Second in a series.
Re: “‘Stupidity’ of Bullet Voting”
For nearly a week, City Councilman Jim Clarke has been saying that the Culver City Democratic Club should dump its bullet-voting habit. “They would be more effective,” he said, “if they endorsed two candidates when multiple seats are open.”
Mr. Clarke roasted the perceived perversity of certain club members.
“The fact that club members could only find one qualified candidate,” he said, “tells me this agenda was set ahead of time, and ‘we are not going to change our minds based on their presentation.”
Through no coincidence, the Dem Club thumbed its nose at two impressive School Board candidates, Anne Burke and Scott McVarish, because, sources said, they were told to do so.
Dem Club’s choices are not known for winning, although Prof. Kelly Kent, the candidate they endorsed last week, is a perfectly logical choice for the School Board on Nov. 3.
“When you endorse only one,” said Mr. Clarke, “what guidance have you given?”
The Councilman said he was “not necessarily surprised” by the bullet voting. “I had a sense of that.”
He was particularly disappointed because “all three of them did a great job” while 17 Dem Club members booed Mr. McVarish and Ms. Burke with their No Recommendation votes.
Mr. Clarke, a Dem Club member since the 1970s, clearly is incensed by the slipperiness of certain manipulative colleagues in the club.
No one believes 17 people voted Snub on their own.
Thank you, Jim for stepping up to the plate and expressing your views regarding the MO of the Culver City Demo Club. Many of us in the audience that night share the same sentiment.
However, I personally think that Scott McVarish and Anne Burke are more qualified because of their longer term of involvement with the schools and issues and operations. Kelly Kent is formally well educated but is only a neophyte when it comes to having knowledge of school operations and issues.