What are these three D51 school board candidates hiding?
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As we all prepare to vote in the District 51 school board race it is time to really dig in to who these candidates are. Ballots should be arriving in the mail any day. Parents and other citizens need to know that they can vote for all three of the district seats that need to be filled. What I have found after looking into the different school board candidates is that three of them Trish Marhe, Nick Allen, and David Combs, are being endorsed and funded by the teachers union and may be hiding something.
We have seen quite a few times how candidates in Mesa County run their campaigns. They say conservative sounding pat answers that seem like they may care about the issues the way the majority does in Mesa county. Many residents fall for it because they see their nice websites, ads, and endorsements from some moderate people around town. On top of that, the main news paper in town The Daily Sentinel is biased. It gives far more positive coverage of certain candidates over others. When you dig into their past you see that they have either deleted many of their social media posts and that they work for political organizations. The paper trail is there but the average Mesa County resident is not taking the time to look. We have found that to be true about these candidates. Nick Allen, for example, deleted all of his posts about supporting the Black Lives Matter organization before running.
Even when hiding their real positions from the public it is difficult for a Democrat/left leaning individual to get elected in Mesa County, but that is not true with the school board. The school board has been dominated by the teachers union, and a left leaning school board for years. With the school board many times in the past these candidates ran completely unopposed. That is not true any more. There are now 4 candidates challenging the teachers unions 3 left leaning candidates.
I know that school board races generally are not supposed to be partisan. Candidates don’t even display their political affiliation as they are running. Unfortunately, national politics has spilled into our schools even at the lowest levels. Kids are being taught to be social justice warriors and given hyper-sexual assignments by their left leaning teachers at younger and younger ages. We recently had one of these events in district 51 that turned into a viral social media post and a parental protest. During the 2020 election cycle, my son described to me how there was a group of 1st grade kids at one elementary school walking around verbally attacking and getting into physical altercations with kids that they had deemed “Trump supporters.” Yes you heard that right, 1st grade. I’m sure that went both ways across the district.
Before I go any further I would like to point out that I am not in any way criticizing the teachers that are part of the district for being in the teachers union. Most of them just want to teach kids and actually hate that politics is getting into the school system at the level that it is. As a side note I think the teachers need to paid more and given smaller class sizes at this point so they can successfully do their jobs. I also believe that kids and teachers could benefit from teachers being paid more based on performance rather then just tenure, but that is another discussion. Something that must be pointed out though, is that all three candidates that the teachers union endorses, and will give funding to, are friends and are left leaning politically. The teachers union did not fund or endorse a single conservative candidate. It is extremely unfortunate that the teachers are somewhat sandwiched in between this epic battle of powerful left leaning tax funded unions and bureaucrats vs the parents who’s kids they are effecting. The MVEA is our local District 51 teachers union. The MVEA is the same teachers union that has funded school board campaigns for years in Mesa County. They then turn around and go to the table to negotiate with those same board members for their contract. That board also selects a pro union superintendent. I personally see all of that as major conflict of interest. Even if there were no political implications, there are financial implications to that relationship. The teachers union gets our tax dollars in Mesa county and then sends some of that money up to the NEA (It’s national affiliate) The NEA is one of the national teachers unions promoting Critical Race Theory and the 1619 project in our schools. They use our our tax payer dollars to push radical ideologies and curriculum that we do not want for our kids. Most people don’t think about how this happens. Even some of the school board members seem to think they were funded and elected “just for the kids.” They don’t seem to realize that they are part of this circle of bureaucracy that has taken our countries schools down the wrong path. Our tax dollars are used to lobby on the unions behalf, fund local pro union campaigns, and mostly fund Democrat National campaigns. You can imagine how living in a largely conservative community and watching your hard earned money go to politicians you do not support could be frustrating. Especially when it comes back down through federal policy that effects your job/business, your rights, and your children’s schooling. It was also the NEA that Lobbied the CDC to change its rules to include more masking during school reopening this fall. Essentially the NEA teachers union used our money to get the CDC to change their “scientific” recommendations for our kids just like the ATF did earlier this year.
It is important for parents and citizens to know that the teachers union funded candidates are also endorsed by just about every left leaning group in Mesa County and the other 4 candidates are not. They have recently been endorsed by The Atheist and Free Thinkers Society proponent Ann Landman who brought Atheist and satanic literature into District 51 a few years back.
This is obviously a big red flag for most parents in Mesa County. If Mesa Counties far left leaning organizations are endorsing them then what else is going on that the public isn’t aware about? What are their real goals? I think the citizens of Mesa County should seriously consider asking those questions before they vote.
Brandon Leuallen,
Founder of the Liberty Report
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