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V for Van Vechten: Tacoma School Board District No. 2
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posted Aug 11, 2009
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As a UPS student who almost dropped out of one-time special needs school, Chris Van Vechten offers both the kind of experience, the kind of diversity and the kind of perspective your school district needs to meet the challenges of Y2K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chris Van Vechten was raised to be painfully aware that our system of education is imperfect and continues to fall short of providing "One Nation under god, indivisible, with liberty, justice and equal opportunity to all."
He's not fighting just to educate your child.
He's fighting to educate the HELL OUT OF YOUR CHILD!
I'm taking my money and putting it all on Chris Van Vechten and so should you.
Excelsior!
previously on the TACOMIC...
Chris Van Vechten was raised to be painfully aware that our system of education is imperfect and continues to fall short of providing "One Nation under god, indivisible, with liberty, justice and equal opportunity to all."
He's not fighting just to educate your child.
He's fighting to educate the HELL OUT OF YOUR CHILD!
I'm taking my money and putting it all on Chris Van Vechten and so should you.
Excelsior!
previously on the TACOMIC...
Comments [31]
 by morgan on 8/11/2009 @ 6:27am | Excelsior!
RR: Show your source material please! |
 by fredo on 8/11/2009 @ 7:07am | The most important issue regarding the school board elections is the attempt to increase the bonded indebtedness of the school district taxpayers. Both Rickman and Van Vechten support increased bonding. So what is the change that Van Vechten represents? |
 by NineInchNachos on 8/11/2009 @ 12:04pm | Unfortunately supplemental bonds are a painful reality since the current crop of board members feel inclined to waste education dollars paying failed superintendents just to go away.
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by fredo on 8/11/2009 @ 12:28pm | NIN@ I was referring to capital construction bonds, not operating levies. |
 by Thorax O'Tool on 8/11/2009 @ 1:10pm | which candidate supports cutting administrative staff and costs by 50% or more? That's the one that would get my vote. Do we really need one paper pusher per teacher in the district? Or for that matter, the State? |
 by jenyum on 8/11/2009 @ 1:41pm | I don't think the board has made any final decisions yet about the Bond for next year, but the Maintenance and Operations Levy will be expiring, so that has to pass next spring. Right now I think they are leaning toward a bond and levy on the ballot, but how big of a bond and what it would include is definitely debatable. (Last year's number was not smart, I will definitely grant you that.) |
 by Erik on 8/11/2009 @ 3:34pm | which candidate supports cutting administrative staff and costs by 50% or more?
Yes. From the numbers I have seen published, Tacoma School District has far more than its share of administrative costs on a relative basis to other school districts. |
 by JesseHillFan on 8/11/2009 @ 4:30pm | Can we have a funny audio ad for Chris like that smash hit one we previously had for Jesse Hill.How about this time the song "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and have some 1860 era Northerners for the narration. |
by NineInchNachos on 8/11/2009 @ 4:42pm | by gum that's a swell idea JHF! |
by fredo on 8/11/2009 @ 6:26pm | Jen@ In your posting of February 19 you described the proposed Tacoma School Bond as "...a good deal."
Today you describe the same bond as "...not smart." Can you clear this up this inconsistency for me? |
by jenyum on 8/11/2009 @ 8:13pm | Not smart from a political standpoint, to roll it all into one big number with zeros on the end was not smart from a marketing standpoint, either.
These things have little to no relation to whether or not it's necessary for the district to eventually raise that money, which it is, or whether or not it would have bought more at lower prices than we are likely to get later, which is also probably the case. |
by NineInchNachos on 8/13/2009 @ 9:21pm | holy crap. I just found this floating round on myspace... Chris Van Vecten campaign people are exploiting every venue!  |
by Thorax O'Tool on 8/13/2009 @ 10:11pm | Woah! I didn't know he was Lisa Frank in a former life! |
by NineInchNachos on 8/16/2009 @ 10:54pm | sweet! comments under comics!!! |
 by KevinFreitas on 8/17/2009 @ 7:02am | :) |
by NineInchNachos on 8/17/2009 @ 8:09am | test test |
by NineInchNachos on 8/17/2009 @ 8:10am | Comments not showing up on Jinxmedic new cartoon! |
by fredo on 8/17/2009 @ 8:21am | I think it's ironic that candidates for school board and their supporters, who are assumed to be both educated and enlightened, are placing advertisements on the public right of way. Does this encourage or discourage additional support for the candidates? |
by KevinFreitas on 8/17/2009 @ 8:28am | @RR: Try 'er now. Thx for the feedback!
@Fredo: I don't believe, much as I think they're ugly, there's anything preventing legit political campaign signs from being placed in public right of ways. Something to do with freedom of speech. As long as they disappear shortly thereafter I'll hold my complaints to their blight. |
by Erik on 8/17/2009 @ 8:46am | sweet! comments under comics!!! Nice. |
by fredo on 8/17/2009 @ 9:01am | A campaign sign on private property indicates voter support. A campaign sign on public property indicates nothing, except perhaps, a lazy campaign committee. |
by NineInchNachos on 8/17/2009 @ 3:09pm | van vechten wins new takhoman endorsement! www.thenewtakhoman.com/ |
by jenyum on 8/17/2009 @ 6:49pm | From the City of Tacoma website:
www.cityoftacoma.org/Page.aspx?hid=3617
There's also case law on this, specific to Tacoma: www.mrsc.org/Publications/mrnews/article... Political speech is extremely difficult to regulate, and for good reason. |
by Erik on 8/17/2009 @ 6:50pm | Yes, yard signs have a long contentious history in Tacoma. |
by fredo on 8/17/2009 @ 7:00pm | I didn't say political signs on city right of way were illegal. But I did imply that such placement might discourage support for the candidate and I'll stand by that statement.
No enlightened candidate would place these signs on city right of way. What those signs say to me is " look at me, I have utter contempt for the appearance of your neighborhood, will you vote for me?" |
by KevinFreitas on 8/17/2009 @ 8:23pm | I'm not a fan of signs being sprinkled about all over town but I do prefer if they're spread further and more sparsely than when you see massive clods of them in one popular spot. I can tell you, they don't sway me either way. |
by NineInchNachos on 8/17/2009 @ 8:29pm | I like to see candidate signs everywhere. they are a welcomed alternative to the evil blood sucking corporation advertisements. candidate signs represent real people you might see walking around--not abstract concepts. In the words of Bush 43: "Bring it on" |
by NineInchNachos on 4/24/2010 @ 10:55pm | Our friend Chris has been busy out in the frontier... the galactic backwaters of Tacoma... AKA University Place
themelononline.com/2010/04/university-pl... apparently TEA Party pirates have taken the council meetings hostage... the whole city is on the verge of collapse and only one man can stop it... Chris Van Vechten. Know this if University Place falls, all of middle earth (tacoma) will be venerable to the armies of the dark lord. |
by NineInchNachos on 5/9/2011 @ 1:54pm | BREAKING: somebody stole CVV's entire green house! Plants and shelving left behind.
Secure your greenhouse folks! |
by jenyum on 5/9/2011 @ 6:47pm | That is really lame. Somebody stole my dyson vacuum out of my nearly empty former rental last week and then egged the house on the way out. Same neighborhood as CVV I believe unless he moved. |
by NineInchNachos on 5/9/2011 @ 6:53pm | thieves have no taste in vacuums |
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