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Rebecca Bell-Metereau

Bell-Metereau raises >$10K, her primary opponents nada

by: Al Stanley

Wed Feb 03, 2010 at 12:12:13 PM CST

Cross-posted on BOR

There's a big difference between Rebecca Bell-Metereau and her three primary opponents for State Board of Education, District 5: none of the three gentlemen raised any funds in the most recent reporting period covering the first three weeks of January, while Rebecca has raised over $10,000 in the same time frame ($30,000 to date). So in addition to Rebecca being an articulate, well-qualified educator, she's clearly the only Democratic candidate taking the campaign seriously.

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Note: the above thermometer is not in sync with the reported numbers due to fund-raising outside of ActBlue. We'd love it if readers would help Rebecca reach $10,000 through ActBlue!

Yet all three of the gentlemen are making the rounds of endorsement meetings asking for support, and no one seems to be asking them this basic question: "If you aren't willing to raise money, how are you going to win in a general election in a Republican-leaning district?"

If one of her opponents wasn't named for a famous frontiersman, we could probably hold some back for the general election. Instead, we just hope we're reaching out to enough people and that enough are paying attention so that this year's version of Gene Kelly won't spoil the dance.

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SBOE 5 candidate Rebecca Bell-Metereau

by: Blue_in_Guadalupe

Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 08:47:29 AM CST

(While the attn is all focused on hot and cold running Hutchisons and wallet scorekeeping-right now neighbors of ours are stepping up to the downticket races all over Texas.

Many thanks to Blue_in_Guadalupe for introducing us to one of them in the particulary critical to our future-the SBOE.  I hope we will be learning about many more. - promoted by boadicea)

Dr. Rebecca Bell-Metereau, candidate for the State Board of Education District 5, spoke at a meeting I attended recently and I found her presentation refreshing. She told us about her years in education as a teacher and her experience developing programs at Texas State University to improve student retention. Dr. Bell-Metereau also told us about the academic challenges faced by Texas students who attend out of state colleges due to their poor preparation in Texas public schools.

Dr. Bell-Metereau explained her work on a community board in San Marcos where she successfully worked with people across the political spectrum to accomplish the board's goals. She is running for a seat on the SBOE because she was asked to run and was encouraged by her daughter who has suffered under the current board's dumbed down curriculum standards which are supported by inaccurate texts chosen to meet a political agenda. She told us she respects the all volunteer writing teams and the hard work they do in an effort to give students the best possible curriculum but is appalled at the disrespectful attitude displayed by the incumbent who casually discards their work in favor of hastily crafted partisan based materials.

Dr. Rebecca Bell-Metereau promises to responsibly and ethically manage the Permanent School Fund without regard to personal financial rewards. I'm confident that if elected Dr. Bell-Metereau will be able to enhance the quality of our children's educations through respectful exchanges with the other members of the SBOE.

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