There is a cost for electing liberal political hacks to a school board, or committee, and a shining example of “hacknoxiousness” is sitting on the Manchester School Committee Board right now.
Enter one – Ward 2 Committeeman David Scannell. Does this “ward” title mean mental ward?
It looks like the standard, “Let’s Get Committeeman Rich Girard” once and for all, this time, setup.
Here is how I am reading it:
- Empowered high school student starts her political career with a letter of support for a teacher raise in the current negotiations Girard is involved in.
- Student gets some her talking points wrong in a ghost-written article published on a school “website.”
- Girard responds on same non-school site – the student’s school email is exposed in the response through this process and the issue was part of a local cable TV program Girard operates – much to the contention of the school committee hacks. Girard removed the school email as soon as it was noticed.
BUT!!
- This email exchange on a public forum triggers a letter from an attorney representing the empowered, alleged victim requiring legal representation, student saying Girard must stop referring to the student in emails or his cable program???
- In steps School Committee hack David Scannell with both brain cells firing gets a look at the letter from a lawyer sent to school committee member Girard and thinks Rich is in trouble.
- “Someone” leaks it to the press to show how much trouble Rich Girard is in.
Kaboom!!
- The political leak is much worse than the political hit and the leaker is now subject to an investigation by the committee.
- Committee hack David Scannell admits he is the leaker before he is caught, and he comes up with a brilliant excuse for leaking.
Laugh track here
- Hackmaster Scannell admitted publicly he sent the Letter to various media, believing it was a public document because it was sent to all board members. This means Hackmaster Scannell “believes” all board members means – the general public. That pathetic statement by Scannell is proof of hackery – and that two brain cells thing.
- The result of the whole ordeal leaves the student’s name in the public forum. She happens to be 18 years old and can vote – that is why Rich Girard was correcting some of her points on the school website.
- Nice job David Scannell.
Now the squabbling and excuse generators slip into high gear as the old “Let’s Get Rich Girard This Time” meeting begins. Egg meet face.
And I have to wonder who else on the school committee was part of the Scannell self-humiliation simpleminded attempted assault that backfired? There is always a whisper team on any school board.
As Mark Twain said: “In the first place, God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards.”