School Board: Golden Opportunity For Dems?
The current Republican domination of our county school board may be in jeopardy. Republican infighting and some big egos could set up an election scenario that puts three positions within the grasp of Democrats. The school board is a non-partisan race where Ds, Rs, AND 25,000 registered NPAs (no party affiliation) can vote.
As discussed on another thread, one of the school board members is recruiting other Rs to oppose two of the board members up for reelection. Lo and behold that individual may himself be opposed by a fellow R!
With each of the three seats having potentially 2-3 Rs running against each other, the Dems could smartly place one candidate of their own in each of the three spots. Let the Rs kill off each other via “splitting” the R vote! Then with unity around the Dem candidates, they might easily walk away from the election with all three seats reverting to Dem control.
Will it happen?
posted by Blog Master @ 4:00 PM
264 Comments:
I know that Kelly the one who thinks people of my religion (Catholic)are not Christians is the "recruiter". So who is the Republican that might run against him?
THE THEME FOR THE ELECTION.....
"THREE NEW ONES!"
The problem is, of course, that there aren't any Dems willing to run. I won't say who the Rep is, but if the rumors I hear are true, Kurt Kelly will be blown out.
(R), (D) or (I) doesn't matter. Just give us teachers three board members who put education of children over politics.
Yo Stan! Are you in the hunt for a school board position?
Who is Stan?
Well, now that the would be Emperor Kelly has recruited David Alvarez to run against Mosley, and Judy Maglio to run against Crawford, seems only fit that Sue and Run might team up and find someone to run against Kelly. They might as well claim credit for finding someone to run against him, since Kelly will blame them anyway.
The question: School Board: Golden Opportunity for Dems" is an interesting one. Since this is a non-partisan election, candidates do not run as a Democrat or as a Republican. "R" candidates will go to great lengths to let it be known they are "Rs" when apperaring before Republican groups, and likewise for "Ds" when appearing before Democrat groups.
There is no "runoff" election as we once know it, so let's assume that two "Rs" and one "D" runs, and there is no majority winner. The top two candidates from the Sept. 5 "primary election" would go on the November "general election" ballot.
With disatisfaction of many with the way the GOP has governed, with one candidate interfeering in the elctions of two other candidates, it could benefit the "Ds" in a significant way, especially since we do not know how the 25,000+or- registered as "other" party voters will fall.
Interesting question.
runoff . . . that we once knew, now know . . . and that should be interfering not interfeering.
My old and tired fingers wouldn't stop hitting keys.
--pwf
If the local Republicans didn't have infighting, there would be no "politics" in our county whatsoever!
YOU ARE RIGHT ON TARGET. MR. TOWNLEY WOULD GET THE VOTE OF MANY PEOPLE. I UNDERSTAND FROM A VERY RELIABLE SOURCE HE IS SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING RUNNING. I HOPE HE WILL.
Sue Mosley is a keeper. The two others gota go, gota go, gota go………………
Go Parnell!
The "word on the street" is pretty accurate from what I hear, or enough that Kelly had his Mom, Hank Wittier and others try to talk Parnell out of it, and his Mom is working hard to find issues to use in Alvarez' campaign against Mosley. Even Bobby D has been talking about it. Course Bobby is propably still smarting from finding out that as a Catholic, he can't go to Heaven in Kelly's realm. I want to hear it from Parnell and then I'm ready to get going.
Mr. Townley,
Put your train on the track to victory! I'm ready to ride with you.
ditto for me.
Blogmaster,
There are actually 34,700 registerd as "other party" in the county, not 25,000. That list is getting longer and more influential.
I agree with the comment political Party isn't that important. We need Board members who can put children above politics and personal ambition.
Whoa is me! Alvarez another Kelly.
What arrogance Kelly must have to actively recruit opponents for the others on the board. If he has that much time on his hands, maybe he isn't doing what he should to make our school system better.
Focus on yourself Kelly, or you won't be on the board anymore. Actually I can't think that anyone would want to have someone like this on our school board.
Grow up Kelly, stay away from Mommy and be a man.
A quote from a long time politician and a good friend of mine:
“For a party to be successful, you can't deviate too far from that big bubble in the center. If the Republicans keep moving to the right, they're going to lose (the) fight."
School Board candidates take note. There are many voters who are not far right or far left.
Amen Mr. River Rat!
LEFT, RIGHT OR CENTER
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Took the test.....I'm not as liberal as I thought!
Wish I could vote for you.
If people just test "conservative" are probably not welcome in the GOP of Randy Harris, Kurt Kelly and John Lund. To be welcome there you have to be some sort of right wing nut. Wonder if any Catholics have taken the GOP test since Kurt says they are not Christians.
y'all best quit pickin on ole Kurtie boy. His mama will come lookin for you!
Good test. I'm more conservative than I thought. At least according to the test.
What is Bobby D talking about with vandalism over the weekend at our high schools, and why hasn't Star Banner reported on it. If a school board member has called OPD to keep from getting the nice kids charged, it needs to be exposed. Even worse if a candidate called. Wonder if they would have called to keep Black kids or plain old common folk had been involved.
OPD officer tells me it is not unusual to have a big shot protest charging "good kids" so he wasn't surprised when Kurt Kelly who fights almost all expulsions and discipline issues at schools called to object when OPD tried to charge vandals caught at Vanguard. The surprise was when David Alvarez called to protest and he isn’t even a school board member. Wonder if Kurt’s other recruit, Judy Maglio objects to strong discipline too????
With all of the effort the Star Banner used about Government in the Sunshine on the hospital, you would they would be on this story like fleas on a dog! And to get scooped by Bobby D???? And why does Kurt try to block all the discipline efforts at the school board? I hope Yancey gave him his lunch when he called to protest "the good kids" getting pinched by the cops. No wonder Yancey doesn't try to discuss curriculum with board members!
Don't you know this blog and Bobby D grate on Kelly something real bad!!!! Makes you wonder if the Blogmaster is Bobby D? Wouldn't that be a switch. Looks like we will need a thread just to handle Kurt and his new case of stupid. And what happened to the blogger who used to defend Kurtie-boy so much? Maybe even he has given up. Come on out SR 200 way and let's have an open meeting just for Kurt.
Can one of you guys explain why anyone would want to block prosection of someone involved in vandalism on public property? I don't care how good the kids are. And why would Alvarez get involved unless one of the big docs involved has promised a big campaign contribution. This whole blog doesn't make much sense to me.
will be interested to see if this is a bunch of wealthy white kids or some less fortunate black kids. i'd bet money it's the former and that's why we won't hear about it.
