Happy Easter from Katy ISD!

April 2, 2024

This is what happens when you allow billionaires to meddle in public education. This is a post by a so called “christian”, a Mexican MAGAt, Morgan Calhoun, who was elected to the Katy ISD in 2023 with help from the oligarchs of Texas including local State Senator Money Mayes Middleton. According to the Katy Times a PAC called Texans for Educational Freedom financed the election of three members of the board. They all won. Morgan was one of those. The PAC raised $1.7 Million, with $1.5 Million coming from donors giving $10,000 or more. Middleton gave $50,000.

Morgan and I am assuming her husband are pretty proud of their pose with their guns, the type of guns used to slaughter 19 children in Uvalde. You would think they would be more sensitive to the situation. You would think they would be more “christian” especially on Easter Sunday. The pic has since been removed from her Katy ISD Instagram account.

Here are the major donors to the PAC:

Contributor NameAmount
Bennett ,Montgomery J.200,000.00
Cranberg ,Alexis M.200,000.00
Saunders ,Frederick M.200,000.00
Coalition por/for Texas PAC150,000.00
Saunders ,Stuart52,500.00
Weekley ,Richard W.52,500.00
Leininger ,James50,000.00
Middleton ,D. Mayes50,000.00
Weekley ,Richard W.50,000.00
Zook ,Christopher50,000.00
Saunders ,Fredric M.45,000.00
Weekley ,Richard W.45,000.00
Charter Schools Now PAC43,185.81
Bennett ,Montgomery J.35,000.00
Toth ,Steven35,000.00
Charter Schools Now PAC30,000.00
JH Lamb Properties LP27,500.00
Hock ,Stacy A.25,000.00
Valach ,Kenneth J.25,000.00
Zook ,Christopher25,000.00
American Policy Coalition, Inc.20,000.00
LJ Francis for Texas15,000.00
Robert & Marion Mayfield, LP15,000.00
Brown ,Richard10,000.00
Brown ,Richard10,000.00
Cyfair 4 Liberty PAC10,000.00
Greenberg ,Joseph G.10,000.00
Gregg ,Mark Endacott10,000.00
Leininger ,James10,000.00
Leininger ,James10,000.00
McBride ,Ralph D.10,000.00
Misty for CISD10,000.00
Texans Unite for The Future10,000.00
Zook ,Christopher10,000.00

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CCISD Trustee Scott Bowen’s buddies on women’s rights

April 1, 2024

Yep. This is who he is associating with.

Once again the True Texas Project is in the news with a leaked video from a meeting in Granbury at a True Texas Project event. The speaker is Paul Brown, the Director of Policy and Operations of a fringe group called “Abolish Abortion Texas.” This is the extreme far right group Scott Bowen spoke at last week. They have advocated for succession, against the gay community, among other things.

I’ve been critical of Bowen ever since he was linked to the white supremacist Nick Fuentes, Defend Texas Liberty, and Texans for Strong Borders. Go ahead and look Fuentes up. I’ve detailed Bowen’s association with them and have spoken at the school board meeting addressing this issue. Take a minute to review his association with True Texas Project here.

In the leaked video, Brown calls for:

  • The banning of IVF. 
  • The prohibition of emergency contraception. 
  • The ban of some forms of birth control, like IUDs. 
  • Capital punishment for women who have abortions. 
  • Capital punishment for doctors who perform abortions.

These are extreme positions. Extremely extreme. You can read the entire story on Lone Star Left’s website including viewing the video of the event. This is truly some f-ed up stuff.

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KEEP: Katy Educational Excellence Partners

March 22, 2024

This is encouraging!

KEEP is an organization in Katy dedicated to public education. Ten years ago we didn’t need organizations like this because most everyone had trust in our School Districts to do the right thing for students, teachers, and parents. Then the Scott Bowen’s of Texas began flooding our school board campaigns with partisan candidates and money.

Here in CCISD Bowen brought partisan politics into the classroom and it’s happening all across Texas. Billionaires began donating money to candidates, excessive amounts such as $150,000 to win three seats on the Keller ISD board. They all won. School board elections should cost, at most, $5000. $50,000 per candidate is obscene. Here in CCISD Bowen invited Defend Texas Liberty to participate in our school board elections. They are funded by two billionaires and was recently defunded after their leadership met with a known white supremacist. Their candidate lost.

KEEP’s values are documented:

Kudos to KEEP!

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Keller ISD Trustee purging records

March 21, 2024

When you don’t like what people are saying to you, simply delete the records.

I doubt anyone at CCISD would do something this stupid, well, maybe Scott Bowen, but no one else. Keller ISD is continuing their investigation into how a Dutch evangelical film crew was allowed into a high school without authorization from the School Board. The board member who gave them access to the school immediately resigned to spend more time with their attorney and several others are being asked to resign for their role in the scandal including Trustee Micah Young.

