Trial Date Set For School Board Protester
Hello Faithful Readers:
Keeping up a blog can be a lot of work. I SURE WISH I HAD SOME HELP! You all know that you can post to this blog, don't you? Well, you can. Just scroll down until you see the instructions I put on here a while ago.
Anyway, since you guys won't talk about yourselves I guess it is up to me to fill these pages with news about me and mine.
My trial date has been set for July 7th. I went to the "cattle call" and that is the date they gave me. I have an attorney and we are in fact going to supoena the entire school board to testify at my trial. I will give you more info on exactly what our strategy will be as things progress. Here's an interesting note: The North Carolina State House of Representatives passed a bill that requires all public bodies to hold "Open Public Comment" sessions at their meetings. The bill now goes to the NC State Senate and it is almost assured of passage because our own State Senator Jeanne Lucas is in charge of the committee that is reviewing the bill. So, the ass-covering has already begun over at the Durham School Board. The guy I lost to, Steve Schewel now claims that he didn't want to pass a gag rule at all. He says we wouldn't negotiate. Everyone knows that's a lie because there were four community meetings where we discussed things. There are videotapes of each session and transcripts of some of them. But that's what he claims. He also is saying that he tried to get the topic of re-instituting some kind of "Open Public Comment" on the agenda for last month's school board meeting but that it was voted down. There is a committee made up of the Superintendent, the Chair and the Vice-Chair of the school board. The Vice-Chair is black, the others are white. He can get anything he wants put on the agenda with those two white votes.
So, the GANG OF FOUR, as we call the four white school board members, will now be required, by law, to put "Open Public Comment" back into each School Board Meeting. That is just the beginning. The next step is to find some way to get them to actually respond to our complaints.
This bill looks like it will pass just before I go to trial. That may have the effect of making them drop their case against me, I don't know. If they do I will accept it and chalk it up as a win. But I'm really hoping to get my day in court.
Keeping up a blog can be a lot of work. I SURE WISH I HAD SOME HELP! You all know that you can post to this blog, don't you? Well, you can. Just scroll down until you see the instructions I put on here a while ago.
Anyway, since you guys won't talk about yourselves I guess it is up to me to fill these pages with news about me and mine.
My trial date has been set for July 7th. I went to the "cattle call" and that is the date they gave me. I have an attorney and we are in fact going to supoena the entire school board to testify at my trial. I will give you more info on exactly what our strategy will be as things progress. Here's an interesting note: The North Carolina State House of Representatives passed a bill that requires all public bodies to hold "Open Public Comment" sessions at their meetings. The bill now goes to the NC State Senate and it is almost assured of passage because our own State Senator Jeanne Lucas is in charge of the committee that is reviewing the bill. So, the ass-covering has already begun over at the Durham School Board. The guy I lost to, Steve Schewel now claims that he didn't want to pass a gag rule at all. He says we wouldn't negotiate. Everyone knows that's a lie because there were four community meetings where we discussed things. There are videotapes of each session and transcripts of some of them. But that's what he claims. He also is saying that he tried to get the topic of re-instituting some kind of "Open Public Comment" on the agenda for last month's school board meeting but that it was voted down. There is a committee made up of the Superintendent, the Chair and the Vice-Chair of the school board. The Vice-Chair is black, the others are white. He can get anything he wants put on the agenda with those two white votes.
So, the GANG OF FOUR, as we call the four white school board members, will now be required, by law, to put "Open Public Comment" back into each School Board Meeting. That is just the beginning. The next step is to find some way to get them to actually respond to our complaints.
This bill looks like it will pass just before I go to trial. That may have the effect of making them drop their case against me, I don't know. If they do I will accept it and chalk it up as a win. But I'm really hoping to get my day in court.
posted by Durham Community News @ 5:23 AM
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