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Texas GOP Board Of Education Candidate: 'We Know We Didn't Come From Monkeys!'

At a debate in Fort Worth on Monday, a Republican candidate for the Texas state board of education warned(link is external) that the board is currently “using your tax dollars to brainwash our children into socialist issues and ideas.”

The candidate, Lady Theresa Thombs, also decried(link is external) “people from socialist higher education” who support the teaching of evolution, a subject still hotly(link is external) debated(link is external) in the Texas Education Agency.

“We know we didn’t come from monkeys!” she exclaimed(link is external).

Thombs made her remarks at a debate hosted by a Tea Party group, the 912 Project Fort Worth.

Bud Kennedy of the Star-Telegram reports(link is external) that Thombs considers herself an “international evangelist” who is “running to fight — her spellings — ‘adgendas and ideoligies.’”

She also believes she is running to defeat “Devil worshipers”(link is external):

The multi-talented Thombs also serves as a singer(link is external) at right-wing rallies.