With all due respect Mr Karsh, Mr Olson has joined in the 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.