Ed.S. University of Minnesota
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As to resumes, I think all the finalists resumes should be posted so we can compare. Chris has had a distaste for Mr. Gurban and five of the Commissioners since he began posting. (Chris disrespectfully calls five of the commissioners the "Gang of five")
What I am asking is for a fair review of the candidates, not a slanted partisan diatribe.
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Finally, something I can agree with Mr Scallon on -- a fair review of the candidates.
I have listened to the tapes of the last interviews at the December 3, 2003 meeting and was apalled as I listened to the December 17th meeting where Mr Gurban was literally shoved down our throats.
I have attended most of this year's meetings of the board and have video tape of almost all of them. Mr Gurban has not given a single Superintendent's Report until the last month or so. He has also failed to work with the public and has been hostile to anything regarding preserving the legacy of Theodore Wirth. He did all that he could to discourage this year's Wirth While Weekend reunion of the Wirth family and did not show up at any of the events.
We are repeatedly hearing of measures he has taken as Superintendent that smack of setting policy in place of the board instead of implementing policies set forth by the board.
While there was some distrust of Mr Gurban at the beginning of the year because of the way he was selected, I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. But after a year of watching him in action and his hostility to working with the public I have to agree with the Gang of Five description given by Chris.
I wish it were different but it is up to members of the Gang of Five to demonstrate they are really serious about finding the RIGHT candidate. At one point last spring, when it came out that while he was with MRPA, Gurban lost them their charitable gambling license for two years but Gurban himself was banned for life from charitable gambling, Walter Dziedzic said that had he known that before he might have voted differently. Well, here is his chance.
Steven M Nelson Willard Hay http://citizenshipchronicles.blogspot.com/ Get UP! Get OUT! & GET INVOLVED!!!
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