No, I am not off topic. Those who don the tinfoil sleeping caps before going to bed at night to keep the aliens from brainwashing them (yes, Nan, you are one) also believe that the anti-school board candidates really "won" the election a couple of weeks ago because if you total the votes from those five candidates and compare them to the total by the three incumbents, the "anti" candidates got more votes. According to Nan Stillians, the "anti" crowd just had too many candidates; fewer candidates would have spelled victory. Hardly.
That assumes that Kitti Knauer was an anti-school board candidate which is very doubtful. Many people I know voted for Kitti and Ginny Strong and Dick Murphy. Not an anti-school board combo. And who voted for Larry Barrett and would they have voted if he had not been on the ballot is anybody's guess.
Nan's argument is like arguing that the Yankees really "won" the 1960 World Series because they outscored the Pirates 55 to 27 in seven games. In Nan's world (that thought makes me shudder) the problem with the 1960 World Series is that they played too many games. Had it been the best of three the Yankees would have been World Champions.
Fortunately, the world doesn't work they way Nan would want it to.
Good (and timely) post. The three Ns - Nan, Narcisse and Neiderbach - are inept when it comes to successfully campaigning for anything or anybody. It's no wonder that their post-election "analysis" is equally inept.
What's sad is that the school board is almost like a magnet to the three Ns and a few other lunatics. Hopefully next year Boesen and Link get reelected, a couple of other strong, community-minded people will be added to the board (and sorry, that does not include Teree Caldwell-Johnson), and Strong, Murphy and Woods have some decent colleagues to work with.
Posted by: Jim Phillips | September 23, 2008 at 01:34 PM