The knee-jerk reaction to write a seething letter to the editor gradually subsided after reading that Clark County Commissioner David Madore gave $37,000 to fight the Clark County charter. After all, Madore is free to spend his money as he likes, and it is safe to say he will not be spending it buying “matches” anytime soon.
However, I might suggest he buy a window to look out of, because when I read the Oct. 15 story about the work that was going on at the “Resource center big help at Silver Star Elementary,” the seething returned. Homeless children who need hotel rooms? Forty-five families from one school so poor they need backpacks of food to make it through the weekend? Kids in slippers because they cannot afford shoes? Fifty-nine percent of kids in the free and reduced lunch program?
Free and reduced-price lunches are provided for students who meet the federal government’s guidelines for poverty. Reduced-priced lunches cost 40 cents — $37,000 of Madore’s money would buy 92,500 lunches for hungry students in the district he serves.
Also, commissioners have approved $8,400 a year for their car expenses. What window is Madore looking through? Only an opaque one where he sees himself and not others. Come the next election time, remember the decisions he made about money, and the constituents he was elected to serve.
