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December 2004, Volume 15, Issue 3 - Money = Power PDF Print E-mail
By Martin M. Goldstein

    The early retirement of President Robertson, along with winning two of our three contested Board seats, leaves us with a very open, hopeful and promising situation at our college. All politics is local, they say, and this year I’m believing it, especially this year.

    So congratulations are truly due to all of us -- Santa Monica College has a very real right to be very, very proud of itself. Let us take that into the new year as we work together with all our friends and associates to fix what was broken, and in the process make this place better than it ever was.

    But let me close the thought with something I feel we should learn from all of it is this: that if you are not having $5 bucks a month (or more) deducted from your check to go into the  SMCFA PAC, you just don’t care enough about your school and your profession.  Richard Johncola said it in the FAB four years ago, and now there’s just no excuse anymore.

    We’ve proven our case.  If you’d rather lose and complain, then sit on your hands. But if you want to make your life and the lives of your colleagues better, give to the PAC so we can all do that work and do it well.

    And make it easy on yourself, go payroll deduction -- and do it now. We have three seats to win in ‘06, after all, and we’re already hard at work.  Do it as a holiday gift to yourself, your profession, and your school. They all deserve it.
  		 

 

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