As posted yesterday by Mike Spence - Emil John Vodonick was announced as an opponent for Aaron Klein. When Spence made his post, their endorsement was not official, now it is.

Spence's Post was replete with just a few of the interesting snippets from Mr. Vodonick's record:

"Turns out that a simple Google search shows that Emil John Vodonick was suspended and placed on five years of probation for taking $53,000 of his client's money out of a trust account, and spending it on himself. He was caught in 1997, and ordered to make restitution by February 1999. When the deadline arrived, he had made no payments, set aside no money to make payments, and hadn't even bothered to ask for a time extension.

He was placed on probation on September 7, 2000, and after more deadlines came and went with no payments, and no attempt to make restitution, the probation was reinstated on December 17, 2004, and he was ordered to take ethics classes to learn how not to steal money from his clients."

Spence goes on to ask the leaders of the Save Sierra College movement why they are trying to reverse the balanced budgets of the current board.

On the website they officially announced their endorsement of Vodonick. Given the fact that Bill Martin, Barbara Vineyard, Dave Creek and others on past rubber-stamp boards oversaw a raft of things that would fill a novel - Vodonick looks like a perfect fit.

I will defer to Spence to ask the final question: "If this is the kind of judgment that Bill Martin, Cheryl Maki, George Magnuson (Todd Lowell) and the "Save Sierra College" crowd use in selecting John and Elaine to carry their banner, how can we trust ANY of their candidates to manage an $80 million college budget and protect the taxpayers?"

"What kind of judgment does Elaine Rowen have in choosing to run with a guy with a background as "probationary" as John Vodonick?"

Wow - revenge does some strange things to people.