Good Anderson, Bad Anderson

Good Anderson, Bad Anderson

Seen around town today our large banner signs, “Teachers endorse Anderson” I am sure those of you who have seen them have been enraged that Patty Anderson would stoop so low as to blatantly lie on giant signs.

Bad enough her small campaign signs strongly imply she has been endorsed by the teachers. She is also using the VUSD teacher’s long time campaign symbol of an apple. Would she out and out bald faced lie? Guffanti’s unethical influences are everwhere in this campaign. Perhaps he convinced her to post these signs?

We know that Patty Anderson has attempted to keep her ranting anti-education letters to the editor a secret by signing the letters with variations of her married name, Patricia A. Johnson, Patty Johnson, and Pat Johnson. So we know she is deceptive like Guffanti, but would she so deliberately and boldly lie?

Actually no. That is correct, in this case Patty Johnson is not responsible. She did not put up the "Teachers endorse Anderson signs." She has not stooped that low as of yet.

It turns out the teacher’s really have endorsed an Anderson, the good Anderson, the one who supports public education and is running for the County Board of Education. His name is Mark C. Anderson.

In the past twenty years our ANTI public education friends have had three targets in San Diego county—Grossmont Union High School District which they captured and held, Vista Unified School District which they captured and lost, and the County Board of Education which they have not yet fully captured. But the dark forces have not given up. They still want our VUSD Board of Education and they still want to control the County Board of Education. They hope to use the County Board of Education as a "bully pulpit" to promote their fringe politics.

In this County School Board election, running against good guy, Mark C. Anderson, is one of the dark heroes of the ANTI crowd, a person named Rose Urdahl. She is endorsed by both Guffanti and Gibson. She needs to be defeated. Mark Anderson should be elected.

By a sad coincidence, the PRO-public education candidate for the County Board of Education, Mark C. Anderson, happens to have an identical last name to the one that Patty Anderson (Johnson) decided to use to run for our VUSD school board. Of course she uses Anderson to hide from her published letters to the editor and other writings under the name Patricia A. Johnson that would reveal her for the wild eyed, fringe extremist that she really is. If she had not chosen to hide from her married name (Johnson), we would not have had this problem. Too bad she did not run for school board as Patty Johnson. "If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride."

Mark C. Anderson is using the same name he uses everywhere. It just is really unfortunate that his real last name is the same one that Patty is using to try to escape from her previous extremist writings found in the NCTimes letter section under her married name ( search NCTimes archives under Patricia A. Johnson, Patty Johnson or Pat Johnson for look into an unfiltered view of her thoughts on public education).

In our town we get a chance to vote for a GOOD ANDERSON---MARK C. ANDERSON and vote against a BAD Anderson—Patty Anderson. The name Anderson has truly become a two-headed Janus for the voters of VUSD. We should look ahead with Mark C. Anderson on the county board and ignore the backward looking "vinegar" Patty Anderson running for our VUSD board.

"Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time." Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare