I would like to thank the League of Women Voters and Smartvoter.org for giving citizens the vehicle to bring Culver City into the computer age last night at their Candidates Forum.
Cannot use the excuse that we did not know (ignorant by choice) any longer. The School Board candidates all have sites that can be viewed by the voters. The 2-minute forums are nice introductory tools, but you can learn much more than the canned speeches of 2 to 3 minutes.
At the Culver Crest forum last week, School Board President Attorney Zeidmen stated that all 5 members of the Board voted for the new Superintendent last March. I corrected him. Only 4 members voted for Patti Jaffe.
Mr. Zeidman, go to Smartvoter.org, find school election, go to candidate Gary Abrams, locate $20+ Super Search “Mess – Cinderella Story or CON-spiracy.” Rest my case.
This is in response to a letter in this news outlet regarding hundreds of students supporting Mr. Zeidman. At the Smartvoters.org Forum last night, the event was televised and will be available on the city webcast. Attorney Zeidman had a section of Middle School and high school cheerleaders. After the forum Mr. “Z” asked them, Did they get school credit for this? They acknowledged that they did.
Reliable sources say that they were promised a meal at Denny’s. Attorney Zeidman also mentions his regular meetings with the City Council and how they have allowed the School Board to use of Council Chambers to hold meetings. He failed to mention that the destitute School Board has to pay a user’s fee and that a penalty is charged if meetings run past a certain hour. During a City Council meeting, Supt. Jaffe waited until past midnight to ask for the request (which took every bit of 5 minutes, start to finish. She had been there since opening bell at 7 p.m., accompanied by Board member Prof. Siever (left before mission was accomplished).
Attorney Zeidman would not have known about that unless he read my 4043 Irving Pl. ($6 million big sting) essay where the city gave away taxpayer cash to a private developer. Well, it was thought to be big at the time. Compared to the $435 million city fire sale with nothing to the schools (know what I mean?) Can’t touch that!
Get informed. It’s all there. More is coming.
Lastly, Attorney Zeidman keeps mentioning all of his supporters, all politicians or ex-crooks sticking together. Board member Karlo Silbiger probably won’t admit this (and do not ask him, either), but I noticed he was slow getting aboard the Zeidman “Titanic.”
All telling is the vote of no-confidence received from the district employees.
Attorney Zeidman is a nice, likable guy. He means well, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Remember when G.W. Bush stole the office of the Prez twice? USA still not recovering. May take another 5 to10 years.
Remember when Attorney Zeidman took office 4 years ago? He is taking credit for all the things happening where the District or the Board had no influence. API scores at Linwood Howe were raised because the Parents Booster Club took action by collecting funds to pay real classroom aids. Now they are facing static from the Board with rules that grandfatherly exempts El Marino classroom aides.
The stupidity never ends.
School near freeway kids sucking in toxic fumes. Guess they never heard of A/C with a filtering system. Oh, well That’s why they have chemotherapy! Eight Million dollar Sports Complex on its way. Must be planning on having a COPD/Emphysema Bowl.
And that school has the highest API score, too! Some schools have been known to fix the test scores? Do I smell an investigation?
Get educated. Make informed decisions for a change. Break away from the crowd. Go to Smartvoter.org and read the candidates pages.
Mr. Abrams, a candidate for the School Board in the Nov. 8 election, may be contacted at gabrams@ca.rr.com
