Jan 01, 2006 Filed in:
Russell,
Tom
Tom Russell, Trabuco Canyon
News “This battle is not
over – not by a long shot! ... The CUSD Recall has
already been a tremendous success. The peoples'
eyes have been opened. The serious issues we have
raised are real and will not disappear. Never more
should the people of South Orange County tolerate
the deception that has come to define the current
CUSD administration.”
Russell,
the spokesperson for the CUSD Recall Committee,
reacts to the Registrar's December 22, 2005
announcement that the recall petition campaign had
failed.
Tags: Recall Campain 2005-06
Jan 11, 2007 Filed in:
Waldrip,
Stuart
Jonathan Volzke, The Capistrano
Dispatch "The report’s also
silent about what the Trustees knew about these
lists, and when. Waldrip notes Fleming sent a
report on recall proponents’ efforts to trustees
early in the campaign, an April 2005 memo stamped
“CONFIDENTIAL.” In Fleming’s words, a “mole” had
approached the district’s security officer. The
memo outlines key players in the recall effort,
including four San Juan residents, referring to
them as NIMBYs ... That was about the same time
the first list was generated, and should have been
enough warning for Trustees to tell their
superintendent to focus on running the school
district and let them worry about the politics.
Waldrip didn’t ask Trustees whether they thought
the memo was appropriate – the only trustee he
even interviewed was Draper, about her daughter’s
work with Culbertson Adams."
Volzke is
the publisher of the Capistrano Dispatch.
Tags: Enemies Lists, Waldrip Investigation, Recall Campain 2005-06, Marlene Draper, Culbertson-Adams
Jan 11, 2007 Filed in:
Volzke,
Jonathan
Jonathan Volzke, The Capistrano
Dispatch "The biggest question
is unanswered: Are these actions aberrations or
business as usual? Did Jim Fleming, who ran the
district for 15 years before retiring last year,
routinely compile lists of those most critical of
the district and then link those parents with the
names of their children, their schools, their
teachers, even their home addresses? Was this a
bad decision in the heat of a recall battle, or
something more along the lines of Nixon’s infamous
plumbers? Given that the lists were created more
than a year apart, it’s a fair question ... if all
of this happened in 2005 and 2006 for the failed
recall, isn’t it reasonable to wonder what
happened in 2002, during the frenzy of the
Whispering Hills/San Juan Hills High battle?"
Volzke is
the publisher of the Capistrano Dispatch.
Tags: Enemies Lists, Waldrip Investigation, Recall Campain 2005-06, SJHHS
Aug 21, 2006 Filed in:
OC Register
Editorial, The Orange County
Register "The recall will not
move forward, after an insufficient number of
valid signatures was turned in. Yet the recall
effort sparked a closer look at the district and
how it has done business."
Tags: Recall Campain 2005-06
Jan 11, 2007 Filed in:
Volzke,
Jonathan
Jonathan Volzke, The Capistrano
Dispatch “The report confirms
nearly all of the allegations made during last
year’s recall battle, but Waldrip also
acknowledges he tried to avoid duplicating the
work of district attorney’s office investigators
looking into the district, as well as
public-meeting-law violations alleged in a civil
lawsuit against the district.”
Volzke is
the publisher of The Capistrano Dispatch.
Tags: Recall Campain 2005-06, Waldrip Investigation, DA Investigations, Open Meetings Law
Feb 23, 2007 Filed in:
Volzke,
Jonathan
Jonathan Volzke, The Capistrano
Dispatch “The recall was
unsuccessful but ultimately touched off a series
of events that saw the district’s spokesman retire
and leak several inflammatory documents to the
public, Fleming retire after 15 years at the helm,
one longtime trustee decision to not seek
re-election, while two other incumbents ran but
lost their normally safe seats. Other high-ranking
district officials targeted by district critics
have also retired.”
Volzke is
the publisher of the Capistrano
Dispatch.
Tags: Recall Campain 2005-06, David Smollar, James Fleming, Crystal Kochendorfer, John Casabianca, Shelia Henness, David Doomey
Mar 05, 2007 Filed in:
Volzke,
Jonathan
Jonathan Volzke, The Capistrano
Dispatch “...
none of the trustees have commented on the report,
which essentially sustained allegations made
during a failed recall attempt, but said nothing
violated the law.”
Volzke is
the publisher of The Capistrano Dispatch.
Tags: Waldrip Investigation, Recall Campain 2005-06, Culture of Corruption
