09/08/2026
Did a sitting board member use district resources against his opponent (me)? Let’s look.
On Monday, August 17, the day before the primary, I dropped off school supplies at a District 2 school in my campaign shirt.
On Tuesday, August 18th, I received enough votes to qualify moving on to the general election in November. It’s down to me and the incumbent.
On Friday, August 21, I posted a few photos from the school supply drop off. That same day, a senior district official called me. He wanted to know why I was on campus and whether I was campaigning. I don't work for the district.
On Monday, August 24th, the district's top lawyer sent me a warning. Board Policy 3232. Campaign activity on school property.
I’m running on “Show Your Work”. So I filed a public records request and asked the district to “show its work”.
Ninety-four minutes after warning me, that same lawyer forwarded the email to my opponent, a sitting board member. He told him the policy "does not explicitly prohibit the wearing of campaign shirts" and that the district had "no grounds to stand on."
He told only my opponent. He did not tell me.
The records show no similar warning to my opponent, whose campaign page has photos from district events. They show nothing about the phone call, and nothing about who asked the district to look at my visit in the first place.
This is the same board where a member said "I *$&@!*@ hate transparency" into a live microphone last fall, and the district edited it out of the video.
Political speech is the speech the First Amendment exists to protect. A school district should be the last place that forgets it.
The documents are in the comments. Read them yourself.
