Over the past day or so, our State Senator's aide (and Franklin resident), Kevin Fischer, hasn't seemed to be on the good side of many people. Out of nowhere, he wrote a piece about what I believed to be (after reading the entry) apparent nepotism within the Franklin Little League, of which the former Little League President, Dave Bartels, came out in force to denounce. Then he took aim, as per usual during budget time, at the Franklin Public School Board for apparently not being too forthcoming on the future budget.
I guess when one reads the post about the Little League "scandal", if you may, it really made me wonder just how all of this came to be; how and/or why would this particular matter be of such top priority for our aide? Sure, I'm willing to go on the record in saying he has every right to write about whatever he wants, whenever he wants...but the passion over a Little League that he even admits to never attending any games is, well, interesting to say the least. Kudos to Mr. Bartels for standing up for the Little League and the children who play in it. It's unfortunate, however, that Bartels fell into the trap Fischer set-up for him and the other families who have children in the Franklin Little League. You see, the response by those families and Bartels was, in my opinion, the goal Fischer wanted to achieve. The response on his blog continued the controversy.
Then we move onward to the Franklin Public School Board, where the lack of apparent public discussion by Board Members prior to an October budget vote is a huge sin. It seems that since the NOW didn't do an article in Franklin, the School Board is giving the public the silent treatment.
I didn't like that entry for a variety of reasons - the primary one being the unnecessary attacks on Board Members, especially newly elected member Janet Evans. It's been claimed that the members of the Board don't talk about issues. Well, then I suppose either I'm really special or those claims are flat out nonsense. Whenever I have a question and direct it at board members, I do get responses back. Heck, there are even times where I could get a phone call to discuss my concerns. I know of several residents who have contacted members of the School Board directly and received responses in a proper timeframe. It seems to me that all Fischer wants is what he wrote in the last sentence (emphasis mine):
If I'm so wrong (and so terrible) prove me wrong and e-mail me something, anything. Don't do it for me. Do it for the taxpayers.
Yes, have the School Board members e-mail Fischer so he can obtain more attention by the Franklin public so he can then bash them over more nonsense? If anything, those School Board members (especially Ms. Evans) should send their remarks to other Franklin bloggers (Ms. Evans can simply write her piece on her own blog). I don't see why any of them would need to do Fischer a service, to be quite honest.