Everyone should stay out of this and let the police and the teens' parents handle it. Also, they don't need the newspaper involved.
hello
bobby d here,
for the record, i am not the blogmaster. there is suppose to be a public figure coming on my show tommorow to expose the vandalism issue. i wont mention the time of the show or the station because we were asked not to do that. for those who know please pass the word. i have also invited david alverez to come on the show and he said he would. the lunch bunch is getting ready to get started again, any suggestions from the crowd for a speaker. for the blogmaster, if you forget your password is there a way to find it. please email me if there is a way at profamily@aol.com thanks bobby d
“edisrevir”----Not a sad commentary on the county, but a possible sad commentary on “parenting” in our county!
How can you be anonymous and "bobby d" at the same time?
Who has he got coming on his show? Hope it is Kurt to explain how attacks on people trying to do their job. If vandalism is bad enough at schools to hire private security guards, then why not let them and the cops do what we pay them to do. Kelly is paid to set policy on Tuesday nights, not involve himself as some czar. Where is John Lund, Chip Morris and Larry Wittler on this one. Maybe "bobby d" has a role afterall.
Where you been radioman? Looks like Kurtie Boy is in a pile of manure. Hope you get involved in straightening him out.
Well, have to hand it to Bobby. He was very fair to Kurt and Alvarez, waiting to talk to the Mayor to verify that Kurt did call and protest the handling of his daughter's friends in the VHS IB program. I'll withhold final judgement until we hear how he handles the mayor.
Nothing in today's Star Banner. Can we sense a cover up?
you wont hear from chip morris on this one, Alvarez is his brotherinlaw.
Really.
Now isn't that interesting!!!!!
And anything about Kurt trying to block adults from being charged in vandalism at VHS in today's Banner? I dont take it.
yeah there is a story but you can't read it on their website.
Maybe Kurt and David Alvarez called the Banner and got them to block internet access to it. Wish someone would post the story on the blog so we can read it.
Well, the block on the Banner story has been removed and we are able to read the story. But why is the Banner covering up the fact that Kelly called the Mayor and Alvarez called OPD to get the officer censured for arresting these kids who were. his attitude shows he needs to be replaced.
To quote Mr. Kelly . . .
"There seems like there was absolutely no malicious intentions or anything," Kelly said. "That was folks just having good clean fun, and there is a difference between clean fun and destructive behavior." These are the top six academic students at VHS. They were on the campus with spray paint and other materials to have "just clean fun????" Was it just clean fun at Belleview, where it cost hundreds of tax dollars to clean up the "just clean fun?" Ot to remove the glue from door locks? As someone asked Mr. Kelly, what would his opinion have been if they had come to his house to spray paint it . . . and have some "just clean fun". Or how about if they had spray painted First Baptist Church? And Mr. Kelly wonders why we school employees have no confidence in some school board members.
Bobby said what the star banner would not say . . . have to hand it to him, he had the gonads to lay it on the line about these rich kids and the kelly-alvarez effort to cover this thing up. yancey's stand is admirable -- he supports the law. But what he ought to do is get rid of the vcaledictorian and satutatorian at Vanguard, and not let the top six kids walk in graduation. There is a precedent at VHS when they stipped black kids involved in a fight at the school and wouldn't let them graduate -- one of those involved called bobby's show this morning. Maybe the Banner will comment further in the future but someone ought to take kelly to the woodshed for his comments in today's paper.
Let me get this straight, Kelly is condoning vandalism by saying it was only "good clean fun." Does he not realize the impact his statements have on all of the kids in our school system. He just gave permission to any child with influential parents permission to trash our schools.
Hey Kurt, those buildings don't belong to you, they belong to us and if its all the same to you I would like our School Board to protect our schools, our kids, and our best interest. Wait I think I heard that somewhere else, oh yeah, that's what our elected officials are supposed to do. Has Kurt forgotten that he represents all of us, not just the rich people?
I sure hope someone runs against him. Go Parnell!!!!!!!
There are some comments about “parenting” in the discussion about student vandalism. Maybe we all should take note of the words of an 18 year old, from a letter published May 16, 2006 (Gainesville Sun). Note the last sentence of his letter!!
“A Generation's Legacy”
I am appalled at the nightmarish legacy being left my generation by our purportedly benevolent parents. While firmly trusting their own child-rearing expertise, these same parents utterly assured that their children's futures will be nothing less than grim and unlivable.
Rather than curb their insatiable and destructive appetites, the "baby boomer" generation would see our country burdened with astronomical and inescapable debt which will undoubtedly be passed on for decades, perhaps crippling our already unstable future economy.
They would see every aspect of our environment altered, perhaps irreversibly, for the worse; peaceful and productive ties with our allies severed by boorish foreign policy; irreplaceable natural treasures auctioned to the highest bidder to requisition funds for the Middle East quagmire; illegal immigrants flood into our country so corporations can realize a higher profit margin; the minds of the young polluted by scurrilous media output, again for money's sake.
They would see knowledge forsaken in the test score rat race so teachers can meagerly supplement their woefully small incomes; a shrinking upper class secure over 90 percent of our country's vast resources for themselves while everyone else fights in squalor for the rest.
I regret to say that at 18 years of age I am as bitter as an old man, as disillusioned as an author of "The Lost Generation," and I foresee no end to this so long as callous greed and blind selfishness are the defining characteristics of our populace.
It is not someone else's responsibility to facilitate personal change - our elected officials are mere mortals, and often corrupt at that. We must all take the initiative to improve ourselves now. And that begins with you, parents.
Corey Brady,
Gainesville
SMART YOUNG MAN. WE SHOULD LISTEN TO WHAT HE IS TELLING US.
We need more 18 year olds like Corey Brady.
give him credit folks. bobby d has been the man on covering the school vandalism by students.
Even I, a frequent critic, agree that Bobby has been the voice of outraged taxpayers and parents on the vandalism issue. Go Bobby!
Whoaaaa . . ..
radioman saying something good about Bobby D???? aint it so what my grandmamma tole me--politics do make strange bedfellows!!!!
Why didn't the Banner provide the names of the juveniles involved in the "prank"? I have seen the names of other juveniles in articles concerning vandalism. Even saw the name of a 12 year old who accidentally wounded a friend.
hey Mr. Yancey
How about since you are going to let the 6 extremely intelligent students who vandalize VHS, you pick their outfit for the ceremony. Call the sheriff and have 6 orange and white jumpsuits sent over along with ankle cuffs. Then they can stop and pose for a picture with Mr. "just having good clean fun" Kelly when he hands them their diplomas. Good clean humor Kurt, good clean humor.
