Stumped.
Aren’t you, too, over the comatose state of the School Board race that may not mature into a race?
Amazingly, there may not be a need for an election. Promote the only two candidates extant because they said they want to sit on the Board.
Is that any way to run a School District?
Two open seats. Two candidates.
Not three. Not even 2½.
Where is the competition?
Is this the quintessential portrait of passivity?
In a community of 40,000, only two persons are qualified for the School Board?
Based on early glances, Scott McVarish and Anne Burke are eminently competent.
Everyone, though, is tested and sharpened by competition, dulled by the lack of it.
The Dodgers have not been declared winners of the World Series and Scott Walker has not been named president by acclaim because there are other teams and politicians who believe they are superior.
Who ever heard of people ascending to office, meaningful office, by acclaim?
There have been years when a bus had to be rented to schlep the School Board candidates from site to site.
Where is Uber when you need it?
This year’s slim list of contenders for the School Board could travel on the gentle back of a newborn pony.
Karlo Silbiger and Scott Zeidman were stunned when they lost their last School Board races. Here is a broad, sunny avenue for them to return.
No sign of anyone on the barren horizon.
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Hi Ari,
In response to your Op-Ed about the number of declared candidates for the upcoming school board election, I just thought I’d point out two relevant facts:
1) Anne and Scott are both excellent, highly qualified candidates. If no other candidate comes forward before the deadline, CCUSD will still be in good hands.
2) Exactly two years ago, on August 3, 2013, the number of candidates who had filed papers in the 2013 school board election was the same as for the 2015 election today, just 2. There were 3 seats open in that election, which eventually became hotly contested among 7 candidates.
-Steve Levin