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I put a post on this site a year ago expressing my disappointment that Dr. Rodriguez would lose a single vote for the County Board of Education. It simply should not have been close at all. If you had the chance to meet both candidates like I did there is no reasonable person that could have voted for his opponent.

So now we have another election with Dr. Cirenio Rodriguez, Rick Kirkwood, and current Trustee Xavier Tafoya. I voted for and endorsed Cirenio but I think Rick Kirkwood is going to win.

The Daily Democrat said all three candidates are capable and qualified. Xavier has held office in Woodland before and lived here his entire life. Cirenio is a professional educator and has been in the Woodland School Board as well as the County Board of Education. Kirkwood is a retired professional City Manager.

In terms of a campaign Xavier and Cirenio are out walking and working hard. They have signs and are doing their thing. Kirkwood is getting a late start.

I will bet Kirkwood is going to get 40% or more of the vote and win. Why? He is the only non-Latino on the ballot. It is that easy. Lots of people will vote for Rick. I know many. The reality is that lots of people are going to vote for or against candidates based on their surnames.

It is wrong but I believe that the part of Woodland that voted against Cirenio last time will all vote for Kirkwood this time. If they vote against a "Cirenio" then they are not going to decide to vote for "Xavier" over "Richard".

I am not saying this it right. I am just saying that it is true.

It would be great to be wrong on this issue but I fear that I will be right again. We will find out this time next week.

Comments

By YoloCalVet @ Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:09 PM

I heard about this tactic that was used by the Obama campaign against Hilliary. Politics makes for strange bedfellows.

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