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MyspaceBeverly Grant will receive a plaque for four-years of service on the Carpinteria School Board at the meeting at Carpinteria City Hall on Tuesday, November 23, 2010, starting time 5:30 PM. This is her farewell speech:
“This is my only chance to report on my experience as a trustee of the CUSD school board. A position I found interesting and enjoyable until we voted on the Warrior Mascot issue.
“Whereupon, the three of us who voted to remove the Native American Warrior mascot were subject to unwarranted abuse..
“I received several death threats, was asked to leave town, and several people went to the media to say I was unfit even to be around children.
“One old warrior sent a three-page email informing me that he and his friends could not believe that three white women voted as if they didn’t know their place, adding “you’ll never be accepted in Carpinteria society.”
“Oh yes, there was the attempted recall. Even recently there have been negative comments and snubs.
“Talk about a bullying problem!.
“Having retired from the California Department of Corrections after many years of working with felony offenders, I can’t believe I was treated worse by the Warrior boosters than by any of the thousands of parolees I dealt with over the years.
“Every challenge provides an opportunity to learn more about myself and the people around me. I have found this experience provided me with an opportunity to plumb the depths of love that some people have for me, and I for them.
“Thank you.
“— Beverly Grant”
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Pretty self serving and a bit pitiful. The fact is that the Grant, Deardorf, and Sahm voted on the warrior issue the same meeting it was first debated. What should have been a deliberative process left many to feel that the three members of the board had just completely shut down any public comment on the issue.
Perhaps Grants imperious attitude further ingnited the overwhelming number of her constituents that felt slighted by her snap decision. Regardless, the issue was poorly handled from the start and snowballed from there. To cast the town as a bunch of ignorant felons is all the more reason that plaque should be returned to CSUB.
moonshot (anonymous profile)
November 24, 2010 at 10:28 a.m. (Suggest removal)