Comments by Tana Lampton.
1-31-08 The school board is ignoring the fact that they've used school and taxpayer resources to promote the bond. They claim their local school journalism publication is just exercising free speech in its page after page support of the bond without a single statement of opposition
Dear Mr. Duran, I can not believe the utter disregard that Mr. Distaso and the School Board have displayed toward your opinion and good advice. This is untenable behavior toward a man of your impeccable credential, whose career was building schools for LAUSD. Maybe the District could have had the Gym opened long before now!
As we approach the 11th hour on this horrendous Bond Measure (V) the School Board continues to be non-transparent even to this very day. The very crucial Minutes of the public Meeting in which they were to decide and discuss the language of the Bond, before sending to the County for the Ballot, are MISSING!
The decision of Superintendent Dr. Halperin, as to not become involved in the issue of allowing Students to knowingly break the law, and proselytize the Bond on campus while using school facilities (citing very weakly that the Students had "freedom of speech" publishing the School Newspaper) is absolutely unbelievable! It's no wonder we have such a high number of "home-schooled" Kids in the District!
I'm so upset that I'm documenting my feelings with Supervisor Michael Antonovich and others.
Sincerely, Tana Lampton
Vinton and Tana Lampton wrote:
Thank Goodness for your internet page, Bern! I think it went far and away to helping defeat this Bond!
And, thanks, Jim for your name at the bottom of the last advert (Country Jo)!
They called me on my cell phone 11 am Friday morning, and wanted to know all the names of the people who contributed to the advert explaining the Language of the Bond. This was on the day the newspaper was being published! I had been asked if I would schlep the adv down to the newspaper office last Tuesday morning, and the guy who wrote the ad gave me the cash from various folks who gave their $10's-20's (most of them work in some kinda' governmental-type agency and want their name confidential).
I, in turn, wrote my personal check, and we wrote " Folks Watchdogging the Ballot" on the bottom. So, after 4 days the management of the C.J. decided to make their employees adhere to some inner company procedure, and when they called me I just told them to go ahead and use my name as paying for it!
What sticks in my craw...did 'ya notice how the publisher made an attempt to fairly present both sides? Failed miserably, however, 'cuz her bias was showing when she gave our side 1-2 sentences...and the other side whole paragraphs!!
Tana
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