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• 1 NoTemperance // Aug 4, 2010 at 9:31 am

  As of yesterday…Daniel T. Smithson (?) had filed to run against Debbie Wesslund in the District 3 School Board race. No challengers yet for Linda Duncan. I cannot locate any info. re: Smithson (And so far the CJ is silent. Surprise! Wonder who they’ll endorse?!) Can you get your minions on locating some info. on Smithson?

• 2 blowin' in the wind // Aug 4, 2010 at 9:41 am

  You need to know that Steve Imhoff and Larry Hugo, whose terms are not up, are wholly-owned subsidiaries of JCTA. If the community allows JCTA to pick up more seats it is in big trouble. They are completely supportive of Berman. By the way, if the C-J had READ the evaluation, they would see that it was NOT praising the superintendent. But who reads these days.

• 3 jake // Aug 4, 2010 at 9:45 am

  Gotta correct you:

  Most of the JCTA folks I speak with do not support Sheldon Berman. And acting like JCTA is the devil isn’t going to solve anything.

  With any labor group, there’s always good and there’s always bad.

• 4 blowin' in the wind // Aug 4, 2010 at 10:13 am

  I agree with you Jake. Lots of very good people in JCTA. I was referring to the president of JCTA’s reaction to the evaluation and the change of attitude between the evaluation blood-bath on Thursday and the public meeting on Friday, where Brent McKim sat in the front row and the Imhoff and Hugo shifted their attitude to support SB. I will be careful not to cite the whole–JCTA–when I mean the leadership of it.

• 5 jake // Aug 4, 2010 at 10:23 am

  Thank you for the clarification!

• 6 G-townReader // Aug 4, 2010 at 8:30 pm

  Jake, as soon as I saw the word “quickie” in your headline, I thought this was going to be a jest at the expense of Coach P.

• 7 G-townReader // Aug 4, 2010 at 8:32 pm

  Hey — is this “awaiting moderation” a new thing for the ‘Ville?

• 8 jake // Aug 4, 2010 at 8:36 pm

  Nope.

  Usually only happens when flooded with a bunch of comments and traffic.

  Right now, it’s spam causing all the triggers.

• 9 Bruce Maples // Aug 4, 2010 at 9:09 pm

  OK, so I did some quick checking and couldn’t find it — which seats are open this fall?

• 10 blowin' in the wind // Aug 5, 2010 at 7:36 am

  Bruce, all four ladies seats: Debbie Westlund, Linda Duncan, Carol Haddad, and Diane Porter–who is appointed replacement for Ann Elmore.

• 11 citizen // Aug 5, 2010 at 4:30 pm

  No info on Smithson, but he is either backed by JCTA or a nobody. Brent McKim and Shelley have a secret pact to suppport each other forever, amen, well, at least this week anyway. Wesslund is just a big meanie who wouldn’t write Shelley a glowing review so they don’t like her anymore.

• 12 J // Aug 6, 2010 at 3:47 pm

  Just an FYI, the 15th District PTA will host a school board candidates forum on Oct. 19, 2010 at Van Hoose. All SB candidates will be invited to attend. The District PTA did this 2 years ago. PTA does not endorse any candidates. For more info go to the website, http://www.15thdistrictpta.org

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