Wave of Change Is Coming
by Craig Alexander

Each election year you hear from one source or another that this is the most important election year ever and you should be sure to vote, call your friends, give money to this candidate or that one and so on. After two years of record government-deficit spending (at the state and federal level), I believe there is a wave of change coming - the right kind of change where those who like big government and lots of government handouts will be turned out of office. More and more people are demanding accountability from their elected officials for their votes, and if those votes were for big government, those officials will likely find themselves adding "former" or "retired" to their government titles at the end of 2010.

However, there are some good people in local offices that deserve our support. One example is the Board of Trustees at the Capistrano Unified School District (CUSD). When we elected seven conservative trustees two years ago, the local teacher's union and their allies soon declared war on our Trustees. They have maligned them, tried to make them vote for things against their principals, yelled and screamed at one trustee's spouse when she was taking their children to school (and blocking her car so she could not get out of the parking lot), picketing a Trustee's home on a Saturday, etc., etc.   

There are five seats on the CUSD Board of Trustees up for election. Our five good conservative incumbents (Mike Winsten, Ellen Addonizio, Anna Bryson, Larry Christensen and Ken Lopez-Maddox) are being challenged by five teacher union-backed candidates. I suspect you will soon be receiving lots of mailers from the teacher’s union advertising for their chosen candidates and against our good incumbent trustees.

I would like to give you a couple sources of information you can go to in order to get the truth about the issues and candidates. One web site is www.cusdfacts.com . For those of you who like Facebook, I strongly recommend the Capo Kids First site, which is run by my friend Greg Powers. Right now on both sites is information about the legal victories won by the good guys in Court over ballot statements by the candidates on both sides plus Measure H which, if it passes, will negatively affect the way we elect Trustees to the CUSD Board of Trustees. I was the attorney of record on one of the cases. I am also a signing party for the Argument against Measure H, which you will see in your voter pamphlet from the Registrar of Voters.

The Capo Kids First site can be reached by signing into Facebook http://www.cusdrecall.com - its free!) then searching for "Capo Kids First." Another way is http://www.facebook.com/pages/Capo-Kids-First/112723732080474?ref=mf
I know – it’s a bit long but it’s worth going to.

No matter how you feel about the CUSD issues and election, I offer these two sites as places where you can get truthful information in the coming months.