Thread by @HydrogenEvolved

1/🧵 Marilou Estes needs to step down from the #CUSD race. Here’s why.

If you haven’t yet watched the @SecularAZ candidate forum from earlier this week, go do that:

fb.watch/cKwE28SoV2/

2/🧵 It was an excellent opportunity for EVERY (yup, every) candidate for CUSD to show us who they are, and what they’re about.

And every single one of them did…

3/🧵 Kurt and Charlotte RSVP’d that they were busy or whatever.

Patti Serrano, Crystal Markowski, and Matt Young participated.

Marilou Estes did not participate or reply to the invite. It would seem that perhaps she just wasn’t interested, except…

4/🧵… she took enough of an interest to put a false claim on Facebook that not every candidate was invited.

Luckily it was seen by the one person who could immediately demonstrate with proof that this was just not true. But it was reckless, irresponsible, and frankly childish.

5/🧵Her false claim appears to have been posted the day of the forum. So even if she WAS left off (she wasn’t) if she was going to be upset about this the mature/responsible course of action would have been to reach out, introduce herself, and express interest in participating.

6/🧵 As it turns out, a candidate actually WAS erroneously left off the initial invite. But because of their close, regular involvement with CUSD-focused efforts, she learned of it, expressed a desire to participate, and this got fixed. And she made it! See how easy that was!

7/🧵 While the false claim was immediately proven false with that screenshot, clearly doubts are lingering out there about what actually happened. This happened elsewhere on FB:

8/🧵 When others there saw this and asked Marilou to basically do better about dispelling these lingering doubts, detailing the potential harm here, one person was pretty much blown off, and another person (as of the update received while typing this) has yet to be acknowledged.

9/🧵 Y’all this is just ridiculous. We have enough problems to solve, no? Are we really gonna vote for someone content to literally invent problems???

10/🧵 And hey, how many of the problems that we already have resulted from #CUSD leadership creating problems, not addressing them, not caring who gets hurt along the way, refusing to take any accountability/responsibility, and/or just ignoring ppl’s calls to do better?

11/🧵 Sound familiar?

This is so childish, y’all. And it NEVER NEEDED TO HAPPEN. There is no way of knowing if every repeat of this rumor is being caught. People only know about the ones which have been seen and caught. But why are other people having to clean up her mess?

12/🧵 A well-respected, fierce public school advocate should not have to worry if her reputation is taking a hit, or that of her org, b/c someone threw a tantrum via a false claim and then couldn’t be bothered to check their YAHOO SPAM FOLDER to clear this up once and for all.

13/🧵 As said by the one person asking her to do better… this is not leadership. It’s not. It’s just not. I don’t really care how many LD meetings she’s been to or goes to.

14/🧵 I know what Jeanne has done for #CUSD. I know what her involvement has been, and I know what her ongoing efforts are.

When I see a SOI filed for a board spot, and my only possible reaction is “who?” followed by trying to figure out how this person has been involved…

15/🧵…SPECIFICALLY w/ CUSD board business/developments, and the best I can find is they’re running around at events they’d likely be at anyway, collecting signatures for themself, to get ON that board? I already have questions for that person.

16/🧵 When I see this type of bullshit? I have no questions for them or anyone else who conducts themself in this manner.

Foolishness aside, managing an email inbox is like, THE GODDAMN FLOOR of what a board member needs to be able to do.

17/🧵 So… I don’t know Marilou, at all. From anything. But someone who does should maybe have a talk with her?

Our #CUSD candidate field is already too crowded. We already have 2 AMAZING candidates running for the 2 open seats.

Why, Chandler? WHY?!

*Markowsky !!! With a “y” !!! I just realized my autocorrect seems to like an “I” at the end there. Sorry, Crystal!!!

From the beginning 👇

https://twitter.com/hydrogenevolved/status/1520859330316144641