Candidates for School Board 2011
There will be elections in four Director Districts. here are the candidates
District I, North Seattle
Peter Maier (Incumbent)
District II, North Seattle
Sherry Carr (Incumbent)
Kate Martin
District III, Northeast Seattle
Harium Martin-Morris(Incumbent)
Michelle Buetow
District VI, West Seattle
Steve Sundquist (Incumbent)
Joy Anderson(?)
Charita Dumas (?)
Martha (Marty) McLaren (?)
District I, North Seattle
Peter Maier (Incumbent)
District II, North Seattle
Sherry Carr (Incumbent)
Kate Martin
District III, Northeast Seattle
Harium Martin-Morris(Incumbent)
Michelle Buetow
District VI, West Seattle
Steve Sundquist (Incumbent)
Joy Anderson(?)
Charita Dumas (?)
Martha (Marty) McLaren (?)
Comments
Harium Martin-Morris, Sherry Carr, Steve Sundquist, and Peter Maier, will be up for an endorsement vote. It's a small district, and any new people with a voice will have an impact.
http://wa-demchairs.org/kcdems/2011/races.php
Signed. Many regards
School Board elections are odd ducks and even though I've tried, I've never found out quite why we do it this way.
You have to run in the primary out of your district (you have to live there). It's a district only vote. So if no one is running in your district, you skip the primary.
Therefore, it is VERY important to be known in your own district or you may not make it out of the primary. If there are only two people running, then both go to the general.
In the general election, the candidates are running city-wide which means you need to get out there and work the city.
Money is the mother's milk of campaigns. We know that but frankly, I still say that a strong campaign is a strong campaign. Kay Smith-Blum used her many connections to have a successful Facebook page as well as used her funds for a couple of billboards but she did NO direct mailings (more green). It worked.
It would be really great to have more than one challenger in each race. There's two reasons for that. One, is that it forces the incumbent to have to start explaining more earlier. Two, there could be the chance to knock an incumbent out in the primary would would be HUGE and set the tone for the general.
Challengers will still have to work to prove why they would be better and not just run as "I'm not the incumbent" and throw arrows at the state of the district (although that's a strategy as well).
The Primary as a local SPS District only affair is to get the best two candidates living in each district (as determined by the voters in that district) on the slate in the general election.
The General election will allow every registered voter in Seattle to vote for each of the four directorships.
When the four directors who continually fail to make evidence-based decisions are running.... everyone has the opportunity to vote against them. Reelect No One.
Note:
There is only a local district primary in districts with more than two candidates. It would be good to have at least three candidates in each district. It costs nothing to file for school board. Filing is done in the first full week of June.
Where is David Blomstrom?
Any third candidate will do.
Ha ha ha ha ha! Thanks for a good laugh!
A potential candidate against Peter Maier should contact the 36th Executive Board and get on the interview schedule ASAP.
http://www.36th.org/
It will be located at:
The Ballard Sr. Center
5429 32nd Ave NW
From 6-9pm.
Hope you can make it.
I agree with you David B is not what is needed. What is needed are at least three candidates in every district to force a primary in August. Any registered voter in Seattle can run for the Board if they live in the required District. It is free. It takes very little time to file for candidacy.
A serious Candidate like Ms. Martin or Ms. Buetow will be helped by having a third candidate in the race.... an August primary will be much better than no primary.
-Perplexed
But endorsement meetings are happening NOW. Anyone who wants to be a candidate needs to get out to those endorsement meetings right away.
Ed Doc! Ed Doc!
Another cogent post at the Times!
We need U!
Here are the types of audits one can undertake (from the internet of course):
•Financial Audits address questions of accounting, recording, and reporting of financial transactions. Reviewing the adequacy of internal controls also falls within the scope of financial audits.
•Compliance Audits seek to determine if departments are adhering to federal, state, and agency rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
•Operational Audits examine the use of department/university resources to evaluate whether those resources are being utilized in the most efficient and effective way to fulfill the agency's mission and objectives. An operational audit may include elements of a compliance audit, a financial audit, and an information systems audit.
•Investigative (or forensic) Audits are performed when appropriate. These audits focus on alleged violations of federal and state laws and of agency policies and regulations. This may result in prosecution or disciplinary action. Internal theft, misuse of assets, and conflicts of interest are examples of investigative audits.
In the case of SPS, what is called for is an operational audit, plain and simple. I want to quit burning up money on stuff that does NOT help our teachers and students NOW.
The case was forwarded to the KC Prosecutor so they ARE investigating.
I'm trying to get clarification out there on the calls for a forensic audit. I wish the terminology could change or the calls be made for an operational audit.
One is underway of the Facilities department. GOOD! It needs it.
Clementine
I am working with challengers and we WILL prevail. Lessee, no established political group has endorsed candidates yet... Maybe they can read the writing on the wall.
Do you really think I just piss and moan on the blog. No, I do let my views be known but I've been doorbelling since the eighties.
Terrence Menage has filed to run against Carr.
Dr. Menage wrote his candidacy announcement on another thread of this blog; he has been only candidate thus far to support the call for a forensic audit.
I realize that a significant number of people that post on this blog do not believe a forensic audit is necessary or warranted. At one point I believe it was compared to using a shotgun to kill flies, overkill. In light of all that I know and the little bit that has been reported, the half-measures many propose are akin to using a 4 cm band-aid for a gaping chest wound. A forensic audit is long overdue and the absence of one will allow more millions of taxpayer dollars to be subject to the abuse, fraud, theft and waste that permeates headquarters.