APS - Who is running for School Board?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you’re truly concerned about a hatch act violation, why not leave it to the hundreds of thousands of other residents of Arlington to file a complaint? Do you really need a school board seat so badly?

Do you really need a school board seat so badly that you violate federal law to get it?

Yes I can’t believe anyone is giving her a pass on this. I guess none of them are feds. But what the hell, who wants another elected rep in Arlington with dubious ethics? Although, to read the comments on AEM, they all have dubious ethics too, so...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The reality is that it never looks good to try to eliminate your opponent through legal maneuvering. You may be right, but people will always wonder if you felt threatened by them as a candidate. If you’re truly concerned about a hatch act violation, why not leave it to the hundreds of thousands of other residents of Arlington to file a complaint? Do you really need a school board seat so badly?

Look at the response on AEM. Her supporters couldn’t care less about violations, and the general population isn’t even aware of it. Generally the people who can be expected to speak up about ethical or legal violations are those with skin in the game.

This “rule breaker is the injured party” nonsense is disconcerting. How about Symone? Does she really need a school board seat so badly?

[Anonymous]

AEM is off the rails. Symone broke the rules and got caught. She knows that. So she set this up to make the ACDC and Tyrron look bad. And AEM just goes right along with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AEM is off the rails. Symone broke the rules and got caught. She knows that. So she set this up to make the ACDC and Tyrron look bad. And AEM just goes right along with it.

If it somehow puts pressure on the AC/DC to end the caucus ridiculousness I’m ok with it. I doubt they will, though. It’s working exactly as intended.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok, can we all focus now... Symone is out. We can’t stand Cristina. Teron was probably the one who called. Key data dude is a joke. So we are all voting for Dave and Sandy? Not perfect candidates, but the best we got?

Wow. When you put it that way, I will have to vote for Symone in November. I may sit out the caucus. Why can't Arlington field 2 decent candidates for SB?

[Anonymous]

I think Terron made a rookie move and is going to get all of the negative blow back, while candidates like Cristina get all of the upside and none of the blame. Who benefits the most from this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think Terron made a rookie move and is going to get all of the negative blow back, while candidates like Cristina get all of the upside and none of the blame. Who benefits the most from this?

Have the Terron rumors been verified? Krieger was the one acting desperate over the past few weeks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ok, can we all focus now... Symone is out. We can’t stand Cristina. Teron was probably the one who called. Key data dude is a joke. So we are all voting for Dave and Sandy? Not perfect candidates, but the best we got?

Wow. When you put it that way, I will have to vote for Symone in November. I may sit out the caucus. Why can't Arlington field 2 decent candidates for SB?

It's stupid yes (the Caucus) but if you want your vote to count that's where you need to vote. Symone has zero change in November. It's a Presidential election year. Trump is on the ballot. Turnout in Arlington will be very high. And most people will vote the sample ballot for school board, which will show who won the caucus.

You can not like it. You can wish it would change. But that's how it is.

Symone should drop out now and run again next year -- at least in an off Presidential year an Independent has some chance.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:If I asked my ethics counsel and they said OK, I would not feel entitled. And then if someone else in the race perputally called my employer until they changed their mind, I would feel harassed.

I'm sympathetic to her position on this.

One, we don’t know any info on what actually happened and whether it constitutes harassment. Two, I would be more sympathetic if the law was on her side here. No one in this SB race has enough pull to cause a federal agency to overturn or overlook federal law. But the Hatch Act and its related guidance is pretty clear that a fed employee can run as an independent but can’t seek the endorsement of a political party. So are we more concerned that someone tattled on her rather than the fact that she was skirting the law?

Don’t you think it’s weird that no other Fed runs for SB? It’s bc feds know they can’t, at least not in the Dem caucus.

+1000

I wish the upshot of these events was for everyone to see the bigger picture:

The Arlington county democratic committee is intruding into a non partisan contest for the most local of offices, controlling the outcome by crowning a winner months in advance of the actual election, and worst of all, discouraging a large number of qualified candidates from running. Don’t go to the caucus, and don’t vote for whoever they crown. Why do they intrude? To contain and deny our schools Growing need for resources, which is clearly butting up against the party’s subsidized housing and density priorities. Whoever they nominate will just be a puppet.

