I didn't blog about this last night, but, Don McLeroy lost his primary battle for the Texas State Board of Education to a much more mainstream Republican, Thomas Ratliff, son of former Lt. Gov. Bill Ratliff. (More on that name below.)
McLeroy was a former board chairman and the ramrod of the Religious Right on the SBOE. His loss, combined with other results from last night, seem to mean the SBOE may take a notch or two (though probably not much more than that) to the center next year.
So, we need to fight the current SBOE even more between now and then.
As for Bill Ratliff? If Jim Hightower had been less arrogant and presumptuous, and run a better campaign against Rick Perry for Ag Secretary in 1994, maybe Ratliff would have run for election to Lite Guv in 1998 and Texas would be a whole lot different.
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