Forsyth Republican Rep. Dale Folwell has co-sponsored a bill that would make Winston-Salem Forsyth County school board election partisan again.

The bill would reverse a 2010 bill sponsored by Reps. Earline Parmon and Larry Womble that made Forsyth school board elections partisan for the first time during last November’s election. You know how I feel about that; note Parmon and Womble have filed another bill that would affect the school board.

Folwell’s bill would also change the election cycle of the City Council, putting it on the same ballot as the presidential election. Mayor Allen Joines said he didn’t mind the change so much except for the fact that it would take affect during the 2012 election, which would shorten the terms of the mayor and council members. Joines prefers that the change come during the 2016 elections, after which council members would serve three-year terms, with voters getting the heads-up.