Isn't it interesting that the big time Kelly defender on another part of the blog hasn't chimmed in to spin Kurt's "good clean fun" comment. See his political card claims he is president and CEO of another new company. All the rest of his companies have gone bye-bye, disolved by the state. This company isn't even the one he lists on the school board board member pages -- that one is long gone. His new company does background checks -- for school boards as he lobbys while in tallahassee on "our school business". Saw his daddy the other night stumping for him at a political function. Maybe mama wasn't making any progress digging up issues for Alvarez.
Does anyone know if Alverez is a Dem or a Rep?
I'm now convinced, keep Mosley and Crawford and EVICT Kelly!
You'd better check out Crawford before you decide to vote for him.
he is a rep. but was a dem about 2 years ago
Thanks Bobby, I had heard a rumor that Alvarez was a Democrat.
OPD gets my vote for not giving in to pressure from folks like Kelly and others.
Alvarez a Dem...interesting.
better watch out for kelly. he says he pres & ceo of a company that does background investigations -- wonder if he has access somehow to tell who we are on this blog.
YOUR BLOGGER IDENTITY IS SAFE!
Have no fear, no one can break in here.
Anyone who tries will be denied.
Interesting that Kurt, Randy, John Lund, Marguerite Cavanaugh, Bobby D & company blast conservative people who previously were registered as Democrats so they could vote in Marion County and now call them RINO when they switch registrations and run as a Republican, but some (at least Kurt and Marguerite) are now actively supporting Alvarez who just changed his registration which makes him a new RINO. At least Sue, a life long Catholic (of course Kelly says Catholics are going to hell anyway) didn't switch churches from small, old line Olivet Baptist Church, to the big socially correct First Baptist with lots more voters like Kelly did. Got no problem with Pastor Ed Johnson who is a great pastor, but I do have a problem with people who use their religion for votes as Kurt always has.
I'm in the boat with the gentleman (Mr. Cates) who wrote the letter in today's paper. Vote out all incumbents, Democrat or Republican. Let's have a fresh start.
I'm one of those "values voters" we have been reading so much about. The only school board candidate with true values is Sue Mosley. The other two don't have the values I want on the board.
There is a difference between "values" and the phoney baloney spewed forth by the likes of Kurt and his people. I believe I have values and I know I am a born again Christian, but I sure don't have to run around every day telling people I am. I hope my conduct confirms my faith, not my words.
YOU'VE GOTTA BE JOKING!!!
Best be careful, Oldervet, Kurt does have a temper and is inclined to bless people out, especially those smaller than him. He is a bully, but he backs down quickly when someone his size or bigger steps into the discussion. He is just a phoney!
Bobby D takes the issue and runs with it. The Banner reluctantly writes about it. You ask why there hasn't there been an editorial on it? Stay after a school board meeting and watch who Kelly sides up to and talks with. It aint Bobby, but it is Brad. I see them.
Why is Kurt Kelly so concerned about Parnell Townley attending a meeting with him? Parnell hasn't even anounced that he is a candidate--and might not be. Talk about paranoid!
Kurt joined First Baptist to get votes? Why not go to Queen of Peace on 200? I think they have more members. Oh wait a minute, I'm sorry, those catholics aren't christians and are damned to hell. Sorry about that Kurt. If you are going to soar with the eagles you cant be caught hanging with the buzzards.
Here's the scoop of the week. Bobby D is considering running against Kelly. I think he might just be able to pull the support.
Whoa, there nellie!
Bobby D running for school board?
Doubt that will ever happen, but I would bet Bobby could get more catholics to the polls than kurt can get baptists out of first Baptist. that would be a hoot, kurt practicing his political faith by urging baptists not to let another catholic on the school board. He doesn't like catholics, he doesn't like jews (herring), he doesn't like crawford, he recruits a hispanic to run against mosley, he can't stand yancey and wanted to run against him but didn't have the gonads, he thinks vandals are just having good clean fun, just who does he like other than his buddy brad rogers who keeps bad things about him out of the paper.
I would like to see Bobby D versus Kurt Kelly. My vote goes to Bobby.
Who can tell us something about Judy Maglio who is running against Crawford?
Don't think Brad Rogers is a BUDDY of Kelly's. Rogers is smarter than that. Probably is a "journalistic acquaintance" and that's all.
Maglio is a retired school board employee recruited by kelly to run against crawford after kelly slandered hering and crawford defended hering. he also recruited alvarezx to run against mosley after she sided with hering.
big loser was the county since hering has stopped selling to the county and they now have to pay retail prices for their door handles, hinges and other fixtures steve always sold at wholesale to them.
anybody he recruits to join his "team" wont get my vote or other school people votes either.
WELL AT LEAST MAGLIO CAN CLAIM SHE KNOWS WHAT A SCHOOL LOOKS LIKE!
Anyone would be better than Crawford.
I'D TAKE CRAWFORD OVER KELLY. CRAWFORD RECOGNIZES HE IS NOT THE SMARTEST PERSON IN THE WORLD. KELLY TAKES AFTER HIS MOTHER AND THINKS HE IS REALLY THE SMARTEST PERSON IN THE WORLD. NOW HE IS TRYING TO DENY HE SAID CATHOLICS AREN'T CHRISTIANS. IF YOU COULD HAVE SEEN IM BLESSING OUT HOST OF OCALA PALMS EVENT YOU WOULD KNOW WHAT TYPE OF PERSON THIS GUY IS.
All this chatter about Townley opposing Kelly makes no sense whatsoever. It won't happen. Townley doesn't even reside in that school district.
Neither did mcclain when he ran against townley, kelly when he was appointed by the governor, sizemore when he ran against stone, payton when he ran last time, and lots more. the requirement is you have a residence when you qualify for school board, or when you serve for county commission.
Yeah. Seems like Darlene Weesney actually bought property before she qualified last time around to be "in the spirit" of compliance.
what i want to know is how someone named kelly who thought he was the heir apparent to cliff stearns and invincible could get so flustered about parnell townley tyat he comes unglued when someone invites parnell to a meeting. sounds to me like kurttie-boy may realize he is not as well liked as he thohght as he shaved each morning and looked at his sweet face.
I am a firm believer that when the pressure is on a persons true colors will surface. Natural instinct if you will.
200 blogger, if what you say is true about the Kurt "blow-up" at a function that was not even his "party", well there you have it. A cry-baby that will do whatever it takes to stay in power. Too bad the voting public couldnt witness it.
Politicians whose sole agenda is to set themselves on a higher plain above everyone else is truly depressing at the end of the day. These are the ones who always seem to stay in office.
Happy memorial day to all!!
Here’s a thought. Let’s re-elect all three school board members. Then we can watch a constantly miffed Kelly for the next four years, being on the short end of many 4-1 and 3-2 votes. With Mosley, Crawford and Herring making Kelly’s life unbearable. Kelly would be “politically impotent” on the board. Even more so than he is now.
