Re “He Objects to Cutting Off the Microphone”
I don’t know if I am more sick and tired of reading garbage from Robert Zirgulis or if I am more sick and tired of hearing him complain about some mythical Culver City “political machine.”
Zirgulis is running for the School Board, again. This will be his third political loss in four years.
Politics in Culver City usually is above board. Two years ago, Zirgulis started slinging mud at Kathy Paspalis. The electorate responded. Zirgulis lost miserably. In fact, Zirgulis received only 260 more votes than Roger Maxwell, who withdrew from the race months prior to the election.
Now, in a veiled attempt at self-campaigning, Zirgulis attempts to malign School Board President Scott Zeidman.
Not coincidentally, Zeidman is up for re-election, and he is considered a frontrunner for his seat.
At Tuesday’s School Board meeting, a woman started to make accusations against Supt. Patricia Jaffe. Board President Zeidman read the woman the script that the School Board uses when such an instance occurs. Apparently the Board rules do not permit any public complaints about an individual employee to be aired without prior notice to the employee, and then only in Closed Session. It’s a matter of fairness.
Zeidman offered to allow the speaker to say whatever she wanted to say negatively about him (although he is technically an employee).
But following the Board’s policy, President Zeidman would not allow the barrage of insults and accusations against Jaffe.
There is a system for making complaints about an employee. Zeidman calmly explained the system to the speaker. The speaker refused to follow the system and the microphone was turned off.
Obviously, Zirgulis has problems with the truth. It’s been that way for years. Zirgulis’s latest letter to the editor is another example.
Zirgulis writes, “Zeidman told the parent to stop talking about how the School Board approved $100,000 in lawyers’ fees to prevent getting special needs care for her autistic child.”
That never happened. Zeidman merely told the speaker that she could not make public complaints about Superintendent Jaffe without following the Board’s system.
Either it is time for Zirgulis to get a hearing aid or more likely a lesson in honesty.
Zirgulis speaks constantly about some mythical Culver City political machine.
This is nothing more than a loser’s excuse. There is no such machine. Looking back at the last few elections, I would challenge anyone to find a machine behind Zeidman’s or Steve Gourley’s 2007 elections.
I’d challenge anyone to find a machine behind Pat Siever’s 2009 election. Mayor Mehaul O’Leary? What machine did he have?
Because Karlo Silbiger shares the same last name with his father, does Zirgulis claim that Karlo won merely because of some machine?
Karlo won because he outworked, outsmarted and outcampaigned the likes of Robert Zirgulis.
Karlo was intelligent, reasonable, and most importantly, he told the truth. That puts him three-up on Zirgulis. It is unfair to malign Karlo and other successful candidates, claiming that their successes are the result of a machine when the truth is that these candidates were successful because they worked hard and were honest.
Come on, Mr. Z. Just because you keep losing doesn’t mean it is because you don’t have a machine. You keep losing because the public reads what you have to say, and rejects your lies and misstatements.
You probably do need a machine.
A lie detector.
Mr. Fields may be contacted at Kevinrfields@hotmail.com
