Everett Wilcox knows Charleston County as well as you can expect of someone who retired and moved to I'On in 2003.
As a lawyer for IBM, Wilcox specialized in outsourcing after a long career as a corporate attorney. He and his wife have been involved with nonprofits as early as the Atlanta Olympic Games and with Democratic politics at least since his early support of Jimmy Carter for President in 1976. Though of the generation that saw service during the Vietnam War, Wilcox avoided the draft by remaining in school throughout the period from 1962-66 (Bachelor's degree), 1966-68 (Master's degree) and 1968-1971 (law degree).
Evidently, Wilcox is a product of the schools of Clearwater, Florida, has never had a child in CCSD (or in any public school that we know of), and never showed any interest in CCSD until "friends" encouraged him to run for one of the Mt. Pleasant seats on the Board.
While none of the above disqualifies Wilcox from a seat on the Board, you have to wonder just what viewpoint he will bring to the table. Thanks to the P&C's softball questions last month, you don't need to wonder: McGinley Cheerleader fits the man nicely.
Here's a sample:
- "Dr. McGinley is doing an excellent job after inheriting a district with financial constraints, facility issues, and years without superintendent leadership." Was there ever a district without financial constraints? Did McGinley create her own "facility issues"? Is Wilcox slamming Goodloe-Johnson or merely repeating what one of his "friends" has said?
- "Decreased federal and state funding make it more difficult to catch-up previously underserved students." What decreased federal funding?
- "Much of my time as an IBM executive was spent dealing with substantial budget cuts because of the economy" Yes, but outsourcing is unlikely to solve this problem.
Gregg Meyers's doppelganger.
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Outsourcing is one of CCSD's problems. There are so many private corporation hands in the cookie jar we can't count them. Maybe an outside auditor can count them for us. Problem is Bill Lewis is providing cover for his buddies by deflecting all calls for an audit. Looks like Everett Wilcox is also cool with that. Who knows if any of these outsourced contracts was open for competative bidding or if CCSD is getting what it's paying for. Lewis isn't telling and Wilcox isn't asking.
This guy is all gung-ho for raising the sales tax, too. I thought Democrats were against regressive taxes like this. What if the sales tax goes down in defeat? He will dutifully raise property taxes on all his Mt.Pleasant neighbors. To me he is too sold on the current programs without knowing much about them and he seems much too short on new ideas considering he comes here from Atlanta.
I don't think most voters in Charleston County know they can vote for candidates running to fill all 4 of the open school board seats. In other words a North Charleston voter can vote for the 2 open East Cooper seats and the 1 open West Ashley seat. I don't have to just vote for the North Charleston seat where there is only 1 candidate anyway. Downtown voters can vote for all 4 open seats even if the 1 seat they have isn't on the ballot this time.
Don't let these people get elected by default or with a big turnout from just their close friends. In addition to how well our kids are able to get a decent education, these people will control most of what we pay in property and sales taxes for the next 4 years.
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