Taxpayers United Makes Excuses

In the Pike Counter Courier, the Taxpayers United slate explains that they, "chose not to answer the questions posed by the youth from “Future of Pike County” because the questions being asked were not the most compelling issues facing DV Taxpayers and students."

Read more here.

Is that true? Doubtful. 

All of what Bob Goldsack writes in his letter could have easily fit within the below four questions in our survey.

1). What uniquely qualifies you to be a school board member, and why are you running? 

2). Please list what you feel are the three most pressing issues facing the district. Detail how you would confront at least one of them.

7). How will you balance long-term fiscal responsibility, the tax burden on the local community, and improving educational performance, especially during economic hardship?

10). Please evaluate the average student who graduates the Delaware Valley School District. How would you compare him/her with his/her peers in the state? In competitive countries? How will you work to reverse any weaknesses you identify? 

 

So what is the real reason Bob Goldsack, Bernard Marasa and Patricia Wright did not respond to this survey? Or show up to two separate meet the candidates nights?

Maybe because these candidates don't feel accountable to the people who elect them. 

Maybe they don't want to answer tough questions. 

At the very least, maybe they simply don't care.