With all due respect Mr Karsh, Mr Olson has joined us (in the fight)now. Good blast sir.

Where have you been Mr. Olson? This didn't start with President Garcia.
Where were you when a custodial supervisor by the name of Robert *********
was forced out of his job because he was only trying to do a better job. He
had been transferred from the West Campus to the East Campus because he had
been considered a good worker on the West Campus. Than he got ambition. He
made recommendations. He tried to change things. He told the than Physical
Facilities Director that he would like to apply for a higher-level position.
The Physical facilities Director told him not to bother. So he complained to
VP Alaniz. Alaniz figuratively spit in his face. The Physical facilities
Director called me to spy on Robert. I didn't do it. They made his life
miserable. Eventually they got rid of him. How about the classified employee
who worked for Chuck Tynes over in Purchasing? She discovered that the DMC
was hiring temps for classified positions and than giving them priority for
the jobs over long time classified employees who should have had first
choice by policy. She spoke up in front of the regents. Not long after she
just disappeared from the campus. My informant told me she was let go after
all she was only a disgruntled classified employee.
Than of course I was labeled a disgruntled employee until I proved the
auditorium was really unsafe. Than, Chris Tetlauf Belhausen agreed to work
with me as a temporary supervisor. Dr. Gustavo Valadez Ortiz became College
President and suddenly I was in. I was redeemed. He saw to it that I was
actually invited to meetings about auditorium safety and finance. Chris told
everyone that she had me under her control. She did help me to recoup
overtime that the College under VP Alaniz had cheated me out of. Than Chris
got tired. The auditorium began to bore her. I was too much trouble. I was
supposed to bow down and forget that the real safety and financial issues
concerning the auditorium were still not resolved because Joe Alaniz refused
to resolve them. Dr. Valadez Ortiz came under attack not really for anything
he had done administratively but because his personal life offended Regent
Chris Adler and others. In any case my protection was gone and VP Alaniz
became Acting President and the target that was on my back just got bigger.
I started out being concerned about safety, I saw great potential in the
auditorium from the beginning and I never changed. The political winds
around me kept changing. Than there was Alaniz's newest attack in a long
line of attacks against custodial and buildings and grounds workers over
phony sexual harassment charges. Let's not forget that report in the 1990's
that compared DMC custodians and grounds keepers to their counterparts at
Trinity College. Nobody checked to see if that was an accurate comparison. I
did look into it. It was easy. I sent out the information I found to the
campus because it was a false comparison. Trinity College is nowhere near
the size of Del Mar College. Just another phony trumped up report. Than
there was Ms. Lopez. Than Mr. Benitez. Than Theresa Cox. I don't know how
many others? Where were you Mr. Olson?

Now that President Garcia, VP Alaniz and their cronies have placed the
target on the back of the faculty, are you only out for yourselves? Are you
going to consider the corrupt practices that all employees at the College
have suffered under all this time?
Howard Karsh, retired Auditorium Manager, Regents Candidate District 5.