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Midnight Writer

(23,744 posts)
Sat Apr 5, 2025, 07:32 PM Apr 5

MAGA, led by failed R-Governor candidate Darren Bailey, have entered our previously non-partisan

school board election.

Bailey has been going around to smaller towns recruiting MAGA candidates for school board elections. He hit our town (14,000 people) and, while the ads and signs do not identify party, he has a slate of candidates that have combined their advertising and campaigning. They call themselves The Dream Team. Their agenda is, in part, to do away with the school libraries and, at the High School, replace the library with a weight and exercise room exclusively for the members of the male sports teams. I talked to one of these candidates and he said we should have an emphasis on sports and not on scholastics. He says he learned more from playing on the school football team than he ever learned in all of his classes. He seemed to think that was a bragging point.

Election day was last Tuesday, and every single one of the MAGA Dream Team were defeated. This in a town that voted 75% for Trump.

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MAGA, led by failed R-Governor candidate Darren Bailey, have entered our previously non-partisan (Original Post) Midnight Writer Apr 5 OP
Good to hear! biophile Apr 5 #1
As one Illinoisan to another -- which town? hedda_foil Apr 5 #2
If MAGA is honest about their intentions drmeow Apr 5 #3
Well done. Sounds like it is getting harder for them to hide. Raven123 Apr 5 #4
Yea kacekwl Apr 5 #5
Hurray! ShazzieB Apr 5 #6
Yes, he does AwakeAtLast Apr 6 #8
thank God gopiscrap Apr 5 #7
Good to know! AwakeAtLast Apr 6 #9
Thanks. I will fix it. Midnight Writer Apr 6 #10

biophile

(710 posts)
1. Good to hear!
Sat Apr 5, 2025, 07:37 PM
Apr 5

So glad to know that people are able to see their terrible MAGA/project 2025 for schools and vote against it.

hedda_foil

(16,696 posts)
2. As one Illinoisan to another -- which town?
Sat Apr 5, 2025, 07:44 PM
Apr 5

I'm SO glad your town defeated these bozo candidates, but which of our many, many towns is yours?

drmeow

(5,553 posts)
3. If MAGA is honest about their intentions
Sat Apr 5, 2025, 08:02 PM
Apr 5

"do away with the school libraries and, at the High School, replace the library with a weight and exercise room exclusively for the members of the male sports teams"

the voters want nothing to do with them.

ShazzieB

(20,340 posts)
6. Hurray!
Sat Apr 5, 2025, 10:17 PM
Apr 5


Bailey has a lot of nerve trying to influence school board elections. Doesn't he own/run a private school of his own? Seems like I read something about that when he was (laughably) running for governor. Mind your own danged business, Darryl!

AwakeAtLast

(14,315 posts)
8. Yes, he does
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 12:07 AM
Apr 6

It's a Christian based school called Full Armor. You know, the kind Jesus wore.

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