Chris Carlson is responsive and accessible | Letter

Published 6:19 pm Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Thank you for your detailed article about the school board race and for interviewing all 4 candidates. It was very informative.

I would like to comment on statements made by candidate Rob Tepper about the accessibility of his opponent, incumbent Chris Carlson, to constituents. My experience with Chris is exactly the opposite. I contacted Chris early in his first term on the board to get his help and advice for how our parent group should approach the District and board to advocate for students with reading difficulties. The District was going to begin the process of adopting new literacy curriculum and we wanted to know how to be involved in that process, as well as other ways to make positive change in the District. Chris was responsive and highly accessible, meeting us before work several times over several years and offering us multiple choices for meeting times. He responds quickly to email and checked back with me about how things were going. Whenever I have encountered Chris in public, at community or school events, he greets me personally and is always open to conversation. As a working parent with a very busy family, I found Chris to be as responsive and accessible as anyone could ask of an elected official.

Judi Radloff, Kirkland