Wake County Republican Party Chairwoman Susan Bryant charges the school board's Democratic majority "lied" when they said they wouldn't scrap the choice-based student assignment plan.

In Thursday's issue of the Elephant Express and in a press release that day, Bryant focuses back on the fall elections where she says the Democratic board candidates "deliberately soft-pedaled their intent to scrap Tata’s bipartisan parental-choice assignment plan."  Bryant points to interviews that the candidates gave about not making sweeping changes to the Wake County school choice plan.

"The truth is, they are going back to the old plan as closely as the law will allow," Bryant writes. "Each child’s address will be tied to a specific school to be chosen on some sort of socioeconomic basis."

Wake County Republican Party Chairwoman Susan Bryant is praising Wake County Schools Superintendent Tony Tata while rehashing the 2009 Memorial Day school controversy.

In the latest issue of the Elephant Express on Sunday, Bryant writes that "three years ago our Wake County School System made an idiotic decision to have our children go to school on Memorial Day...so the teachers could get the Wednesday before Thanksgiving as a holiday."

"Today we are fortunate to have General Tony Tata as our Wake County School Superintendent, a person who understands how important Memorial Day is to focus our remembrances on those whose sacrifice has made the freedom envisioned by the founders of America real for more than two and a quarter centuries," Bryant writes.

The Wake County Republican Party is using last fall's school board election defeat to motivate members to be active politically in this year's races.

In the latest issue of The Elephant Express on Thursday, Wake GOP Chairwoman Susan Bryant warns members not to believe the talk about the Democrats being in disarray in North Carolina. She writes that "the Democratic machine is already in high gear," pointing to last fall's Wake County school board races when Democrats won all five seats on the ballot to take the board majority.

"We had recruited the best Republican candidates we could," Bryant writes. "We ran great races in several districts. We talked about the issues and the progress made so far under the Republican majority."

The Wake County Democratic Party outspent the Wake County Republican Party by more than two to one last year to help win the pivotal school board battle.

While it's hard to say how much was specifically spent on the Wake County school board races, the campaign finance reports would suggest that the Democrats were more active in getting their candidates elected. For instance, Democrats had a target of $80,000 in their get-out-the-vote efforts for the October races.

According to their year-end report, the Wake County Democratic Party received $176,227.18 and spent $183,252.88. According to their year-end report, the Wake County Republican Party raised $81,965.98 and spent $83.089.33.

Wake County school board candidate Heather Losurdo raised nearly $100,000 in her unsuccessful campaign bid.

In her final campaign report filed Monday, Losurdo reported raising $99,207.29 and spending $98,207.83 It was a record amount for a Wake school board race.

The Republican outspent her main District 3 opponent, Democrat Kevin Hill, who raised $68,598 and spent $54,322. But the numbers look to be more in Hill's favor when you factor in the outside spending.

Wake County Republican Party Chairwoman Susan Bryant is accusing the new Democratic majority on the school board of engaging in "reckless behavior" with the potential changes to the student assignment plan.

"Lastly, as usual the Democrats didn’t understand the parents in the October and November School Board Elections," Bryant writes today in the latest issue of the Elephant Express. "They think they have a 'mandate' to return to the School Assignment Programs of the past.  

They are paying little attention to Superintendent Tony Tata and are headed right down the path of the past. Let the School Board know what you think of their reckless behavior."  

Wake County Republican Party Chairwoman Susan Bryant is putting the best face forward on election results that cost the GOP control of the school board.

In the Elephant Express on Friday, Bryant writes that "Election Night was not the wholesale sweep for the Democrats you may be reading about in the N & O." She writes that "the municipal candidates we endorsed did very well," adding that "we have won 12 out of 20 races for sure, and are leading in the only undecided race in Morrisville."

Whether those wins in the smaller towns are enough to counterbalance the results for school board and municipal races in Cary and Raleigh is something that Republicans will be considering.

Also in the newsletter, Bryant urges people to cancel their N&O subscriptions. Bryant and school board candidate Heather Losurdo have opted to take a blame the N&O approach to account for the electoral results.

On the eve of Tuesday's election, Wake County Republican Party chairwoman Susan Bryant is railing against the "racist" News & Observer and saying that Daniels Middle School should be renamed,

In an issue of The Elephant Express this evening, Bryant explains that she's decided not to renew her subscription to the newspaper. But Bryant writes that's it not because "of the biased political reporting" of the Wake County school board runoff.

Bryant writes that the reason she's cancelling is that she learned "the other day" about the role of former N&O publisher Josephus Daniels in the 1898 Wilmington Race Riots. (I guess she didn't read the "Ghosts of 1898" series that ran in the N&O in 2006 about how Daniels worked with white supremacists to overthrow Wilmington's fusion government.)

On this Halloween, the Wake County Democratic Party is talking about the "crazy tricks that the Republicans are breaking out in the final days" before the Nov. 8 school board runoff election.

In a newsletter today, Wake Democrats dispute the contention in Saturday's Wake County Republican Party newsletter that Susan Evans and Jim Martin "burst into a meeting with the Superintendent and raised havoc." Democrats say in the newsletter that "they had a reasonable discussion with the Superintendent and his team" on student assignment.

Democrats also complain that the GOP criticized board member Kevin Hill for accepting the endorsement of the AFL-CIO, "made up of our school's custodians and other hard working staffers."

But Democrats charge that the GOP's "biggest trick is trying to convince people that Kevin Hill wants to take us back to the policies of the past." They contend that the "the Wake GOP, and Heather Losurdo, have lied time and time again about Kevin's statements and votes."

Local Democrats are pulling out all the stops to help Wake County school board member Kevin Hill defeat Heather Losurdo in the runoff election.

As noted in today's article, you've got groups like Common Sense Matters hiring The Strategy Group, a Washington political consulting firm, to develop mailers attacking Losurdo. Past clients for this firm include President Barack Obama, former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and current Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

You've also got the Wake County Democratic Party mounting, for them, an unprecedented field operation in an off-year election.