Kudos to the Star Banner!! Their editorial today did a fair and balanced job of covering the student vandalism situation at three county schools. Importantly, they were correct in “thumping” Kurt Kelly and David Alvarez for trying to strong arm the OPD in its investigation. Thanks to Mayor Ewers for standing up to Kelly and Alvarez and supporting his police officers---he did the right thing.
Anyone think political contributions by the students’ parents might have motivated both Kelly and Alvarez? Maybe we should check to see if any of the students’ parents are contributors to the campaigns of these two gentlemen.
There are no bad dogs, only bad owners. A similar saying goes for kids. There are no bad kids, only bad parents. Sums it up for the situation with the Vanguard students and vandalism.
banner got it right. no one wants the kids squashed for what was probably a prank. likely that kelly and alvarez involvemant caused the stink and got the story in paper to begin with. next you can expect him to cry baby that the banner is always pickin on him. hope he remembers that he told steve herring school board members have to be above reproach. like, yeah kurt. right on.
mayor and cops come out on top.
I visited with a friend who actually knows the kids involved at Vanguard, and he is convinced they meant no harm, only planned to paint 2006 on frisbees, stab a fork thru the frisbee, and tape it to the door. They are members of the frisbee club at VHS. He also concedes they used poor judgement in going to the campus after mid-night. He, like most, people, was astounded at Kelly and Alvarez getting involved especially in an election year. Dumb. He also concedes that there was considerable damage at Belleview, and that armadillos were turned loose in the new Forest High School (that must have escaped the Banner and Bobby D.) You know, it is just like I told my son many years ago, "if you are not where trouble is, you will never get into trouble." Fortunately, he understood and never got into trouble. But he knew I wouldn't call the Superintendent, the Mayor or the Assistant Chief of Police.
--pwf
Does anyone actually know that Judy Maglio is even thinking about running? I checked votemarion.com and I saw that there's a Joyce Romanski running (I think that's the name). Anyone know who the heck she is?
As much as I don't care for Kurt Kelly, I'd vote for Judy Maglio and tell the rest of the world how great she is. She's a former teacher of mine and one of the BEST people I have ever known. She would never make a decision that didn't put students first.
The best line in the S-B editorial about the student vandals at Vanguard:
“But as dumb as the alleged prank was going to be, perhaps the dopier move was perpetrated by School Board member Kurt Kelly and businessman David Alvarez, a School Board candidate, who needlessly leapt into the case.”
A case of dumb and dumber!!!
Have a Happy Memorial Day everyone.
For the Star-Banner editorial mentioned above, copy and paste:
http://www.ocala.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060527/OPINION/60527009/1008/OPINION&template=printpicart
GREAT EDITORIAL. DUMB AND DUMBER SURE SUMS IT UP.
Never heard of Joyce Romanski, but know someone who might. Will try to find out more about her. Agree with the good comments about Judy Maglio. Have heard others who know her say similar things. Let's not taint her because Kelly is for her.
Will your child be educated? Check out this link and you will see why we need to get rid of ALL the School Board members:
http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/stw/stw.html
I don't agree with all the Eagle Forum stuff. But there are some good points about the weaknesses in our education system.
I think you folks are being too tough on Kurt Kelly. He is really a nice guy.
An excellent question and one on the minds of many teachers and staff!
Ditto from me.
WHO IS JOYCE ROMANSKI?
She is running for Ron Crawford’s position on the School Board. One of the bloggers asked about her background. Copy and paste the following to access her website:
http://members.cox.net/joyce.romanski/index.htm
Hope you have better luck than I did in downloading her brochure.
He was elected/ordained to protect only the good kid elites from the upscale parts of our community. So sad!!!
Any bloggers who can tell me which branch of the military Ron Crawford and Kurt Kelly served in?
I can't imagine Kelly even making it through basic training.
CHECK KURT'S BUSINESS CORPORATIONS ON STATE WEBSITE. THEY'RE ALL DISOLVED FOR INACTIVITY! SEEMS HIS BUSINESS BACKGROUND IS A HOAX TOO. AND WHAT IS BACKGROUND OF THE GUY DOING BACKGROUND INVESTIGATIONS FOR KURT'S 3D BACKGROUND SCREENING? A COP CLAIMS THIS GUY HAS SOME PROBLEMS OF HIS OWN.
I really don't understand why the local Democrats haven't asked Mike Sizemore or another good Dem to run against Kelly. It frustrates me to no end!
Kurt Kelly just makes my skin crawl. How anyone can look at him and think there is the least bit of sincerity behind anything he says is just beyond me. He's the local Republican version of John Kerry.
ANONYMOUS: You obviously have not met Crawford or Kelly up close and personal or you would not even be asking the question about their military service!
Don
(OTOW)
There is zero tolerance for anything that poor or “regular” kids do wrong. There is a different standard for the wealthy or “special” kids of friends of Kurt Kelly and board candidate David Alvarez. Let’s stop this dual standards treatment by not voting for both of these gentlemen.
mike says he knows more about the politics of the marion school board than my own in lake county! one of his school board members named jimmy is one of kurt's close buds. kurt has tried to pass jimmy off on local politics as a campaign consultant in marion county and jimmy passes off kurt as a consultant in lake county.
Anyone know if Parnell is going to run against Kurt?
If he isn't, who can we get to run, I'll volunteer to be their campaign manager. Kurt has got to go...
This is the verbage from a political cartoon in a local newspaper. Really applies to our School Board election.
Male Poll Taker: If the election for (school board) was held today, what would you do?
Female Respondent: Go shopping!
I’d say there is little chance of Kurt Kelly having an opponent. He will have plenty of time to work on the defeat of Sue Mosley and Ron Crawford. And you can bet he will.
Sometimes I think we have too many elected officials who are 30 watt bulbs in 100 watt sockets. The past and present Dunnellon City Councils may prove me wrong. Get a piece of land from the School Board for $1 and sell it for $1.6 million! Those city slickers sure outsmarted all that brain power on our School Board, including Ron Crawford who was on the giving and receiving end of being outsmarted.
Kurt Kelly's mother is out working diligently for David Alverez. Kurt say's he's not involved with running David against Sue Mosley. Do you beleive that Kurt's mother would support one candidate and Kurt would support another, not hardly! I heard Bobby James is interested in running against Kurt, I think Bobby would be a great candidate but, the clock is ticking. If kurt goes unopposed we can all be to blame for unleashing the monster!!!
Bobby James? Interesting possibility....the situation could be just right to elect him to the School Board.
