Petition Drive
Well, it looks like our well-intentioned petition drive is about to fall short.
I have personally collected 125 signatures without having to stand in front of Target or Albertson's. The rain and cool weather kept people home and we lost a week because we were told we couldn't gather signatures until after Gavin Huntley-Fenner was installed and were then told we had 30 days after the board selected him on Jan 25. Some of our key organizers were ill or away during prime signature gathering times and it looks like its just not in the cards.
It's too bad.
The school board will likely view our failure to get enough signatures as validation for their choice. The reality is there is a strong undercurrent of residents who are still very pissed off at the politics the board played with the appointment and the election results. I am still waiting for one board member to have the intellectual honesty to admit to me that they didn't want John Burger (14,005 votes in November) to take the seat.
So now we're stuck with a board member who didn't run. Note to Gavin: if your new job in March of 2004 made it tough to run in November, how were you still able to be so active on the IPSF board? And you have still been on the new job less than a year...won't your new employers not be happy with the amount of time your school board duties will take? Bottom line: you wanted the seat but didn't want to do thie things any candidate needs to do to run, namely raise money and put your record out there for the voters. And now you get to add "school board member" to your name when you place your name on the ballot in '06.
Just remember, when you do run in '06, you're not running for re-election; you're running to get elected.
I have personally collected 125 signatures without having to stand in front of Target or Albertson's. The rain and cool weather kept people home and we lost a week because we were told we couldn't gather signatures until after Gavin Huntley-Fenner was installed and were then told we had 30 days after the board selected him on Jan 25. Some of our key organizers were ill or away during prime signature gathering times and it looks like its just not in the cards.
It's too bad.
The school board will likely view our failure to get enough signatures as validation for their choice. The reality is there is a strong undercurrent of residents who are still very pissed off at the politics the board played with the appointment and the election results. I am still waiting for one board member to have the intellectual honesty to admit to me that they didn't want John Burger (14,005 votes in November) to take the seat.
So now we're stuck with a board member who didn't run. Note to Gavin: if your new job in March of 2004 made it tough to run in November, how were you still able to be so active on the IPSF board? And you have still been on the new job less than a year...won't your new employers not be happy with the amount of time your school board duties will take? Bottom line: you wanted the seat but didn't want to do thie things any candidate needs to do to run, namely raise money and put your record out there for the voters. And now you get to add "school board member" to your name when you place your name on the ballot in '06.
Just remember, when you do run in '06, you're not running for re-election; you're running to get elected.
posted by Dan Chmielewski at 9:41 AM
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