She is leading in every county in the 16-county district. She is beating Russell better than 2 to 1 in her home county of Williamson. More than half of the precints are in. She leads by 7,000 votes and by 15 percentage points. Russell is done, and so is the
State Board of Education Farney 63.44% Russell 36.55% It appears that the far-right’s stranglehold on the State Board of Education is history. Supreme Court, place 3 Lehrmann 52.90% Green 47.09% (very early returns)
Today I received a robo-call from former state senator and lieutenant governor Bill Ratliff urging Republicans to support Marsha Farney in her race for State Board of Education against Brian Russell. Ratliff’s brief message made the point that Farney had showed her commitment to public education by sending her children
Who can challenge Republicans on the State Board of Education? A different kind of Republican.
