Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 192
November Surprises
“We know we didn’t come from monkeys! Ladies and gentlemen, they’re using your tax dollars to brainwash our children into socialist issues and ideas and it is time for it to stop.”
— Texas Board of Education candidate Lady Theresa Thombs (R), quoted by the Dallas Observer, on science education.
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