By the time this election rolled around, Moms for Liberty seemed to have already realized their brand had become poisonous. As the Daily Beast reported, “In 2021, Moms for Liberty claimed credit for 33 seats in Bucks County,” but in this election cycle, the group “endorsed only a single candidate in the county.” The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that some Republican candidates wanted the group to keep its distance, fearful of the taint. And that was my sense of things in the Pennridge district this fall. School board members who had links to Moms for Liberty tried to downplay it and ended up getting outed by investigators from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
Finally my district makes the news for a good reason. Fully expect there are going to be some corruption revelations in the coming weeks with the board flipping.
Our superintendent was given a new contract weeks before the election, that made him the highest paid super in the state.
The contract stipulates that if he’s fired he’s still owed his whole salary. He was very buddy buddy with the local Moms for Hilter branch.
The previous Republican board also hired a conservative law firm to issue a report against the ACLU threatening to sure the district over their behavior.
They spent at least $50,000 without a public vote, which is a blatant violation of state law. Then they spent a further $1.4 million on that law firm.
We’re still probably going to get sued and lose.