The battle over school boards is a disaster for Democrats
October 22, 2021 | New York, Virginia
The recent announcement by the Justice Department that the FBI would be looking for coordinated patterns of violence at local school board meetings is a broad overreach and an abuse of power that goes beyond the FBI’s jurisdiction.
If the Justice Department were serious about investigating coordinated violence in America, it would long ago have started examining the roles that antifa followers and other extremists played in the violent riots and demonstrations during the summer of 2020.
There is an aspect to the school board story which I believe has not been sufficiently reported, however. Local school boards could well be a significant force in the 2021 and 2022 elections.
By way of background: In New York — particularly on Long Island, which has well more than 100 school districts — school boards historically have been entirely separate from partisan politics. In addition, school board meetings usually were low-key events, with parents and taxpayers deferring to the boards’ members and school administrators except when there was a budget fight over a significant tax increase and/or reduction in programs or personnel. This community somnolence toward school matters, but it is rapidly vanishing…. (Excerpts from The Hill)