A school board I could support: Bobby James, Joyce Romanski, Sue Mosley, Steve Herring and Judy Zanetti.
Kelly claims he had nothing to do with David Alvarez running? Just one more time he is a CINO -- Christian in Name Only.
He recruited him to run, introduced him all around town, civic clubs, to people in the GOP he thinks are his friends, and then lies about it. But he is a nice guy and "it's just kids having good clean fun."
There are those of us who think the city governments have much brighter bulbs running things than those in our county government (commissioners, school board, etc.). Dunnellon helps to confirm that.
Bobby James would make an excellent School Board member.
Does he live in the Kelly district?
For the record, living in a district does not matter. You must only have a residence there when you file. Kelly did not live in the district when he was appointed by Gov. Bush, and many others have established a residence and then maintained that residence if they are elected.
--pwf
For all you bloggers with time on your hands, here is a "homework" assignment for you on this school board election topic.
David Alvarez (with the help of the Kelly family) wants to tell of his business experience at Microdyne.
Google.com-----type in the words Microdyne and BANKRUPTCY!!
Have fun students!!
How about saving us all time.
You do the google search and tell us what you find. I thought he was a big time CEO . . . a3D background screening and kelly's business partner ... why did kurt want to change Jessica's law so his partner could work better?
I’m sure that everyone is burning with anticipation. Here is the score from last night's “666 game”:
LA ANGELS 12
TB DEVILrays 2
Yeah!!! Go God!!! Eat dirt, Satan!!!
Night owl, it would depend on the role he had at the company, and the condition of the compnay when it was sold. He is said to be such a swift businessman that his record should be a concern.
Just like the fact that all of Mr. Kelly's previous companies have been disolved by the state indicates his true buisiness background, and the role of his partner in 3d background screening and his role in wanting to change Jessica's law should be a concern.
Do you think “Blogger Patty” would include Alvarez and Kelly as being part of the cesspool politics of Marion County? Patty, what’s your opinion?
I heard on the Bobby D Show that he has been approached by SR 200 people to run against Kurt Kelly. I don't know how he can run, he doesn't live in the district. He continually puts down the school system. But based on his stance on the FLAS school, he will get the black vote. He said on his show his ex-wife is from Colombia South America and his oldest son is spanish so he probably speaks spanish and will get the huge spanish vote in marion oaks. He will get the SR 200 vote, he has been doing a spagehtti dinner at Queen of Peace once a month forever. He has also said on his show that he is against prayer in school and intelligent design, two issues that Kelly is for, which might get him some liberals. He is more fiscally conservative then Kelly based on what he says about spending. He is very active in Belleview politics and from what he says on his show he goes to church at St. Teresas almost everyday with his family. So he will get that vote. Plus he does a weekly coaches show for high school sports plus he broadcasts Belleview Football Games, Vangaurd, Lake Weir, Forest, and Belleview Hoop Games plus he played sports himself so he will get the jock vote. Plus he obvioulsy wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth based on the fact that him, his wife and six kids live in a small house in Belleview. Which the average person likes. Plus he will get support from Herring, Mosley and Crawford, all three have been betrayed by Kelly. He sells window blinds so he is in peoples homes everyday, what a way to get votes. And most importantly is he is on the radio everyday for two hours and love him or hate him he has name recognition, more than any other person running in any race in the county. I don't agree with half the stuff he says but he does make a lot of sense, does give everyone a chance to speak and never backs down, even to Kurt Kelly. He is the only public figure that has gone head to head with him and has won. I guess thats why Kelly won't go on his show anymore. Just think, if Bobby D ran and won we won't have to listen to preaching at the school board meetings by Kelly. Oh I forgot, based on all the work he has done at the old gospel station, plus how he has kept that music going on his new station he might even get the Southern Baptist vote, at least Bobby D doesn't hate any religious group. He even sponsored a Gospel sing on the square one Christmas. And he has that baptist minister on his show everyday. If he ran and I was Kelly, I would be scared.
I pointed out that Bobby D might be a candidate back on May 22. He will get my vote if he decides to run. I still think he can pull off a win.
I don't know what Patty might think but I sure would put this guy Kelly in the cesspool politics category. Honestly, I don't know enough about Alvarez to comment. If he was recruitied by Kelly as some say then he is probably pool material also.
I’m waiting to hear from RADIOMAN before I throw any support to Bobby D. Let's hear from you Radioman.
Anon, you have a lot to digest for an old radioman between holes on the course. your analysis sounds reasonable plus other stuff about kurt's businesses that i hear around town. his demand that hering be "above reproach" make steve appear to be a "saint" compared to kurt. judgement? well, at least i think bobby really does believe what he says. kurt is like the old politician who says one thing on camera and does another. let me think more about your comments. you are asking a lot from the old radioman.
Let's put this "above reproach" thing with Steve Herring to rest. In watching school board meetings and following politics as I have, Steve Herring is a honest broker as a businessman on the School Board. His bids on school door furniture have been honest bids, where he makes litle or no money. He has tried to help schools. As a person, I like him. He is not a pompous, phoney who grandstands. He says little, may not be the most arriculate person serving, but he is sincere, he helps other people, he contributes to fund raising efforts of schools and other groups, he is committed to our school system, and his bids were above reproach. In fact, just six weeks prior to Mr. kelly's grandstanding against Steve, Mr. Kelly voted to approve the same type bid.
(For the record, I have never been involved in assisting in any of Steve's campaigns, so I am not his flack. I am just tired of the phoney pontificating on camera at the school board meetings.)
--pwf
Question for the REC and those who call others "RINOs":
How can Marguerite Cavanaugh and others on the REC tout David Alvarez as a candidate for anything, since he is another of those many thousands who have changed registrations and become a Republican of late?
--pwf
Blogmaster,
Hope you knew that the blog was not working most of the day yesterday.
Understand that Ms. Cavanaugh is promoting Alvarez over Sue Mosley. I thought the role of the REC and State Committee people is to promote all Republican candidates, not just “certain” ones. A good example of why many Republicans are getting fed up with the Party’s so called leaders. The 2006 election results may very well show how upset we are with a few people who are trying to hijack the Party!
So how was David able to function without his recruiter and handler, Mr. Kelly??? Interesting that he is so interested in public schools when he sent his kids to the high priced, society Cornerstone School. Guess public schools are for the lower class. Get going Sue. You are our voice, not Kurts.
If Kelly is going to have any opposition, time is sure getting short. Right now looks like he is going to escape being held accountable for his record, arrogance and stupid statements.
I don't think some of you folks realize or respect how much influence Kurt Kelly has in the local Republican Party. He may be even more powerful than Randy Harris. I have heard that Kelly is the one person that Harris will back down from. Kelly could become the next leader of the local Republicans, if he wants to. Run whoever against him for the school board and he will wipe them out.