After the event was exposed Trustee Micah Young posted an apology to his Keller ISD Facebook page and was hammered by hundreds calling for his resignation. After nearly 600 comments with the overwhelming number calling for his resignation he simply deleted the apology and the comments.

There could be a problem with this. If he is using his page as part of his position (he is) then he must preserve the data under the Texas Open Records Act. Luckily the Texas Attorney General’s office is sympathetic to those who break the law so I doubt if they will take action but those filing a civil suit might be interested.

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CCISD Trustee to speak at anti-government extremist group

March 19, 2024

True Texas Project has been listed as one of 15 hate and anti-government groups in Texas. This list includes the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Mom’s for Liberty, and Patriot Front a white supremacist group. This local chapter was banned from holding meetings at the Webster Presbyterian Church after the elders learned of their background.

So Scott Bowen, a CCISD Trustee is going to be their speaker tonight. The meeting is open to everyone so it should be very interesting. True Texas Project attempted to hold a forum for League City Council candidates but it was cancelled due to lack of interest by the candidates. At least they know better than Scott.

Last August True Texas Project hosted Chris Russo. Who is Chris Russo? Glad you asked. From a previous post about Scott Bowen affiliation with Russo:

Chris Russo. (More on Chris below) Director of Texans for Strong Borders. Was seen chauffeuring [Nick] Fuentes [known white supremacist] to and from the meeting at Pale Horse Strategies this month. Multiple people, who asked not to be named to avoid drawing the attention of white nationalists, told the Tribune that Russo has ties to Fuentes’ so-called “groyper” movement. 

Scott and Russo are buddies. Again from a previous post:

This is truly strange coincidence. Russo, Cheshire, and Bowen graduated from Texas A&M. All three were on the Student Senate together. Russo was the President of the Senate the year right after Bowen. Cheshire co-authored a bill concerning the Gay Community at Texas A&M on religious freedom grounds. Russo and Cheshire are directors for Texans for Strong Borders, an anti-immigrant PAC primarily funded by Defend Texas Liberty. Russo is listed as the Treasurer with an address in El Lago.

This is who Scott Bowen is associating with. The Texas Tribune wrote an extensive set of articles on all of these individuals. I spoke at a CCISD board meeting calling on Bowen to disavow these organizations and to return the $2000 contribution he received from Defend Texas Liberty. So now he is going to speak at one of these organizations.

Film at 11. Literally.

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Questions to ask candidates for CCISD Trustee

March 16, 2024

Difficult questions should be asked.

CCISD will hold an election for District 4 on May 4, 2024. You can find all election information at their Elections Webpage. Candidates are being asked questions about why they are running. Community Impact posted the District 4 candidates, Jeff Larson and Albert Wittliff responses to their generic questions. I believe we need to ask a few more pointed questions. If you have other questions that need to be asked please contact me.

Fundraising. In the past few years significant money has been spent by out of district PACs and a particular political party trying to influence the vote. What is your opinion of accepting funds or in-kind contributions from these PACs and organizations?

Politics in Schools. Over the past few years CCISD has had major disruptions by board members bringing in divisive topics such as CRT, which has never been taught, is not taught, and will never be taught in CCISD schools. What are your thoughts about divisive topics being pushed by political parties?

Book bans. What are your thoughts about our public school libaries and the push to ban books?

Vouchers. School vouchers, or what some call school “choice” is very unpopular within the district and will drain much needing funding from the district. Would you support a resolution by the Board in support or against school vouchers?

Funding.
School funding in Texas has become an incredible mess. How can you on the board influence our elected officials to adequately fund our schools?

LGBTQ Issues
Our gay community has been under attack by anti-gay organizations some right here in the CCISD area. What are your thoughts about our gay community within CCISD including our teachers, parents, and students? Do you support the attacks by these organizations? Do you support attacks on any marginalized members of our community?

Safety
The district has spent millions of dollars fortifying schools yet the playgrounds, practice fields, and busses are still not safe from an individual with a military style weapon. Is there anything else the district can do?

Chaplains in School
The district can vote to have religious chaplains replace professional counselors at schools. Do you support this. If so do you support people of all religions serving as counselors? Do you have any exceptions such as a ban on Buddists, Muslims, or Nuwaubians?

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School Board Trustee resigns. (and for good reasons)

February 20, 2024

Relax. It’s not CCISD.

But it is a warning to all school districts. Keller Independent School District Trustee Sandi Walker resigned after serving just under two years. KISD is located just west of Fort Worth. What happened at an elementary school in KISD could happen elsewhere if the parents in the situation do not take strong, decisive action. BTW CCISD School Board and parents are more concerned about educating our kids than getting involved in this kind of crap.

