The TAKE with Rick Klein
It's a story about COVID anger -- light on MAGA gear and Fauci-hating slogans -- that looks nothing like anti-vax rallies or masses of Canadian truckers.
For all the noise and color coming from the right, COVID-weary San Francisco parents may leave the first major political marks of 2022. It's mainly liberals taking on fellow liberals -- with a dose of some outside money and national attention mixed in -- over local education priorities and how best to get schools back to normal.
More relevantly, it's parents squaring off with other parents in Tuesday's recall election targeting the president of San Francisco's school board and two other board members. A campaign launched in a kitchen by two parents frustrated by the board's priorities could send a powerful message far beyond the shared hometown of Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
"They would spend the first seven hours talking about renaming schools, or they would spend the first seminar talking about whether a gay dad was diverse enough to be on the Parent Advisory Council," recall co-leader Autumn Looijen told ABC's Zohreen Shan in an interview for "Nightline" Monday night.
For their part, the board members whose jobs are on the line argue they were doing what they were elected to do: make tough choices and prioritize reopening schools during COVID while taking into account safety and community members' concerns.
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