upcoming union takeover of the cedar rapids school board ?

please share this with your family and friends in cedar rapids !

Cedar Rapids has four positions — two at-large, District 1 and District 4 — open this year. this is an important election as the local teachers union is trying to stack the school board elections with their candidates.

To keep things simple , we are recommending these candidates for school board and recommending that we all vote NO on the secret Kirkwood tax hike but please read the detail below and make up your own mind.

Please vote to retain or elect these candidates

Mary Meisterling
John Laverty
Ann Rosenthal
Allen Witt

please avoid the union picked radical candidates ( I rarely use the term radical, but this is one time its needed)

http://creaonline.org/CREA.html

below is the rather long list of reasons we do not recommend voting for these other radical candidates and reasons we will be voting for others.

District 4 seat Melissa Kiliper-Ernst won’t seek re-election, in the District 4 seat we lose either way. this is one time we really need a "none of the above option"

Allen Witt (Allen Witt, transportation committee chair for the Cedar Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce)

Witt is Chamber of commerce pick who if recent activity holds true, will push the chambers dream of getting a new downtown school to drop off their kids at and be within walking distance. its not a perfect pick, but we think its better then the alternative.

Sunny Story . Story thinks a quality education starts with a bigger labor union (a prisoner guarding the inmates ?)she has been a paid protestor in WI and at the IA state capitol.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO4tqjO1SUE) (http://easterniowagovernment.com/2011/03/07/collective-bargaining-rallyhearing-in-des-moines/)

Two incumbents – John Laverty, currently the board president, and Ann Rosenthal – have filed papers to retain their at-large seats. They will be challenged by Matt Ford, Karen Hartleb and Kathy Ulrich.

Matt Ford works for skogman http://www.mattford.skogman.com/ and has a website for his election on facebook, other then then that we dont know much about him.

Kathy Ulrich. is in the same league with Sunny , both are radical members of a CREA and it seems both are trying to sneak into the school board.
http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/Labor-Supporters-Speak-Out-at-Collective-Bargaining-Hearing-in-Des-Moines-117565038.html

Karen Hartlep another union member trying to sneak into the board. http://creaonline.org/CREA.html


for more info , or absentee ballots


http://www.linncounty.org/news_details.asp?Content_Id=3029&News_Id=1468