I told you last week about our school board race where the Tea Party jerks are trying to buy a school board.

I told you about Rodney Vannerson, a GOP political hack and his sister, the hot shot Republican liar -for-hire campaign consultant, and their desperate attempt to round up candidates even on the last day of filing.   They got themselves some doozies, Honey.  Rodney set up a Political Action Committee called the Whistle PAC and raised money from out of the district.  In fact, not one penny he raised was from within the district.

Well, Ole Rodney got caught by the Richmond Police Department stealing Democratic yard signs and the one Tea Party guy currently on the school board was always lurking around the area when signs were stolen.  These are not nice people, and they don’t play well with others.

So, yesterday, our local afternoon newspaper arrives with another school board front page story.  It seems that one of their candidates, who has taken at least $2,500 from them, is now disavowing them.  I can’t show you the whole story because you have to subscribe to read it online, but here’s a PDF of part of the story.

It’s a great story.  Katheryn Kaminski, their candidate for District 1, has “disavowed” the PAC and Vannerson.  Although she admits that she would not have been able to run without their money, she promises not to take any more money from them.  It’s Friday.  The election is tomorrow.  Big heaping thanks.

Kaminski  runs an after-school program in the school district.  She has paid $6,000 for the right to run the program in two schools.  Next year the price is going up to $53,298 for those same two schools.  She says that the fact that she has to pay considerably more to the rent the school did not enter into her decision to run for the school board.  Of course not.

Meanwhile, Vannerson was running around town trying to convince everybody that candidates had to take down all their signs after early voting ended last Tuesday and then put them back up on election day.  Well, we need to hire somebody to walk around behind him scooping up the goofy because of course candidates do not have to take down signs for those 4 days.  Personally, I think Vannerson has a very unnatural relationship with political signs.

And, come to think of it, most everything else.

And Ms. Kaminski, I would trust your disavowment a tad more if you would return their money.  That money did not come from the people in this school district and you should not have taken it in the first place.  Your opponent got out and raised money on her own and you should have, too.  We have lost some of what is good about America because politicians take money from shady characters because that’s easy.  Don’t be part of the problem.

There.  I feel better.

UPDATED:  You know that part where I said I feel better.  I don’t.  Ms. Kaminski took an additional $2,500 from Vannerson after everyone knew he was stealing signs.  And, she allowed her name to be used on an email that went out this morning at 5:00 on election day with scurrilous charges, half truths, and outright lies.  You lied, Ms. Kaminski.  You said you disavowed yourself from the PAC but you continue to use their money and their campaign tools.  Didn’t your Momma ever tell you about having your cake and eating it to?

And yes, I did notice that this email does not have the proper disclaimer as required under Texas law.  Ironic, no?