BOE - who are people voting for?
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Anonymous
She will win. Apple Ballot wants her. The question stands, why is her profession being hidden from voters? |
Anonymous
Literally not hidden. She talks about it openly. It's even on her candidate web page: "In my career, I developed: [other items]; and a U.S.-based, international, Black-owned cannabis and hemp company..." You are the only one trying to make it seem like a cover-up. |
Anonymous
It is not on her Apple Ballot flyer. |
Anonymous
Aside from it not being hidden, should we have all the candidates laying out all the medications they take? Healthcare info is protected by law. Should we have full personnel files laid out? Public judgements against candidates for misconduct, sure, but otherwise similarly protected. Even if voluntarily disclosed by Montoya, the tone of the post and associated insinuation is inappropriate. I seriously doubt MCEA ignored occupation or that Montoya did not disclose the nature of her work -- it's pretty public info. MCEA just decided the calculus of her platform, experience and interactive style worked best for them in comparison to that of others running. Whatever negative from one category was more than made up from others for enough of their members. I'm guessing MCEA then wants to highlight whatever is most compatible for them, and, again, with the info being accessible to voters from even a rudimentary search, it isn't like they are hiding it (or even can hide it). Comments about advocacy activity are fair game, but shouldn't be hyperbolized into something they aren't. That goes for the over-the-top posts about Mandel's political views making her subhumanly unsuitable (I still think those come from her own camp as something that draws her base and makes others look unhinged) or any claim that Hidayat's law enforcement background means he's in favor of racial profiling and police brutality. Or that pro-legalization advocacy, with a focus on safety, means wanting drugs in schools... |
Anonymous
You mean this one? https://www.mceanea.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/montoya.jpg How terrible that they don't put every single thing about this candidate on their limited-space flyers! Certainly, they did for the other candidates they decided to support: https://www.mceanea.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/zimmerman.png https://www.mceanea.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/stewart.jpg  Seriously, what planet do you live on?
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Anonymous
No, not that one. |
Anonymous
Very enlightening rejoinder, there. Certainly you are a most wise and reasoned individual, whose word everyone should heed.
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Anonymous
Planet Complain About Everything. |
Anonymous
Among all of your "when did you stop kicking your dog" questions, you might have noticed that Apple Ballot candidates do not always win. |
Anonymous
If Montoya wins, it's because the teachers' union has installed her there. She is a neophyte with little knowledge of issues facing the school district beyond her own elementary school. By her own admission, she has never managed a budget, much less evaluated a $3.3 billion budget. The teachers' union wants someone they can control and they have found it in Montoya. If she wins, the union will rightfully claim they put her in that elected position and she will be beholden to the teachers' union to tell her what to do. |
Anonymous
Who are you campaigning for? |
Anonymous
It isn't. It's more that nobody cares in 2024. |
Anonymous
Something about your post rubs me the wrong way and makes me want to vote for her even more now. |
Anonymous
If Montoya wins, it's because she got the most votes from the voters. |
Anonymous
I also am concerned about the depth of her knowledge of the school system and the mechanics of running an organization, but lots of people run for the BoE without knowledge of how such entities function. But that aside, I have direct knowledge of her through the NCC PTA and she does not have my vote. Her PTA platform looked great but the execution of it was damaging to relationships between the PTA and school leadership, and with individual students and parents. I ended up feeling that her words and actions were far more in service of her personal ambition than the wellbeing of individual students at the school. Just my personal experience, but it's first hand. I don't agree with or respect how she handled individual circumstances that I was directly involved in. I'm typically happy to vote the Apple ballot, but this year has made me question that whole process. Which is a bummer. |