Editorial:

For football fans this is a great weekend. The Super Bowl, in all its glory, features the New England Patriots versus the New York Giants. We continue to lament the fact that our San Diego Chargers didn’t even make the playoffs. But wait till next year!

For political junkies the Republican presidential primaries have been entertaining to say the least. From Herman Cain’s plan to electrify the border fence to the front runner Mitt Romney who earns more interest money in one year, over $20 million, than most earn in their whole lifetimes, and the lives of their descendants. To Newt Gingrich who has so much baggage that the Obama people are hoping he wins.

The Republican primary has been fascinating as we have watched the wannabe winners come and go, and the contenders tear at each other. Gingrich, the quintessential bulldog prototype politician is the darling of the extreme right wing and seen as having the aptitude to go after President Obama. Romney is seen as soft, but this too is changing as he has allowed himself to fall to the level of Gingrich as they attack each other, making for good television. That and outrageous amounts of money being spent by these political PACs, mostly on behalf of the Romney campaign. And the Supreme Court, criticized for their decision which allowed PACs to raise and spend without transparency.

Then there is the Sweetwater High School District scandal that has recently exploded. Sweetwater has been a bastion of bad news for quite some time now and with each passing day, as the media frenzy works overtime, more and more bad news keeps coming out.

The latest news was the release of Vega report. After the long delay of its release, it confirmed the feelings of many in the community that illegal political back room deals were being made at the expense of the taxpayer. What will come of this we are anxiously awaiting to see.

The other piece of good news was that a group called ‘Occupy Sweetwater’ attempted to serve the school board members with recall papers. We see this as a good next step. It is time for a clean sweep and a clean board. This board has so many issues and miscues over the years that community confidence in this board is gone.

There are times in life when you need to wash the board clean and start over, this is one of those times. It is time for a fresh start.