Sunday, March 23, 2008

Don Wagner, healer? peacemaker?

.....These days, DON WAGNER is the president of the SOCCCD's benighted board of trustees.
.....Don has been on the board since December of 1998. But how'd he get there? It sure as hell wasn't his pleasant personality!
.....Check out these juicy excerpts from the October 1998 trustee candidates "board forum" on Cox Cable—pitting newcomer Don Wagner against "Pete" Maddox, and (also newcomer) Nancy Padberg against Leo Galcher.
.....Back then, Don explained that people should vote for 'im cuz he knows how to bring people together and make nice! (Huh?) He's a healing kinda guy!
.....He mostly defended the nasty old Board Majority that made the district a laughing stock. He generally would have voted as they did, he says.
.....Don seemed to go out of his way to distance himself from the people who actually got him elected—the old corrupt union leadership, who paid for his notorious "anti-airport" mailer (see at left).
.....THE BEST PART: Maddox accused Wagner of some dirty politics (re Pam Zanelli). Then Don got peeved! Check it out!



.....More than nine years ago, one of the gravest issues facing the district was "board micromanagement."
.....Now, in part because of continued board micromanagement and the endless "plague of despair" brought largely by Raghu Mathur, our colleges are closer than they've ever been to losing their accredited status.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It looks like Williams, Wagner, and the rest are gonna finally drive that stake through the district's heart.

Unfuckingbelievable!

Anonymous said...

Great music, Chunk!

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

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