In the runoff for HISD Trustees, Kendall Baker (District VI) and Bridget Wade (District VII) successfully flipped the seats.
This is a huge victory for Harris County Republicans because for the past two years the HISD board had zero conservatives on it.
Baker managed to edge out incumbent Trustee Holly Maria Flynn Vilaseca by less than 100 votes to win the seat in District 6.
In District 7, Wade defeated incumbent Anne Sung.
In very trite liberal sour-grapes fashion, Sung blamed her loss on Fox News, telling the Houston Chronicle that the public she talked to is “informed by Fox News and national news coverage that has nothing to do with what our kids are being taught.”
Wade says the results are proof that issues like mask mandates and CRT matter to everyday Houstonians, telling the Chronicle “it speaks to the fact that people want to have a say in their public education as taxpayers and parents and families, people want to be active participants and be heard, and so I think it was people crying out to be heard. That was the foundation from which everything came.”
Unfortunately in District 5, Caroline Walter was unable to unseat incumbent Sue Deigaard.