DOTHAN AL.:
District 5 voters, please patiently read this:
A vote for Ashley Davis tomorrow is a vote for Dothan! Not her, me or anyone else. Please vote Tuesday!
It would be easy to neglect importance of voting tomorrow, after so many months of noise. I get it.
I also know it’s easy to neglect voting for anything Dothan City Schools because we’ve been so many decades with issue.
Please know this vote will not benefit any individual that is asking you for it. This vote is for Dothan. This vote removes your schools and tax dollars from control of the establishment. The establishment of people that seek financial benefit over our teachers and children.
Please recognize those people and the amount of money they are using to stop our effort. That tells you everything you need to know about what’s going on. Make a mental note of who they are and remember it.
How many of them have even mentioned our schools in the last 4 years? I will tell you that none of them have ever reached out to me, and I have been the school board chairman! So where do they get their opinion from?
Why are they against us? It’s about control, it’s about money, it’s about continuing the status quo that benefits them while our schools and this town continue to suffer.
Wait, are you not supposed to actually call that out in Dothan?!!!!
You see it throughout this country. I didn’t think it happened here until I got on the school board. Now I know better than all of you! This place must be cleaned up. Everyone will take a loss if we become Montgomery. We must care about DCS.
If you’ve had someone tell you that I’m the problem, have you ever reached out to me? No blame, I know it’s easy to believe their narrative. Did you ask them if they reached out to me? They didn’t. I’ve been amazed at how much slandering discusion goes on behind my back.
Many people tell me thank you for hanging in there against all this. And I tell them that I don’t care about me or any of that, it’s just an effort to get us where Dothan needs to be. But I can’t think of a single time where someone came directly to me for an opposition discussion. That crowd prefers to manipulatebehind the scenes.
I clearly don’t need anything this position offers. I don’t need a public persona to better my income or family. All of this only takes away. I wasn’t created with an imbalance of selfish ambition, and I would rather serve others with any blessings I have. I will not honor myself in saying this, but if more people with this quality would choose to lead, we could fix so much of the political garbage that plagues us.
If Ashley does not win tomorrow my current state of mine is likely to resign (I’d rather be selfish than loose to a board majority for 4 more years) and take my fight to a higher level of service. Could being Mayor of Dothan be a better position for fixing this?
Twenty-five years of Dothan City School students and most of the current DCS faculty could propel a wave of momentum for us to go anywhere that real change could happen!
Mostly, that was just a statement for the establishment crowd to leave us alone, or recognize that we could become a bigger threat to them later. I would sure rather stay in the position I was called to be in.
Back to Ashley, the real answer for us!…
Ashley Davis has four kids currently in this system. She has spent over $30,000 of her own money, for this position and $277 a month. She has no aspirations of upward mobility into the political ranks which is why the establishment has not been able to leach onto her.
Her biggest supporters are board members BoardChair Childers, Amy Hunter Bonds(outgoing), Aurie Bailey Jenkins, and Julie Mullins-Turner (plus a massive crowd of teachers and staff).
If you support us with this vote tomorrow, I encourage you to hold us individually accountable to the future of Dothan City Schools. We will humbly accept that. Because we know that every decision will be for Dothan, its teachers, and our students. That will always make us immune from “real” public scrutiny.
Tomorrow. A big day for Dothan City Schools, and an even bigger day for The City of Dothan.
For the last time…Fix your school board and fix Dothan!
