The Right Person Got Elected in District IV
I print that title because I just read the Parent Map editorial about the School Board races. It's a race that should be viewed as a bellwether for the future of the national debate about public education. That's a big statement but the editorial goes on to note the concern over: big money in a school board campaign negative campaigning Dale Estey, who claimed not to be aware of or in control of some of her campaign P.R. machinery, also admitted to me on Election Night that such tactics are a calculated risk. She said experts had told her that the gains from negative publicity far outstrip the losses. This blind faith in "experts" contradicts the image Dale Estey sought to portray, that of a homegrown girl in touch with the concerns of Seattle families. Had she listened to the people whose doorbells she rang, instead of experts, and followed her own instincts, she might have understood early on that negativity was a problem, especially when n...