According to an article in the online version of the Washington Post, county officials have already seen a draft version of the Montgomery County Public Schools' lawsuit against the county if Jerry Weast doesn't get every dime he wants for his budget.
Board of Education President Pat O'Neill offered the following comment:
"We're not going to be bullied into submission by the council," she said.
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A "draft" means that Montgomery County taxpayers have already been billed by a private law firm for the time it took to prepare this document. What's our bill so far?
ReplyDeleteMr. Tofig, ready to shine a little light on this litigation bill?
Daniel 'The Whig Man' Vovak, a Bethesda Republican, is running for County Executive against Leggett. Vovak's website is here: BuildMontgomery.com.
ReplyDeleteThis poll is worded with bias: "...get whatever he wants...".
ReplyDeleteAre you polling for Weast the person, or the matter of funding?
I haven't seen a Board of Education vote on the concept of suing the County, and the Post reported that it was an MCPS lawsuit. Weast is in charge of MCPS.
ReplyDeleteThe issue of the poll is whether Jerry Weast, as the representative of MCPS, should be entitled to sue Montgomery County.
Bias? you bet. So what?
Gentlemen, open your wallets. If that's OK with you, vote to let Jerry Weast have and spend whatever he can get.
The BOE and Weast should fundraise to pay the cost of the lawsuit, so as to have no impact on the school budget. Bake sale, anyone? Gift wrap?
ReplyDeleteThe draft version of the lawsuit is available at:
ReplyDeletehttp://montgomerycountydaily.blogspot.com/2010/05/montgomery-county-public-schools-begin.html
You'd think with the money that MCPS is paying its lawyers, they wouldn't have a grammatical error right on the front page.
ReplyDeleteLyda, this is only a draft. The final version will have the grammatical and syntactical errors corrected at a cost of several hundred additional dollars per hour in legal fees.
ReplyDeleteWhat if ... someone run another poll:
ReplyDeleteShould Montgomery county furlow its teachers?
Yes
No
What about should Montgomery County furlough it's 765++ school ADMINISTRATORS??
ReplyDeleteWhy furlough the teachers when MCPS has a huge administration where one person makes over 2 times what a teacher makes. You can get more savings out of furloughing 1 administrator than 2 teachers!