In Ohio State School Board Race, ID Proponent Faces Challenge

Two widely read blogs, the Daily Kos and Dispatches from the Culture Wars this past week have featured an upcoming election contest for Ohio's Board of Education in which a leading advocate of Intelligent Design, currently on the Board, is being challenged. In November, incumbent Deborah Owens Fink faces Democratic U.S. Rep. Tom Sawyer of Akron, a former school teacher who has served on education committees in both the state legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives. On his campaign website, Sawyer says, "Ohio's Board of Education spends far too much time and wastes far too much money pursuing fringe issues driven by special interest groups."