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Tom Hayden's avatar

This has come up a couple times so I've reached out to Ms. Chow to comment on this and do an interview with me to address this! Stay tuned, hopefully she says yes, I think she (or anyone) does deserve the opportunity to set the record straight or admit mistakes.

Also, the board at the time Horton was hired was (from the meeting minutes)

Hailpern, Chow, Mendoza, Hernandez, Lindsay-Ryan, Tanyavutti, Kartha

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Sandy's avatar

That's cool. I'm not trying to pick on her, but I was really disappointed during the last election that Sergio, in particular, never had to account for the Horton selection process.

I do think it is problematic that Chow--like Mendoza, Taynavutti, and Weatherspoon--all quit mid-term. Why would you run for office and then just quit?

If she agrees to an interview, you should also ask she can confirm that the 5th ward school was discussed with Horton during the winter/spring of 2020 as he asserted in his exit interview. That seems to be relevant since she quit the board on Feb 10, 2020.

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Truth Seeker's avatar

From what I understand —she was forced out. Some of the BoE members aligned against her, stripped her of her second year as president, took her off of finance committee (at the time I believe she was the only one with any business acumen or background). I think there’s a lot we don’t realize in terms of what was happening at the end of her tenure…there were other BoE members that decided not to run also around that same time. IMHO, the writing was on the wall back then —to people on the inside. Though I’m not sure any of them had any ability to predict this unmitigated disaster.

Tom —great idea to interview CC. I hope she agrees.

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Tom Hayden's avatar

It's interesting - she was listed in the roll call for the vote to hire Horton but in the vote to establish Horton's first day, she was gone

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