Poll worker Albert Shaw applies a sticker on the coat of a voter on Super Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
Associated Press
Something disturbing has surfaced in the Davis County School Board races in Precincts 1, 2, and 4.
Members of the Davis County Republican Party leadership and one member of the Utah State Republican Party Central Committee are attempting to partisanize these non-partisan elections.
The framers of our state constitution had a good reason for school board positions to be non-partisan; political ideologies are not always pertinent to serving our school children. Why ignore principles of our state constitution to get certain candidates elected?
The following tactics have been employed: 1. Sponsoring meet-the-candidates events to showcase favored candidates.
2. Sending a survey based on the County Republican Platform to the candidates to check compliance. Candidates were not technically endorsed, but still an endorsement is implied. Note that two of the candidates refused to participate and one submitted a disclaimer to reaffirm non-partisanship. Election officials were alerted to this issue.
3. A Davis County Republican legislative chair used party communication structure to endorse one of the candidates to their precinct chairmen.
Shame on the Davis County Republican Party leadership. Why tread on the Utah state constitution in such a blatant way? Thomas Wright, where are you when we need you?
To Davis County voters in these school board precincts: Is the school board about ideologies or is it about your kids?
Richard Heath
Kaysville
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I believe the same thing is happening in Alpine District. We have some pretty extreme candidates running for School Board. Is there and "underground" movement being pushed by "the right?" They couldn't do it with a state wide More..
So how do you hold them accountable?
By not voting those in who have deliberately broken the rules.
Yet, I'm not holding my breath that we'll see any of those folks actually held accountable for their dirty political
So how does a "Meet the Candidate" event highlight a favored candidate when all candidates are invited and come? Is the letter-writer saying she believes that meeting the candidates is a horrible way to decide whom we want to vote for?
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