Brandon has been running for a seat on the school board in Jessamine County since 2020. Since that time, he’s accomplished the following:
- 2021: He starts laying the groundwork for a run at a school board seat by spreading lies about administrators and staff at East Jessamine High School.
(FYI, this never happened) - 2022: After spending the previous 2 years sowing division in the community, Brandon decides to run for a school board seat.
Throughout his campaign, he continued spreading lies in the community and attacking teachers, including this gem that came in response to a questionnaire:
(FYI, this never happened)
Because Brandon’s campaign was more about politics than addressing any real problems, he would routinely troll Facebook searching for any issue he could magnify and try to pin on school board leadership to make people think he was the answer. On the occasions when he was able to convince a parent to come share their concerns at a school board meeting, he would call all the news stations in Lexington to alert them to an issue in Jessamine County Schools so they would send a news crew to listen to him speak.
Despite his best efforts attacking the school district he hoped to lead, he lost his campaign to the incumbent, 56-44%. - 2023: He promoted a like-minded candidate in a different district for a seat on the school board. That candidate lost despite his opponent barely campaigning.
- 2024: He attempted to help his political club take over the school board by recruiting three terrible candidates – one of whom had to be taught how to spell “Jessamine” – to challenge three Republican incumbents on the school board.
All three challengers were beaten easily despite the incumbents barely campaigning. - 2024: He proudly supported Amendment 2, which sought to strip funds from public schools. The measure was soundly defeated 60-40% Jessamine County and was also rejected statewide.
- 2025: He led an effort to deceive voters in Jessamine County into thinking the school board had raised their taxes (the board had not) so the district would lose out on nearly $400,000 in funding.
The best part about this is that two of the three people who led this effort – including Brandon – don’t even own property in the county and don’t pay the taxes they were complaining about.
Not surprisingly, this effort also failed.
So now he’s running for school board again…because why not?!
What is Brandon’s Platform?
That’s hard to say. Here’s him saying he would propose doing something the current school board was already doing, then – after learning his “proposal” was already in action – editing his original post to say he would fast-track it.
After one of the current school board members called him out on his edits, he acknowledged he “learned some new information.”
He then proceeded to share 20 posts from Facebook accounts associated with Jessamine County Schools to push this exchange further down his page so others wouldn’t see it.
Amendment 2
Amendment 2 was a school choice measure on the November 2024 ballot. It was fairly controversial because it would have authorized the legislature to fund K-12 students outside of traditional public schools — including charter schools, tax-credit scholarships, vouchers, or education savings accounts that families could use at private schools. It was soundly defeated across the state, 65-35% and in Jessamine County, 60-40%.
But Brandon was a HUGE proponent of this piece of legislation because his political club is so closely aligned with those that were pushing it. See for yourself:
Attempted Takeover of School Board
Not content with his campaign loss in 2022 and failed promotion of Amendment in 2023, Brandon set his sights higher in 2024: A full takeover of the school board by his political club.
School boards have staggered elections every two years to provide some continuity. This means 2 or 3 seats are up for re-election every two years. Brandon has been so desperate to have a voice in the county that he put out a call for candidates to run for school board seats to unseat three Republican incumbents. Those three Republican incumbents just so happened to be lifelong residents of the county and long-serving school board members with a high working knowledge of the school system. They were invested in not only serving their community, but in ensuring the success of the school district.
But that didn’t matter to Brandon, he just wanted his political club to have control of the school board so he tapped three people who show up to his political club’s meetings to run for those seats. One of the people he recruited announced she was running for a seat on the “Jassamine County School Board.” You can’t make this up.
Like all the other issues Brandon’s pushed in the county, all three challengers lost despite the incumbents barely campaigning.
The Tax Issue
Brandon followed his 0-4 effort in 2024 by taking up a new cause against the school district: the tax rate.
The school board sets a tax rate that applies to the value of property set by the PVA. Despite the school board leaving the tax rate unchanged from the prior year, Brandon stoked the flames by convincing people the school was “raising their taxes”, deliberately misconstruing the difference between raising individual tax payments and raising tax revenue from new properties and increased property values.
Brandon and two others from his political club filed a petition to recall the school board’s tax rate vote. In support of their efforts, they further divided the community by spreading lies about the action taken by the board (“the board raised your taxes!”) while also trying to convince the community that the school system was failing (it’s actually improved significantly) and that board wastes money (it does not) and isn’t transparent (the board shares detailed financial reports at every meeting).
After realizing their initial round of lies weren’t working, Brandon’s group pivoted to a new lie and posted a graphic on Facebook imploring people to “STOP THE PVA TAX INCREASE!” despite their effort having nothing to do with the PVA’s office.
The best part of all of the chaos caused by Brandon (besides the irony in him not paying any property taxes, of course): it was all over 0.6 cents – just over half a penny – per $100. Had his efforts been successful, someone living in a $1,000,000 house would have saved just $60 in taxes.
Fortunately, members of the community saw through those lies and their effort failed.
This raises the question: Why would someone who has spent six years advancing a political club’s agenda — while actively working against his own school district — ask voters to give him a seat on that school board? 
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