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Political Flyer Slams Texas Candidate Doug Woodward for BLM Sign in Yard
On 4/15/21 at 10:41 PM EDT
A school board candidate in a very wealthy Dallas district has been bashed by a political action committee for having a Black Lives Matter sign in his yard last summer. Doug Woodward, a candidate for Place 1 trustee in the Highland Park Independent School District (HPISD), confirmed he had a sign in his yard.
Woodward s campaign website has a section of questions asked by people, followed by his answer. One of them questioned if he actually had a BLM sign in his yard. I did, indeed, have a sign in my yard briefly last summer which expressed compassion at a difficult time for all of us, Woodward wrote. If you are asking whether my response indicates a support of any political platform you may associate it with, the answer is categorically no and any suggestion otherwise is misinformed and irresponsible.