[Vision2020] Not Votng anymore-Waste of Time

Tue May 16 16:49:56 PDT 2006

Bill,

 Yes, I resigned myself to knowing that my opinion based  on my experiences are invalid whenever they are in conflict with your  own.

 However, I happen to believe that any office which  requires a substantial amount of time, money, and commitment  automatically excludes any and all people that are poor and need to  work for a living. How many people in political office are on food  stamps?

 It is also my experience that those in office could  learn a great deal, and make some major improvements in education if  they would be willing to include those that are poor. And please don't  respond back about how poor so and so on the committee use to be. I am  talking about people that have been poor their entire life and are  dealing with sending their children to a school being poor today. 99%  of us were poor at some time in our own definition.  

  None of the candidates I have heard from care about anything other than  getting elected and providing a a new school for THEIR child at my  expense. Or in the case of Ms. Dibble who is willing to sell her vote  to whatever 2/3 of the people want.

 It appears to me that  they are all upper class people just trying to get involved for the  purposes of getting more toys at taxpayer expense for their child or  enforce what the majority want for future victories at the ballot box.

  None of them have addressed the real issues and problems facing  education. No Science and Math teachers, low pay for Math and Science  Teachers, all the benefits and pay going to teachers for sticking  around, not doing a good job, a decent school lunch program, career  placement services, and life management skills. 

 So none of  them get my vote. Especially if they don't even bother to send or leave  me a flyer, call me, email me, or knock on my door. They are lazy  bastards, a school zone is not that big.  If they cannot manage to  go down the street and ask for my vote they ain't going to be doing it  after they are elected for my opinion either.

  _DJA

Bill London <london at moscow.com> wrote:              D-
  Your response is misinformed and way off the   mark.
  The  election today is a school board election.  The four candidates  are competing for two volunteer positions (as in unpaid).
  The  winning candidates will be forced to sit through interminable meetings,  listen to mind-numbing statistics, choose alternatives that nobody  likes, and deal with angry uninformed constituents -- all for the  chance to help a school district that really needs direction and  assistance.
  My guess is that they are candidates because they   care about Moscow's schools and schoolchildren.
  BL
      ----- Original Message ----- 
    From:     Donovan Arnold 
    To: Dan Carscallen ; vision2020 at moscow.com 
    Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 2:27 PM
    Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Not Votng     anymore-Waste of Time

When  less than half the population votes, that is the majority not voting.  Out of 20,000 people in Moscow, less than 4,000, probably less than  3,000 or even 2,000 will vote in this election tonight.

I bet  you a beer, less than 5,000 votes are cast. I will bet you another beer  that the winning candidate does not give a rip, only that they won and  will do nothing serious during their term to try and get the majority  to the polls in the next election. 

_DJA

Dan Carscallen     <areaman at moscow.com> wrote:    Donovan       says:

"I think I speak with the majority when I say I am not going to       vote. At
least not in elections that offer no choice, it is a waste of my       time."

I guess I'm in the minority, because Donovan doesn't speak for       me.

planning on wasting my time,

DC

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