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Editor: 

The responses to my letter explaining why Jerry Wiggins would be a better County School Board Member than Jackie Fox Ruby by Current Board member Selawsky and Ruby herself are strange indeed, they both argue that Ruby didn't know what was going on around her either as a School District employee or as a Berkeley Citizen and Berkeley Citizens should not expect her to have any insight to District Operations and certainly she has no responsibility to inform fellow employees or neighbors of any indications of problems. Selawsky goes on to explain that Ruby could not be expected to have any of the skills required of a Board Member.  

Why do they conclude that this lack of experience and necessary skills qualifies her to be making policy decisions and perform the fiscal oversight for the County of Alameda? 

Ruby's also has memory difficulties, I along with Alvin Warwas and Bill O'Regan successfully sued the School District forcing them to use Berkeley Schools Excellence Program tax monies as stipulated in the imitative instead of the as their “Cookie Jar.”  

John Cecil 

Berkeley