A third candidate has announced for the at-large Denver school board seat being vacated (not fast enough) by Auon’tai “Tay” Anderson.
Former East High School principal John Youngquist tossed his heat into the ring on the 4th of July, bringing new meaning to this day celebrating our liberation from a repressive regime led by a crazy-ass monarch.
Of particular concern to this campaign, Channel 9 reports Youngquist has publicly supported the return of school resource officers to school campuses.
PeakNation™ will recall Anderson led the effort to eliminate those officers who were supposed to protect our children from terrorist shooters and violent students, and instead created a mall cop model of faux security that has failed spectacularly.
“It is time for leadership in DPS that is accountable for the actions and the outcomes of our efforts,” Youngquist said in a statement. “We need to own the harsh realities of our current context, create a different vision to lead us into the future, engage the strategy and action that are most likely to succeed, and take responsibility for the results that we experience as a community.”
Also running for the at-large seat are school security consultant Paul Ballenger, and former Denver mayoral candidate Kwame Spearman.
Having seen enough of his temper tantrums, dysfunction and disregard for student safety, Denver Public Schools parents weren’t about to reelect Anderson to a second term.
So, Anderson is taking his chances with the voter of state House District 8, where Leslie Herod is finally term-limited out having served since 2016.
PeakNation™ will recall Herod was recently described by the vice chair of the Colorado Democrat Party as a “bully and a predator.”
Anderson has a good shot of claiming Herod’s seat, as Colorado Democrats seem more interested in voting for candidates based on the color of their skin, rather than checking the content of their character.