But to me it is revealing that I had heard of the TX SBOE while living elsewhere, read articles about it in the "leftish" press, etc. and never learned it was an elected position that had been ceded without a fight to the wackos until I moved to the place. So here is a nationally visible and powerful set of positions that nobody bothered to even ask voters to consider an alternative. It doesn't take a massive organization to run a candidate. if your political activity consists of nothing that actually can produce power, what's the odds of getting anywhere?