ARE YOU SERIOUS? I'M NO HARRIS FAN BUT THE GUY IS WAY ABOVE KELLY IN POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. IF KELLY HAD 1/2 THE BRAIN OF HARRIS, HE'D BE 10 TIMES SMARTER THAN HE IS NOW. KELLY ANOTHER HARRIS--NO WAY IN HELL!!
Well until today I have never heard the words RESPECT and KURT KELLY in the same sentence! Unbelievable! All I have to say to the statement on the blog is I'm sorry but Kurt Kelly is NO Randy Harris! He only wishes that he was half the man Randy is!
I just couldn't resist. I know I have my own forum to express my opinion but please forgive me, I just had to. Kelly as powerful as Harris, someone is smoking crack. Harris back down from Kelly, in what lifetime, you have a better chance to see Moses part the Red Sea than to have Harris back down to Kelly, especially on an issue that he feels strongly about. Lets look at who we have in office as Republicans and compare who is more liked, respected and more importantly a better overall republican.
Crawford or Kelly: Crawford and Kelly are both socially conservative but Crawford is much more fiscally conservative, my vote Crawford.
Mosley or Kelly: The facts: When they both ran in 2002 Mosley got 63% of the vote over an incumbent and Kelly got only 52% against two canidates who had no money and have never been in office and lets not forget Kelly was an incumbent and appointed by the govenor. Msley and Kelly are both socially conservative. Mosley is more fiscally conservative. my vote Mosley.
Herring or Kelly: Herring is definately more fiscally conservative and when it comes to pro-life and social issues I see Herring everytime there is a big pro-life event, not just there shaking hands but working the event either cooking hamburgers or getting his hands dirty. my vote Herring.
Zanetti or Kelly: She barely beat liberal Maines. Zanetti has voted the same way Kelly has on every issue. Or is it the other way around, has Kelly been following Zanettis lead. Maybe she is the most powerful Republican in Marion County, Kelly seems to vote the same as her on all the issues. my vote ?
Now county commisioners, Kesselring, Payton, McClain and Stone. All consider themselves good pro-life Christians I have my doubts only about one on that issue. All have much more successful personal businesses than Kelly. Stone thumped the #1 dem by 10%, McClain beat a long time incumbent in the primary and beat a dem that had huge name recognition. Payton was in a weird election but still won and my prediction is that he wins in a landslide this time around. To say those guys would follow Kelly into battle would make a great Sat. Night Live skit. And we also have Baxley and Cretul. Do you think their going to pass the torch to Kelly, lol. oh yeah, Kelly more powerful than Cliff Sterns, maybe when Sterns retires and moves to Colorado. So lets put them in order and see if you agree.
Sterns, Baxley, Harris, Cretul, Mosley, Herring, Stone and McClain, Crawford, Payton & Kesselring, Kelly, Zanetti.
What Kelly has to worry about is not how powerful he is but how many of the real powerbrokers are running and hiding because of his positions on three big issue: Going against school choice by heading the charge against the Flaas school. The Herring "beyond reproach" garbage, where Kelly drew a line in the sand and tried to make Herring, a much better Rep. then Kelly, look bad. The Vangaurd tresspassing incident. Where every politician in the county ran and hid for a few days not to have to make a comment on how they felt on the issue. It was probably the worst political move I have seen a politician make in this county during an election year. Everyone except Kelly and Alverez was on the polices side. Enough said. Kelly just better get on his knees and pray that someone with any name recognition at all doesnt run against him. If someone does I have a funny feeling Kelly wont like the outcome. I guess I wont get him on my show after this one. Oh well, he hasnt responded to my last 2 emails anyway.
Wow. What an analysis. And, what... well, let's see if I can clean it up a bit. What... well I'll move to the top of the body rather than the middle, and say... what courage to outline the littany of events and issues and name names. Let me only say that I could not have done it more truthfully of better.
Bobby D did leave out one issue that will haunt Kurt in every election--his position on Catholics doomed to hell.
He left one more issue out -- sincerity. Herring and Mosley have it. Kurt does not.
Bobby and I have had strong disagreements, but on this one, he is 100 percent on target.
--pwf
On the Kenny-Alvarez issue with the Vanguard kids. It is beyond anything I have heard in my 50 years of newspapering and following politics to have an elected official claim "it was just clean fun" and and allege to a public official that the school system and law enforcement had failed by not telling kids they could not trespass on school property after midnight with items that could be used for vandalism (regardless of their real intent). If that is the type business training that Kelly and Alvarez have used in guiding their companies, it is training not needed in guiding the fortunes of the 40,000+ kids in our school system. I am not sure which one is dumb and which one is dumber.
That should have said "Kelly-Alvarez issue . . ."
--pwf
Bobby, very good summary!
Kelly's opinion on the after-life future of Catholics will also haunt him if he has any reasonable competition. You were kind in not making an issue of something that I know must impact you personally. Kelly and Alvarez are two of a kind and we for sure don't need them both on the board.
I might not agree on your rankings at the top of the list, but you have the local Republicans grouped about like I would group them. The top 4 rankings are all interchangeable in my opinion. Each of them are about equal in being "good Rs".
yeah!
radioman here, this bright sunshine for some golf before stormy weather we might get tomorrow . . . that might be a good setup for an election. man, you dont know how much this hurts (not really) but the ole radioman says bobby d done summed it up about right. agree that pwf would have been hard put to have done better, what with his years of writing stuff like this in his columns. too bad the local editor doesn't write something of value in her OSB ramblings. so let's get on with it. Hope the next entry says that parnell is going to run. know kurt and his mama have tried to discourage him, and the state gop lady has all but made kurt the pope in her plea for parnell not to run, but i hope he does. afterall, MC and her REC cronies didn't help parnell in his races. And I see in a posting that MC and her REC cronies are putting up alvarez against the hardest working school bd member we have had in a long time --talk about RINO crap. and my reading is this county has had about all of the GOP partisanship it can stand. let's get it on!
I’ll tell you this, if Marguerite Cavanaugh and Kurt Kelly are pushing David Alvarez for the School Board, you had better be especially careful in voting for Alvarez. Look at him very, very closely.
PARNELL TOWNLEY OWES THE REC ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! THEY MAY GET THEIR COMEUPANCE IF HE DECIDES TO RUN FOR THE SCHOOL BOARD AND THEY ALL DESERVE IT. KELLY SHOULD HAVE STAYED OUT OF TRYING TO BE THE KING MAKER ON THE BOARD POSITIONS. DOUBT THIS BLOG WOULD HAVE EVER EVEN HAD AN ISSUE TO DISCUSS.
i thought alvarez might have an advantage with the hispanics, but it's a step father who is hispanic. he is not, so don't give him the spanish vote. he does have a bro-in-law who is pretty good at spinning stuff in chip morris. wonder why chip didn't have him explain his position that the cops should have explained to the seniors they couldn't trespass at vanguard on his radio show. that would have been good sport listening as alvarez, chip and pc tried to spin their way out of that stupid statement.
