Vote for Jen Mitchell for School Board

I stand with Jen Mitchell for School Board. Just as Jen stood with Governor DeSantis at the post-Ian high school football game, she followed his leadership in education during the difficult pandemic and post-pandemic period. Jen’s focus has always been on our students. Under her leadership, students returned to the classroom and learned! The character assassinating campaign against her is appalling. In 2020, Donna Fiala called for civility in elections in her Coastal Breeze column. Nothing has changed! As a lifelong Republican, I have always voted for strong Republican candidates. Jen is a lifelong Republican who has been an active member of the Collier Republican Party since 2017. Yet, the local Party leadership with their vicious ads wants you to believe that she is not. School Board races are non-partisan. They should be about what is best for our students. For our students to witness the political process being funded by local Collier County Republican leadership is appalling and the antithesis of what we want our students to learn about civics. I recently attended several events with Tulsi Gabbard, who left the Democrat Party to become an Independent. She talked about out-of-control campaigns for candidates for whom the end justifies the means. It is disgusting that the Collier County GOP has made our School Board race the epitome of an ends-justifying-the-means campaign at the expense of students. I encourage you to vote for Jen Mitchell to continue her efforts for our Collier County students.