A right-wing Tennessee school board member backed by the Moms for Liberty group has been arrested on shoplifting charges.
Keri Blair, who was elected in November 2022 following a campaign against tolerant “social agendas,” is accused of stealing items from Target seven times between Nov. 25 and Dec. 20, reported WATN-TV.
The 43-year-old Blair was booked Jan. 5 and charged with theft of property less than $1,000, and she was released on $7,500 bond.
Police say Blair stole nearly $730 worth of merchandise by “skip-scanning” items at the store’s self checkout.
She resigned Wednesday from the Collierville school board, citing “family reasons.”
Shelby County school board races are nonpartisan, but Blair received contributions to her mostly self-financed campaign from Patricia Woodard, the treasurer of the local chapter of Moms for Liberty, and mirrored that far-right group’s complaints about educational materials that did not reflect a conservative social agenda.