Wake County school board member Chris Malone is citing a scheduling conflict as the reason why he missed Tuesday night's board meeting to attend a campaign event.
Malone was a featured speaker at Tuesday night's North Raleigh Kitchen Table Meeting sponsored by Triangle Conservatives Unite. He was promoting his run for the Republican nomination for the N.C. House 35 seat.
When contacted Wednesday, Malone said he previously agreed to attend the March 27 KTM meeting but had to cancel when a special called board meeting was called for that day.
Malone said he agreed to attend the group's April meeting because he anticipated incorrectly that the school board would be back this month to its regular schedule of meeting the first and third Tuesdays of the month.
But due to spring break, this month's school board meetings were shifted to the second and fourth Tuesdays.
Having promised to attend the KTM meeting and not wanting to cancel again, Malone said he felt he needed to compromise. He attended the school board's afternoon work session before skipping the evening's action meeting to attend the KTM event.
"It wasn’t their fault (his constituents at the KTM meeting) we kept changing things up," Malone said. "I don’t see there being any future issues as we are going back to the original schedule."
Scheduling conflicts have also caused school board member John Tedesco to miss board meetings as he seeks the Republican nomination for state schools superintendent.
I don't recall school board member Debra Goldman having missed board meetings while seeking the GOP nomination for state auditor.
With the primary coming on May 8, we'll see whether any of the trio are still in the running for the November general election.
Comments
I could care less who he's meeting with,
Fri, 04/27/2012 - 00:33 — concerned2the bottom line is he's not doing his job.
It's a travesty that his narcissism has gotten the best of him and he's bailing out on the children of Wake County in order to follow his own blind ambition.
Will they have to resign?
Thu, 04/26/2012 - 15:35 — tartexanWill Debra, John, and Chris have to resign when they win their primary races and their general election races on November? I know they will all be highly successful and can probably serve both elected offices.
Pandering to the tea party
Thu, 04/26/2012 - 11:29 — liberal1So Chris decided to go to a private tea party gathering instead of doing the job he was elected to do. Nice set of priorities. Chris should answer wether he agrees with the group that sustainable develpment is a UN plot to take over control of America. Is he as insane as the group he thought was so important to talk to.
I'm always amazed at the
Thu, 04/26/2012 - 11:47 — shearertwI'm always amazed at the people who attack one of the few political groups in America today that simply ask our political leaders to adhere to, respect and follow the Constitution of the US as being "radical" and "insane".
Should I list all the special interest groups Obama is flying around pandering to (i.e.promising to give other people's money to) while he should be running the country or can you figure them out for yourself?
List away.
Thu, 04/26/2012 - 17:17 — liberal1You can list away. And tell me which of the groups that Obama is speaking to think that sustainable development is a UN plot to take over America. Or which groups think Glenn Beck is so important, that he is the inspiration for them. The tea party claims to be for smaller government and less government involvement in our lives, yet they support the exact opposite. They were advertising for people wanting to add an amendment to the constitution to make sure one group of people never get rights. They want to build an expensive fence along the border that individually they admit will not work. They support a voter ID law that will cost money, yet cannot show any evidence of where the law will do any good.
Sorry, but the tea party is a sad little group of mostly okder white people that are protesting make believe issues like Agenda 21 and listening to groups like Freedomworks and the John Birch Society.
Is this really news?
Wed, 04/25/2012 - 14:04 — FSandYOUSure it is.
To a select few.