After holding office for 12 years, and sucking on the tit of the government for his entire working life, Greg Abbott doesn’t have a lot to run on. The abortion issue is over. Immigration raids are a disaster. Health and property insurance are out the roof. Our electricity grid is still fragile and only getting worse. Groceries continue to cost more and more. Housing costs also through the roof. So Abbott needs something besides the rising cost of living in Texas to run on.
Abbott has filed for re-election running on abolishing taxes but guess who is going to pay for it? Homebuilders? Insurance companies? Chemical companies? Corporations? His donor base? Not a chance. Abbott’s tax stunt is going to put the burden on the middle class and the poor and for good reason. They don’t vote. They aren’t paying attention since they are working to afford living in Texas. This tax stunt is going to starve our public schools, again, driving more money into private schools, forcing more cuts and causing more failures. Schools are not free. Running the government is not free. Roads are not free. Someone has to pay for them and guess who the fuck will?
Abbott claims to have created this so called “Texas miracle” bringing in large companies into Texas, driving up the cost of housing, increasing traffic congestion, straining our electric grid, and now stressing our water supply. This is great for business but someone is paying for it. We are and I bet, if elected, Scott Bowen will take a knee, and kiss Abbott’s ass and support him.
Lucky for Abbott, most Texans don’t vote and most that do are the biggest idiots on the planet. Don’t fall for it. As they said in Star Wars “It’s a trap!”.
Yet another ass whipping for former CCISD Trustee Scott Bowen this time in Cy Fair ISD. Last night CY Fair parents rejected the chaos in their school district defeating the extremists recruited by Scott and endorsed by Governor Greg Abbott and the Harris County Republican Party.
Last week Abbott held a get out the vote rally for the extremist candidates Blasingame, Walker, and Edwards. All three lost. Later in the day he had a small gathering in Kemah along with Scott giving another awkward and boring speech about CRT, DEI, and other losing topics. Abbott was greeted by a group of loud protesters. Scott was responsible for candidate recruitment throughout Harris County which didn’t go well in CCISD or CFISD. Scott is now running for State Representative in the Clear Lake area after voters threw him off CCISD.
Congratulations to the parents of CFISD for rejecting Scott’s chaos and restoring civility and common sense to the school board. Hopefully it will be as boring as CCISD has become, which is a good thing. Parents want our boards to do the job, what’s best for parents, students, teachers, and taxpayers not political parties. Because of Bowen’s party that job has become extremely difficult. Once again congratulations!
In November Cy Fair ISD parents will decide if billionaires and millionaires will control their elections and their schools.
So who is funding the election of the 3 extremists running for CFISD? The Political Action Committee Cy Fair 4 Liberty PAC was created in 2023. Since then they have raised a whooping $187,000 for a damn school board race! More than half, $81,495, coming from outside the district.
12 out of the 438 donors donated $153,172 or 82% of the entire total. The largest contributor was William Ely for $40,178. Ely is a sales rep for SAP America and works with the Harris County Republican Party. Ely’s republican buddy, Terry Wheeler donated $16,086. Ranteur Media of Austin donated $15,000. Senator “Money” Mayes Middleton from Clear Creek ISD donated $5208.
When you have partisan, extremist money coming into the district mailers such as the one below will be sent. It’s pretty sick. Sick enough for even republican voters to react according to the Houston Chronicle:
“Is this the example we want to set for our children? Using the tragedy of Charlie’s death and martyrdom in exchange for a vote?” said Judi DeHaan, Harris County Republican Party precinct chair. “They are on the wrong side of history with this divisive narrative.”
School boards should be non partisan. CCISD parents took a stand and removed Scott Bowen from the Board. Bowen is responsible for recruiting unqualified, extremist candidates for local elections including CFISD. Luckily the parents of CCISD voted everyone of them out. Now CFISD parents have that opportunity. Here are the top 12 donors to the PAC:
Well, actually in this case he did and for good reason. The Houston Chronicle posted an article concerning Cy Fair ISD. It’s detailed, long and a good read. Turns out the so called “Conservatives” running for reelection are fighting each other over the endorsement from the Harris County Republican Party. Who is more MAGAt? Who will bring Bowen’s chaos into the district? Who will attack the gay community, Hispanics, and non-christians while claiming to be a christian?
How does Bowen fit into this chaos? Bowen was referenced late in the article “The chair of the local government committee, Scott Bowen, did not respond to a request for comment.” Bowen not only was responsible for the chaos in CCISD he was responsible for recruiting candidates to run for school boards across the county. In CCISD he recruited some of the most unqualified candidates to ever run for the board. Misty Dawson, Christine Parizo, Pete Lauzon, and Joe Machol. All were gawd awful candidates and all lost. It will be interesting to see who funded the CFISD trustees.
