Bethany Mandel is Running for Montgomery County Board of Education
Hard to think of anyone with a bigger megaphone to spotlight the horrible problems in MoCo–for the whole country to see
What an insane filing deadline here in Maryland. The best two-term governor we’ve had in my lifetime, Larry Hogan, announced that he’s running for Senate. And here in Montgomery County, Bethany Mandel jumped in at the last possible minute to run for Board of Education–and I can’t think of anyone better suited to throw out the rot that’s animating our county than her.
Our Board of Education is constantly in the news for all the wrong reasons. Recently, it’s been the jurisdiction’s insane decision to reverse the ability for parents to opt out of sexually explicit material that goes against their religious beliefs. Mandel and I are actually currently suing our Board of Education about how all of that has gone down–the case is likely heading to the Supreme Court soon.
Mandel’s last-minute entry here gives parents the best shot they’ve had at having a normal person represent them on education policy. She’s been incredibly active in this specific realm for years; at every rally I’ve covered, that feature heavily African immigrants, Mandel is quick to be spotted standing with parents of all religions under the sun to demand that the county’s Board of Education simply…be normal. Here, that’s oftentimes too much to ask.
The great news for Mandel is that hardly anyone knows who is running for Board of Ed--here or in most parts of the country. By the time they get down to the final slot, if they vote at all for it, they’re likely to rely heavily on name ID alone.
Mandel is the highest profile person to run for a position like this that I can think of–and over the next several months, the rest of America is going to learn a lot about the rot in Montgomery County Public Schools, whether they want to or not.
And that is critically important. Across the country, Americans know about the rot in Loudoun County Public Schools across the Potomac River from us. But MCPS has always been worse. And it’s only a matter of time before everyone in and outside of MoCo learns this.
She's a fucking lunatic. You need better people to look up to.
https://montgomeryperspective.com/2024/02/12/are-you-ready-for-bethany-mandel/
https://open.substack.com/pub/donmoynihan/p/candidate-profile-bethany-mandel?r=ns8z&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I didn't even know she was living here in MoCo. Dhows how much I've been paying attention to things.