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Subject: Joey Dauben makes it official


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Eric Newman
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Date Posted: 16:38:07 01/07/05 Fri

JoJo, finished the interiew. I've included it here.


North Texas Indpendent Media Center www.ntimc.org



Joey Dauben makes it official: He's running for Midlothian school board again
by Staff - Joey Dauben for School Board Friday, Jan 7 2005, 6:35pm
joeydauben@hotmail.com phone: 469-231-3694
greater dallas area / voting issues / press release


After announcing last summer that he would concentrate on school, outspoken journalist Joey Dauben - after receiving many requests to run again - has announced that he will be a candidate for Midlothian ISD school board, making the 2005 race his third try.

After announcing last summer that he would concentrate on school, outspoken journalist Joey Dauben - after receiving many requests to run again - has announced that he will be a candidate for Midlothian ISD school board, making the 2005 race his third try.

"I definitely think I have the name recognition to finally win it," Dauben said, the 23-year-old who ran for MISD school board in 2003 and last year. "At first I was just going to concentrate on school, but friends and taxpayers in and around Midlothian asked that I give 2005 a shot, so I did."

Since garnering 116 votes (16 percent) in a three-way race last May, Dauben, who is director of the newly-formed Concerned Taxpayers of Midlothian citizen group, has fueled the ire of the education establishment by filing numerous open records requests and then publishing articles (via NTIMC and The Ellis County Press) in attempts to make the district more accountable and open.

"Instead of a school board recognition month, we should have a taxpayer recognition year," Dauben said, who rose to prominence on fighting against higher taxes. "Nobody wants to focus on the taxpayers at all within the MISD. Nobody wants to campaign to represent them.

"Well I'm different. I came within 19 votes of winning a seat for the taxpayers, and ever since, the opposition has tried to silence me," Dauben said.

When a math teacher alleged that several varsity football players harassed her late last year, it was Dauben's Midlothian High School (he graduated in 2001 from MHS) contacts that set off a media firestorm, one in which four Dallas TV stations and talk radio stations covered.

"I warned the people, I warned the establishment last year that if you are not accountable and responsible to the taxpayers footing the bill, then I will force you to be," said Dauben, who at 21 became the second-youngest candidate in MISD history when he ran a paper-ballot campaign in 2002 and wrote a series of articles on the football controversy. "The media storm that came from the football situation pretty much split the entire town in half, but you know, none of that would have been necessary had the district been accountable in the first place."

Dauben, who lost the 2003 race by 19 votes (four-way race; 29 percent), has used a combination of tools in hopes to getting the MISD more transparent.

"People complain that I waste taxpayer funds on open records requests, but that's a bunch of crap when you stop to realize that $40 million goes to educate and train less than 6,000 students," he said. "Don't tell me about wasting taxpayer funds, the records that are kept in the district are ours, they are the taxpayers' documents, they paid for them, and if it's too much to ask to go and retrieve documents, then, well, that's too bad.

"I'm not sorry for what I have done, as it pertains to the elections and articles," he said. "Sure, I've not had all the facts 100 percent of the time in stories, but you know, there are two newspapers already in Midlothian that don't do a fraction of what The Ellis County Press and North Texas Indy Media has done. At least I admit and retract what isn't true.

"The two papers in Midlothian - most notably the establishment-run Mirror - refuse to really report anything other than what the establishment tells them," he said.

And already, excitement has built around Dauben's campaign, as he's had numerous requests from MHS grads and current students to be on his campaign team.

With yard signs and materials left over from the 2003-04 races, he won't have to spend much money this year, he said.

Dauben raised and spent $1,000 in his 2003 race.

"When I run in 2005, I will either come real, real close again, or win it outright. May 7 will be known as Taxpayer Appreciation Day, and hopefully, if God wills it, I will represent the taxpayers for once on the school board.

"Just because I'm young doesn't mean I can't bring issues to the table," he said. "The establishment saw that when I dang near won the thing in 2003."

Election Day is Sat., May 7 in cities and school districts all across Texas.

If elected, Dauben would become one of the youngest trustees in the state.


http://www.joeydauben.com

Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth. http://www.ntimc.org/newswire.php?story_id=1730

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