Figg: Alvord is a Great Choice for Lakeport School Board
As a former library clerk and classroom aide at Lakeport Elementary and Terrace Middle School for 29 years, I have experienced first-hand how a great school board can shape our community for the better. In our rural, close-knit community, we have some great people who are willing to step up and serve in times of need. Carly Alvord, Lakeport Unified School Board candidate, is one of those people.
A key issue in this school board is discipline at the school.
When I was working in the district, (coincidentally, at the same time Carly was a student), we had common sense discipline. Strong discipline builds strong character. Many of us would not be where we are today, had there not been such high expectations for our behavior.
Currently, kids are being taught there are no boundaries. They can curse, hit, spit, and throw things without meaningful consequences. This is not OK.
Furthermore, it appears the mass exodus of teachers at the school may be directly related to this discipline policy. Teachers are being treated like punching bags with little authority. If we want our school to succeed, we must address this issue.
Carly understands this and is ready to tackle the issue head-on.
Transparency and the ability to listen are two important traits of any elected official. These are two areas where I believe Carly can also help the Lakeport Unified School Board. She does not mince words or shy away from speaking the truth. She seeks out opinions from others, listens, and takes input seriously.
Carly also has strong ties to the Lakeport community. She grew up here, her family lives here, and she has two children in the district. Being on the school board is not her life’s ambition, but she sees the need, feels strongly about several issues – and she’s willing to step-up and help!
For these reasons, I encourage all Lakeport voters to vote for Carly Alvord, along with her running mates, Dan Buffalo and Jen Hanson. For more information about her campaign, you can visit www.fixLUSD.com.
— Michelle Figg, Lakeport
An insurance agent against Don Anderson for judge
As a lot of you know and for those that don’t I was arrested, tried, convicted, then exonerated for a crime that wasn’t even a crime in the first place. I sold a lawful Insurance product to a client and she made over $42,000 on her annuitization value in about 3 years with $175,000 investment. The Lake County DA’s office charged me with larceny because they felt I should have known that my client had the onset of dementia Alzheimer’s at the time of the sell.
Two months after the sell, the DA’s office interviewed my client and my client told them that she bought the annuity for tax purposes and nobody forced her to do it and she did it by her own free will and choice (I have the DA report), and if I would have known my client had any such problem I wouldn’t have helped her, which is irrelevant anyway because she wasn’t conserved and it wasn’t a crime in the first place. (FYI if I would have known she had any such problems, again I would never have helped her). What they were saying is if you’re in sales or service and you help somebody with a product or service over $950 if my case would have stood, that the state could have come back to arrest you for larceny up to 3 years after the sell. That would negate and destroy the free enterprise system. (Ironically last week there was an article on The Drudge Report it said that dementia or Alzheimer’s begins at birth.) I’m not making excuses, just throwing that out there.
And somehow the Superior Court forgot the intent part in the jury instruction and the appeals court said there can be no doubt that this error was prejudicial—the emission of an essential element of an offense when the courts instructions is an error of constitutional significance since the defendant is entitled to a jury findings that all elements have been proved Beyond A Reasonable Doubt.
My case was unprecedented: never in the history of this nation has anything ever like that gone to trial.
Even after the first DCA appeals court reversed and overturned the verdict three to nothing the AG’s office tried to appeal the Appellate Court’s decision and the California Supreme Court thought the case was so ridiculous they wouldn’t even hear it.
This is why I don’t believe Don Anderson should become the next Lake County Superior Court Judge. Because he has the potential and authority to destroy you, your family, and your business an arrest and try you for something that wasn’t even a crime in the first place if they chose too.
A matter of fact when I went back to court to be exonerated for this frivolous non-crime the judge says I’m free to go and that was all after my life was destroyed and turned upside down.
This travesty happening to one person is enough isn’t it, and Don Anderson was at the helm of that department that caused it to happen. What if it happened to you in Don Anderson’s courtroom? Is he the person that you’d want to judge you in the event that you were put in the same situation or tried in his court room?
I still have never received an apology from the DA office for the travesty that they put me through and I believe they still should and unfortunately I found out 6 months after the statute of limitations ran out that I could have sued the DA’s office for malicious prosecution.
That’s why I voted for Shanda Harry for Lake County Superior Court judge because I don’t feel that Don Anderson is qualified.
— Glenn Neasham, Hidden Valley Lake