I heard on the Bobby D Show that he has invited Alverez a couple of times and Bobby D has said that he said he would come on in "a couple of weeks" that was over a month ago. I guess Alverez is afraid of Bobby D's hot seat. Just what we need, another chicken politician.
Bobby D,
The School Board election is a very important one. If you have any radio programs planned to discuss the School Board election, please feel free to post the date, time, etc. for bloggers to tune in. We won’t consider this advertising, since it would directly relate to the issue of the School Board election already being covered on our PH Blog. The more information people have about the candidates and our school system challenges/problems the better.
It seems that one of the current Board members may be more interested in playing “power politics” than better performing his elected duties to represent students, parents, teachers and taxpayers. Voters need to find out.
The Microdyne financial history doesn’t look good as something to tout David Alvarez as one of those high-flyer business executives. From what I learned, Microdyne screwed its investors by flooding its distribution channel with products to increase its sales bookings. The result was a huge (80%) stock price decrease and major financial troubles for Microdyne.
Do we need an executive associated with something like this on our School Board? Although, maybe he can figure out a way to inflate our FCAT scores!
As I have said earlier in this blog about a person's true colors coming out under pressure, watch what happens when Parnell Townley announces to run.
The Kellys (mom, dad, kurtie boy) will take it up a notch. I would suggest that Mr. Townley could put his name on the ballot, spend the summer in the Bahamas, not spend a dime on the campaign and still get 40% of the vote.
You are correct, Kurt has taken lots of dollars from developers and the construction industry. But so have others as well. It is a fact of life that it costs money to put on a campaign, and developers are the ones who have the dollars to contrribute. But some of Kurt's statements and actions recently have some of those who did contribute looking somewhere else.
In this morning's banner, " ... Kelly said he plans to lobby state legislators about changing state regulations to issue funding to school districts based on growth projections.
"We have to get as many built as soon as possible," he said. "This (growth) is something I have always said would be a problem if we didn't act soon. And now here we are. We need some changes so we can get ahead."
I will bet lunch you can not find where he ever always said this would be a problem. In fact, in the last personal discussions we had over impact fees, he promised he would NEVER be for an impact fee, that it was unfair. He told me he had "promised" the developers there would be no impact fees. When he saw he had lost the school board majority who moved to support impact fees when the county commission threatened to impose them for the school board, Kelly then moved to where he was the leader to fight growth and impact fees. That is a phoney claim. He sat idly by and watched us move from a serious problem to a criss with no leadership -- not even one of "in the eye of the camera" pleas.
And speaking of lobbying, who is the county's lobbyist in Tallahassee who has access to all those legislators and state agencies? Kurt's sister, Natalie.
--pwf
Picture painted by Star Banner is pretty glum. We have never had leadership from the School Board battling to get developers to help pay for their growth until Herring and Mosley began to talk with them and explain they HAVE to help, or people will quit moving here and quit buying their homes. From within the system, believe me, there was no lifting by Kelly or by Crawford.
If the school board and county commissioners don't start working better together on growth management issues this county is in deep s...
I think Townley would be a good selection to the school board to help in this regard. He has faced the good and bad of planning and understands how the school board should work the issues. He'd be a good and respected school system representative to work with the commission. Kelly would be (and is) more interested in who wins politically than in solving the problem.
A question from someone on June 6, ”why did kurt want to change Jessica's law so his partner could work better?”
I’d like to know more about how Kurt Kelly trying to get Jessica’s Law changed relates to one of Kelly’s business partners. Did that person commit some sort of crime or something related to that law? Anyone know?
I'd like to know too.
Short answer is yes, His business partner is currently out on bond pending trial for an accusation of fondling his two underage step daughters.
Keep in mind these are only allegations. It is entirely possible that they are false.
One of the questions at last nights Idea Florida meeting at sss was about jessice's law. Someone complained it was costing the schools money to do investigations. Being charged with a crime might make it difficult to do background investigations under that law.
I guess I missed this, but what kind of business are Kelly and his partner in? I hope it is nothing dealing with children.
they operate 3d background screening, making background investigations for employers, and, well, school systems checking backgrounds of employees and vendors for 69 dollars a pop
Thanks. I better understand the sensitivity of the business partners potential crimes as it relates to the type of business they are in. Kind of like the fox protecting the chicken house. As someone said, these are only charges at this point. However, there are still some partner integrity, morality and character issues that I would have concern with in the type of business it is.
DAMN SURE ARE SOME POSSIBLE ISSUES!
I believe I would even vote for Darlene Weesner if she ran against Kurt Kelly and I've never voted for a Democrat in 25 years.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. That's the best laugh I've had in a while.
Anon, I am curious why you would not vote for Kurt who pictures himself as ONE of the most powerful, if not THE most powerful political leader in Marion County, who has such a wonderful smile, is so good looking, who left a small church where he was on the ministry staff to be better situated politically at the largest Baptist Church in MC, who has studied the scriptures and found that Catholics are going to hell, that women should not be in positions of leadership, especially should not be reading the scriptures in church and hsould never be preachers, who is better than Jesse Jackson at finding a camera to pose before, who wants to change Jessica law, who has not succeeded in business since he was a yellow pages salesman but claims such business expertise, who now investigates the background of others with a partner with a background that is in question-well the coffee is ready and I gonna go. But please tell us why you would vote for a reformed republican (Darlene who is now a dem) over my old friend Kurt.
"edisrevir"......This whole appealing to veterans thing is a crock! I know that a local guy named Hank Whittier tells candidates that if they get on his “good side” he can deliver the veterans vote for them. He has attempted this in the past and has not been all that successful.
Whittier doesn’t care whether who he supports is a veteran or not. As long as candidates suck up to him, that’s all he is looking for. I wish he would really represent veterans and not just his own ego driven, self interests. There are many veterans like me who won’t be told by anyone claiming to represent them how they should vote. We are a pretty independent group.
anyone know the owner of kurt's competitor company? I hear he made some promises to her and then went behind her back to do the exact opposite. doesn't sound very spiritual to me.
I've just got to say that this blog is probably the single best source for Marion County politics. I'm so glad I found it.
Curious, you asked--why would I vote for Darlene Weesner over Kelly? Simple, I trust her!
