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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the only one who finds this misleading?

Angelo Cocchiaro has spent the last six years in work on issues related to students and schools. Angelo has been a student organizer, mobilizing his student peers on issues affecting them. He is prepared to advocate in the very same spirit for our most important APS stakeholders: students. Angelo is also a former childcare provider and certified physical fitness & nutrition professional, part of the reason he is putting equity in food policy at the center of his campaign. Angelo also brings to the table a background of academic research in Title IX policy, gender-based violence in educational settings, and childcare policy.

Angelo’s involvement in our community dates back nearly a decade to 2014. Then, as a 13-year-old, Angelo participated in the Honor Flight Network with his granddad, taking military veterans to the Iwo Jima Memorial near where he lives now in Rosslyn. Angelo now sits on the APS School Health Advisory Board and is a member of a range of civic organizations, including the Arlington Rotary Club and its Youth Committee, the Radnor-Ft. Meyer Heights (RAFOM) Civic Association, and others. Angelo is a working group member of the Arlington County Food Security Coalition. Having experienced food insecurity himself, Angelo knows how important the issue is, especially as pandemic-era assistance programs are ending.

Angelo is running for the Arlington School Board to bring new voices to the table, bring people together, and deliver on the change that's overdue.[/quote]

- claim: involvement in community dates back to 2014 because he went with his grandpa to drive Vets to the Iwo Jima memorial. TRUTH: Angelo has lived here less than 6 months.

- claim: sits in school health advisory board and early childhood committee. Fact: He only showed up to 1 of 3 SHAB meetings since joining in Nov ‘22 according to publicly available meeting minutes and there’s been a total of ONE early childhood committee meeting since he joined a couple months ago. A whole TWO APS-related meetings under his belt

- claim: News he was withdrawing from race was a rumor. Fact: it was published on his own website

- claim: he worked for Don Beyer. Fact: since been removed or downgraded to “helped re-elect” aka canvassed

- claim: he’s done academic research on gender issues  fact: wtf knows but I see it’s been downgraded to “background in academic research.” Dude probably took a class in college that looked at these issues

The guy is a FRAUD. I cannot believe the Dems are putting this guy on ticket without fully vetting him and so soon after Santos. [/quote]

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