Candidate cries foul over debate participation

Register Guard ^ | 4/23/2015 | Josephine Woolington

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Eugene School Board incumbent Mary Walston, who is up for re-election next month, urged neighborhood organizers of a school board candidates’ debate next week to either reschedule the debate or prevent her opponent from participating because she will be out of town.

Organizers of the debate agreed to honor Walston’s request to bar her opponent from the debate — which, in turn, prompted the opponent, Colin Farnsworth, to cry foul.

A substitute teacher in the Bethel, Eugene, Springfield and South Lane school districts, Farnsworth said it is “extremely unfair and undemocratic that my participation and perspective will be censored during this upcoming debate.”

Just because Walston isn’t able to attend “shouldn’t prohibit me from utilizing this important opportunity to personally share and engage in the discussion,” Farnsworth said.

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So entrenched they are that they glibly make up the rules as they go...