Another school board meeting, another Calvary Chapel inspired right-wing fundamentalist majority vote by the Chino Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) Board. The Board, coming off a summer where they passed a policy to out transgender students to their parents, has now marched forward with a policy revision that would allow a single community complaint to pull books from school libraries and classrooms if one person deems the content sexually or politically inappropriate.
The gender notification policy was so egregious that California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed suit against CVUSD for their discriminatory policy. Undeterred, the Board continues to push the envelope, adding book banning to their dark ages' repertoire.
This “book ban” policy passed on a 3-2 vote with right-wing megachurch Calvary Chapel backed candidates holding a majority on the board (4-1 majority on many votes, with one less dogmatic conservative board member breaking ranks on the book ban). Pastor Jack Hibbs has lined up his disciples on the school board to attack transgender and LGBTQ students and to implement a fundamentalist Christian crusade against diversity, difference, and discovery.
We’ve seen the Moms for Liberty and other well-funded right-wing organizations run this kind of mean-spirited neo-Puritan crusade all around the country, taking over school boards and creating disruptions to undermine public education under the guise of parental rights and moral superiority.
In the 2023 election cycle, the forces of sanity, compassion, and reason prevailed in school boards across the country with big victories over Moms for Liberty candidates in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and elsewhere.
In 2024, The Chino Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) in California is a ground zero race for turning the tide against the Christian crazy crusaders and notching a big win for the good guys. The most pivotal seat for wrestling control from the board is the District 5 seat and the good guy in that race is Bobby Omari, who just kicked off his campaign. He is running to ensure that students are safe, teachers are respected, and schools focus on education.
No matter where you are, if you want to send the religious MAGA megachurch far right a humiliating defeat, your money can go a long way by supporting Bobby Omari in the CVUSD School Board race.
Evan a modest amount of money in this race can turn the tide. Your $5 $25 or $50 bucks won’t do much to swing a presidential or US Senate race, but you could save a bunch of school kids from the bigotry of the CVUSD zealots by sending a contribution to Bobby.
While the roadrunner mostly reads birding field guides, this bird doesn’t believe in removing books from the shelves or outing transgender kids or any of that other Philistine nonsense. Help stop the madness by kicking some bucks over to Bobby Omari, a public servant who cares about teachers and students, not another moralizing sock puppet in Pastor Hibbs’ self-righteous performative circus.
You can help here… bobbyomari.com