Jim Gibson--Master of Unmitigated Gall

Jim Gibson, the last Vista Unified School District board member left on our school board who does not believe in FACT based public education, had the unmitigated gall to tell Stacey Brandt, North County Times education reporter that he (Gibson) would not be supporting Dave Cowles run for Vista City Council because:

"We always need people in politics that represent taxpayers and put taxpayers first," he (Gibson) said. http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_272ade39-da28-594b-8655-2a075aa17eb2.html

This from the school board member responsible for the greatest waste of VUSD taxpayer money in its eighty year history!

Jim Gibson, with help from now former board member, Dr. Stephen Guffanti caused a five year delay in the start of construction at our third high school, Mission Vista High School, that increased the projected costs from 50 million dollars (in 2002) to the actual cost of nearly 100 million today.

That's right Jim Gibson and his henchman in crime against taxpayers, Dr. Stephen Guffanti cost taxpayers in VUSD FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS, yet Jim Gibson claims he is worried about hypothetical taxpayer money waste by someone else! Wow! I guess when you are an expert at something, you talk about it a lot.

Jimmy Gibson, the absolute master of unmitigated gall says he does not think someone else will put taxpayers first! What Chutzpah! Jim Gibson, the remaining VUSD school board member most responsible for the dire economic situation VUSD finds itself in today, claims to be worried about some vague future problem with taxpayer money being wasted by a person not yet elected to public office! Talk about seeing a mote in someone else's eye while having a beam in your own! See Matthew 7:3

Gibson and Guffanti refused time after time to support the start of construction on the new high school at the cheap level primary site identified by the search committee in the Spring 2002 just after our school bond issue, Prop O, was passed. Read the exact quotes (in blue) with URLs from the North County Times about Gibson and Guffanti's wasteful obstructionism here.

Start of construction on what is now named Mission Vista High school was delayed from the summer of 2002 until the spring of 2007 by Gibson and Guffanti. This long delay left our children in overcrowded classrooms and campus for five years more than they needed to be.

In 2002 VUSD for the first time in decades had money in hand to build the high school, yet could not because of Gibson and Guffanti's obstructionism and an obscure California law requiring four out of five school board members to support the acquisition of land.

All VUSD taxpayers needed was either Gibson or Guffanti to allow construction to start. Neither one would. Their ridiculous cries of no! no! no! to every effort to build the school cost our good district taxpayers dearly.

Now spendthrift, Jim Gibson with an apparent straight face pretends to care about taxpayer money. Could that be because an election is coming up for his position on the school board this November?