A school board member in Tuolumne County, California “read in Revelations that I was going to be executioner for God and kill your children"

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Vassar was appointed to a vacancy on the three-member board in 2015 and won elections in 2016 and 2022.

    So this guy wasn’t even elected. Someone just put this obviously crazy person in a position of power. God bless America.

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      10 months ago

      He won two elections, as noted in the bit you quoted, in 2016 and 2022, after initially being appointed

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        10 months ago

        Might have been running unopposed. That’s pretty common with school boards.