Your coverage of the Orange County school board campaigns, especially that of Saddleback College, has been biased from the start against the so-called union-run campaigns. Even in the wake of the election, your article (Nov. 6) gives the impression that the outcome was bad news, that the election of the "union candidates" was some kind of fluke--a surprising result due to the formidable power of the teachers union.
Your article hints that the low voter turnout may be responsible for the union wins; but even before the election only an 11% or 12% turnout was predicted, and so the low 11% turnout was not the cause of the "surprising" result. If the remaining 89% of the voters had strong feelings about reelecting the incumbent board members for Saddleback College, they could have gone to the polls, too. Nobody was stopping them.
