The angry MAGAT at my door (continued)

[murielm99]

https://democraticunderground.com/100217755076

The angry fool won his school board election - by six votes. I did my part. I worked hard to GOTV.

This is how people like Trump get their start. This is why we need to vote in large numbers in ALL elections.

[MuseRider]

1. Oh no

that is awful. It sucks to lose under any circumstances, especially after all your effort, but to that guy? So sorry.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. That is unfortunate

You did your job. Thank you for your efforts

[quaint]

3. Thank you for all your effort.

[sheshe2]

4. You did all that you could.

Thank you.

[SharonClark]

5. Thank you for your effort.

Maybe next time.

[mopinko]

6. hopefully he'll figure out it's actually work and not show up.

i wonder how many of these loons get a taste of bureaucracy and realize it’s not gonna play out like they thought. i bet many just give up.

[AllyCat]

17. This

People run for school board and then get there and find out what a job it ACTUALLY is. I know from personal experience. It is a ton of work, for little to no pay, and no matter what you decide, most people are unhappy. He’ll bail or get a clue once he’s on there.

Thank you for trying!

[mopinko]

24. we have lsc's in chicago

about half show up at any 1 mtg.
same as most non-profits i’ve worked w.

[AllyCat]

26. We have to have a quorum or we don't meet.

Even in committees.

[Hortensis]

7. I'm sorry. Next time. For real.

[brer cat]

8. Thanks for all your work, muriel.

I'm sorry the jerk won the election.

[allegorical oracle]

9. How much does a school board position pay? Always consider that because my former U.S. Rep, Ted

Yoho, came right out and admitted to NPR that he was running for Congress so that he could have a decent retirement. Didn't really care about doing the job. Some of these lay-about drumpsters just want to be "important" and get a regular paycheck.

TY for your efforts.

[AllyCat]

18. It's public record. Every district is different, but I get

paid twice a year. It is enough to pay my gas to drive to all my meetings (committees, regular board meetings, and to schools to visit plus our community linkages).

[Jade Fox]

10. A friend warned me years ago that school boards were entry points to political power.....

being used by right wingers, and that we should not overlook those electipns.

I didn't quite understand what she meant (and still dont), but she has turned out to be prescient.

[niyad]

11. Back in CA in the late '80's, early 90's, we had the beginning "stealth campaigns",

using the school boards to wedge themselves in. We are seeing the fruits of those long-term plots now.

[yellowdogintexas]

29. This is how the Repukes took over the South.

Following Nixon's Southern Strategy, they started infiltrating school boards and city councils, then those folks worked their way up into state government and eventually to Federal level

Democrats were not paying attention in those states and let them get away with it.

It took them 20 -25 years; it was a Long Con!!!

[murielm99]

12. I understand.

They are trying to get in around here by using school board and library board positions. Then they wreck the place with right wing ideology and laws. Nearby, a mayoral candidate won that is going to give everyone on our side of the aisle fits! They appoint a lot of local positions, like library board members. Then, let the censorship begin!

[calimary]

15. Yep. That's the way in. There was a disgraceful woman named Bobbi Fiedler who made her name that way

Wretched power-hungry attention-whore of years ago in SoCal. She started her climb to broad based notoriety by running for, and winning, a seat on the L.A. school board.

Gotta concede - that was a VERY shrewd move.
1) it gives you a title, a veneer of respectability and credibility, and a platform.
2) it gets you access. Access to powerful or potentially-powerful people who might be useful Allie’s in the future.
3) you become perceived as someone with a level of local power and influence. You become “Somebody.” Somebody to be taken more seriously.
4) first, the school board. Next? City council? State office? How ‘bout Congress?

That’s where Bobbi Fiedler started aiming, and by Jove she made it. She DID parlay her local victories into an eventual seat in Congress. She was BEYOND annoying. And there was no escape. She never saw a microphone or camera or podium she wouldn’t whore herself for. Every doggone day, Bobbi Fiedler

Fortunately, that’s where she was finally stopped. And she faded into obscurity. I remember the feeling of waking up one morning and realizing “gee, we just never hear from that conniving power-seeker Bobbi Fiedler any more. Thank You, Dear God!”

And let this be instructive for all of us. For ALL of us! DO something! Get OUT there! Make yourself HEARD! As my kid used to yell to get the crowd started when he and his band took to the stage: “MAKE SOME NOISE!!!!”

[AllyCat]

19. Run for local office! We need people who want to make things better, not just

Use it as a step to power for their future wing nuttiness.

[Wild blueberry]

13. Thank you for your work

1) Is there a local newspaper or radio or TV station that covers local news? Do they cover school board meetings?

2) Is there a group (even small) of people who will take turns attending school board meetings? Witnessing is very important, even though it may not seem like it at the time.

Solidarity!

[calimary]

16. Make some NOISE!!!

[murielm99]

20. I will be attending the school board meetings myself,

and encouraging my friends and like-minded people. This is not over.

I belong to an activist group. My husband and I already attend library board meetings in the community south of us. We use that library and they have a group that is aiming for LGBTQ censorship of books and spots on the board. We are watching them and speaking out.

[calimary]

27. EXCELLENT! The one thing the bad guys are counting on

is their opposition (folks like us) won’t fight back. And that we will be neither seen nor heard, or heard from. They expect us to be lazy, apathetic, and too busy with our own lives even to care, much less to DO SOMETHING about it.

And. We. MUST. Prove. Them. WRONG!!!

[Timeflyer]

14. Now the whole school district will learn what a POS he is--join groups who care about quality PUBLIC

PUBLIC education, who will monitor this guy. He may be a Moms for Liberty/MAGAt tool to push school privatization for corporate charter/religious schools. Fight to keep public tax payer money going to quality PUBLIC education, not vouchers.

[Joe Nation]

21. What I have always told people about local wing nuts.

If they are nice and seem OK at the local level, still don't elect them. Discourage them now or they will turn into the scary kind down the road. Nip them in the bud early and often and everywhere.

[BaronChocula]

22. My mantra

EVERY ELECTION
AT EVERY LEVEL
IN EVERY PLACE

[calimary]

28. Yep. Preach it!

EVERY ELECTION
AT EVERY LEVEL
IN EVERY PLACE

Damn right, BaronChocula. Damn right!

And if you don’t have time to research every detail, or you don’t belong with an activist group or another RELIABLE (and preferably Democratic/liberal/progressive) source of that research, get on their websites! There WILL be info there to bring you up to speed. They’ll have their addresses and contact info listed. They’ll have meeting schedules. And I bet there’ll be somebody there who’d be happy to talk with you and explain their positions on the issues or ballot measures you care about - cuz THEY will care about them, too!

[Warpy]

23. That 6 vote margin makes him vulnerabke next time

and he'll have a trail of stupidity on the school board to work against him.

You did your best, and thank you for that. Next time, when you do it again, you'll have a better chance of kicking him out. These people can't help themselves, they're compelled to be total assholes.

[LoisB]

25. That is really too bad. I agree with the ALL elections.