Bowen not only recruited these horrible candidates he found campaign money for them from the two Texas Billionaires who funded Defend Texas Liberty. This group was dissolved after their meeting with a known white supremacist was uncovered by the Texas Tribune. Bowen still associates with these individuals.
Bowen is now running for State Representative so he can further the decline of public schools in Texas. Well at least his gdamn signs are being removed by the City of Houston.
State Representative Dennis Paul of the Bay Area has already been anointed by the party for State Senator replacing Senator Money Mayes Middleton. He isn’t the best choice considering his lack luster performance for the community. He has spent his 10 year career in the Texas House on the Insurance Committee and we have all suffered for it. He believes in guns for all with no restrictions on criminals or drug dealers carrying weapons in public. He has never held a town hall type of meeting with his constituents. He is a mule for Greg Abbott and carries the bills to restrict voting. He cosponsored the voucher bill. His fundraising capabilities are pathetic except for PAC donations. Unfortunately he is all the Republicans have. He is all we have.
Senate District 11 is such a gerrymandered district the winner of the republican primary most probably will win the general election. True Conservatives need to challenge Paul in the primary. They need to restore dignity to the office. They need to focus on the people in the district not just the business community. They can advocate for safe gun ownership like they have in the past. They can fully fund public education and end the voucher program. They can do something about the out of control insurance crisis, at the very least, meeting with those in the district who are suffering. They can return to their core Republican Christian values.
Is there a conservative willing to take back their party from extremists like Paul?
Keller ISD is a perfect example of why we need campaign finance reform.
Background A couple of years ago Patriot Mobile donated $50,000 each to three far right candidates for the Keller ISD Board. They ran as a “coalition of conservatives”, won and brought their far right politics and controversies with them.
The Movie Shortly after being elected two board members invited a Dutch evangelist film crew into a high school without the permission of the parents, principal, or school board. Trustee Sandi Walker resigned and many called for the resignation of Trustee Micah Young. The Dutch eventually aired a Praise Jesus movie featuring the high school students. Parents were not happy and I would bet there is a lawsuit working it’s way through the courts.
Former Trustee Micah Young
The Split Last year the Board considered a plan to split the district in two due to financial burdens. The split was met with fierce opposition calling it racially motivated. Keller ISD has about 34,000 students. For comparision, CCISD has about 45,000 students. Eventually the split failed but that didn’t end the controversy.
The Investigation Board members are now being investigated for violation of State law concerning the Open Meetings Act, which is serious stuff. Trustee Micah Young, one of the $50,000 candidates, posted a long “I am the victim” post on his Facebook acct. He posted a text from Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Cody Copeland who was asking Micah for comments for a story about board members meeting in violation of the Open Meetings Act. He has since deleted his entire account or has blocked me. Or maybe his lawyer told him to delete it because he and other members of the Board are in some deep shit. Seriously deep shit. Parents are now petitioning for the removal of three Board members.
The Lawsuit According to Cody Copeland of the Fort Worth Star a lawsuit has been filed to remove members of the board violated the Open Meetings Act:
Keller school board trustees who tried to split the district earlier this year began discussing the proposal as early as May 2024, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in a Tarrant County district court. They previously held that the earliest they discussed the split before it became public was Dec. 19.
Not only would they be removed from the Board they could also be held criminally responsible for their actions. Micah Young did not run for reelection. $50,000 down the drain.
Campaign Finance Reform Keller ISD could be the poster child for campaign finance reform. Thank God for the voters of CCISD who improved our School Board at the last election!
FILE PHOTO: ear gas is released into a crowd of protesters, with one wielding a Confederate battle flag that reads “Come and Take It,” during clashes with Capitol police at a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
No Place but Texas. And Alvin.
The Bay Area chapter of True Texas Project is holding their next meeting at a private school in Alvin, Apogee Gulf Coast. (Kind of far away from the Bay Area, more on that later) Their host for the evening is convicted Jan 6 rioter Treniss Evans who was sentenced to 3 years probation. You can read the entire indictment here. In conclusion the indictment states:
Evans knowingly and voluntarily admits to all the elements of Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1752(a)(1). Specifically, Evans admits that he knowingly entered and remained in a restricted building and grounds, that is, any posted, cordoned-off, and otherwise restricted area within the United States Capitol and its grounds, where the Vice President and Vice President-elect were temporarily visiting, without lawful authority to do so.
Treniss is now the founder of Condemned USA, an organization claiming to provide legal assistance to those affected by the”government overreach” such as the Jan 6 insurrectionists. He is making the tour of republican clubs and organizations. When asked about this meeting, Apogee Gulf Coast claims they are not a political organization. That may be true but they might want to research the far white political groups they are catering to.
