Second in a series
Re “‘UTLA Was Misled or It Is Lying,’ Kecken Charges”
[img]2189|right|Scott Kecken||no_popup[/img]Steaming over the anti-United Parents of Culver City letter that the union president of LAUSD teachers sent this month to select Culver City homes, Scott Kecken, a UPCC officer, found rich irony in the letter’s name-calling.
“Here is an outside group (United Teachers Los Angeles) attacking Culver City parents, calling us ‘well-funded,’ implying that we are getting money from an outside group, which we are not,” Mr. Kecken told the newspaper.
“We are 100 percent local and organic. We have no ties to any other organization.”
It vexes the chair of UPCC’s political action committee that a false notion deliberately was planted, necessitating a denial.
But since the twin ideas of mystical ties and shadowy financing were put in the minds of Culver City voters by an outside group, he wonders how much damage the accusations will do.
“We are homegrown, we are strictly grassroots,” Mr. Kecken says. “We have absolutely no ties to any other organization – even though this has been stated time and time again by these players (Culver City teachers who helped generate the letter).
“This is absurd, so absurd it is scary.”
(To be continued)
