To the editor:
Incumbents Lee Goldstein and Neil Phillips have two of my three votes for the Board of Education (BoE). Lee and Neil have impressive experience in education, are actively engaged in the community, and are committed to serving our town, especially the children in our public schools.
As current members of the BoE, Lee and Neil have accomplished so much, including but not limited to transparent communication with our community, collaborating with other town bodies (Planning and Zoning and the Board of Finance), expanding academic and extracurricular opportunities for all students, endorsing plans to support student well-being and for comprehensive and individualized education services, built outdoor play and learning spaces (at all eight schools), and provided professional development for teachers.
These accomplishments demonstrate that Lee and Neil look at and consider all the important aspects of a good public education. And, they do so by always centering the children. All the children and all their needs.
To do that work, they helped hire administrators who brought stability to our school district and adopted fiscally responsible budgets.
Jill Dillon will receive my write-in “vote” (write in Jill Dillon in the 5E space AND fill in that bubble). She knows our schools and is committed to serving since she was PTA President at KHS and then at CMS. Like Lee and Neil, she listens and wants to understand every issue.
I know Lee, Neil, and Jill will serve our Board of Education well. They will work hard so that our children learn in safe and welcoming environments and our teachers and staff are proud to teach and work in our Westport Public School District.
On a personal note, Lee, Neil, and Jill are the kind of people who are compelled to add to the good in the world. I am deeply grateful they always step up, raise their hands, and speak up.
Please re-elect Lee Goldstein and Neil Phillips and write in Jill Dillon on Tuesday, Nov. 7, at your polling station or by absentee ballot.
Trammi Nguyen
Westport
I’m all in with Lee, Neil and Jill. Let’s do this.
Vote for Jill in Box 5e on the ballot.
While we are at it, vote for the entire top row of the ballot, plus Jill Dillon and Joe Strickland (PZC).
Do not leave this to chance. Then … let’s start work on November 2024.
YOUR ONE VOTE MATTERS.
Town Clerk Jeffrey Dunkerton announced today that the Town Clerks office will be open on SATURDAY, November 4, 2023, from 8:30am to 11:00am to issue Absentee Ballots for the November 7th election. Absentee ballots will continue to be available through Monday, November 6th until 4:30pm. All Absentee Ballots must be returned to the Town Clerk’s office no later than 8:00pm on Election Day, Tuesday, November 7th, when the polls officially close. The Town Clerk’s office is located at 110 Myrtle Avenue, Room 105, Westport, CT. -10/31/2023 Email from The Town of Westport, CT
Jill Dillon—memorize her name, write her in as you keep the current BOE in place. If you need further understanding of why, read only one part of what Camilo Riano wrote in the Connecticut Centinal and imagine the damage he and his running mate, Jamie Fitzgerald, can do if elected: “In the heavily politicized environment of Westport, ‘fighting misinformation’ is a euphemism for ‘enforcing leftist censorship’. Following the example of the most dogmatic regimes on earth, such as the Taliban, the library’s selection committee has constituted itself into the Westport Library Committee for the Promotion of Socialist Virtue and the Prevention of American Rights.” His words, though the lack substance, know no restrictions as inflammatory propaganda based on a tradition of using words to incite people who react rather than think. Of course, eliminate books, as you beg people to read your words. As Ray Bradbury wrote: “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”