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Southwestern Suitors
Susan...calling me darling feels sowewhat condescending. I expressed genuine concern. You writings clearly are anti-SWC leadership so you should expect some questioning. Joepublic says that "We have a serious problem when School Board members are awarding contracts to those who are financially supporting their reelection." He is right. The board awards jobs and working conditions to hundreds of public employees and we should be concerned that the SWC teachers, who only teach a maximum of 15 hours per week for about 8 months, are the biggest funding source for Norma's campaign. That is a s big an issue as the incumbents getting their money from the building contractors. The whole system is an issue. --and no, I am not being paid to blog. That is an obnoxious statement.— August 12, 2010 2:24 p.m.
Southwestern Suitors
It is interesting that the author fails to disclose that she is a personal supporter of Norma Hernandez, who is running against the incumbent board members at SWC. It is also interesting that she is not disclosing to the public that her friend Norma received her single biggest individual donation from an architect buddy of hers names Martinez, whom she gave a job to when she was SWC President. She gave that contract to her buddy against the advice of her own staff at the time and the College ended up having to pay the architects sub-contractors so that SWC could open the facilitity because the architect apparantly couldn't make the payments. Now what has she promised this bad problemed architect in order to get such a juicy donation? Also of note it that her friend Norma got her biggest donations from the single largest "contractor" of the the College - it's faculty union. The College spend 80% of its money on staff and that makes the union contract the biggest economic item that the board votes on during any year. It's no wonder that some of the faculty there are so interested in seeing their former peer win a seat on the board. When the public sees a list of the top 25 paid faculty and how many hours a week they are actually teaching versus how much they are being paid, it will make the recent scandals on public pay pale in comparison!— August 12, 2010 9 a.m.