Why doesn't Gibson care that he wastes taxpayer money?

Why doesn't Gibson care that he wastes taxpayer money?

(1)Neither his children or his supporters children ever attended VUSD schools. It cost him nothing personally or politically to oppose school construction.* (see note below)

(2) He profited politically with thousands of campaign dollars from developers and others opposing the building of the third high school at the two cheapest sites while costing the taxpayers of VUSD millions by denying the district the cheapest and best site still available in the district which was the level, one million dollar Kawano site. The Melrose site where the high school is being built cost the district 18 million dollars and four more wasted years without a third high school).

(3)His VUSD board position provided him a platform to run for higher political office. Twice he has tried to get on the Oceanside City Council (once to fill a vacancy)and once he has run for a California State Assembly seat.

No other sittting VUSD school board member except Gibson has run for any other political office in the three terms Gibson has been on our board. Only Gibson continues over and over to try to advance politically using his seat on our board as political capital. Not even Guffanti ran for other public offices and NO school board member recommended by the Vista Teachers Association has ever run for higher office while a seated VUSD board member (The first VTA board recommendation was in 1992).

He seems to think of his position on our VUSD board as a kind of political "street cred" to boost his chances for higher office.

Furthermore Gibson is the only school board member on the VUSD board that has never been supported by custodians, school secretaries, cafeteria workers, teachers, parents or administrators of VUSD.

The people who know our schools best have NEVER supported Gibson not even once.

Given his abysmal record of mismanagement and waste of taxpayer money while on our board, it should be obvious why we do not support Gibson and look forward to a time when he is not on our board any more.

*Editor's Note--pro Gibson bloggers claim that
(1) Gibson enrolled his children briefly in VUSD schools after moving here from Orange County in late 90s.

(2)All his children have graduated from high school and that they are now too old to attend VUSD schools, therefore discussion of their lack of attendance in our district and Gibson's lack of involvement as a parent in VUSD is a mute point.

(3) It is wrong for me to bring up his children at all as they are not involved politically.

I say
(1)where his children attended or did not attend school speaks volumes. It goes to Gibson's lack of motivation to get the dual magnet high school built.

(2) I did not name the children or write of them individually or any individual traits of theirs. I wrote of them in the abstract as a whole component of Jim Gibson's indifference to VUSD.

(3)JIM GIBSON himself first brought his children into the political arena in his 2002 VUSD school board re-election campaign with his campaign statement in the County of San Diego Voter Information Pamphlet for 2002, He wrote: "Jim Gibson, and his wife Cathy, have been married 23 years. They live in the North County with their four children."

(4)I think the clear implication of a candidate running for VUSD school board who says he has four children, all under 23 years old, is that some or all of them attend VUSD schools.

If they did not attend our VUSD schools or did so only briefly and never again, then that fact IS pertinent information that should be available for the voting public. Transparency gives us the best government. Secrets and hidden information do not.