Rob Lee Statement about College Brush with Law

The Daily and Northwest Herald are running articles today about District 300 school board candidate Robert Lee’s stealing $300 from a friend of a college roommate seven years ago in Fort Collins, Colorado.

For the misdemeanor, he was sentenced to two years probation, several dozen hours of community service and repaying the money.

I asked Lee for a statement and here it is:

“Regardless of who voters select, the candidates they choose as board members are tasked with keeping District 300 on a path of improvement and success.

“If voters elect me, it doesn’t absolve any of the responsibility for the choices I’ve made in my life. I only ask that before they make their decision, they give me one opportunity to explain my ideas of how I believe I can help District 300 improve and succeed.

“I made a poor choice in my life, but I accepted the consequences for that poor choice.

“If another consequence of that decision is that I’m not elected, then I can accept it.

“But, that won’t change the fact that District 300 is in need of improvements.

“Again, I just hope the voters of District 300 give me an opportunity to explain how my proposals of

  • requiring Financial Impact Statements for budgetary planning,
  • Quality Objectives for program evaluation, and
  • a prohibition against campaign contributions from District vendors and contractors are strong ideas to improve an already great school community.”

I can’t help but remember that Congressman Henry Hyde was in his 40’s where he had an affair while an Illinois State Representative. He called it a “youthful indiscretion.” Hyde was outed by supporters of President Bill Clinton while Chairman of the House Impeachment Committee.

I’m also reminded of the reply of a a woman in her 40’s who would make an outstanding elected official.

When I asked if she had ever thought of running for office, she told me she’d like to but had a past that would made that impossible.

I should have told her that using coke didn’t keep Barack Obama from being elected president.


Comments

Rob Lee Statement about College Brush with Law — 4 Comments

  1. Nice, unnecessary dig on Obama. Probably the reason we don’t have a lot of normal people running for office, is the fear of someone dredging up a minor mess up in the past. For that we pay the price that we get lukewarm, to dull average politicians, and those who didn’t get caught. Where is the “what the hell does that matter” objection, when irrelevant minor indiscretions are brought forward?

  2. Why not say “Using coke didn’t stop George Bush from being elected president”? Sounds like he did a LOT more blow than Obama.

  3. ..and being a small-brained shit-heel doesn’t keep MOST from gaining all sorts of local and state offices.

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