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Watchdogs say Texas dodged ‘train wreck’ on education board

AUSTIN, Texas – A former schoolteacher who believes dinosaurs were on Noah’s Ark and Democrats killed John F. Kennedy isn’t joining the Texas State Board of Education.

Mary Lou Bruner lost her Republican primary runoff Tuesday night for a seat on the powerful Texas State Board of Education.

Her defeat comes just two months after a near-outright victory put the 69-year-old Bruner on the brink of helping decide what more than 5 million schoolchildren learn in Texas classrooms. But Republican voters flocked this time to Keven Ellis, a local school board president in Lufkin who ran a mainstream campaign.

One of Bruner’s claims on Facebook was that President Barack Obama was a gay prostitute.

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