Anti-Pledge School Board Chair Dunlap defeated in bid for re-election

At the March, 2009 Woodbury Town Meeting, the then School Board Chair Retta Dunlap was defeated in a three way race in her effort to be re-elected. The defeat was decisive as even if the low vote earner had their total added to Dunlaps, she would have still lost.

Dunlap opposed the return of the Pledge of Allegiance to the classroom. Dunlap aligned herself with liberals and those who opposed the Pledge being returned to the classroom and instead supported a Pledge recitation at any location but the classroom. Her objection to the Pledge being recited within the classroom was a curious position for her to take as she often presented herself as a cultural conservative. Dunlap's political career may be dead in the water as this is the third election that she has lost in as many years. Her past position at the School Board was the result of a Selectmen's appointment and not a vote of the community.

I rallied the opposition to her re-election among the cultural conservatives of the community. They spoke loud and clear at Town Meeting as they voted out two of the three opponents to recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in the classroom.