Letter: Don’t Back Partisan Wannabes

Education should be the agenda of the people on our school district boards. Sadly, ideological partisanship has become a larger agenda. Interestingly, every candidate agrees that partisanship has no place, yet some candidates loudly proclaim their party affiliation on campaign materials and accept funding from and are active with a highly partisan organization: the Reagan Republicans. Those candidates – Ann Seddon, Brent Regan and Bjorn Handeen – say one thing, but their actions speak the opposite. This raises questions of ethics and integrity. The Reagan Republicans’ influence has been felt in board decision-making. For example, discarding the International Baccalaureate program. These candidates say our children should be “job-ready,” knowing our children will enter a global economy. Nevertheless, a program preparing them for that was cut on ideological grounds, making our children less job-ready Joe Jacoby , of Coeur d’Alene, SR letter to the editor. More here.

Question: How is a candidate compromised by running for a nonpartisan election under the banner of a political party?