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Texas’ Most Notable Creationist Says Mary Lou Bruner Will Be a ‘Great Asset’ to Ed Board
More than 100,000 East Texas Republicans from College Station to Paris voted in March to give authority over Texas’ public school curriculum to Mary Lou Bruner,
Bruner’s campaign has already returned the State Board of Education to its familiar place, up on a tee for easy jokes at Texas’ expense, and should she win her runoff election in May — which is likely — there it will stay for at least four more years. Departing board member Thomas Ratliff, whose seat Bruner would fill, told the Dallas Morning News she would be a “human rain delay.” Her ascendance to the board would signal that the last few years of relative calm have been not progress but an aberration, and that the board had returned to its natural state of chaos.
Count Don McLeroy among those looking forward to it.
His dozen years on the board are the reason it has acquired a reputation for relitigating whether humans walked with dinosaurs. His time as chairman was driven by a mission to sow doubt about the theory of evolution and emphasize “traditional education” such as phonics and country music over whole language instruction and rap. And his ouster by Ratliff in 2010 ushered in the cooling-off period the board has since enjoyed.
In the three-way primary race to replace Ratliff, McLeroy told the Observer he’d been rooting for Bruner and local GOP activist Hank Hering.
“They’re two Don McLeroys, really,” he said. Bruner will face Lufkin ISD board president Keven Ellis in the runoff, and is likely to draw most of Hering’s voters to her side.
“I think she’ll be a great asset,” McLeroy said. “She testified all the time when I was on the board.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/mary-lou-bruner-mcleroy/
East ing TX also gives us Loopy Louie Gohmert.
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