Lewis Jones Wins Decatur School Board Race
Decatur Metro | November 5, 2013
A check of the election results on the AJC website shows another school board close election in Decatur, with Lewis Jones receiving 793 votes to Mark Arnold’s 718 votes.
Commissioners Boykin and Garrett were automatically re-elected, along with a School Board member Bernadette Seals. Annie P. Caiola won Valarie Wilson’s seat on the Decatur School Board as well in an uncontested race.
Decaturish has reaction from Mr. Arnold and a more exhaustive recap this evening.
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Congrats to Lewis. We had two excellent candidates. What bothers me is of the households on my street 6 houses ( we have 8 children under 2nd grade) we were the only house to vote. Also the school maps show only 1 child on our street and there are 10.
Hope our school board is paying attention and is working off of accurate info.
This makes me really, really sad. Mr. Jones ran a great campaign and he seems to really want to make a difference on the school board as it faces an impending crisis of expansion and redistricting. To “reward” him by making him actually serve on the board just seems very unfair.
+1.
I felt a little silly voting when there were no contested races in my district, but I did it anyway. Big or small, contested or uncontested, every election is important.
Over 300 other people did too so don’t feel foolish! It’s validating to the candidates who are running unopposed–they aren’t just elected because they had no opposition, but because some folks voted FOR them. Someone like Annie Caiola acted like she was “running” even after it was clear that she had no opposition, put a lot of effort into the Candidate Forum, maintained an active website, and has made herself real available to voters. (Plus had an election party last night to which we were all invited.)
I wish we could have duct taped them together and had both of them – twin school board members. They are both awesome.
Maybe Mark could serve on some CSD/Board committees.
Thanks to everyone for running–it’s a tremendous amount of work–and congratulations to the new Board.