Wowow, you just hit the real point here! Forget about symone, this is the bigger picture. Stop the caucus mess. Eliminate the party’s hold on the school board and we may actually have real progress here in Arlington.

I plan to boycott the caucus and vote for symone just to stop the madness.

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[Anonymous]

staying home does not stop the madness. staying home makes cristina your new board member. maybe also steven. because their supporters are not staying home.

write a letter. tell them they suck. but still go vote.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AEM is off the rails. Symone broke the rules and got caught. She knows that. So she set this up to make the ACDC and Tyrron look bad. And AEM just goes right along with it.

+1000

It looks like only one person on there seems to understand, or even care to know, anything about the Hatch Act. Why is there such a disconnect between the people on this board and those on AEM? The LAW, not any single individual, requires Symone to run as an independent--and not as a Democrat pretending to be an independent. She promoted herself as a conscientious, diligence-oriented federal government attorney with 20 years experience. I therefore find it really hard to believe that she did not know, or could not easily discover, the public opinion that so clearly restricts her participation in the SB caucus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok, can we all focus now... Symone is out. We can’t stand Cristina. Teron was probably the one who called. Key data dude is a joke. So we are all voting for Dave and Sandy? Not perfect candidates, but the best we got?

Why should someone not vote for Terron simply b/c he reported Symone? I respect him for reporting Symone's violation. If he was truly sneaky, he could have asked someone else to report it so it couldn't be traced back to him. At least that is what I would do if I was in his shoes.

For all of you on this board who claimed "I knew from the beginning that Symone was violating Hatch Act", why haven't you reported her? She doesn't seem like a popular candidate on DCUM anyway.

I've been planning to vote for Munnell, and my other vote will go to either Terron or Priddy. Terron's resume is a bit thin, but he seems harmless at least. Also his kids go to Swanson and Yorktown which is the schools my kid will go to (although my kid is only 2 yo), so my personal interest is more or less aligned with his. That said, I'm happy as long as the two winners are among Munnell, Priddy, or Terron. I don't have a strong preference among them. Just not the other candidates please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok, can we all focus now... Symone is out. We can’t stand Cristina. Teron was probably the one who called. Key data dude is a joke. So we are all voting for Dave and Sandy? Not perfect candidates, but the best we got?

Why should someone not vote for Terron simply b/c he reported Symone? I respect him for reporting Symone's violation. If he was truly sneaky, he could have asked someone else to report it so it couldn't be traced back to him. At least that is what I would do if I was in his shoes.

For all of you on this board who claimed "I knew from the beginning that Symone was violating Hatch Act", why haven't you reported her? She doesn't seem like a popular candidate on DCUM anyway.

I've been planning to vote for Munnell, and my other vote will go to either Terron or Priddy. Terron's resume is a bit thin, but he seems harmless at least. Also his kids go to Swanson and Yorktown which is the schools my kid will go to (although my kid is only 2 yo), so my personal interest is more or less aligned with his. That said, I'm happy as long as the two winners are among Munnell, Priddy, or Terron. I don't have a strong preference among them. Just not the other candidates please.

He’s a new APS parent. He just got married a few months ago.

[Anonymous]

He’s a new APS parent. He just got married a few months ago.

His website says he got married in 2018, but does it really matter whether he's a "new" parent or not? Or, for that matter, whether he's "just a stepdad" (which is kind of what seems implied here)? He is a stepparent to kids in Swanson and Yorktown, so I think that counts, and it looks like he's been involved with Arlington kids for a long time. My husband is a stepfather and he's a much better dad to my children than their biological father is. But I also don't think that being childless should disqualify you from serious consideration for SB, so maybe I'm not the norm.

[Anonymous]

Do not boycott the caucus. That is the only chance to make sure Christina is not on the ballot. Whoever is on the ballot for Democrats is going to win. Independence don’t stand a chance