State Board of Education candidate Aaron Kinsey picked up an endorsement from former Texas Gov. Rick Perry this week.

This week, the Kinsey campaign announced it had picked up an endorsement for Perry as the candidate campaigns to be the next SBOE member for Texas’ District 15, which includes Amarillo, Lubbock, Midland, and Abilene.

“Join me in supporting Aaron Kinsey for State Board of Education,” Perry said in a statement released by the Kinsey campaign. “A fellow Texas A&M Aggie and US Air Force pilot, I endorsed this Texas conservative because he will fight the woke left mob.”

Kinsey, a Midland businessman and Air Force veteran, is challenging incumbent SBOE member Jay Johnson in this year’s Republican primary election. The winner of this primary will be unopposed in the November general election.