AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – The winner of a Texas education board runoff says he thinks Republican voters in March simply weren’t paying attention when they nearly nominated a retired schoolteacher who once claimed President Barack Obama was a gay prostitute.
Keven Ellis said after his victory over Mary Lou Bruner on Tuesday night that primary voters likely tuned out their race partly because of the attention surrounding the presidential election. But Ellis, a local school board president, wouldn’t criticize Bruner and instead thanked her for her career as a schoolteacher.
The 69-year-old Bruner came within a couple percentage points of winning the race outright in March.
Bruner has claimed in old Facebook posts that President Barack Obama was a gay prostitute and suggested that Democrats assassinated John F. Kennedy.
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