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Richmond Education Party makes impressive debut
Published 12:21 PDT, Tue October 23, 2018
The Richmond Education Party (REP) ran a full
slate of seven candidates for school board. It was their first time out as a
party.
“Ken and I started this new venture of the
Richmond Education Party and didn’t know where it would go and we were really
pleased with the team of candidates we had. They all worked very hard,” said
Sandra Nixon, an incumbent candidate for school trustee.
With only one incumbent, Jonathan Ho, not
running for school board, the odds of rewriting the entire list of trustees in
this election didn’t bode well. But, elections also offer an opportunity for
leaders and party members to both get the word out and hear the thoughts of the
community when they campaign.
Speaking of the REP slate of candidates,
Nixon said on election night, “They are all really committed to raising the
profile of education issues in the district.”
The election results came in slowly with the
final results not certain at the time of her interview. Nixon said at the time,
“We are really pleased that we have at least three of our team elected.” Ken
Hamaguchi led the vote with Nixon a strong second. First time candidate,
Heather Larson garnered the fourth spot and Debbie Tablotney, had clearly won a
fifth term as a trustee. It meant that this new party had four of the top five
spots on school board.
At the time of the interview, a fifth REP
candidate, Karina Reid, was very close to the final person elected to school
board. Final results indicated she ran a close eighth, about 170 votes behind
Norm Goldstein who eventually did win the final slot on the school board.
Then, the room erupted. New results showed
RCA and RITE candidates’ wins.
“The cheers are for some change on Richmond
city council,” said Nixon, “I think it’s a positive change. We’ve seen the
addition of some more candidates from RITE and RCA and I think that will be a
good mix on our council moving forward.”
This time around, the winds of change brought
in more than different political views.
“The voters of Richmond, I think, have
elected a healthy mix of both returning, experienced and of new, fresh faces to
the board.”
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