Here is your ballot for State Board of Education District 5
A. Inga Cotton
B. Lani Popp
C. Robert Morrow
D. Don't Vote because you know nothing about the candidates or you might elect someone like this:
And yet, he is now in a runoff on May 26th getting 54,387 votes (40.12%) with absolutely no experience for the position.
How does this happen? He picks a race against others with unusual names like Lani Popp (his runoff opponent) and Inga Cotton. He relies on the Uninformed Voter with no knowledge of the candidates to pick a name they somehow identify with. Anyone who actually knows about him and voted for him is an even bigger idiot.
Lewd tweets, the N-word and just plain weirdness: A wild-card candidate rattles education board races.
Travis County GOP opposes 'vulgar,' 'misogynist' Robert Morrow for education board
For everyone who knows a voter in SBOE District 5, it is your duty to inform them about Morrow and to have them vote for Lani Popp in the runoff.
A. Inga Cotton
B. Lani Popp
C. Robert Morrow
D. Don't Vote because you know nothing about the candidates or you might elect someone like this:
And yet, he is now in a runoff on May 26th getting 54,387 votes (40.12%) with absolutely no experience for the position.
How does this happen? He picks a race against others with unusual names like Lani Popp (his runoff opponent) and Inga Cotton. He relies on the Uninformed Voter with no knowledge of the candidates to pick a name they somehow identify with. Anyone who actually knows about him and voted for him is an even bigger idiot.
Lewd tweets, the N-word and just plain weirdness: A wild-card candidate rattles education board races.
Quote:
With his history of sexist, racist rhetoric and incomprehensible, conspiracy-laden rants, Robert Morrow has become one of the most unifying political figures in Texas.
Almost no one Democrat or Republican, wealthy or poor, old or young wants to see him elected to the State Board of Education, the 15-member body that decides what millions of public school children learn. Yet according to political pollsters, Morrow's chances in this March's Republican primary can't be ruled out.
"The probability is probably pretty low that he comes out of this, but it's not zero," said Jim Henson, director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin.
Morrow is known for wearing a jester's hat, and his top campaign issue is "to impeach, convict and remove Donald Trump and throw his sorry ass in prison." He faces two other Republicans in the District 5 primary. The district picks up communities along the Interstate 35 corridor between San Antonio and Austin and stretches out into the Hill Country. Incumbent Ken Mercer, a Republican who held the seat for 14 years, decided not to run for reelection.
In 2016, he unexpectedly won the race for chairperson of the Travis County Republican party, with more than 56% of the vote, likely because voters simply did not know anything about him. He was forced to give up the position when he filed to run for president as a write-in candidate that year.
Travis County GOP opposes 'vulgar,' 'misogynist' Robert Morrow for education board
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The Travis County Republican Party has taken the unusual step of opposing the candidacy of a Republican candidate for State Board of Education.
The party group voted unanimously Tuesday in favor of a resolution that opposes Robert Morrow's bid for a seat on the 15-member board, which sets public education policy statewide.
"Robert Morrow has a history of misogynist and vulgar language," according the resolution. "Robert Morrow has made outrageous and slanderous allegations about President Trump, members of the Bush family, and Governor Rick Perry, among others."
For everyone who knows a voter in SBOE District 5, it is your duty to inform them about Morrow and to have them vote for Lani Popp in the runoff.