Opinion: Keep Mike Bubba Off The Board Of Education, Resident Says

To the editor:

Only here in Wayne, during the most recent election, a candidate for the school board has declined to take the oath of office with no explanation to the voters and taxpayers after having won the seat as to why he would not serve.

And so now it falls upon Mr. Robert Davis, the interim executive county superintendent of schools, to install a substitute member of the community to the vacant seat. At the last school board meeting Mr. Davis was asked who and how he intended to pick a default member and he replied he would do that by asking the next runner up in the election if he or she was interested in assuming the seat, that would be Mike Bubba, a republican past member who ran and was voted out by the majority of the cross cut of voters.

Mike Bubba represents everything that is already wrong with the existing make up of the republican majority on the Wayne Township School Board, some of whom have held office for more than 10 years, which is currently mired in budgetary gridlock.

Mr. Bubba, as a past board member, has clearly had a hand in when it comes to the get along party line sort of rock-paper-scissors sort of votes by the board the likes of which we have seen crafted and arrived at by political calculations of the status quo when it came to the example of the current full-day kindergarten dust up. Votes cast by the majority of the board were allegedly inaccurately recorded and classified and then retaken at a later date only to now have some members of the majority board publicly regret votes they have already cast, again.

Like the kind votes that Mike Bubba participated in, and made as well.

At the last school board meeting, Mike Bubba most hypocritically took advantage of the public speaking period set aside for citizens to castigate certain members of the board for their effort to bring full-day kindergarten to the district, the last district in Passaic County to offer it as a part of the school’s educational curriculum, a program Mike Bubba once actually supported and voted for.

If Mr. Davis perceives this board is at a hopeless deadlock now over funding for full-day kindergarten and more budgetary issues as I do, then in my personal opinion, Mr. Davis should not install Mike Bubba to the vacant seat but rather appoint someone who is not beholding to the tyranny of the majority in the form of the current makeup of this board.

Stewart Resmer
Wayne resident