NekoMom's blog

Thank you Mr. D'Andrea for running a clean race and taking an interest in the education of the children of Clay County. We hope to see you run again in four years! With more time to make you and your platform know to the voters, I'm sure we'll have different results and a fresh face on the School Board in 2012. My child will still be in public schools then so there is still hope!

What a nice letter to your supporters........... (taken from www.electdandrea.com)

I would like to thank all of those who have supported our campaign. For the last ten months we have met so many people in this great County of ours and have really enjoyed being able to listen and speak with those who have expressed an interest in our school system. Of course I have thought about what I would say if we had won this seat, but have found it much harder to come up with something to say to all of our supporters in these circumstances. I submit to you, our supporters, in this grass roots campaign that you shall not hang your head low but keep your head high. You should not feel depressed but uplifted that we were able to garner almost 10,000 votes and you should not feel like all your hard work was for naught as these efforts were honorable and done with the highest of professionalism and that is more important than the outcome of any election in my book. In closing this chapter of our campaign, I would like to say to all of those friends and candidates who have contacted us concerning our efforts with your kind words via the phone and e-mails that we appreciate your positive reinforcement and recognition of a job well and look forward to working with many of you in efforts to better our community.

As much as I hate to admit it at times, I am a life long Republican. However, that being said, I don’t necessarily vote the “party line”.  I vote based on the issues and for which candidate I believe will address them.  I’ve been hearing a lot of babble around town about the District 2 School Board race. I guess there are those in the community who feel that actually having a choice about who sits on the School Board is a bad idea. I’m grateful that anyone would even consider running for it when they are not retired but actually have a career and a young family.

Yes, I'm new to this site. I'm not picking on anyone. I enjoy reading about your thoughts and ideas. However, is it too much to ask for the correct word usage in a blog? I'm not overly picky. A lot of people have trouble remembering when it is appropriate to use the comma, apostrophe, etc. (including me) But, can we at least use the correct word? (some examples of misused words below)

there & their

to & too

fair & fare

where & wear

here & hear

Get the idea? I know blogs are casual, but I keep mentally tripping on misused words.