<p>Heh, heh. That's my plan :-}</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 24, 2012 10:50 AM, "Matthew" <<a href="mailto:simontek@gmail.com">simontek@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I usually have issues with career politicians. I think people should<br>
let others take over.<br>
<br>
On 5/24/12, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> He is running. Current chair of the budget committee. The same group<br>
> having issues with finding a 'missing' $69M.<br>
> He's been a near consecutive board member for the past 30 years.<br>
> On May 24, 2012 9:46 AM, "Charles Shapiro" <<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> So what do you know about this guy, Paul Womack? Is he running again?<br>
>><br>
>> -- CHS<br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > It is with no small degree of impending community and personal<br>
>> > responsibility that these words are written. As I have been involved<br>
>> > with<br>
>> > the lives of many people over the more than 2 decades living in DeKalb<br>
>> > County, involved with the upbringing of my own children, involved with<br>
>> > education both of myself, my wife and my children and the children of<br>
>> > others, I know solidly that there is little else we do as adults that<br>
>> > has<br>
>> > more importance than to prepare the next generation for the world they<br>
>> will<br>
>> > inherit from us. To this end I have worked with the graduates of DeKalb<br>
>> > County School System at Georgia State University, Emory University and<br>
>> > Georgia Perimeter College as an instructor of physics and astronomy. I<br>
>> have<br>
>> > seen first hand many of the strengths and weaknesses of our county<br>
>> > school<br>
>> > system both in the students I have taught, my own children, their<br>
>> > friends<br>
>> > and the children of friends as well as in my interactions with school<br>
>> > officials and teachers over the past 20 years. I have weathered the<br>
>> > divisiveness of power during a fight for school control that resulted<br>
>> > in<br>
>> > forced faculty changes and parents pulling their children from the<br>
>> school to<br>
>> > avoid recriminations from the teachers that won. I have been compelled<br>
>> > to<br>
>> > act on behalf of faculty, students and staff when central office<br>
>> processes<br>
>> > had totally failed and health and safety issues were putting all school<br>
>> > members at risk.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > As I discussed my views and convictions surrounding the DeKalb County<br>
>> School<br>
>> > System with my family and friends, I discovered a community of<br>
>> > supporters<br>
>> > encouraging my greater involvement. As my resolve steeled with the<br>
>> > rising<br>
>> > awareness of the work ahead, the circle of supporters widened. Speaking<br>
>> > briefly of intentions with parents, community people and teachers<br>
>> > within<br>
>> the<br>
>> > school system has provided the final conviction that the level of<br>
>> > effort<br>
>> is<br>
>> > recognized by more than just a few and I am not alone in willingness to<br>
>> work<br>
>> > towards the betterment of DeKalb County School System for the benefit<br>
>> > of<br>
>> > all.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > To this end, I announce my candidacy for the DeKalb County Board of<br>
>> > Education District 4 for the General Election on November 6, 2012<br>
>> ><br>
>> > --<br>
>> > --<br>
>> > James P. Kinney III<br>
>> ><br>
>> > As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to<br>
>> > consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as<br>
>> > they<br>
>> > please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.<br>
>> > - 2011 Noam Chomsky<br>
>> ><br>
>> > <a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a><br>
>> ><br>
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