School Board results disappointing

My Vizaweb site has disappeared again, so I've got no place to blog but here.

The Temecula Valley School Board race had a disappointing outcome. Two incumbents were re-elected and one new person joined the board. Top vote getter only got 4813 votes, which seems very low in a city with close to 100,000 people. I guess not too many people get involved in the School Board race. The disturbing thing for me is that the people who had the new ideas, at least from my perspective, did not do well at all. In fact, the guy whose platform was to recover money lost to children of illegal aliens and to void any curriculum not meeting his standards got more votes than the people who were pushing more art and music in the curriculum and more parental involvement. Also, the people who are actually working in the field of education did not get elected.

Bob Brown does support arts and music and he was re-elected, and so does Vince O'Neal, who was the only newcomer elected, so maybe people didn't overlook that entirely.

Candidate's positions were summarized here.

One real disappointing thing was that I got one of those automated phone calls for 3 of the candidates. Unfortunately, it came this afternoon, 18 hours after voting ended.