MONEY first …. EDUCATION last …
Hi:
Isn’t it amazing to read all about the finances raised by the incumbents? It look like as if THAT is all what is important. It is disappointing that none of the issues are being brought up.
All the talk about fundraisers makes me angry! Since when can a candidate’s seriousness of running for an elected position be measured by how much money he or she can raise? Doesn’t that take A LOT of time away from talking about the real issues that lay before us? Issues like parking, development, homelessness, JOBS!?
I guess going to school and receiving diplomas and achieving degrees does not mean anything as long as you can raise the money later to show how serious you are of putting your knowledge to work! - It also shows that having a respected “day-job” does not mean anything either, since raising money is more important.
Perhaps we can just all save the tuition for our children by not having them go to college, unless that college educates on “how to run a successful fundraiser”.
Jane Usher wrote in an e-mail to me that she and her friends “… support Carmen (Nuch) Trutanich for City Attorney. Based upon campaign dollars raised, Nuch is the only serious challenger to Councilman Jack Weiss …” – Again: What have dollars to do with merits, values, point-of-views? – Shouldn’t the raised amount of money be secondary if mentioned at all?
I thought we live in a democracy and we would like to teach others to be democratic, but all that is taught is that money changes everything, even a city election.
And here I thought that EDUCATION should be the one opening doors to anything!
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