Storm Clouds over DeForest; Hot Air Gusting at Bales Strength

The heat is officially here...and we don't just mean the 90 degrees yesterday.  It's much hotter than that in DeForest!
 
Local media have picked up on the ridiculous "equity adjustment" raises given to DeForest Area Administrators.  The issue is out there, and so far all we're hearing is empty rhetoric in response.

Our question is this:  who exactly in in charge over there?  All we hear from is DA Bales.  Last we checked, the Board of Education is HIS boss.  Why are we hearing so much from Bales and not enough from ELECTED board members to explain themselves?

The interviews themselves speak volumes.  Look at the tag cloud created from Bales' own words.  Ut's pretty clear what's on Bales' mind....and, more importantly...what is not.

What's a tag cloud?

Candidate Wordles

They're called "tag clouds". The theory is that they can give a good representation of what someone is all about. Or ....at least...provide some interesting insight...kind of a "come inside my mind".

How they work
The more frequently a word is spoken (printed) the greater that word's size appears in the 'tag cloud'. What one can glean from that is that the larger the word, the more importance it holds for the speaker.

How we did it
We took candidate answers to questions posed by the STAR, the Isthmus/League of Women Voters, and SP-EYE. Obviously, since Diedrich and McCourt refused to respond to the latter two, we had less to work with. So...keep that in mind.

We also removed any references to other candidates (admittedly, it was kind of creepy that Diedrich and McCourt must have frequently referred to one another....make of that what you will).

Finally, we removed the words "school, schools, and board" because they kept popping up.

What was left, we found...well...interesting. Here they are...

ok...so maybe McCourt never really said "seabass". How did that get in there!