A Couple Of Anonymous Schmidt-Head Comments

It has been a while since I drew the wrath of April Griffin fans. When I mentioned the name of former Erwin Tech principal Mike Donohue as someone being courted to run against April in next year’s election, a note of fear must have stuck the anonymous Schmidt-heads, and they drew their pen-knives.

When I claimed that Donohue would easily garner a Classroom Teachers Association endorsement, anonymous was quick to reply, “The CTA is a joke. Their endorsement means nothing.”

When I mentioned that Erwin Tech Center was the best vocational school in the state under Donohue’s management, another anonymous commenter said, “How can Mike Donohue be a competent candidate when he didn’t bust his own bookkeeper for theft?”

Truth is, a major part of Donohue’s evaluations of that bookkeeper were based on annual district audits, which turned out to be lacking.

Of course, the faulty opinions of a commenter hiding behind anonymity cannot be considered shrewd or insightful.

La Gaceta reported last week that April will file her school board re-election papers in October. I’m surprised. I really though she’d run for a county commission seat. Seems like she’s solidly plugged into the local Democrats and the local unions. Has something changed? Has her big ego even eroded that support?

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