Is anyone else as puzzled as I am over The Signal's endorsements for the WIlliam S. Hart Union High School District board? After talking about problems for which the board should be blamed, The Signal endorses incumbent Paul Strickland, by claiming that he was a greater part of the solution than the problems.

OK, I guess I can live with that, but why then does the paper endorse the two hand-picked clones of the remaining board members who were the greater part of the problems?

The truth is that for many years now, Joe Messina has been carrying the banner for a new Castaic high school, vocational training and better transparency and accountability in our Measure V expenditures. This year all the other candidates are doing the same. If all the candidates are listening to Messina and taking his lead, shouldn't we as voters do the same?

We need to elect someone who has been consistent in his convictions and not a bunch of Johnny-come-latelies.