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Centralia School District Trustees aiming to gerrymander the district map to help themselves

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Editor Posted in Anaheim, Centralia School District, Education, News, Politics Leave a comment

Centralia School District Trustees Dennis Salts and Steve Harris

Centralia School District Trustees Steve Harris and Dennis Salts have allegedly admitted to preferring gerrymandered maps that help incumbents, not the community, according to an anonymous source who has been attending Centralia board meetings for the past six months.

Centralia School District Trustees Connor Traut and Art Montez have been pushing for a new district map that best follows the law and keeps the District’s communities together, without consideration to current-Trustee residency.

The Centralia School District is the smallest municipality in Orange County to move to a District-election system, with only 55,000 residents.

Click here for the audio recording of the meeting in question. Continue reading→

Brandman has recruited a carpetbagging liberal for the Centralia School District

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Editor Posted in Anaheim, Centralia School District, Connor Traut, Education, Irv Trinkle, Jordan Brandman, Kevin Sequeira, News Leave a comment

Liberal Connor Traut

Don’t vote for Traut unless you like carpetbagging liberals!

Though an experienced field of elected officials have pulled papers in the Centralia School District, the first person to do so was 20-year-old Chapman University student Connor Traut (D) who moved to Anaheim a few months ago from Ladera Ranch, where he was a member of the Ladera Ranch Civic Council. Traut is an acolyte of Anaheim Councilman Jordan Brandman (D). (Brandman allies seem to be popping up in different Anaheim school board seats, as D.R. Heywood (D) has pulled papers in the Anaheim City School District.)

Traut dug himself into a deep hole when he released the flier above this post. It features three community icons including Michael Buss, Carol Latham and Shirley McCracken – all of whom are currently not happy with Connor. Buss reportedly spoke with Connor today and blasted him. Traut’s response was “sorry that flyer was sent out by mistake.” Right. We must call BS on that! Lathan and McCracken were supposed to be contacting Traut today.

We hope the residents of the Centralia School District will not be impressed by a young carpetbagger who is already angering community leaders with his actions. There are three seats open on the Centralia School District and five candidates running, including Traut. Candidates we prefer to Traut include:

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Petition removes appointed Centralia School District Trustee Kevin Sequeira from office

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Editor Posted in Anaheim, Art Montez, Centralia School District, Education, Kevin Sequeira, News, Politics 1 Comment

Residents of the Centralia School District gathered 825 signatures and successfully petitioned to remove appointed Centralia School District Trustee Kevin Sequeira from office. These were almost double the 434 verified signatures of registered voters that were required, which is 1.5% of the registered voters from the 2012 general election. Source: Registrar of Voters.

Three applicants applied for the appointment: former Trustee Cristi Woodward, and former candidates Kevin Sequeira and Ashi Kothary. Source: July 17th agenda, page 2.

The vote by the Central School Board on June 17, to appoint a Trustee to fill a vacancy concluded after 5 re-votes. Appointment required a unanimous vote by the Board of three Trustees (Trustee Salts was absent). If no consensus was made, a special election would have been forced – at a cost estimated at $99,864 by the Registrar of Voters.

Sequeira was removed from the School Board on the basis of his lack of attendance of Board meetings and his controversial quotes on education: Continue reading→