California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom easily survived a recall election last year. Three left-wing school board members in San Francisco, not so much.
In what The New York Times referred to as “a recall election fueled by pandemic angst and anger,” city voters booted school board members Alison Collins, Gabriela López, and Faauuga Moliga. Lopez was actually the board president.
The three were so radical that not even the lefty voters in San Fran could no longer stomach them.
As The Free Press reported last summer, the board itself had voted to strip Collins of her title as vice president after old tweets came to light. In those comments, she had referred to Asian-Americans with the N-word. Collins also had accused Asians of using “white supremacist” thinking in order to “get ahead.”
Collins, by the way, is Black.
In other examples, the board at one point wanted to rename more than 40 schools because of their namesakes’ alleged ties to white supremacy, and other sins against political correctness. One of the people on that list was current Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
After critics pointed out that some of the historical figures did not belong on the list, Lopez denounced the critics for trying to discredit the process.
Among the other examples of being too woke by far, the board rejected a white male parent for an advisory board appointment for not being “diverse” enough, even though he was gay. The board also voted to kill a competitive entrance exam for an elite high school because too many Asians made the cut.
The Times reported that more than 70 percent of voters supported the recall of each member. That outcome tracked with opinion polls in the race that The Free Press reported on last summer.
The Times noted that many voters, especially Asian-Americans, were angry about the scrapping of the entrance exam at Lowell High School, the district’s most prestigious school, as well as the effort to rename schools instead of trying to reopen them during the pandemic.
“The voters of this city have delivered a clear message,” Mayor London Breed, a recall proponent, said in a statement. Breed will appoint the new members.
In a message that might give liberals everywhere pause, Meredith Dodson, executive director of the San Francisco Parent Coalition, which advocated for reopening schools, said the successful campaign showed the power of activism by parents.
“We can never go back to the previous world where parents weren’t organized and weren’t lifting up their concerns together,” she told the Times.
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