LETTER: Large voter turnout needed to stop school board takeover

To Ozaukee Press:

Elections are at the heart of our democracy. We have regular elections to ensure people who are not happy with elected officials have a chance to run against them or vote them out. Yet not one of the four candidates running against the current Mequon-Thiensville School Board members in the recall election ran when they had a chance to be candidates in the regular election just six months ago.

School Board recall elections by special interest groups have become a trend nationwide. These groups rely on low turnout elections when nothing else is on the ballot, focus on divisive issues to polarize communities and count on only those at either end of the spectrum to vote.

Unfortunately it’s too late to save the money, time, energy and civility the recall election is costing our community. But we can help shut down this recall frenzy by getting as many people out to vote as possible on Nov. 2.  We urge our neighbors in Mequon and Thiensville to vote to retain our duly elected School Board members, Erik Hollander, Akram Khan, Wendy Francour and Chris Schultz.

 Kate Flood and Patrick Laske
Mequon