Here's the latest unofficial info on yesterday's Edison election. Congratulations to all the Winners and to challengers who took the time to make this town a better place and came up short.
It's never my thing to rain on anyone's parade or kick anyone while they're down - so, I'll defer my comments about these results until a later time.
Mayor:
- Samip Joshi 10,930 52.8%
- Keith Hahn 9,459 45.7%
- Christo Makropoulos 301 1.5%
Council:
- Margot Harris 11,043 18.8%
- John Poyner 10,593 18.1%
- Nishith Patel 10,553 18.0%
- Joe Luistro 9,022 15.4%
- R. Tali Epstein 8,753 14.9%
- Payal Mehta 8,709 14.8%
Board of Ed:
- Douglas Schneider 6,332 16.2%
- Biral Patel 6,257 16.0%
- Brian Rivera 5,711 14.6%
- David Tingle 4,267 10.9%
- Elizabeth Conway 4,040 10.3%
- Padmaja Chinta 3,939 10.1%
- Gabriel Haller 2, 680 6.9%
- Ralph Errico 2,230 5.7%
The Edison 1-cent Open Space tax passed 10,004 to 7,796.
Thank you for keeping us informed.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think the election results mean for the Board of Education?
I notice that Mr. Schneider's wife is a supervisor in the Edison school district.
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What does this mean in terms of potential conflicts of interest?
Also, Mr. Rivera is a school administrator in another district. How does this affect objectivity?
Your readers will be interested in your perspectives.
Hi Joel - wasn't a supporter of this ticket and don't believe it will be helpful in doing what drastically needs to be done to move the School District forward by removing Jerry 'ReferenDumb' Shi and his cohorts from their leadership roles. Too much Dem-party interests with this ticket and conflicts of interest are a misnomer when it comes to the Board of Ed. There's something called the 'Doctrine of Necessity' that allows them to vote even with conflicts of interests. Finally, we don't need more educators on the board - we need people who can see and will do something about the absurdity of the $pending that goes on over there. Don't see that with this ticket.
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