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There is a community watch group in Olympia Fields, Illinois called Community Watch Group Of Olympia Fields (www.sharpwatcholympiafields.com) and from what I have observed from their website they need a "fact check" balance site immediately if they are going to be true to their mission which according their site is to "preserve the integrity" of Olympia Fields as well as to have "citizens and government working together."  As a 40 year public servant on local, state, and national levels myself, I have had my share of working with partnerships between citizens and government but the best success even in working through conflicts is when there is real balance and transparency in information sharing.  But true partnerships cannot work when one group presents only one side of an issue calling itself educating its constituency, but that constituency is vulnerable to making unfair choices when they are not given balanced information by which to make a fair and just decision.  In the case of The Community Watch Group Of Olympia Fields, its clear from their website that they do not like veteran educator Betty Owens, current President of The School Board of Rich Township District 227 up for re-election on April 9th and was Owens was recently endorsed for reelection by Robin Kelly, former State Representative that included the district who is now the Democratic nominee for Congress for the 2nd Congressional District which also includes or the School Board for Rich Township District 227

Part of this groups mission statement also states people should "report suspicious and inappropriate activity" so in that regard I must "report suspicious and inapproriate activity" from this site when it come to their campaign to educate the citizens of Olympia Fields on the leadership of Betty Owens and whether she deserves to be reelected as Board President of Rich Township. This site present only a one sided view or presentation of data that is absolutely misleading to the uneducated citizen reading this site for balanced information for citizens to make an truly informed decision.  The information being presented on this site is "suspicious and inappropriate" and unfair to ordinary citizens who look at this site and others and cannot make a balanced decision. So therefore and until the April 9th election I and others are taking this new "Fact versus Fiction Campaign" as it relates to the one sided negative information campaign against veteran educator Betty Owens by The Community Watch Group Of Olympia Fields on their website "Sharpwatch" which isn't that "sharp" but we will "sharpen" this unbalanced and one sided negative attack on Betty Owens with "Fact versus Fiction" In The District 227 election on April 9th.