Maybe not yet
, and others describe as deeply connected to the modern Republican Party of QAnon and election denial. Focus on Education in RRISD – a group that Laine says is a front for Moms for Liberty – appeared with the same values and much of the same membership.
Weston and Bone walked out again last June, in what Feller, Harrison, and others believe was a calculated attempt to sabotage the district. The meeting had been set to pass a budget for the upcoming year, a legal requirement that, had it been left undone, could have resulted in lawsuits and left RRISD employees unpaid indefinitely.
With quorum lost, Feller called Weir. She drove to the meeting, double-masked, to provide the vote to pass the budget. In the meeting's aftermath, Feller came to the conclusion that Weston and Bone were trying to create proof of the board's dysfunction that they could show to the Texas Education Agency, hoping TEA would appoint a conservator to take over the district and, ultimately, dismiss the democratically elected majority.
The TEA investigator, while being unable to identify any crime in her final report, recommended that the superintendent be fired, writing,"Dr. Azaiez, in my opinion, could not come back into his position and be effective." In a normal environment, that might have been enough for the board to dismiss Azaiez. But considering everything that had come before, the board reinstated him in March of this year, in yet another 5-2 vote .
Zimmerman is a character who has picked at the edges of local politics for two decades. He narrowly won an Austin City Council seat in the council's first 10-1 elections in 2014, only to be defeated two years later; since then, he's run losing campaigns for both the Texas House and Senate.
Jill Farris, running for Place 4 against Alicia Markum and Cory Vessa, also has a past indiscretion that critics say should be disqualifying. According to court documents obtained by Jack Chiles and shared with the, Farris pled guilty in 2006 to a third-degree felony for forging checks. She did not disclose the felony on her ballot application. Farris has not responded to request for comment.
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