Maybe they are just getting old and forgetful, or maybe they just don’t want to remember, but it appears the Jerry Chapman and Jim Ekeberg have conveniently forgotten that they received over $31,000 in Union contributions in the 2007 school board election. When asked at a TOPPER candidate forum whether they had ever received contributions from the unions, Chapman mumbled something about possibly the union “did a mailing” for the friends of Bokor Chapman Ekeberg committe>
Well, let me refresh your recollection:
$3,000 from the ESPA
$2,000 from the SEIU
$1,000 from the NW Coalition for Quality Education which initially received said $1,000 from the teacher’s union
$3,500 from the Classroom Teachers Council PLUS
over $22,000 in “in-kind” contributions that were made on behalf of Bokor Chapman Ekeberg, including $1,000 paid to that venerable election law attorney Jim Nally.
Here are some more details:
$1,887.63 to obtain a copy of a “voter file”
$487.76 for photocopies
$780.00 for postage (ah, this is the “mailer”!)
$624.00 for more postage
$1,000 to Attorney Jim Nally
$17,000 to Morrissey public Affairs (they crafted the phone script for the political calls that were made by the teachers in the run-up to the election)
Bokor Chapman Ekeberg D-2 from 2007
Forget for a moment about the inherent conflict of interest in acceptin campaign donations from the same unions that you will be negotiating contracts with if you are elected. Do we really want to re-elect board members who can’t remember receiving more than $31,000 from the unions in a single election? People that forgetful should be at home tending their gardens, not pretending to be stewards of the taxpayers’ dollars.
