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In 2004, when schools in the Bakersfield City School District were crashing into mandated program improvement and stacking up like cars in the Bakersfield fog, trustee Ken Weir came up with a proposal to pull them out of the No Child Left Behind pile-up.  In all seriousness, (despite the fact that those of us at the meeting were desperately hoping that he was being facetious) he made the motion to change the motto of the school district to something more representative of education than "Where The Child Comes First."  He suggested something like: "Education is Job One!"  Fortunately, his motion died for want of a second but it is representative of how Ken Weir is out-of-touch with real problems and tends to oversimplify possible solutions. In 2006, when Ken Weir ran for City Council he utilized the "campaign by proxy" method.  He paid political consultant Abernathy to take care of the "legwork" and never got...
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