This blog missed the March 14 forum at the Buzz Cafe, and so turns to the Oak Leaves account, which features sharp disagreement between presidential candidate Anan Abu-Taleb and two incumbent trustees seeking re-election on a slate headed by his opponent for president, John Hedges, a veteran in Oak Park politics and civic administration.
It was about experience as needed for a board president.
Abu-Taleb: “The experience on the board today, a lot of it is really theoretical, and almost like an academic experiment at times. I would bring practical experience and a new way of thinking that challenges assumptions on how to make policies and to ask questions.”
Colette Lueck, incumbent trustee running for reelection: “I bring real experience.” What’s more, Abu-Taleb, longtime entrepreneur and restaurant-owner with a U. of Chicago MBA, will have to learn from them; and it is his responsibility to learn, not theirs to teach. “That’s in…
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