SCHENECTADY Group makes school board picks SCOPE chooses not to back one incumbent BY KATHLEEN MOORE Gazette Reporter
The grassroots group that organized to fight Schenectady’s school board last year is continuing the fi ght. It announced endorsements Monday for all three seats up in this year’s election — and pointedly chose not to endorse Gary Farkas, who has been on the school board for many years and faces a re-election campaign this year. Farkas said he asked the Schenectady Citizens for Openness in Public Education (SCOPE) for its endorsement. He wasn’t chosen. SCOPE organizer Marjorie Karowe declined to explain why, but said, “Nobody needs to know why someone did not pick him. There are a number of reasons, but in fairness to him, he just deserves to run on his own record.” SCOPE swept all four seats in last year’s election on a platform that included changing the board’s “prevailing culture” by installing new board members. The grassroots group did endorse one school board member: Ron Lindsay, who won with the rest of the SCOPE candidates last year. He got the fewest votes in the 2010 election and thus earned the shortest term on the school board, requiring him to run again this year. “He’s been an open guy,” Karowe said. “I think he’s been a very good school board member.” Also endorsed were two newcomers: Shatiki Beatty, who said she wants to discourage wrongly labeling strong-willed children as having behavioral problems; and Cheryl Nechamen, who wants to push the board to cut costs by sharing services with the city. ......................>>>>.......................>>>>...................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00900&AppName=1
Heard they could not find any decent candidates but this is ridiculous. More liberal double talk that fails to address major fiscal problems. How about one business person? The one incumbent they shouldn't have endorsed is Ron Lindsay. He voted to give horrible Super Elys a jackpot when he fled the State.
Too much emphasis on alleged "openness" and not enough on reorganization to all neighborhood schools and slashing the bloated budget. Gary Farkas is far from perfect but he is knowledgeable and reads this board. The last thing we need is another group controlled by one party. The horrible City Council is enough.
Well, when SCOPE is looking for candidates on Craigslist, they're probably not that selective to begin with.
Also, we should all thank the new regime for allowing GE to continue to evade paying school taxes. Nice to know that the school board, in the face of millions cut to its budget, still has an alliance to GE which surpasses children's education.
They need to stop using the name SCOPE, which is clearly evocative of gun violence.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
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Heard they could not find any decent candidates but this is ridiculous. More liberal double talk that fails to address major fiscal problems. How about one business person? The one incumbent they shouldn't have endorsed is Ron Lindsay. He voted to give horrible Super Elys a jackpot when he fled the State. 
