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John Jun and Bennett Ratliff aren’t Coppell’s only locally elected officials to seek higher offices since the turn of the century. In 2012, City Council Member Brianna Hinojosa-Smith (whose last name was Hinojosa-Flores at the time) ran for Congress in District 6 as a Democrat. She finished second in a three-candidate primary won by Kenneth Sanders, who ended up getting crushed by Republican incumbent Joe Barton.
Meanwhile, an attorney general’s ruling from 1957 forced Tracy Fisher to give up her seat on the Coppell ISD board last year when she ran for the State Board of Education as a Democrat. Fisher lost to Republican Evelyn Brooks, who made news this month for suggesting that “creation” should be included in science textbooks.
John Jun and Bennett Ratliff aren’t Coppell’s only locally elected officials to seek higher offices since the turn of the century. In 2012, City Council Member Brianna Hinojosa-Smith (whose last name was Hinojosa-Flores at the time) ran for Congress in District 6 as a Democrat. She finished second in a three-candidate primary won by Kenneth Sanders, who ended up getting crushed by Republican incumbent Joe Barton.
Meanwhile, an attorney general’s ruling from 1957 forced Tracy Fisher to give up her seat on the Coppell ISD board last year when she ran for the State Board of Education as a Democrat. Fisher lost to Republican Evelyn Brooks, who made news this month for suggesting that “creation” should be included in science textbooks.