Grover, Cameron, Seliga-Punyko as cheerleaders for levies

Reading this story of three board members blaming another for the failure of the operational levies brought the following history to mind.

1997, Tim Grover blackmailed me into agreeing that I would keep taxes flat before he agreed to support an operational levy.

2001, Judy Seliga-Punyko told me she would vote against an operational levy because the School Board had not closed a high school.

2001, I desperately wanted a levy to pass and to reelect my friend Mary Cameron to the Board after her defeat two years before. I got her to grudgingly agree to support an operational levy. She was, however, not very enthusiastic about it because it was opposed by the Chamber of Commerce and was generally not popular. I wrote a flyer supporting Mary on one side and the levy on the other and we passed them out together to rural mail boxes.

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