West Chester Area School District: Fiscal Hawks Win
December 25th, 2009 | by BGuzzardi |
Four excellent candidates focusing on Instruction, rather than Construction, and on spending to increase student learning were elected on November 3d 2009.
This was a well run campaign by highly qualified and committed candidates – special thanks to the skilled Marian McGrath and the Gwenne Alexander for their guidance in West Chester Area School Board race. Good candidates, good ideas, good communication, good campaign. Even Dan Kristie noticed the mindless mantra that Democrats used to demonize common sense candidates. They were subjected to slanderous smears in their own communities and remained positive throughout. Even the less than sympathetic Dan Kristie reported: “Democratic voters, as they left their polling places, reported that the school board race was heavy on their minds. They said, as if they were repeating a set of talking points, that they feared the Republican candidates would bring “extremist views” to the school board.” ( emphasis added).
SCHOOL DIRECTOR WEST CHESTER
Vote for not more than 4
SUSAN SPELLMAN TIERNAN (DEM) . . . . 6,522 11.57
SUSAN J. CARTY (DEM). . . . . . . 6,329 11.23
LISA R. SAMUEL (DEM). . . . . . . 6,007 10.66
DEBORAH L. LICZWEK (DEM) . . . . . 5,902 10.47
SEAN CARPENTER (REP). . . . . . . 7,847 13.92
JOHN F. WINGERTER (REP). . . . . . 7,948 14.10
MARIA ARMANDI PIMLEY (REP). . . . . 7,814 13.86
HEIDI ADSETT (REP) . . . . . . . 7,961 14.12
WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 41 .07
TREASURER
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BARBARA KIPP STONE (DEM) . . . . . 26,004 38.27
ANN DUKE (REP). . . . . . . . . 41,854 61.60
WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 82 .12
CLERK OF COURTS
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MIKE MCGANN (DEM). . . . . . . . 26,429 38.34
FRANK MCELWAINE (REP) . . . . . . 42,438 61.56
WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 66 .10
UDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT
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ROBERT J. COLVILLE (DEM) . . . . . 22,807 8.89
KEVIN FRANCIS MCCARTHY (DEM) . . . . 24,516 9.56
ANNE E. LAZARUS (DEM) . . . . . . 24,889 9.70
TERESA SARMINA (DEM). . . . . . . 22,126 8.63
JUDY OLSON (REP) . . . . . . . . 40,627 15.84
SALLIE MUNDY (REP) . . . . . . . 38,114 14.86
TEMP SMITH (REP) . . . . . . . . 34,382 13.41
PAULA OTT (REP) . . . . . . . . 43,060 16.79
MARAKAY J. ROGERS (LIB). . . . . . 5,798 2.26
WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 156 .06
JUDGE OF THE COMMONWEALTH COURT
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BARBARA BEHREND ERNSBERGER (DEM). . . 24,013 18.23
LINDA S. JUDSON (DEM) . . . . . . 25,796 19.58
PATRICIA A. MCCULLOUGH (REP) . . . . 41,811 31.74
KEVIN BROBSON (REP) . . . . . . . 40,032 30.39
WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 73 .06