As many as 500 Coweta County School System employees had campaign emails from Linda Menk sent to their work addresses in the week leading up to Tuesday’s runoff election.
Teachers, administrators and paraprofessionals at Canongate, Thomas Crossroads and White Oak elementary schools, Arnall and Blake Bass middle schools, and Northgate High School – all schools in District 4 – received the emails.
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Some recipients have lashed out against the mailing, saying Menk is attempting to commit election fraud by utilizing access to state employees’ work emails for political gain.
The work emails of employees who reported receiving Menk’s correspondence are publicly listed, primarily for easy access by parents and guardians, school officials say. The emails sent on Menk’s behalf were about politics, not education, protestors say, and state employees are expressly prohibited from utilizing work time or resources – including email accounts – to support or oppose political candidates in Georgia.
Menk currently holds the District 4 seat on the nonpartisan school board, but narrowly lost the May 24 popular vote to challenger Rob DuBose. However, DuBose did not meet Georgia’s threshold of more than 50 percent of the vote, forcing a runoff.
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