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Local School Board race-a friend is being called a predator
Eliz Markowitz ran for Texas state house twice and lost to an asshole. Eliz has been active in local politics for a while and is a good person. Eliz is now running for the Katy School board and has been called a predator.
Link to tweet
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-school-board-elections-race-sexuality-rcna26977
The intense partisan focus on these races has also led to harsh personal attacks and animosity not typically seen in small-town elections, according to review of social media posts and interviews with a dozen candidates.
Bonnie Anderson, a Katy school board candidate who made national headlines last year for her attempts to ban the graphic novels “New Kid” and “Class Act” by Jerry Craft, has repeatedly accused another candidate, Eliz Markowitz, of being a “predator.” Markowitz, the only openly gay candidate seeking a board seat in Katy, has spoken against attempts to ban books featuring LGBTQ characters and storylines.
“God knows your sinister agenda in trying to get a seat on a school board when you have no children,” Anderson wrote to Markowitz in a recent Facebook comment.
Markowitz, a professor of health education at the University of Houston, called Anderson’s allegations “outrageous” and said she just wants to ensure students have access to a wide variety of age-appropriate books, so they don’t leave high school “completely unaware of different issues, like abuse and alcoholism, gang violence, gun violence, and, yes, sex.”
Bonnie Anderson, a Katy school board candidate who made national headlines last year for her attempts to ban the graphic novels “New Kid” and “Class Act” by Jerry Craft, has repeatedly accused another candidate, Eliz Markowitz, of being a “predator.” Markowitz, the only openly gay candidate seeking a board seat in Katy, has spoken against attempts to ban books featuring LGBTQ characters and storylines.
“God knows your sinister agenda in trying to get a seat on a school board when you have no children,” Anderson wrote to Markowitz in a recent Facebook comment.
Markowitz, a professor of health education at the University of Houston, called Anderson’s allegations “outrageous” and said she just wants to ensure students have access to a wide variety of age-appropriate books, so they don’t leave high school “completely unaware of different issues, like abuse and alcoholism, gang violence, gun violence, and, yes, sex.”
This is crazy. I have known Eliz for a long time. She tutors people for tests. She is not a predator.
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