[img]1686|right|Laura Chardiet||no_popup[/img]Looking much more sparkling, typically, than this morning’s return of June Gloom, School Board President Laura Chardiet was cautious at the outset in discussing the prospects for Measure CC’s strongly favored victory in tomorrow’s general election.
“I have no idea,” were her first words. But her heart felt far differently.
“I was just talking with a friend, and we were saying that in other elections, they are constantly running polls.
“You have a better idea of what is happening.”
But the prospects for tomorrow night kept feeling better for Ms. Chardiet, ever the optimist.
“The results we have been getting from phone-banking have been overwhelmingly positive,” she said. “When we were knocking on doors, the people also were overwhelmingly positive.
“We are hoping,” Ms. Chardiet said, returning to a conservative stance, “that means it will pass without a problem.”
By law, Measure CC needs 55 percent of the vote, and while a knot of articulate opponents has spoken strongly against it, the anti-bond group appears smallish. Most observers believe that is a cinch.
“The trouble with most of the arguments I have heard against Measure CC,” Ms. Chardiet said, “is that they are inaccurate.
“The bottom line is, we have spent over a year looking at this bond. We have had incredibly smart, experienced people looking at this. Our expertise, I believe has more credibility than the people who oppose Measure CC.”
