Saw this early this morning, but been a bit busy.
School board member Jackie Wagstaff launched her campaign for mayor Thursday, joining two City Council candidates in calls for the abolition of local board of education elections and the seizure of vacant houses for redistribution to the poor.
"The school board is ineffective and should be dissolved," Wagstaff said, shortly after filing the required forms at the Durham County Board of Elections. Wagstaff has served on the school board since 2002, but she is now setting her sights on the job of two-term Mayor Bill Bell.
You mean the school board you have been a part of since 2002 is ineffective? How about that. Maybe with you gone, it will get better. Might one wonder why? According to the N&O:
In 2002, Wagstaff survived an effort to remove her from the school board after she pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts for doctoring city check requests from North East Central Durham Reinvestment Inc., a city-financed social services organization she ran. She blamed the media for bringing up the incident, which she said was blown out of proportion.
So it is the media’s fault that she broke the law? Please. But, hey, how about more (from 2003)?
In January, Wagstaff was ordered to pay misdemeanor fines, stemming from those charges. She missed the payment deadline. A warrant was issued for failing to comply, but Wagstaff was not arrested. A new court date is set for March 28.
Meanwhile, the Durham Herald-Sun reports Wagstaff’s landlord filed court papers to evict her, saying she owes nearly $3,000 in back rent and fees.
and, from January, 2005
Shepard Middle School Principal Julia Fairley called police Jan. 14 after school-board member Jackie Wagstaff and a Shepard parent, Minnie Brown, refused to leave the school when asked. In a letter, she accuses the women of interrupting class to interrogate students and parents.
Wagstaff and the parent were both banned from the school. Wagstaff is also a major race baiter, and, to put it correctly, a racist. She has consistently made negative remarks about whites. If the roles were reversed, the local media would have coniption fits.
Unfortunately, based on the voting habits in Durham, she has a good shot of winning. Shades of Marion Berry. Almost.
they are the first to shout racism , but they are more racist then anyone else …
add these to the stupid, uneducated, lying, sorry-ass lazy race card baiting fool this woman is and how she keeps proving her own race is just as dumb, stupid and lazy they are all proving they are stupid fools and that they don’t care who they vote for as long as the person is BLACK–the universal get out of jail free RACE CARD!! This ignorant bitch belongs in jail not infront of children, parents, teachers and not to mention RUNNING any aspect that has to do with the School system or any political office!! Did she ever graduate from High School? how many children does she have and are they legitimate, does she know who their father is if she has any kids and how horrible if she does and what an embaressing thing for them if they have to say SHE is their mother………she’s a MOTHER all right!! She belongs in the circus doing any job that requires lying and stealing!! 8-18-05 Susan