Attn. School Board candidate Robert Zirgulis:
I'd like to thank you for making my decision on whom to support today in the School Board election so much easier.
Jumping on the tea-bagger bandwagon to slam Acorn and LAMDA gives me plenty of reason to put you at the bottom of my list. I’m now sporting a Kathy Paspalis sign on my front lawn.
Acorn is a non-profit organization that works in middle-class and low-income neighborhoods to empower and educate the disenfranchised. It has fought for free school lunches, better housing, safer streets, urban parks, childcare centers, health-care clinics, jobs, and higher wages. (Pretty scary stuff, eh?) It also conducts voter registration drives and efforts against predatory lending practices by banks. These are all laudable goals in my book.
That they may have had a few employees who didn’t do the right thing isn’t especially surprising. Nor is it surprising that immediate action was taken in firing those who made such egregious errors.
The LAMDA issue is even more mystifying in this day and age. Why is a legal advocacy organization that works on behalf of equality and civil rights for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and people with HIV (www.lambdalegal.org/our-work/) such a threat to you?
Did you think Culver City slipped behind the Mason/Dixon line during the last couple of months? Now, onto the serious work.
J.C. Province may be contacted at jprovince@yahoo.com
