"Meet the Candidates" forum

I just got back from the "Meet the Candidates" forum at the High School.   We learned Jim Kach was a kindly old soccer coach who volunteered for school board when no one else would.   Yet he's a curmudgeon who'll protect every last tax dollar.  He's so proud of his site visit to the superintendent candidate.  And he's sure gonna work real hard to bring this community together.

Let's remember:  Mr. Kach participated in illegal meetings to buy out Superintendent Colter, and a Strafford Country Superior Court Judge found "the Board [including Mr. Kach] and [Chairman] Brackett knew or should have known their conduct violated the Right-to-Know Law".   The buyout cost $185,000 -- we paid Mr. Colter not to work for a year; so much for tax dollars.   And the board was stubbornly opposed to superintendent candidate site visits until I and others waged a campaign of letter writing and public comments to get them to do it.    And of course, one big reason the community is divided is Mr. Kach's reprehensible tweets, which traffic in birtherism and bigotry.   Mr. Kach could go a long way to uniting this community by resigning.


But that's not going to happen, so please vote for Maria Barth, Ed Charlé, Tom Newkirk, and Al Howland on Tuesday, March 13th, 2012.

- Dean