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Why Does Dan Chang Hate Dogs?

A desperate LAUSD candidate acts like a social media bully that we try to protect our kids from as he makes a weird attack on his opponent.

Carl J. Petersen
Age of Awareness
Published in
4 min readOct 3, 2024

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“Dogs are great assets to candidates, and the feeling seems to be engendered that if a dog loves the candidate, he can’t be all that bad.

– Dick Gregory

The COVID-19 pandemic hit our emotional well-being hard. Safely sequestered away in our cocoons, we could not physically interact with those outside our immediate household. Even when straying out to secure necessities we were forced to stand six feet apart, our facial expressions hidden behind masks. Only the most hardened introvert could thrive in these conditions.

My family was particularly motivated to follow the suggestions of health experts because of my wife’s diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. Her current treatment is a cancer drug that depletes her immune system. Contracting COVID early in the pandemic before treatments were established could have been fatal. Our jobs, classified as essential, already required us to venture outside of quarantine. Expanding the number of…

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Age of Awareness
Age of Awareness

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Carl J. Petersen
Carl J. Petersen

Written by Carl J. Petersen

Parent, special education advocate and former LAUSD School Board candidate. Still fighting for the children. www.ChangeTheLAUSD.com

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