Douglas County Republican commissioners Abe Laydon, George Teal, and Lora Thomas have spent the last two years embroiled in a series of public infighting spats that have led to censures against Thomas and a lawsuit against Laydon and Teal.
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Leader of Anti-LGBTQ Group Admits to Posing As a 9-Year-Old Girl on Crisis Hotline
Lori Gimelshteyn, the leader of a right-wing organization targeting school diversity policies, admitted in a radio interview and on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday that she posed as a nine-year-old Cherry Creek student questioning her gender identity in a text to a crisis line.
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Far-Right Gun Group Supports DougCo School Board Candidate Who Appears to Favor Arming Teachers
Douglas County school board candidate David DiCarlo gained support in late October from Taylor Rhodes, executive director at Rocky Mountain Gun Owners (RMGO). RMGO is Colorado’s largest state-based gun lobby, with more than 200,000 members.
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Elizabeth School Board Sued for Violating Open Meetings Laws
The five-member Elizabeth school board is facing its second lawsuit in less than six months for allegedly flouting Colorado’s open meetings laws (COML) by adding last-minute agenda items and failing to properly disclose its reasons for adjourning in executive session.
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Campaign Violation Complaints Add Up for Douglas County School Board Candidate Andy Jones
Andy Jones, who is running for the Douglas County school board with a slate of conservative candidates, has received two campaign violation complaints in the span of four days.
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DougCo Republicans Kick Reporters Out of School Board Candidate Forums
For the second time in less than a month, organizers of conservative school board candidate forums in Douglas County asked reporters to leave. In the most recent forum, an organizer for the “We the Women” candidate round-robin asked this reporter to leave shortly after arriving, saying she didn’t want the event reported.
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Conservative Candidates Look To Shake Up Cherry Creek School Board
Whomever voters elect to Cherry Creek’s school board next month won’t change the majority opinion one way or the other. Still, two Republican-backed candidates, Steve McKenna and Scott Graves, hope to shake up the conversation around what’s taught in Cherry Creek schools and the district’s responsibilities to parents.
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Colorado Parent Group Responsible for Turning Point USA Appearance at Cherry Creek Schools; Denies Book-Banning Agenda
Standing on a truck bed in a parking lot outside a recent Cherry Creek school board meeting, the so-called book-banning pastor John Amanchukwu shouted through a microphone to around 50 onlookers to vote out supporters of “drag queen story hour” and restore parent voice in education.
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Local & Nat’l Anti-LGBT Groups Targeting of Cherry Creek Schools Leads to Threats
Earlier this month, the popular anti-LGBTQ Libs of TikTok social media account put out a call to its members asking them to email the Cherry Creek superintendent, school board, and district leadership team about the district providing what they called pornographic books to children.
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Colorado Conservative Group Calls on ‘School Board Warriors’ To Join Effort To Arm Teachers
Colorado Parent Advocacy Network (CPAN), a conservative parents’ rights group, hosted a school safety summit this past weekend at St. Thomas More Catholic Parish in Englewood, asking for members to advocate for armed security teams, including teachers and staff, at their schools.