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Monday, November 17, 2008

School Board Promotes Political Organization

Today's Janesville Gazette ran an article titled, School Board members offer advice for those seeking office. Under a sub-section titled 'Candidates checklist' was this recommendation.
JG Excerpt:
-- Attend Forward Janesville's Campaign Management Institute……………………. Tuition is $50 for ....... members or $75 for non-members. For more information or to register, call …………..
This more than anything demonstrates how deeply Janesville has been sold out to special interest groups when school board members suggest interested residents for the Janesville School Board should attend campaign orientation orchestrated by Forward Janesville, a politically active private organization whose philosophical template mirrors that of the Republican Party. On one hand the public school board claims to encourage regular everyday people to run for the board, on the other they recommend this.

Hey school board members, aside from the political aspects of your brazen endorsement, my first question among many is.......what's your cut on the tuition fees? I wouldn't settle for anything less than 15%.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Its one big club.

Anonymous said...

I attended, they flat out asked my political affiliation.

Lou Kaye said...

It's incredible that non-club candidates were able to do so well in Janesville and Rock County over the years considering they not only got shut out by the media, some candidates were often negatively targeted for their openness and transparency. If you're not a partisan insider, you will likely be black-balled as a partisan outsider.

Anonymous said...

you got that right. if that was the UAW or WEAC with a campaign clinic for local offices, the paper would blister and condemn their efforts as a power-grabbing partisan exercise to hi-jack the city council or school board.

instead its one of their own, so thats ok.

Lou Kaye said...

Sean, I like that alot. Welcome to the outsiders "club."

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