Westwood Heights Makes Up Its Own Mind

Voters in Westwood Heights voted 2 to 1 to recall three members of the WH school board yesterday. That means that inventing a non-existent MEA role, raving about union puppets and branding an election foolish without knowing anything about its history isn't enough to fool the public. The really sad thing is that Kyle's so PR tone deaf that he doesn't realize that as his road show moves around the state, he's only managing to establish himself as a know-nothing opportunist from the other side of the state.

EAG continues to show no return for its secret investors. The updated EAG Scoreboard:


[click on Scoreboard to download]

Kyle Looking for a Phony Victory

Tomorrow's Westwood Heights recall election represents, at least in Kyle's mind, a chance to chalk up a victory (finally). You'll maybe remember that WH is where a long-simmering battle between board members, together with, according to press accounts, the hiring of a new superintendent and the firing of a principle has led to tomorrow's recall election against three school board members.

As today's Flint Journal reported, the history of this recall is complicated enough, but:

"There's a lot of people drumming up issues that aren't pertinent, and certainly they don't know all the facts." One board member said. The articles continues:

"A new twist has entered the race in the final week with a Muskegon-based group that calls itself Education Action Group claiming the recall is being pushed by the teachers union, which recall organizers called 'a blatant falsehood'."

Recall organizer James Mitchell wrote:



The resentment against EAG runs deep, thanks to the turmoil that the area is already dealing with. Just today, Flint's now former mayor, Don Williamson, asked for $250,000 in back pay, although he had agreed to work for a $1 a year. He's the guy that resigned just days before his recall election.

All this town needs is an outsider taking advantage of this chaos. But then that's just what Kyle's brand of attack conservatism is all about.

EAG Scoreboard

Yesterday, the Education Action Guy, Kyle Olson, wrote to his mailing list that he's having a great year. For example, he managed to determine that Wayne Westland school employees like MESSA. It took him four FIOA's to uncover that.

Forget that in the settlement, MESSA survived, they got a raise, class sizes got reduced a little, and Kyle's work probably had no effect, except perhaps to delay a settlement that could have been reached months ago. I'm sure the locals are happy he came to town.

But again, that got me thinking. That same email included some begging for contributions: "current funds are running low..." So as I wrote the other day, I wonder how Kyle's secret financers feel about their investment.

So let's have a look at Kyle's Scoreboard. The target district, the methods he used to nose in, and the result:



Not so good there, Kyle. I can see why raising funds is getting harder.