Hey folks, it’s Amie. Let’s talk about last night’s election!
Iowa’s city and school election normally doesn’t attract a ton of voters. (This year, that was around 16.7% of registered voters, according to the state auditor.)
But with the state butting into schools’ business, banning books and picking on nonbinary and transgender kids, there was a lot at stake in the school board elections in particular.
In many of the state’s metro areas, conservative candidates—including many who were endorsed by Moms for Liberty, an extremist Florida group—ran on more of those same policies, and even implementing more restrictions on educators, students, and parents (despite promoting themselves as “parents’ rights”).
On the other side were candidates who were endorsed by the local teachers’ unions, or by LGBTQ advocacy group One Iowa Action.
So what happened?
Nearly every single candidate who was endorsed by Moms for Liberty lost their school board race.
