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      by Jonathan Hoffman</title>
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      <![CDATA[From having served on the PCC Bd during a turbulent period (1975-84) I am well versed in the need for an alert and attentive Board of Governors, which understands that it is the servant as well as the representative of the public. The current board, composed of good people who haven't had to work very hard for a long time, has been willing to let the college be misguided in many ways by an authoritative chancellor, who we learn through the media was engaging in a variety of seriously questionable practices.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Dave Gallagher]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Frankly, I think that it is pretty chicken s*@T of the Tucson Weekly to have not made an official endorsement for the 2 open PCC Governing Board seats way back when the Weekly's endorsements appeared - as it did for every other office on the ballot in Pima County - and then to print this unfair guest commentary disparaging two fine candidates for the PCC Governing Board, just days before the election. I say, Shame on the Tucson Weekly.
        
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          Dave Gallagher]]>
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    <author><![CDATA[Dave Gallagher]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[This PCC Governing Board election is about so much more than what the writer insinuates. I think voters will remember:<br>
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"PCC's thin meeting agendas scrutinized," Dec. 27, 2011,<br>
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'PCC gave consultant $300K+ in unbid contracts," Feb. 5, 2012,<br>
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OUR VIIEW: RUNNING A COMMUNITY COLLEGE REQUIRES THOROUGH SEARCH, "Don't Rush process of appointing PCC chancellor," Feb. 8, 2012,<br>
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"PCC votes to search for a new chancellor," Feb. 9, 1012, ("in which the Board's atempt, led by Board, chair, Scott Stewart, to get away with merely appointing PCC's next chancellor without conducting the normal and appropriate process of a national search and public participation was revealed.),<br>
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"PCC OKs 2 salaries for college chancellor," March 1, 2012,<br>
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And<br>
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OUR VIEW: PCC EXPENDITURE AN AFFRONT VOTERS SHOULD REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER<br>
"Flores deal leaves taxpayer paying double," March 4, 2012.
        
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      <![CDATA[I am really surprised that the Tucsonly Weekly allowed itself to be used as a vehicle for this late date hit piece. I wish that the Tucson Weekly would have shared this disparaging and dishonest attack with the two highly qualified candidates for the PCC Governing Board, Richard Fridena and Sylvia Lee so that they could have had time to defend themselves.<br>
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It appears to me that Scott Stewart, the current PCC Board, chair, and the only person spoken to as a source for this opinion piece,  written by  his friend, must be awefully worried that a couple of really good people might become fellow PCC Board members.<br>
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Both Richard Fridena and Sylvia Lee have been endorsed by the Arizona Daily Star, PCC faculty and staff, and many, many other people and organizations as well.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:24:13 -0700</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Richard L. M. Brodesky, Ph. D.]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[This column is an example of the small-minded attitude that is turning the entire country into an angry, hateful third-world society with a small wealthy class riding on a sea of struggling individuals. The only way that Tucson will ever break out of low wages and the boom and bust economy is by transforming itself into a brain hub.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 08:38:47 -0700</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Dave Gallagher]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[The campaigns of Richard Fridena and Syliva Lee are about many important things: Operating in the light of day and honoring their public servant role and demonstrating it be being open and receptive to citizen and public input: See the ADS article regarding this urrent Board's violations of Arizona's open meeting laws: "PCC's thin meeting agendas scrutinized," December 27, 2011; surely we remember when this PCC Governing Board, led by Board chair, Scott Stewart, tried in the dark  to appoint PCC's next chancellor without the benfit of a national search for the best possible candidate and public input and participation.<br>
I am greatful that the writer of this opinion piece was gracious and honest enough to acknowledge that both Richard Fridena and Sylvia Lee are well prepaid and highly qualified to be outstanding public servants that value public participation. They will operate in the light of day.
        
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