Five of the six candidates who want to run for Palm Beach, Florida School Board, district one, trusted the Elections Department and wrote filing fee checks for $1635.40, which the Department said was the correct amount. However, the true amount was $1635.48. One candidate paid the right amount and he tells the press he may file a lawsuit to keep all his oppoonents off the ballot. See this story.
FLorida: the guiding light of 21st century American Politics. The penis state has given so little. And yet the nation has ‘taken so much’!
Filed under ‘Fact or Fiction’?
Come
Darn decade ole Walmart special Pavilion series.
Come on SOME ONE out there must know some one in the corporate media. Let’s get this story ‘out there’. Richard Winger has given us the spring board, let’s take the plunge and get this piece of evidence, er, ah, squib of 21st Americana and it’s war against non Dems and non GOP to the general public!
It’s gotta be a ‘slow news day’ some where!
So how did the 6th guy know to pay .08 cents more?
Can I mail a check to cover the $0.08 for each of the 5 candidates that were short?
If so, give me the address of the Clerk. I’ll pay $0.40 cents to keep someone from running unopposed.
The ridiculuous part is that a school board trustee receives $40,887 per year (the filing fee was 4% of the annual salary).
Some one could have bought a roll of pennies, laid eight out on an 8 1/2 inch by 11 inch piece of typing/ photo copying paper and quietly, anonomously [sp] stapled it to the original app and check.
In most parts of the country, the school board is a voluntary office that works without pay so that more money can go to educating the students. Why does Florida pay them so much and why are the fees so high to begin with? Only those who have access to a lot of money (e.g., those in the back pocket of the teachers’ unions) can run. Those with little money, but a lot of concern for the students (rather than the teachers and school administrators) cannot.
I finally understand why the 2000 election happened where it happened. This can explain why Florida voters have problems voting (even though they are given sample ballots in advance and told to call if they don’t understand it) and why Florida bureaucrats have a hard time designing usable ballots — especially in Palm Beach County.
If the one candidate is able to eliminate all of his opponents over a measly eight cents, I hope that there will be such a backlash that a write-in candidate (do they have to pay the fee also?) wins. More likely, however, in a couple of decades that person will be the presumptive Democratic nominee for President.
Democratic nominee? Democan nominee? Democtric or Republic nominee?
Oh those thrifty GOP types. 1M Iraqi dead. 4200 Americans no longer breathing air. $1T [rillion] in unnecessary debt! Ah, financial responsibility. Talk, talk, talk!
The law is the law. Now the 5 ex-candidates will have plenty of time to follow around #6 and report every instance of jaywalking, driving without a seatbelt, littering…