Westfall — A new Delaware Valley student/alumni political action committee has released its candidate endorsements and drawn criticism from the incumbent school board president.
The Future of Pike County political action committee recently announced five endorsements for Delaware Valley School Board. Highly recommended candidates are Pam Lutfy, Bill Greenlaw and Jack Fisher. Recommended candidates are Chuck Pike and Sue Schor. The full letter of endorsement is located on the PAC’s Web site, www.futureofpikecounty.org.
Advised by seven current and former student leaders, the committee reached its decision by individually evaluating each candidate who returned its survey. The Taxpayers United ticket of Bob Goldsack, Bernard Marasa and Patricia Wright were the only candidates who offered no response.
Goldsack, who chairs the board, said that based on its membership, negative statements made about him and Taxpayers United by some of the action committee principals and the length of survey, he and candidates Bernard Marasa and Patricia Wright jointly decided not to participate. They said the outcome of the survey was predetermined. “It was very slanted,” Goldsack said of the 20-question survey. Separately, Goldsack said he does plan a statement to respond to the survey’s question about district drug testing policy.
“We feel that each of five endorsed candidates offers specific skills and experience that will benefit the school district and our community,” said Marc Coda, PAC Chairman. Austin Lamac, the PAC’s treasurer, said that the committee now seeks to actively fundraise and campaign on behalf of the endorsed candidates at their Web site.
“Two important priorities shared by each candidate are ensuring greater transparency in governance and practicing longer-term, more responsible budgeting,” he added.
The re-launched Web site includes a candidate blog, information about the committee and local voter information. Lamac said the site will also host an online town hall meeting with the candidates in mid-May.
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We obviously need change. We have needed it for years!
ReplyDeleteAn interesting comment on the Courier's site:
ReplyDelete"...I checked the site provided, read ALL the the answers in the questionnaire .They are good questions. Not slanted in any way. Makes no sense why TU members had to boycott a simple questionnaire. How else are we going to know where they stand on the issues?..."