At the end of the questioning of Louisville City Schools candidates at the Grange sponsored "candidates night" on October, 20th, Judge Lee Sinclair (the moderator) asked the candidates a "from the audience" question, to wit:
"Why do you not cooperate with each other?"
All four candidates were puzzled as they should have been.
Why is that?
Because, of all the candidate nights that the SCPR has attended, these four contenders for three seats were in a virtual "love-in." And, the incumbent board members are obviously in sync. Louisville/Nimishillen voters have no "real" choice. All of the candidates are clones of each other.
All four were into hand-wringing about the dire financial condition of the Louisville schools. Louisville has not had additional money from local taxpayers since 1992. Collectively, the four say that a new effort will be forthcoming in one to three years.
None had any idea as to how to get local voters to support a levy attempt.
The one challenger (Sigler) is a former board member who told the SCPR he just "loved" being a board member and missed being one so much that he just had to give it a go.
Now isn't that a terrific reason for running?
None named former state Representative John Hagan, current state Representative Todd Snitchler and state Senator Kirk Schuring (about to play "musical chairs" - a version in which each gets a "seat" - a switched one, that is) as persons to blame for the critical financial crisis that is brewing for Louisville Schools.
But Stark Common Pleas court judge Lee Sinclair did.
Not by name, but reference and implication as being members of the Ohio General Assembly, past and present.
Although the SCPR did shoot video of the candidates, it is not a desire of The Report to put SCPR readers to sleep with their responses to the questions posed.
Rather, watch Lee Sinclair "steal the show" in this video in which his finger is directly at the culpable.
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