Who is True Texas Project? The Southern Poverty Law Center has added the True Texas Project to their list of extremist organizations categorized as a general anti-government organization. The Bay Area local chapter was banned from holding meetings at the Webster Presbyterian Church after the elders learned of their background. They moved to the Holiday Inn for a number of months but are now at Apogee.
The local group has attempted to enter the League City elections by holding a forum for the candidates. Only one candidate accepted the invitation. TTP is considered so extreme even the extremists of the Republican Party refused to participate in their birthday celebration. The venue, The Fort Worth Botanic Garden stated the event would not be held there, and that it “rejects all forms of hate speech, discrimination, or bigotry.” According to The Texas Tribune:
Billed as the 15th anniversary celebration for True Texas Project, the conference agenda claims that there is a “war on white America,” and urges attendees to embrace once-fringe ideologies such as Christian nationalism or the Great Replacement Theory, which claims that there is an intentional, often Jewish-driven, effort to destroy white people through immigration, interracial marriage or the LGBTQ+ community.
Local politicians support Our local elected officials State Representative Dennis Paul and CCISD Trustee Scott Bowen have been guest speakers to the organization. Paul is now running for the Senate and Bowen is running for State Representative.
Funding TTP has been funded by the Scott Bowen’s billionaire buddies, Timothy Dunn and Farris Wilks, with $40,0000 coming from their new PAC Texans for a Conservative Majority. Their former PAC, Defend Texas Liberty, was disbanded after The Texas Tribune exposed them for meeting with Nick Fuentes, a known white supremacist.
Apogee might want to reconsider who they associate with.
If I woke up with my head sewn to the carpet I would not be more surprised.
CCISD voters made a huge statement last Saturday and rejected partisan politics in our schools by soundly beating Trustee Scott Bowen and his recruit, Joe Machol. They beat back Bowen’s Billionaire Buddies. I bet the voucher bill signed on elected day contributed to these defeats. Bowen authored the Voucher Bill resolution for the Texas Republic Party. CCISD was not alone in taking a stand against extremists.
Patriot Mobile has spent an outrageous amount of money on their candidates. Two lost. One resigned. Maybe parents, teachers, and taxpayers have had enough of dark money in school boards.
Our hope is voters are rejecting the incursion of hate-mongering, covert money, outside money, partisan ideology and partisan agendas of all sorts in their decisions about electing local people to volunteer posts.
The truth is, school boards only work when they reflect the communities they serve — not the agendas of party leadership. That’s why our school board elections are held in May, separate from partisan ballots. We’ve protected that nonpartisan tradition in Texas for over a century because education isn’t supposed to be political.
Over the last decade school boards across the state have been flooded with unlimited money from out of district PACs including Defend Texas Liberty funded by two West Texas Billionaires. In most part they have been successful in winning and controlling school boards bringing chaos, corruption, and cruelty into schools. Do your own research on Keller ISD, Katy ISD, and Friendswood ISD. Friendswood is an example of voters rejecting outside money. The losing candidate raised an outrageous $50,000 from 2 out of district donors. (FYI FISD has only 6 schools. CCISD has over 40)
In the past CCISD voters have rejected this outside money and political influence by rejecting Trustee Bowen’s recruited candidates, Christine Parizo, Misty Dawson, and Pete Lauzon. All three were woefully uneducated in education. Bowen’s buddy, Joe Machol, is also a very poor choice for our kids and Scott Bowen is responsible for this political sideshow and outside influence into the district. On Saturday voters have a chance to put an end to outside, political influence and solidify CCISD as a shining example of putting parents, teachers, students, and tax payers above partisan politics.
As Ms Dupont said:
Local elections matter more than ever. The best way to protect our schools is by electing leaders who are there for the right reasons.
Machol, a former NFL referee, was flagged for delay of game.
Not only did Machol fail to attend a candidate forum, he failed to submit a bio for the event. Instead of attending the forum and answering very tough questions from the audience, Machol chose to attend the Seabrook City Council meeting. Machol has only a month left on Seabrook City Council and the council meeting was more important to him than the office he is running for. An office that requires the next 3 years of his attendance if elected.
Besides not showing up, how hard is it to submit a bio for the event? This forum was sponsored by the local PTA organization. These are parents and teachers that would be interested in hearing from Machol besides giving the same old answer for every question, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Catholic prayers in school. The District will have very serious issues to resolve next year that no amount of prayers will address. At the very least he should have submitted a bio.
Instead he just forfeited the game and should leave the field of candidates. Permanently.
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