MAGA Candidate Gets Flushed in California
Some might recall that nearly a year ago, we reported on a series of local school board actions that resulted in a recall campaign.
Remember? Three right-wing evangelical individuals were elected to the 5-member Temecula Valley board in 2022 with the backing of a local church pastor. The new majority’s first act was to ban the teaching of Critical Race Theory at all of their schools.
CRT is not taught in K-12 schools in California, but that didn’t stop them from outlawing it anyway. Boy, I bet it sure felt good.
Later, the board majority turned the heat up as they rejected a state-approved social studies curriculum solely because it mentioned the life of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay San Francisco City Supervisor whom they labeled a “pedophile”.
And then all H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks broke loose.
A committee was formed to recall the 3 new board members. They launched a petition drive. Midway through that, one of their targets, Danny Gonzalez, stepped down and moved back to Texas. Of the remaining two, only the board president, Joe Komrosky, got tagged for a recall.
Now, you might think this was just another local yawner election in Hicksville, California, and you could have been right. But the Trumps could not leave this one alone.
No, seriously.
On May 22, TFG’s middle son, Eric Trump, smiled his gummy smile for the cameras at the Temecula Stampede, a local venue hired 
for the purpose of staging a show of support for the beleaguered board member and president. He brought encouraging words to the assembled throng: “I’m sorry you have to live in communism.” He even brought his wife’s botox twin, Alina Habba, to help out. As it turns out, it was Habba that convinced the Trump scion to throw his family’s support to the beleaguered board trustee.
All for naught.
Because yesterday was election day in Temecula Valley Unified School District Trustee Area 4. Joe Komrosky’s area.
The county sent Area 4 voters a total of 21,578 recall ballots last month, and mail-in ballots have been trickling in for a month now. Combined with yesterday’s in-person vote, a total of 7,521 votes were cast, and Komrosky, who had a soccer ref-like system of yellow and red cards to warn and then oust citizen-speakers at school board meetings, got red carded by citizen-voters.
That’s 4,024 Yes votes to 3,491 No votes.
(For folks from non-referendum and recall states, a “Yes” vote is a vote to fire the man’s a-double-scribble.)
What’s a MAGAn to do? I doubt that Alina will be able to drag Eric out for another tilt at another windmill. So far, it has been crickets from the recall target. So I guess it’s up to me to fill in the deafening silence.
IT WAS RIGGED! THE WHOLE THING IS A HOAX! WE WON BIGLY! THERE WERE SUITCASES OF BALLOTS! WHOLE SUITCASES!
(repeat for effect)
Thanks for making me smile. Even I know enough not to besmirch the name of Harvey Milk and I haven’t lived in the SF area since 1959.
1“Alina Habba, to help out.”
She must be getting to the point where she realizes it’s better to be smart than pretty.
2Lesson 5,012 in Why Voters Should Vote in Every Election: throw the trash out before it gets in.
3PS You can spell out hell and ass. I won’t be offended.
4You had me at “gummy smile.”
5I need to remember Mr Gummy Smile for future use. Can you come up with another one for snorting Jr trumpf, part of the brainless trust?
6I would have hoped for a landslide. 54% of the vote is just over half. If that’s getting flushed, it’s kinda like the toilet in my parent’s house – it would circle lazily and then, finally, “galoot!”
I know it’s a good margin, these days, but geez! To my mind, it should be more like 75%!
7And in potentially very good local news, the Sandy Hook people, and JJ’s son Mark and the legal team, may be finally getting a few solid nails into the vile Alex Jones’ hide:
If he doesn’t somehow manage to slither away again.
Alex Jones May Finally Be Divested of Infowars:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/6/2245282/-Alex-Jones-May-Finally-Be-Divested-of-Infowars
8That woman sure dishonors the name Alina.
9Sandridge@11:46, I came here today hoping to see a much deserved victory lap for forcing infowars into liquidation. Maybe tomorrow…
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