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Smollar, David
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Smollar explains enenies list facts to dispell drivel of Fleming sychophant Erin Kutnick
Aug 10, 2006 | Permalink
David Smollar, The Capistrano Dispatch "James Fleming denied for two weeks the existence of any hit list, even though the OC Register had three versions of such a list. He first had Asst. Supt. Susan McGill tell the Register that it must be a list from the Registrar of Voters. (Interesting that he remembered his Registrar list instantly, although he later lied to the OC Register and LA Times that he had ever received that list.) The OC Register then faxed him the first two pages of one version to “refresh his memory.” He still claimed no knowledge of the list, and then said that any such list would have been prepared by me! He had special software ordered to put on my old computer to find the list. (Sorry, Jim, I never had it.) He made available to the media various sycophants in his employ, including Dan Crawford and Jeff Bristow, to say what a miserable, disgruntled employee I was (Hmmm, I worked 4 1/2 years under Fleming, and never received any evaluation, oral or written, complaining about my performance.) The Register, fortunately, had the facts and printed the article. And then a week later—two weeks after first asked about the list—lo and behold the good Dr. Fleming issues reams of paper worthy of Rube Goldberg to explain that the list was all part of a hacking investigation. Of course! Just slipped his mind. How risible! To conduct a hacking probe, you don’t need to compile an extensive list of 150 parent names, including the schools attended by their kids and replete with special notations on 40 of the individuals. And Fleming still hasn’t said who created the list, which he now admits was in his possession. “Journalist” Kutnick conveniently glides over the fact that Fleming ordered me to withhold the list from Kevin Murphy, as well as a memo to Fleming from security director Ed Kovac, despite the fact that they were public documents from files in Fleming’s office."

Kutnick is a columnist for The Capistrano Dispatch. Smollar is the former Director of Communications at Capistrano Unified School District.
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Smollar says preparation of such lists was Fleming's modus operandi
Aug 10, 2006 | Permalink
David Smollar, The Capistrano Dispatch "But preparation of the list was modus operandi for Fleming. He’s not a great strategic mind; he thinks ahead about five minutes most of the time. He craves information, especially on his many detractors. And he craved information about the recall people. Just examine the raft of e-mails and memos that Fleming prepared and sent across the CUSD universe of parents, principals administrators the weekend of April 23-24, 2005, in preparation for the April 25 board meeting when recall notices were presented. He was consumed with the recall, and had just gotten the 150 names on April 21, off an intercepted Kevin Murphy e-mail. He surely wanted to know who they were. That’s his style. Fleming wrote to trustees on April 22 in a fax that the e-mail appeared to be a “veritable ‘who’s who’ list of San Juan Hills and Arroyo Vista NIMBYS as well as some of the more volatile opponents to the attendance boundary proposal.” The list could not have been done without Fleming’s express knowledge and direction, because its compilation would have required hours upon hours of tedious work using the district’s cumbersome Aeries student information system. No person in his or her right mind would otherwise have spent 10 hours-plus doing it."

Kutnick is a columnist for The Capistrano Dispatch. Smollar is the former Director of Communications at Capistrano Unified School District.
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OC Register says DA should investigate CUSD enemies lists
Jan 11, 2006 | Permalink
ocregister Editorial, The Orange County Register "This is a chilling abuse of power that should be thoroughly investigated by the county district attorney."

The Register's editorial staff reacts to news report previous day that the Capistrano Unified School District “kept lists of 150 families who supported last year’s board recall campaign, detailing such personal information as where their children went to school.”
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