It’s time to get real about the BOE election!

No more hiding Muffin!

We’ve been yelling to y’all for years about paying attention to the Board of Education race. Every time Cindy Rose threw her proverbial hat into the ring, we’ve been there with sirens and horns warning everyone about the danger of bigoted, anti-education people getting on to the board.

This time is no different folks!

Thankfully every time enough people in this fine county heeded the warning and made sure she (and many others like her) didn’t get a seat. Just look at the bullet we dodged:

Just imagine the rants that would take place at BOE meetings over shit like this!

Jamie Brennan and Colt Black are also threats to the education and well-being of children in Frederick County Public Schools. They can try and hide behind the veneer that they are in it to improve reading and math scores or restore the virtual school program, but we all know it isn’t true. A few months back your Lady Yokels attended a few candidate forums and had the displeasure of hearing Colt Black lying to the crowd saying that schools didn’t allow kids to check out books from the library and therefore weren’t reading. (Isn’t this what Cindy and Nancy Allen want since all the library books are full of porn?) Jaime Brennan is a dangerous Moms For Liberty candidate who needs to be avoided at all costs. Here’s a sampling of what some people who pay attention have been posting about her:

Hard pass on this one!

Here’s the dilemma, we have four really good candidates running with only three spots to fill. Therefore, in order to keep Jaime Brennan and/or Colt Black out (because they do have a following amongst our local Trumpers), we need to align behind three, and only three. In our opinion, because we’ve been watching these races closely for the last decade and a half, it needs to be the Apple Ballot candidates.

https://bmw4boe.net/

This is not a criticism of Veronica Lowe or anything she’s said or done. We are sure she would do a very good job, but we need to be real here. Liz Barrett recognized this danger when she didn’t receive the Apple Ballot endorsement and knew she risked letting someone like Cindy Rose in if she didn’t drop out. The Apple Ballot works and it matters to a lot of people. We cannot take the risk of allowing these people to slowly fill up our board. First Nancy Allen gets on, then if we aren’t carefully, Jaime Brennan gets a spot. Then it’s like that mint you put in your garden thinking just a little bit won’t matter and now all you do is pull up sprigs of mint all summer long!

We can’t risk becoming like Carroll County or the whole freaking state of Florida. It’s important that we teach kids the truth about what really happened in our country. It’s really important that we welcome all of our children and their families into our school community. And, it’s really important that we don’t allow people who would work against those goals onto our precious school board.

Let’s Armchair Quarterback the primary election results!

Guilty as charged!

We’ve been waiting for the second batch of mail in ballots to arrive before we put our 2 cents in, so forgive our late reply! If you want to peruse the elections results, click here. But who wants to look at boring numbers when you have our very fine analysis?!

President

Of course both Biden and Trump won, but it tickled the Yokel bone to see that over 3,600 of our local folks voted for Nikki Haley, who dropped out over 2 months ago! We shall see what that means for the law-breaking orange menace when November arrives!

Time to peel away people!

U.S. Senate

Angela Alsobrooks, the County Executive from Prince Georges County, and former Governor Larry Hogan will run off for the open Senate seat. In our county over 4,000 of those votes went to Robin Ficker, which we can imagine are from the people who still refer to Hogan as “Lockdown Larry”. However, no matter what you think of Hogan (you can read here about who recruited him to run), everyone needs to remember that we cannot risk a Republican controlled Senate. Let’s say Trump wins another term and Hogan tips that balance over to the Republicans, can you imagine the laws that we will be subjected to? Don’t count on this guy to protect women’s reproductive rights either. Remember this?

It’s time to gather around Alsobrooks to make sure that Maryland remains a sane voice in the nation’s capitol.

6th District Representative

First off we need to all laugh about Dan Cox’s loss.

Hopefully he’s going to give it up now!

But then we need to gather ourselves together because Neil Parrot is no freaking walk in the park either. Here’s Exhibit A:

https://www.times-news.com/news/local_news/parrott-calls-supreme-court-decision-affirming-gay-rights-in-the-workplace-disappointing/article_c3bc230d-1439-5a73-857e-4089fb9ef777.html

We need to make sure that April Delaney makes the cut this November in order to push that balance back onto the Democratic side. The Republicans have proved time and again these past two years that they cannot handle the responsibility of governing in the House.

School Board Election:

UPDATE: Apple ballot is now in the top 3 spots with Veronica Lowe pulling up to 6th place:

https://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/continuing_coverage/election_coverage/apple-ballot-candidates-move-to-top-spots-in-school-board-race-lowe-climbs-to-sixth/article_e28cfafe-44d2-5998-a100-59ee015deb5c.html

Now it’s time for the results of the election we like to talk about the most. Here’s a handy little chart we made for y’all:

Or if you prefer:

NameEarly VotingElectio-n DayMail In BallotProvisi-onalTotalPerce-ntage
Colt Morningstar Black1,6467,6821,121NR10,44910.83%
Josh Bokee1,4126,3953,010NR10,81711.21%
Jaime Kiersten Brennan1,8188,3271,229NR11,37411.79%
Tabitha McLoughlin8364,359741NR5,9366.15%
Janie Monier1,4386,2173,046NR10,70111.09%
Chad King Wilson, Sr.1,4276,2332,806NR10,46610.85%
Not so fast Beaker!

Do we like that the bigoted, book banner, Moms for Liberty candidate won the most votes in the primary election? Of course not. But this scenario works because in the General Election you choose three. Plus, many independent voters did not come out for the primary so these results don’t include those folks! We’ll have many posts about how Brennan, McLoughlin, and Black would be a nightmare for our board, but that is another post for another day. Just be sure that you tell all of your friends to vote for Bokee, Monier and Wilson! BMW for short!

We cannot risk our school board to fanatics!