2,012 For 2012: Progressives Launch Project To Recruit Local Candidates, Combat Conservative Dominance
WASHINGTON -- Last year, the Texas State Board of Education became embroiled in national controversy when its efforts to adjust the state's social studies curriculum and textbooks gained widespread notice. The conservative majority on the board, which wielded enormous influence over what the state's children would learn and essentially had the power to rewrite the nation's history, wanted more references to Christianity and conservative figures and fewer mentions of civil rights leaders and liberals.
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"In the military, we had a creed that says nobody gets left behind," said [Truman Partner] Paul Worley, an Army veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars who earned three Bronze Stars and is running for county commissioner in his native Adams County, Ohio. "I think those progressive values of making sure that everyone has a voice, and we're not just taking care of people who hold influence. We make sure that we're not just giving handouts, we're giving a hand up to those people that need help to make sure that no one gets left behind."
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