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Sun, Jul 18, 2010 : 11:03 a.m.

Here is what Lesko had to say about her PTO experience on a2politico.com(February 6, 2010 The Politics of the PTO: A Stranger Is Just A Friend You Havent Met): "Several years ago, when my eldest first began grade school, I attended a PTO meeting, looked around the table, and didnt see a single parent of color among the six or seven people there. Since the school has a large non-white population, I wondered why there seemed to be little PTO participation from the wider community of parents, not just parents of color, but people from the larger community of parents from U of Ms North Campus Housing, folks from around the world. When it came time to rustle up volunteers for an upcoming event, I said I would stand in front of the school, if need be, and buttonhole parents as they dropped off their kids. I did just that, and found that most of the parents whom I approached were willing (if not always able). I soon came to realize that the problem wasnt a lack of interest on the part of the schools parents, but that the long-time volunteer PTO parents were so busy keeping the PTO afloat, that reaching out to people other than those whom they knew was forever falling to the bottom of the to-do list. It happens in organizations and groups all the time. A few long-term volunteers do all the work and, when volunteers dont just step forward, begin to believe no one is interested in helping them. Well, Im a problem-solver. I got a copy of the PTO bylaws and read the rules on PTO elections. I volunteered to Chair the PTO Nominating Committee (the first one formed in, literally, five years). Getting more people involved, I reasoned, would be as simple as following the bylaws and election rules. The bylaws called for the formation of a Nominating Committee to put together a slate of candidates. The project involved lots of elbow grease. The Nominating Committee collected names of potential PTO officers and members-at-large. In fact, I phoned over 300 parents over the course of a month to ask if theyd like to be involved in the PTO as officers or a members-at-large. It was a great experience for me, personally. I spoke with a huge number of parents, and together with the other members of the Nominating Committee, put together a slate of candidates that, in effect, tripled the number of parents involved in PTO leadership, and drew in parents from the various communities of parents in the school. I did this, because I wanted to see a wider range of people have a voice at the table, and to have the PTO representative of the community at the school. Not everyone was happy, though, with having to follow the bylaws, or with the fact that I had asked practically every parent in the school to participatestrangers to those whod been involved for years."

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Fri, Jul 16, 2010 : 6:04 p.m.

Quoted from further above: "... She has made it very clear by her behavior that you are with her 100% and everyone else is against her. When you are against her, she automatically accuses those people of being prejudiced, thieves, liars, etc. I have never once heard her ever state any accountability for her actions." Unfortunately, this mindset has been not uncommon among city council's organized opposition in the last five or six years. While, of course, not every political opponent acts this way, it seems those who've assumed leadership roles have shown inclination to head this direction more often than not. So it's not surprising that Pat Lesko and city council opponents were initially drawn to one another. They both have that Bush-ian "you're either with us or against us" personal approach hardwired into their activist demeanor. You could also encounter this attitude among the city council majority in recent years (particularly Leigh Greden), but one might wish that their opponents would seek to build a true alternative culture rather than try to win elections by raising this aggressive, political machismo factor to a higher level. In this season's high-visibility mayoral primary, Lesko has merely continued some of the allied opposition's more hostile traditions of recent years, although this time in high relief. By now, a growing number of city council opponents must realize they've gotten more than they bargained for through her recent involvement. On the other hand, Lesko's take-no-prisoners approach to issue resolution found a welcoming home in this loosely-oganized community base. Given the opponents' attraction to black & white, comic-book narratives of Good and Evil in local politics, Pat Lesko's strong "attack" mode, especially evident in her blog and earlier campaign work, found a generally receptive audience.