A Virginia school board member seeking a promotion to the state legislature may have used her position in an attempt to sabotage her election opponent — a teacher in the school district she presides over, records show.

Democrat Stella Pekarsky, who currently serves on the Fairfax County School Board, was personally involved in discussions over whether to punish Julie Perry, a history teacher who is running against her in this year’s District 36 Senate race, according to emails and calendar entries obtained by The Daily Wire through a Freedom of Information Act request.

The records show a Pekarsky donor sent Centreville High School Principal Chad Lehman a complaint objecting to conservative social media posts the history teacher made as part of her campaign. Lehman forwarded the complaint to the school board’s Assistant Superintendent Penny Gros, who said she would seek guidance about what to do. That guidance appears to have come from none other than Pekarsky, and it was followed by a memo reprimanding Perry and threatening her job.

[Rosiak declares this “election interference.” It sounds more like a classic dirty trick and a corrupt abuse of power for personal gain. The latter will be more easily proven in court, I’d guess, than the ambiguous charge of “election interference.” Let’s see whether Virginia’s AG decides to take up this case. — Ed]