were stricken with COVID. Scott on the other hand made fun of those who were trying to keep kids safe.

At a board meeting on 10/25/21 Bowen visibly made fun of a parent (video here) who was wearing a mask. It wasn’t funny and he got the message. At the next meeting Bowen had to publicly apologize for being a dick. (video Here)

Scott should remember what happened to his friend, Scott Apley. Apley was a member of the Texas Republican Executive Committee as was Scott. Apley was a City Council Member for Dickinson. Like Scott he was a COVID denier and Like Scott he rallied against the mask mandate during COVID.

Scott Apley got COVID. He died at the age of 35. He left a wife and a newborn.

It’s Scott Bowen. Again.

During the last CCISD Candidate Forum sponsored by the League City Regional Chamber of Commerce candidates were asked a very simple question: (video here starting at 02:04) “if you lose a close race, would you contest the results?”. Rebecca Lilley was clear with her answer: “Absolutely not. Whatever happens, happens, and I believe that that will be the final result.”

Scott Bowen echoed the Republic Party canned answer: “On contesting results, this time around Harris County and Galveston County are running our elections. I’m glad they are. At the same time, a few years ago, there was a Harris County result that actually was overturned due to problems with that election. I’m hoping that doesn’t happen again, and I don’t think it will, but I think you never say never. So we just hope for a clean and fair election.”

Fact Check:
After losing in the 2022 elections, Scott Bowen’s party sued 22 winning candidates claiming voter irregularities spearheaded by Mattress MAGAt Mac. They did not sue Harris County who actually conducted the election. They sued the actual candidates requiring them to raise money in their defense. After investigations by the courts as well as the Secretary of State, every single suit was dismissed.

The Secretary of State Investigation
According to the Secretary of State, Jane Nelson, a Republican: “The allegations of election fraud in the 2022 Harris County election are total bullshit.” That’s not her exact words buy you get the idea. You can read the entire 147 page report if you want but in short there was no fraud. There was no voter irregularities that would have changed any election. Nothing. Zero. Zip. Nada. They couldn’t even find one single voter who was denied voting. Not one.

Texas Rangers Investigation
Even the Harris county District Attorney, Kim Ogg, had to admit no charges were being filed after an extensive investigation by the Texas Rangers. She had an embarrassing press conference claiming they filed a misdemeanor charge for an unrelated crime. It was eventually dismissed also. Some believed she should have been investigated herself for a baseless investigation.

CCISD Election 2022
This isn’t the first time Bowen’s party has done this. In fact the first time they used this tactic was in CCISD in 2022. Misty Dawson, a Bowen recruit, sued her opponent claiming voter irregularities after losing by 40 votes. She did’t sue the District who ran the election. She sued the winning candidate who had absolutely nothing to do with running the election. Bowen’s buddy caused a considerable amount of chaos concerning CCISD paying for the legal fees of the winning candidate. Even Bowen voted in favor of supporting this. Dawson eventually dropped her suit.

So expect Scott Bowen to whine like a little bitch if he loses.