The Oertwig comeback

Over his five earlier runs for the school board, Al Oertwig has to have become one the highest cumulative vote receivers in our city’s history.  I don’t have the numbers, but the only names I can think of who might have accumulated more would be George Latimer, Vic Tedesco, and Milton Rosen.

 

Now it seems that he wants to add to that total.  He has let it out that he would like the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party to endorse him for another school board run.

 

I wish him luck and suspect that he may need more than  whatever luck my wishes are able to deliver.  There was an earlier nastiness which led him to leave office before and it would seem likely that some of it will come up again.

 

Maybe there will not be much raised publicly, certainly not in fora where honest conversation can happen in daylight, but there may well be a lot of alleged dirt coming up in whispers and emails where it cannot be easily confronted.  It may be difficult for his comeback to succeed.

 

However, I remember that Al was one of the directors who would research late into the night doing his own research and not just swallowing what the administration wanted to feed him, a director who worked hard and traveled all over the city checking things out and I would commend his candidacy to those who plan to participate in the caucuses of his party and to the public if the candidacy progresses so far.