9/24/22

John Gaccione

Date: 09/24/2022
Subject: SKF Slate of Candidates
From: The Election Desk

Fasten your seat belts! It looks like the execs running the Save Kensington’s Future are making a big play to get back in the driver’s seat of our serene hamlet. They have recruited a slate of six candidates, 3 for the Kensington Police Protection & Community Service District and 3 for the Kensington Fire Protection District; …a SKF 6-Pac Slate.

Backing candidates in past campaigns have had mixed results for core members of the SKF. For example, candidates Dakota McKenzie and Elaine Stelton did not do well. Past KPPCSD Director Lynn Wolter’s attempt to win a seat failed. And Cyrus Modavi did win a seat on the KPPCSD Board only to crash and burn. They have gone down that road before.

This time around the SKF has a marketing master plan for a slate composed of old and new candidates for both Boards. Julie Stein, Jim Watt and Daniel Levine are running for seats on the Kensington Fire District Board. Cassandra Duggan, Sarah Gough and Alexandra Aquino-Fike are running for seats on the KPPCSD Board. Behold, the 6-Pac slate.

The SKF 6-Pac slate is an odd mix of candidates. One is a KFPD Director, one is a long-time financial committee member and the other 4 candidates have no real government administration experience. What all candidates share is they are in lock-step with the SKF agenda and their financial guru. They all repeat the SKF talking points and follow the SKF “thought leaders” dogma. Independent thinkers; where art thou?

The SKF execs are adept at repackaging and turbo-charging old, outdated ideas. Their current fixation is keeping the Kensington Police and the Fire Departments housed in the remodeled Public Safety Building. SKF execs have pushed this view for years claiming the arrangement had served the community well. Now it has become the engine driving the SKF 6-Pac slate.

As the political campaign season revs up it would be no surprise to see the dark side of politics once again in our serene hamlet. Who could forget the appearance of the anonymous “Kensington Independent” newsletters loaded with hog-wash and falsehoods? The so-called newsletters were mailed to every household in Kensington, suggesting there were some deep pockets behind those dreadful anonymous screeds. (Harrumph…)

It may be a long bumpy ride before we know how these races are going to shake out. We can only hope those new smart younger folks running don’t get hooked on playing follow the “thought leaders”. Can I get an independent thinker?

“Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.” (W. C. Fields)

Note: Satire alert; the road Save Kensington’s Future has taken may be a dead end.