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Lee's Austere Dressing Table, Which is Coincident with Her Sober Character







Woe betide. Mr. Schmidt, Susan Valdes's opponent, has not answered my email to respond to the pseudonymous Mr. Woodard's rebuke for my suggesting that Susan's travel budget and flaccid performance
on the board merited a look at Mr. Schmidt, who is a school administrator.

This behavior rings a bell with me. I think Schmidt ran last time against Valdes and didn't answer my more pressing questions. Communication shut down is not a good sign from a candidate.

Of course, Susan refused to recognize or answer Casting-room Couch's candidate questionnaire or to answer my request for her to sponsor a teacher-student slot on the board. So did April Griffin.

So it looks like we are stuck with Susan and her travel budget excesses.

Incumbents are almost impossible to unseat because they have name identification. People know so little about the school board that if they know a candidate's name, they punch that in the voting booth. This circumstance makes the job of us saboteurs of the school board incumbent potted plants our main activity until we can evict them from their seats. People have to know how bad the board is before they will vote them out. Fulfilling that need is our quest.

Susan did have the grace to apologize to me when Chair Falliera kicked me out of a meeting on an ad hoc Robert's Rule that she made up to pay me back for exposing her engaging in pursuing Marc Hart, head of Professional Standards, until she trapped him into adultery, caused his divorce, the suffering of his two young children, and then dumped him and cooperated with his firing by personnel factotem Mr. Valdes's obedience to the zeig heil from Elia under the cooked-up charge of alcoholism since, if they fired Hart for adultery on the job, they would have had to name a companion adulterer, and they wanted to avoid that contretemps so that all the board members, who knew the Falliera adultery story--as did the entire school system--could appoint this homewrecker adultery femme fatale La Belle Dame Sans Merci as the board chair without an outraged outcry from parents who would not want such a character guarding their children's wellbeing while they were in school.

So lock and load and rev up for the unpleasant but vital job that is our quest. lee