My thanks to Matt Leipzig for his timely reporting of this scurrilous act!
Clearly, Mr. hartnett doesn't like the message, and is attacking the Messenger!

Also, Mr. Raymond Bell, the Sequoia UHSD candidate,
who's character was also impugned by this negative political mailing,
served on the Site Council of John Gill school where his children attended.

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Two years ago, I announced:

The Bond is Dead!
The vocal minority (10.55%)   was defeated

Thank You for the NO Vote in 1999!!!

Now this arrogant bunch,
emboldened by the unfortunate reduction of the historical 2/3 vote to 55%,
has upped the ante to $207,000,000.00.

Once again, the Members of the Board, are active in the
political campaign run by Citizen's for Higher Education,

And, once again, they have prevailed upon the Tax-exempt
San Mateo County Community College District Foundation
to "donate $40,000" to political efforts supporting Measure C.

Foundation Executive Director, Darwin Patnode, cited this questionable action
by the Foundation Board as his reason for not continuing in that position.

Georgi LaBerge,  the new "politically connected" Executive Director of the Foundation,
does not answer the phone when I call.

Georgi, all I want to know, is which members of the Foundation Board
voted to use Foundation funds for this political activity?
Thank you Georgi (see excerpt of Foundation Minutes)

Citizen's for Higher Education

In addition to the $40,000 extracted from the Foundation,
this committee has reported an additional $118,880 in monetary contributions this calendar year.
Of that sum, $2,305 was was from contributions less than $100.
Major contributors, in addition to the expected "dues"
from college administrators($7725), 
political cronies($750), 
Educators ($1750)
etc., are:
DES Architects -------------------------------------$20,000
Morgan Stanley (New York, NY)----------------- $20,000
CMS Energy (a Kansas based company)---------- $10,000
tBP Architecture (Concord)--------------------------$7,500
AFT Local 1493 -------------------------------------$6,000
Foundation Board Members and family ------------$4,250
Sujimura & Associates, Architects (Campbell) ----$2,500
Cianfichi Architecture and Planning (Walnut Creek) $2,500
San Mateo Credit Union -------------------------------$1,000
Bayview Painting -------------------------------------- $2,500
Beth Hunkapillar (Trustee, San Carlos Bd. of Ed.----$5,000
Rinne & Peterson (Palo Alto) -------------------------$1,500
Cargill Salt (Newark) ---------------------------------$1,000
David Evans and Associates (Portland)-------------- $1,000
Andy's Roofing (Mountain View) ---------------------$1,000
Gonsalves and Stronck Construction ------------------$2,500
Strata Information Grp(San Diego)Frank Vaskelis -- $1,000
Local 467 ------------------------------------------------$1,000
I & A Engineering (San Jose) -----------------------------$500
Integrated Design Associates (Santa Clara)------------ $1,000
M.H. Podell Co. --------------------------------------------$500