Big money astroturf group, Mom's for Liberty, crashed and burned on Tuesday.
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Much has been written about Tuesday’s election.
Democrats claimed victory while Republicans made excuses.
While it is undeniably true that the MAGAs suffered some electoral defeats, the polls continue to show Joe Biden as massively unpopular.
I want to focus on two big wins on Tuesday.
Ohio, a state that has been stubbornly Republican over the past electoral cycles, overwhelmingly voted for a constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights.
Seven states have now expanded abortion rights since the Supreme Court overturned Roe.
Twelve more states are aiming to do the same.
An other major defeat for the Right came at the level of school board races.
Here in Chicago where the legislature has put an end to mayoral control of the schools and approved an elected school board, the exact form and process are still to be worked out.
What can be learned from last week’s school board votes?
Mom’s for Liberty, a Florida based astroturf organization suffered a major pushback in it’s attempt to take control of dozens of local school boards.
I call them an astroturf organization because in spite of their self-branding as a grassroots parent group, M4L is a hundred percent a creation of millionaire supporters of Ron DeSantis.
The group was founded in 2021 in Florida and quickly became prominent, pressing an agenda of “parents rights" while opening chapters across the country, and receiving and giving support to DeSantis.
“Voters drub Moms for Liberty ‘parental rights’ candidates at the ballot,” was the headline in last week’s Washington Post.
In Pennsylvania, Iowa, Virginia, Minnesota, New Jersey and other states, voters favored candidates who expressed interest in improving traditional public education systems over those who adopted the agenda of Moms for Liberty, which has been at the forefront of efforts to reject coronavirus pandemic health measures in schools, restrict certain books and curriculum and curb the rights of LGBTQ students, and other like-minded groups.