Quality Education Who is PURsE? Who owns www.Hold203Accountable.org? Who are these anonymous critics?
The www.Hold203Accountable.org website does not identify its authors or website owners. Its internet domain name registration is anonymous.
We believe it has all the hallmarks of a Mike Davitt production. Compare www.Hold203Accountable.org to another anonymous website that is registered to him here:
You will see that both websites are seething in their contempt all the while cloaking themselves within a mantle of phony integrity. Here is a quote from one of the web pages:
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?" – Cicero
Yes, indeed, where is the dignity, honesty and integrity on display by Mike Davitt and his writers?
Can we be reasonably sure that both sites belong to Mike Davitt? Yes. One was registered by him and the other displays the same, if not identical, hate speech.
Thomas Higgins, QualityEducation203.org co-chair, posted the following on the Naperville Sun Potluck blog after someone calling themselves “Mike” posted www.Hold203Accountable.org’s address on the blog.
Well I cruised the Hold203accountable.org website and all I can say is it looks to be just more of the same from a certain person who hates teachers, the school board, the administration, and anyone else who supports them. Me, and my group especially, and the Chamber of Commerce gets its hits too, and even Tim West here at the Sun because he didn't fall into lockstep with this "gentleman."
A short time later, Mike Davitt, a former school board member, posted this:
Having respect for eternity, I'll only respond to one point within Higgins' endless rant. For the record, I don't hate teachers. I despise them. (I do though hate liberals who think money grows on trees; who equate money with education; and who resort to bullying on blogs). I have a problem with 75% of the teachers who threatened to strike in 2005 because they were not getting 5% raises. I have a problem with the teachers who were caught campaigning during the last school board election using school resources in violation of the state's Ethics & Gift Ban law. But then again, the end justifies the means for this group. I have a problem with a former teacher and union president (now running to fill Joe Dunn's seat) who produced ads implying I wanted to hire sex offenders for bus drivers and custodians. I have a problem with a certain girls basketball coach coming before the board saying "Central is a dump, and should be torn down." The money's been going to striking teachers, coach (would you volunteer to free up some of your strike-gotten gains for facility improvements for the students?). I have a problem with administrators who rate 75% of tenured teachers as "excellent." That's one hell of a public sector bell curve, and pure B.S. And I have a problem with enablers of this militant out-of-touch union. I hate to ruin my reputation, but I actually wrote a letter to one of my children's teacher's this semester complementing her for her hard work and creativity work. Not as creative as Higgins' rant though.
Posted by: Mike Davitt | January 27, 2008 09:22 AM
The level of hatred expressed in this post is astounding, it is hard to imagine this individual was a board who was responsible representing the entire community.
For hearty souls here’s a website of Mike’s that actually has his name on it:
And here is a link to archived pages of the Taxpayers Ticket website from the last election. It is interesting to note that as soon as the www.Hold203Accountable.org website went active that the Taxpayers Ticket website was taken off the web. Our assumption is that Mike Davitt’s former running mates did not want to be associated with the crazy and vile rhetoric that is typical of his websites, letters and posts.