board of trustees is to determine the extent and type of educational services available to the public; the board is not a committee charged merely with the administration of internal affairs. Moreover, the advocacy of a particular candidate for public office is the type of core political speech the First Amendment was designed to protect. Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1, 15, 96 S.Ct. 612, 632, 46 L.Ed.2d 659 (1976) (“[I]t can hardly be doubted that the constitutional guarantee has its fullest and most urgent application precisely to the conduct of campaigns for political office.”). In the spectrum of expression protected by the First Amendment,. we place great value upon political speech in the electoral process. See Kinsey v. Salado Indep. Sch. Dist., 950 F.2d 988, 995 (5th Cir.) (<HOLDING>), cert. denied, 504 U.S. 941, 112 S.Ct. 2275,
holding that a teachers accusations of sexual harassment and poor job performance by a principal involved matters of public concern holding speech about reasons for school principals resignation a matter of public concern holding that when a superintendent who opposed the winning slate in a school board election was terminated his speech and association involved matters of great public concern  the performance of elected officials holding that alleged misconduct by public officials particularly by law enforcement officials is matter of public concern holding that an associations president who was not a party before the board of appeals was not entitled to appeal the boards decision granting a zoning application that his association had opposed in the board proceedings