Texas Woman Who Called Obama A ‘Gay Prostitute’ Loses Seat On Influential...
Mary Lou Bruner, the Texas teacher who once referred to Barack Obama as a “gay prostitute,” has lost the race for a seat on the Texas Board of Education, NBC News is reporting. Ordinarily, a matter as...
View ArticleWhat Can Tank This Conspiracy Theory-Loving Texas Board Of Ed Candidate?
Mary Lou Bruner has suggested that President Obama was a prostitute and that humans roamed the earth with dinosaurs, all without hurting her status as the frontrunner for an open seat on the Texas...
View ArticleEllis has early lead on Bruner for education board
Early returns show Mary Lou Bruner, a State Board of Education candidate from East Texas who has drawn national attention for calling President Barack Obama a onetime gay prostitute, trailing in her...
View ArticleEducation board hopeful who said Obama was a gay prostitute in spotlight for...
AUSTIN — Voters left 22 Texas elections undecided in the March 1 primary, resulting in nearly two dozen runoffs that voters will decide Tuesday.Related Early voting starts today for primary runoffs:...
View ArticleTexas Textbooks Fail To Get Preliminary Approval
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The Texas Board of Education couldn't muster the votes late Tuesday to grant preliminary approval for new history and social studies textbooks for classrooms across the nation's...
View ArticleTexas to settle dispute on how climate change and history are taught
Disagreements about how the state teaches history, geography and government have made for a bitter and long-running battle, with partisan overtones...
View Article>Texas board voting on textbook review rule changes
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas' longstanding cultural battle over textbook content could be inching toward a cease-fire. The State Board of Education will vote Friday on tightening rules for who can serve...
View ArticleHughes vs. Simpson in District 1
Michael Cavazos "> Texas Rep. David Simpson of Longview will face fellow Republican lawmaker Bryan Hughes of Mineola in a May 24 runoff for a seat in the Texas Senate. The state Republican executive...
View ArticleTexas board voting on textbook review rule changes
AUSTIN, Texas - Texas' longstanding cultural battle over textbook content could be inching toward a cease-fire. The State Board of Education will vote Friday on tightening rules for who can serve on...
View ArticleImpeach Obama Is Texas Democratic Senate Candidate’s Platform Who Also Loves...
“Obama must be impeached, for protecting and expanding the impeachable criminality of the Bush and Cheney administration,” she wrote. “Glass-Steagall must be reinstated, ending the “Too Big To...
View ArticleFriends of Public Education Win Up and Down the Ballot in Party Primaries...
(Source: Texas American Federation of Teachers) Millions of Texans trooped to the polls in the March 1 primary elections, driven in part by vigorously contested presidential nomination fights. But for...
View ArticleNew York Times: A Texas Candidate Pushes the Boundary of the Far Right (Texas...
(Source: Texas Democratic Party) March 14, 2016 New York Times: A Texas Candidate Pushes the Boundary of the Far Right 'In a part of the state dominated by conservative Christians and Tea Party...
View ArticleThe State Board of Education is Looking at Science Curriculum. Again
Maybe the State Board of Education members got bored waiting for the next fight over evolution and whether dinosaurs ever hung out with humans. Maybe they were just itching to dig back into discussions...
View ArticleTexas Board of Education candidate claims Obama was ‘a male prostitute in his...
Save for some flare-ups in the past few years over what to put in social studies textbooks — and how to handle an error in one of them — the State Board of Education has seen more turbulent days. The...
View ArticleLetter: Bruner wrong choice for Texas education
Please vote and vote with your head May 24. For the past 20 years, I've been fortunate enough to teach students from the Longview area while at UT...
View ArticleNew controversy for candidate who said Obama was a gay prostitute
Texas State Board of Education candidate Mary Lou Bruner, a creationist who believes President Obama once worked as a gay prostitute, has directed an apparent outburst at conservative media Breitbart...
View ArticleA Texan who called Obama a gay prostitute may soon be on board that controls ...
Mary Lou Bruner stood before the Texas State Board of Education in 2010 to talk about textbooks. She was concerned, she said during her testimony, that the state’s curriculum was being controlled by...
View ArticleCreationist who thinks Obama was a gay prostitute poised to join Texas Board...
A woman who believes in the New World Order conspiracy theory and that President Obama worked as a gay prostitute could soon win a seat on the Texas state Board of Education, the Houston Chronicle...
View ArticleRunoffs likely for ed board, RRC and courts
An East Texas Republican who once claimed President Obama used to be a gay prostitute appears headed for a May 24 primary runoff in the race to represent District 9 on the State Board of Education. And...
View ArticleWoman who believes Obama was a gay prostitute might decide what goes in...
A former teacher who said President Obama has a “soft spot for homosexuals” due to his history...
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