posted by Mike Madison at 8:11 AM /
With two days to go before Tuesday's school board election, undoubtedly the candidates are moving heaven and earth to get out the vote.
Apparently, there is also a get-out-the-vote effort underway on behalf of a non-candidate.
Friends tell me that they received an email message proposing a write-in vote for Ron Hoffman, the former President of the school board who was defeated in last spring's primary. The message didn't come from him, and even if the message is authentic -- and I have no idea whether it is -- it sounds to me like a "Draft Ron Hoffman" campaign rather than something that he might organize himself.
Regardless of the outcome of Tuesday's vote, I've been hoping that the result will allow the municipality to move beyond a lot of the bitterness that we've seen locally over the last year. Maybe that won't be the case.
Apparently, there is also a get-out-the-vote effort underway on behalf of a non-candidate.
Friends tell me that they received an email message proposing a write-in vote for Ron Hoffman, the former President of the school board who was defeated in last spring's primary. The message didn't come from him, and even if the message is authentic -- and I have no idea whether it is -- it sounds to me like a "Draft Ron Hoffman" campaign rather than something that he might organize himself.
Regardless of the outcome of Tuesday's vote, I've been hoping that the result will allow the municipality to move beyond a lot of the bitterness that we've seen locally over the last year. Maybe that won't be the case.
1 Comments:
A group of citizen's promoting a write-in vote for an incumbent who was soundly defeated in the primary election will do nothing to get us beyond the "bitterness", and will probably add to the discontent over the behavior of the existing school board. The voters made themselves very clear in May, and an attempt to overturn that statement by friends of Ron and those who benefited from his "leadership" on the board is wrong and self-serving.
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