In a pinch for time now, but the Tuesday election has a run off election for Community College Board of Trustees. I ask for you to vote for Lydia Gutierrez over the other canddate Scott Svonkin.
The L.A. Clean Sweep organization (I am a part of that) endorsed her for the March 8 election and that continues. There's been lots of problems with bad management of money by the current board, and we need change as for most elected officials.
There's a series in the L.A. Times that ran for about a week with billions mismanaged in operations.
L.A. Weekly has some items to check to see about why Svonkin is not the best candidate here:
"Scott Svonkin, San Gabriel Unified Board Member, Lets Teachers Down: Plays Hooky to Campaign For L.A. Community College Board" April 13, 2011, Mars Melnicoff,
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011/04/scott_svonkin_laccd_utla.php
"Scott Svonkin's Personality Problem- How did a food-spewing bully get major Democratic backing to run for Community College trustee?" http://www.laweekly.com/2011-04-07/news/scott-svonkin-s-personality-problem/
Check some of the problems that the Times reporters found, and that calls for change:
A story on the writers investingating the Community College operations and the series the Times printed is here: "Spotlight: L.A.Times reporters Michael Finnegan, Gale Holland deserve Pulitzer" by Morgan St. James- March 9th, 2011 10:05 am. http://www.examiner.com/writing-in-los-angeles/spotlight-los-angeles-times-reporters-michael-finnegan-and-gale-holland-deserve
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