Posts Tagged ‘ Westminster School Board ’

This just came in over the transom, and I thought you’d all appreciate this… Especially all of you in the Westminster School Distict. Sergio Contreras is a good Democrat, a great advocate for the kids of Westminster, and a fine school board trustee. Let’s make sure he continues to fight for a better education...
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Wow! Another Democratic Club is coming to OC! Thanks to the hard work of the California Democratic Council, the Democratic Party of Orange County, and some great Dem activists out in West OC, we have a new Democratic Club for all of you in the Huntington Beach/Westminster/Seal Beach area. The Democratic Party of Orange County...
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This Friday, September 14, 2007 at 9:00 a.m. at the Gonzalo and Felicitas Mendez Fundamental Intermediate School in Santa Ana (on Bristol and 17th) the release of the Mendez vs. the Westminster School District U.S. postage stamp will be celeberated. Mike Lawson covered Mendez vs. Westminster decision earlier this year HERE.  Few are aware that the...
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Tomorrow marks the 60th anniversary of one of the pivotal early moments of America’s Civil Rights Movement. Yet few are aware that the court decision that laid the groundwork for Brown vs. Board of Education happened right here in Orange County. On April 14, 1947 a court ruled in Mendez vs. Westminster...
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I told you so. Last fall I wrote that voting for Andrew Nguyen, Mary Mangold, and Dave Bridgewaters in the Westminster School Board race was a bad idea for progressives. Even though all three were backed by the teacher’s union, I said they were “pawns of special interests.” I thought that the Our Children,...
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Throughout the next few days we’ll be posting the results to some of our favorite races along links to the stories we have written about them. Posts we’ve written on this race: “What’s up with the Westminster School Board?” “The Stephanie Erickson Agenda” “The queerest school board race in Orange County”
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There is something fishy going on in Westminster (and that’s not a Little Saigon pun). When I met Westminster School Board Candidate Mary Mangold last week, I was happy to hear that she reads TheLiberalOC.com, and was very open to hearing any information that she wanted to give me about her opponents and about what...
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