Texas Education Board Candidate: ‘We Know We Didn’t Come from Monkeys!’

Meet Lady Theresa Thombs, real estate agent, self-described “international evangelist,” and Texas State Board of Education hopeful running on an anti-education platform. At a State Board of Education forum this week, Thombs delivered several low blows to her Tea Party opponent, accusing him of falling behind on child support, having no other management experience beyond working at Chuck E. Cheese (he rebutted that he was “a Chuck E. Cheese regional trainer!”) She also claimed that another 12-year Republican incumbent board member was a “lifelong Democrat.” Laying out her positions, Thoms made clear that, if elected, she’d make sure history lessons were written by “experts, not people from some socialist higher education.” After all, she said, “We know we didn’t come from monkeys!”