What are they about?
Isn”t it time that school board candidates Gina Dickson, Jamie Hopper and Julie Alves come out of the shadows and tell the voters what they are about? Their ballot statements are vague and say nothing about what they”d do if elected. With only a few short weeks left before the election, these challengers have never approached the podium at a school board meeting and, in fact, have yet to sit all the way through a single one. Gina Dickson was the only one of these challengers that showed up for the candidates” forum in Lower Lake but left quickly and refused to stay and debate with incumbents Anita Gordon, Herb Gura and Carolynn Jarrett.
Most disturbing is that infamous right-wing zealot Darrell Watkins, who lives half a county away from Konocti District and has no children attending school here, has taken a sudden interest in this race. Does Watkins have reason to believe that Dickson, Alves and Hopper support his extremist ideas which include physically disciplining (aka beating) children in our schools? The voters have no way of knowing until the challengers step up and speak out either for or against Watkins” positions.
Current school board members Gordon, Gura and Jarrett have well-documented records which voters can use to make an informed choice. Thus far their challengers have offered little information other than campaign signs hastily placed in vacant lots.
Arthur Mull
Clearlake