So what happened? Sandi Walker invited a foreign film crew into an elementary school to film kids without the parents permission. From NBC:

After researching, Laney Hawes discovered the crew was with EO, a Dutch evangelical television network that has produced prior documentaries on US politics, one titled God Jesus, Trump!

Teachers who are keeping their job told NBCDFW they concerned about the safety protocols that these board members may have breached. 

“We’re waiting for the second trustee who was involved to resign,” Hawes said. “And we really are trying to get to the bottom of whether or not the other trustees are involved.”

Not only was this a HUGE breach in security, and illegal filming of children without parents permission, it was for religious purposes. Parents have rightfully called for the resignation of all who were involved. Walker is the first to resign. More should be coming. The parents need to demand to know who gave the crew badges, who at the school had prior knowledge of the event, and who on the Board was responsible. They all should resign. Every single one of them.

And the film crew should be sued.

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CCISD Elections are set. 2 Seats unopposed.

February 17, 2024

Congrats to CCISD Board Members Jay Cunningham and Jonathan Cottrell! They are not opposed in the upcoming election. Welcome back.

Jeff Larson for District 4 drew an opponent, Albert Wittliff. He seems to be an interesting candidate. He was a former Special Agent at Department of Homeland Security. He doesn’t have a campaign page set up yet. Larson is running for reelection and has served on the Board for 3 years. I was not thrilled that Larson followed Scott Bowen’s lead on various issues. He even voted for Bowen for President, VP, and Secretary. Bowen lost all three votes. But, as I have said in the past, I have been told the Board is performing well and that is good for us, our teachers, and our kids.

It is great to see Jay and Jonathan returning. More information about the race in District 4 will be posted.

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Who is running for CCISD Board?

January 25, 2024

I’ll give you three guesses.

Three seats on the CCISD Board are open for the May 2024 election. Applications for Trustee Positions 4, 5 and At-Large A are now being accepted and must be received by 5:00 PM Feb 16, 2024.

The incumbents Jay Cunningham, Jonathon Cottrell, and Jeff Larson are seeking reelection. Based upon the success of the Board and the state of CCISD I am hoping no one will challenge the incumbents. From my discussions with former Board members it seems like the current Board is running well.

In the last election the extremist group Defend Texas Liberty, funded by 2 billionaires out of the Dallas area, attempted to influence the last election. They failed. You can read more about them and their association with known white supremacists here. Take a few minutes. It truly is shocking. The Texas Tribune broke the story about their association. It is also a very disturbing read.

The election will be May 4, 2024. Election central is on the CCISD website.

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The year in review. 2023

January 1, 2024

What a year. The only way for 2024 to be a good year is if the real conservatives of the Republican Party takes back their party. Here is what happened in 2023:

  • OMG. CCISD Trustee Scott Bowen was found to have a relationship with known white supremacists.
  • Trustee Scott Bowen was cleared on a grievance filed because he testified agains public education at a hearing in Austin.
  • Scott Bowen’s buddy, Pete Lauzon, funded by Defend Texas Liberty, loses his election for CCISD Trustee.
  • Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was allowed to continue his reign of corruption in Texas.
  • Local State Representatives vote against impeaching Ken Paxton even after overwhelming evidence. (Paul, Wilson, Middleton)
  • Republican Bryan Slater was removed from office after giving his underaged staffer alcohol and having sex with her all night long.
  • Republican Congressman George Santos was removed from office.
  • Tony Buzbee lost. Again.
  • Harris County Board of Education filled a vacant slot with Dick. (Eric Dick)
  • Harris County Board of Education Trustee Dick was fined another $10,000 by the Texas Ethics Commission
  • A former Chair of the Harris County Republican Party and a Republican Judge and pastor settled a sex abuse lawsuit concerning young men.
  • League City continues The Purge after firing their attorney, the librarian, and continuing their selective book ban,
  • OMG The Chair of the PAC funded by a couple of billionaires, Defend Texas Liberty, was caught meeting with a known white supremacist. This is the PAC that tried to tip the CCISD elections.
  • Mattress MAGAt Mac is behind the multiple lawsuits against Democratic Judges that won in 2022.
  • The lawsuits against multiple Democratic Judges have been dropped, including the one against Judge Hidalgo.
  • Texas Republicans continue to send useless thoughts and prayers after mass shootings.
  • Local State Representative Dennis Paul continues to ignore gun violence even after one of his own is killed due to senseless gun violence,
  • City Councilman Michael Kubosh was caught using his donor’s money for personal use. He was running for City Controller. (was)

What a year. Here’s hoping that the true conservatives of America will keep that rotten son of a bitch out of the White House and start to rebuild their party.

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