200 Blogger,
The owner of Kurt's business competitor is Lola Gonzalez of Accurate Background Check. The business she runs is a reputable one with backgrounds completed by trained individuals that were subjected to intensive background checks themselves and can be again at any time during their employment as well. This is a company that Kurt should model his own after. I doubt that Accurate has any pedophiles or alleged pedophiles on their staff. Also note that Lola Gonzalez is extrememly active in the community herself and is able to be so without playing all of the political and cowardly games that Kurt does.
Suggest we keep track of any local big wigs who contribute to Kelly’s campaign, list them on the blog and have bloggers contact them and ask them why they contributed. The contribution lists are open to the public. Maybe some of the contributors would even be willing to come on the blog and give us some information about Kelly we should know. What do you think?
Anyone who tells you they can bring home the veteran’s vote in this county has been smoking crack (to borrow a phrase from Bobby D). Hank Whittacre has about as much of a chance of doing that as a one legged man winning an ass kicking contest!
And yes, I’m a veteran also.
Well now I’m really disappointed in Kurt Kelly. I was about to give him credit for going out and getting a Hispanic candidate to run for school board. I find out on the blog that David Alvarez is not even a blood-line Hispanic. Do you think they might be using Alvarez’s name to try to “fool” the Hispanic community into voting for him? Naw, Kelly wouldn’t do that----would he?
I'd be surprised if Kelly even knew there were Hispanics in Marion County.
whooa there nellie!!!! you are jumping to conclusions about kurtie boy sponsoring someone to run for govt school board positions. Nah, not kurtieboy. Why he has even denied it.
But he HAS introduced the non-hispanic-with-the-hispanic-sounding-name many places, holding him by the hand (figuratively speaking that is) and guides his every step, and what he dont guide, Mama kelly does. She researches issues for him, digging thru files, and trying to find something he can use against mosley who, if you take the time to research yourself, will find that she has come up with all the issues kurtie boy now champions, from veterans to construction costs, from impact fees to discipline, from no-sex-in-the-schools. whoooops, mistake, cause kurt did find one issue none of the other four could find to champion -- trying to censure a cop who found six young adults on a school campus trespassing at night with spray paint, and kurtie boy calls the mayor and complains about the cop and is dump enough to try and justify the kids behavior in the osb--the stupid 'just clean fun' comment. have to give kurtieboy a red star for that issue. duh!
fiscal conservative says the microdyne financial history doesn’t look like anything good to tout David Alvarez as one of those high-flyer business executives. friend tells me there are many in ocala who invested in microdyne and lost big time from the business practices. flooding its distribution channel with products to increase its sales bookings -- that sounds like enron or worldcom. wish someone would research the truth. now is when we need the old al lee or ferguson digging and reporting. maybe osb will come up with something.
Interesting stuff.
If I was going to attend the GOP exec committee meeting Monday night, I would ask these questions of the Anglo with the Spanish surname:
1. Why did you call the Asst. Chief of Police and urge the censure of the beat cop for making an arrest of people who obviously were trespassing on school property with a can of spray paint after midnight? Only one other person in Marion County thought to try and blame the cop for doing his job.
2. Do you really believe it is the fault of the police and the school system for not teaching these young adults not to trespass after midnight on private or public property. Do you not realize the tremendous cost to private property owners and the public for cleaning up spray paint on buildings and other damage? Perhaps you could get Mrs. Kelly to get you the budgeted money to clear up vandalism.
And of Kurtieboy:
1. Why did you protest to Mr. Yancey that your daughter's friends in the IB program had been detained for an obvious act of vandalism, no matter how small. Other school board members have been calling for stronger discipline and accountability while you have protected the stronger accountability policies. Did not your own mother run for superintendent on stronger discipline and accountability issues?
2. Wny would you even think to call the Mayor and protest that a hand working beat cop who was doing his duty and the job we all pay him to do should be censured and the charges against the CHS six be dropped. Would you not concede that was one of the "stupider" thinks any elected official has ever done in these tough times of trying to raise accountability standards of our students and our elected officials?
3. Do you really believe this act of "good clean fun" should have been ignored?
4. Have you ever made these type calls in behalf of any other group of students from a lower social or economic status, and have you ever gone to bat for any students detained who were non-anglo?
If someone is going to ask those questions, I might go and listen to the fireworks. It's been a long time since I went to one of the REC meetings anyway.
--pwf
WHILE THEY ARE AT IT, WHY NOT ASK MARGUERITE ABOUT HER SUPPORT FOR RINO ALVAREX AGAINST A SOLID LONG TIME REPUBLICAN WHO SUPPORTS THE PRINCIPLES THE OTHERS ONLY TALK ABOUT?
The question of the day: Is Kelly going to have an opponent or not?
Also, it looks like we have two REC DROPOUTS. I did not post the last set of comments. OK with me though, I agree with what was posted and I imagine there are many REC dropouts in this county.
Hope Parnell enters the fray!!
I have really learned quite a bit about Kurt Kelly. Enough to know we need someone more dedicated to the schools and not so much to politics.
I find it very unfortunate that so many people seem to think Mr. Kelly is not doing a good job. I know him and know he is a man of integrity. This will come to bear during the election, if he even has someone opposing him, which I doubt very much. Perhaps some competition would be good to show people how much support there is for him in the county.
Agree, having Kelly run against a good opponent would be good for the soul.
P.S. to above comment. Doubt there are any good opponents. Most potential good opponents are too busy doing other more important things than to get into politics
sorry to tell you but there is an excellent public minded person willing to run. stay tuned.
Wonder if anyone from the REC has the integrity to ask kurt the questions someone asked above in this thread? I will give them the benefit of the doubtr since I want to go along with kurtieboy's "above reproach" philosophy. Tomorrow I may change my mind about the REC. NOT!!!!
I can't wait to see who is going to run!
anyone go to the REC meeting last night to see who had the gutsbto ask the questions on this blog thread? i was gonna go and watch til the storm came thru. hear the next week or so is gonna be interesting.
And just for the record, last nite was the first time Alvarez had ever been inside the REPUBLICAN headquarters.
Yes, common knowledge. This man was a democrat until he decided to run for school board.
Would have more respect for him if he just be who he is and not pretend!!
I'M A REPUBLICAN AND I'D NEVER SET FOOT INSIDE THE LOCAL HEADQUARTERS!
This post has been going on for over a month now and there hasn't been much talk about the original topic - Dems winning school board races.
Well, no Dem candidates. Thinking back over previous posts, I think the only Democrat mentioned was Sizemore. Can anyone even think of one possible Democratic candidate? Anyone?
There was one other Dem mentioned--Bobby James. Doesn't look like that will happen. That's a shame.
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