Monday, October 6, 2008

From Kit Pepper

A small group of people with a lot of money is trying to capitalize on the public's concern about education. They are promising leadership and accountability with a plan that delivers neither. If we support their political strategy on Nov. 4, we would be allowing them to concentrate the powers of the school board (re-zoning, land use/concurrency, construction contracts) in the hands of a single person, who is going to have to spend $250,000-$400,000 to get elected countywide. Our schools need a lot of things, but another special-interest financed politician is NOT one of them.