Parental rights and traditional values

WBCSD recall campaign is about whether residents who believe in parental rights and traditional family values have a voice in how our taxes are spent and our children are educated, or whether a minority who doesn’t share residents' values takes control of our district to push their woke agendas.

Residents elected a conservative majority last year and woke liberals have been fighting conservative reform tooth and nail. They resisted Susan Brown’s attempts to force financial transparency and ignored her requests to turn over financial records. They’ve attacked Kathy Nash’s character for pointing out issues in public records. They’ve been trying to drive out conservative Superintendents the board hired with coordinated smear attacks against Jackie Branum and Branden Durst, who Bonner County voted 2-to-1 to elect as the Republican nominee for Idaho State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

This recall is a desperate measure to take control of a district beginning to see reforms toward improving students’ educations. Don’t be fooled by claims Susan Brown and Keith Rutledge will cancel school sports.

Football in Idaho generally takes in more money than it costs, while districts' budgets provide funds for transportation, field maintenance, equipment, and coaches' pay and security. Many other Idaho HS Districts have thriving sports programs while operating on fewer funds per student than WBCSD, while WBCSD residents can’t review how funds are spent.

Woke liberals want to divide, and conquer us, increase taxes and spending for poor performance and poor education under the guise of For the students.

DENNIS WAGNER

Priest Lake