While I was looking for more info on the MCC faculty vote of no-confidence in MCC’s All-GOP Board of Trustees, I started looking over the Do The Right Thing MCC site, which has really got a lot of stuff in it, including news articles and a blog. A lot of work and love went into that site.

One of the questions posed on their blog was this:

Do you think that the inclusion of Maggie Brooks as a reference on Bill Smith’s MCC application is a plus or minus?

A neutral question, but a good one. The answers in the comments are funny/sad, just like everything about the MCC prez selection process. Here’s a sampler:

Clearly it held clout with the Republican oriented Board of Trustees. But after after all of the taxes already spent on a Renaissance Sq. project that is still shrouded in secrecy, a mishandled Fast Ferry episode, and a subverted process leading to the political appointment of Public Defender, her reference carries little weight in the community. It will be unfortunate if the board does not listen to the community who desperately want to head off another debacle lessening the stature of Monroe County.

Ouch. Here’s another:

I do not consider Maggie Brooks a friend of education. I would therefore consider it a minus.

Must be one of the majority of Monroe Countians burned by the Brooks/Minarik FAIR plan.

Plus or a minus? How about a joke!

Bwah hah ahahah! Talk about cutting to the chase!

Maggie Brooks was chosen to follow Jack Doyle because the boys in the back room deemed her “electable”. She has been and continues to be of service to them.Her recommendation is really that of the powerful players in the community who have done so little to help this area. It would be surprising if anyone who is familiar with local politics did not realize that and therefore discount any recommendation she might make . Definitely a minus!

What?!?!??! Someone dares notice the man behind the curtain? Watch GOP boss Steve Minarik plead innocence yet again, as he’s been doing so frequently lately. Which leads me to ask, if he’s as uninvolved as people would like him to believe, why does he collect a yearly salary from Maggie Brooks’ campaign war chest that approaches $100 grand? (In 2007– not counting the nearly $450,000 she gave his media company that year.)