The controversial school board president from the Inland Empire will face a recall election in the latest development in the culture wars on Temecula campuses.
“People are kind of pushing back,” Jeff Pack, co-founder of the group that organized the recall effort, said. “We did not want our school board members standing up screaming and yelling, calling teachers pedophiles. Like, this is not what we signed up for.”
Pack helped start the political action committee One Temecula Valley. Its members collected 4,800 valid signatures, certified by the Riverside County Registrar of Voters, to trigger the recall election of Dr. Joseph Komrosky, board president of the Temecula Valley School District.
One Temecula Valley and Pack claimed the controversial policies over pronouns, Pride flags, curriculums and book bans Komrosky’s conservative majority board championed were not coming from their own communities.
“They’re taking directives from a national playbook and enacting them because that’s what they’re supposed to do,” Pack said.