Second in a series
Re “After Narrowing the McKenna Gap, Johnson ‘Pretty Pleased’”
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On George McKenna’s way to victory in last week’s LAUSD runoff for a vacant School Board seat, a consultant for the runnerup said Mr. McKenna deliberately refused to reply to his opponent’s explosive accusation of crimes that occurred on his watch.
Why?
Because the subject of alleged student molestation is too delicate?
Possibly warming up for a rematch in June, the next LAUSD School Board election, Fred MacFarlane, consultant to Alex Johnson, said that “smear charges” by the McKenna campaign “don’t hold water.”
Mr. Johnson’s campaign leveled an indictment against the administrations of Mr. McKenna in a series of flyers that roaringly angered McKenna backers.
The most curiously telling part of the McKenna camp’s loud response – “These are smears” – was “that they could have refuted the charges,” said Mr. MacFarlane. “They did not.
“They did not address the issues we brought up,” that abuses of students occurred at more than one school when Mr. McKenna was in command.
“Frankly, I know they didn’t want to address the subject brought forward by our campaign.”
Mr. McKenna’s people ducked the crucialness of the delicate subject, Mr. MacFarlane asserted. They took the easy way out, he added. “It was a lot easier for them to stay focused on a signature success well in the past, and use that success to gloss over what you have done since then.”
(To be continued)
