The Daily Beast reports:
Amanda Litman [photo], the co-founder of Run For Something, announced this week that the group would pump $10 million into local school board races that are being hijacked by the conservative Moms for Liberty group.
Litman tells The New Abnormal co-host Danielle Moodie she is determined to see progressive voices on school boards, adding that there is a very short list of qualities that potential candidates need in order to be supported by her organization.
“I’m not fucking around here. We’re gonna make sure that the school boards are good and that these people leading them are compassionate and empathetic and not Nazis and all of that is really important,” she says. “If you are not crazy and you wanna do this, your community probably needs you.”
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This is why @runforsomething’s 50 State School Board Strategy matters. Moms for Liberty is recruiting and supporting first time candidates for school board – we’re going to take them on where it counts: At the polls. https://t.co/47JPr0h8U6 pic.twitter.com/hE58e20kSf
— Amanda Litman (@amandalitman) September 20, 2023