Three of us also spoke at the meeting tonight about the fiasco the school board election was. It’s during public input right at the beginning.
Three of us also spoke at the meeting tonight about the fiasco the school board election was. It’s during public input right at the beginning.
What’s apparent is polling places are deliberately hidden and there’s no ballot supervision. Elections in this state are all over the calendar. We’d vote if it was one day with obvious locations that don’t often get moved around. Keeping citizens out from the rigged governance is working. The next step is it’ll be dangerous to show up to vote. Putin guns down, poisons, or jails his opposition. It starting to look that way here.
If you go to the end of the meeting where they talk about canvassing the election, school board member Doug Morrison thought he would pipe in and say he was greatly offended by (my) comments about how the election was conducted. I will say that I am greatly offended you would defend such a fiasco, or the public employees that I pay the wages of. You can never fix a problem by saying there isn’t a problem. Elections in this city are f’ckd, they have been for over a decade, and to keep defending the process is truly disgusting. Fix the problem already, and all our sore butts will go away.
When the next School Board election comes around with the same or a similar “Voting Center” map, it is imperative that a Federal lawsuit be filed for injunctive relief on the grounds that such a “Voting Center” set-up is unconstitutional based on race. Because my guess is, that those “Voting Centers” do not only favor elite and upper income neighborhoods, but they also discriminate, in terms of access and convenience in voting, against the minority populations in this town, which tend to live in those areas of the town which had none or have the furtherest “Voting Centers” from their domiciles.
And if the SCOTUS rules against Wisconsin in this upcoming case:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-could-tackle-partisan-gerrymandering-in-watershed-case/2017/06/11/e166e3aa-4c5d-11e7-bc1b-fddbd8359dee_story.html?utm_term=.81b88b13db42
Then the standard could be more than race, in order to establish the unconstitutionality of the current Board “Voting Centers,” rather the placement of “Voting Centers” to favor certain neighborhoods based on wealth, and their self interest, would be analogous to the words “partisan gerrymandering,” and its unconstitutionality, in reference to the equal protection clause of the 1st Amendment of the Constitution in my estimation.
I can’t wait for the next SB elections…. 😉
The black Hegg shirt deserves an ethics complaint.
“black Hegg shirt?” Haven’t you heard? It’s okay for those who serve on government boards to sport corporate polos, didn’t you know? Heck, they even put corporate names on government buildings now days too, like the John Morrell Arena, I mean, the Premier Events Center. And its only a matter of time before our bravest will be sporting Coca Cola insignias just beneath their last names and above their medals on their camouflage khakis in the continual war of corporate value….. Get with it my friend, it’s all about naming now days. And there is no longer a wall between corporate and state interests, because they are married.
I’m with it because I noticed it. Partiality has no place in democracy. This said, are we free if one percent owns 90 percent of the wealth? Perhaps the US should be renamed Walmart.
Overfunded excess for schools in affluent areas will happen. There’s a school district in CO that did this. A civil rights lawyer representing welfare moms sued. The court ordered the district to inventory and equally disburse resources. The affluent schools got bled out. Perhaps, this indirect method is the best way to get poor schools funding. It’s a sophisticated Robin Hood (rob from the rich, give to the poor) that could get slum kids an education beyond 5th grade IQ.