Now that the P&C has followed my lead and reported that the Charleston NAACP does not support the sales tax increase (albeit in the quietest and least read part of the Sunday edition), it's time to get out the vote against the tax.
First of all, CCSD has put every conceivable project into its proposal, including the kitchen sink, in order to pander to as many groups as possible--it just hasn't worked with either the Charleston NAACP or GOP (Imagine, those two on the same side of an issue!).
First of all, CCSD has put every conceivable project into its proposal, including the kitchen sink, in order to pander to as many groups as possible--it just hasn't worked with either the Charleston NAACP or GOP (Imagine, those two on the same side of an issue!).
Second, no guarantee exists that the new CCSD School Board will not pass a property tax increase on top of the sales tax if it does pass. It's also not clear that threats to impose a rise in property taxes as an incentive to vote for the sales tax are legal. One thing for sure: the sales tax falls most heavily on the poor.
Superintendent McGinley's manufactured seismic issues are the laughingstock of other neighboring districts. We don't need to follow the lead of the existing School Board, which, like a bunch of sheep, ratified changes trusting that the money would come from somewhere.
Finally, in the Board races where opposition exists, for whom do we vote? For those who dislike like the drift of the current Board or suspect Superintendent McGinley does not walk on water, the choices are poor, but obvious. Remember, we all vote for candidates in all districts!
In Mt. Pleasant,
- Craig Ascue, who will probably kowtow to most proposals but at least is a native of the Lowcountry, attended CCSD schools, has served on the constituent board, and withholds judgment about the Superintendent; and
- Elizabeth Moffly, who flopped in her run for S.C. Superintendent of Schools with some weird ideas but is the most likely not to lap up the Superintendent's words like a cat laps cream.
In West Ashley,
- Mary Ann Taylor, who, as a retired CCSD teacher, knows the inside of CCSD better than anyone else in the race and opposes the sales tax increase.
In North Charleston,
- None of the Above: Why bother to cast a vote here? Coats runs unopposed and spouts rhetoric that sounds like it was written by McGinley.
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Moffley. Really, Babbie?
You are ordinarily pretty level headed, and despite you going a bit overboard in your anti-CCSD negativity and your copious edu-blob mentions, you ordinarily can come up with something of substance.
Elizabeth Moffley is not of substance.
Mr. Ascue is a very nice guy, and I think is genuinely interested in the schools (he visited a bundle of them of late)
Ms. Taylor is a wild card. Not sure what to make of her.
Good luck tomorrow in defeating the sales tax referendum. I'll be voting your way, BTW.
I worked with Mary Ann Taylor and she is a wonderful teacher. Any time you can get someone on the board that actually knows what is going on in the classroom...go for it. At least you have someone who has been there and knows what the teachers and children need. BTW she is still working on James Island part time.
9:59--Moffly is the anti-Wilcox vote. Wilcox will be another Meyers, I predict.
I would vote Osama Bin laden before I voted for Moffley, after that stunt she pulled with threatening to sue CCSD if they punished her son for setting up a fake facebook account and ruining a teachers life.
Hey, Babbie, you picked 'em right. The sales tax thing will be another battle for another time. Maybe this new crew, with a little help from one or two old timers, will finally force the administration's hand and open the books.
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