Thursday, November 29, 2012
With all the votes counted, the Kids First candidates have officially won the school board elections.
Mail in ballots and provisionals have not altered the outcome of the elections on November 6. This means that the three Kids First candidates — Tom Kluepfel, Jean Marie Mitchell and incumbent Ruth McAllister — have secured their seats on the board, guaranteeing the slate's super majority on the board. The total results, according to the Hudson County Board of Elections, are as follows: Kluepfel: 4,259 votes Mitchell: 4,097 votes McAllister: 4,216 votes The Move Forward candidates — the opposing ticket made up of Anthony Oland, Elizabeth Markevitch and Felice Vazquez — gained votes with the mail in ballots, but enough to win. Oland: 3,499 votes Markevitch: 4,019 votes Vazquez: 3,481 votes. Independent candidate Patricia Waiters got 1,284 …
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
After counting the nearly 18,000 vote by mail ballots, the three Kids First candidates are still in the lead. Provisional votes are yet to be counted.
After counting Hoboken's vote by mail ballots, the three Kids First school board candidates — Tom Kluepfel, Jean Marie Mitchell and Ruth McAllister — continue to hold a lead over Anthony Oland, Liz Markevitch and Felice Vazquez, their Move Forward adversaries. Hudson County Board of Elections clerk Michael Harper released the new numbers on Tuesday. The lead, however, is small in some cases. Mitchell, for example, holds only a 6-vote lead over Markevitch. Including the vote by mail ballots, these are the new tallies: Kleupfel: 3,979 votes; McAllister: 3,972 votes; Mitchell: 3,817 votes. On election day, Kluepfel earned a total of 3,426 votes, Mitchell received 3,223 votes and McAllister took 3,498 votes. The new Move Forward vote count is…
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Election day is over, but the results could still change. The Hudson County Board of Elections received 1,875 vote by mail ballots that have yet to be counted.
The polls have closed, but Hoboken's elections may not be over yet. According to the Hudson County Board of Elections, 1,875 vote by mail ballots were received and are yet to be counted, according to the board clerk Michael Harper. Due to Sandy, the ballot receipt deadline was moved to November 19, Harper said. Because of that extention, Harper continued, "the board will not be releasing vote by mail tallies untill November 20th." A total of 2,824 vote by mail ballots were requested from Hoboken. Some more may come in, according to Harper. The three Kids First candidates received a majority of the votes on Tuesday, beating all three Move Forward candidates on the machines. On Tuesday night, the Kids First candidates were cautiously …
Friday, October 12, 2012
Tom Kluepfel, one of the founders of the Elysian Charter School, is running for the Hoboken Board of Education.
After living in Hoboken for the past 32 years, the time to run for office in town is now for Tom Kluepfel. Kluepfel, 56, is running for school board on the Kids First ticket in the Tuesday Nov. 6 elections. With his children grown up—his son started college and his daughter is a junior at Hoboken High—Kluepfel said it was time to start giving back to the community and create educational opportunities for students. "I'm excited to get involved with Hoboken again," he said. More than a decade ago, Kluepfel was one of the founders of the Elysian Charter School. Being part of that, Kluepfel said, "was one of the most fulfilling things that I have done in my life." Kluepfel, who initially registered as an independent candidate, joined the …
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
School board elections will take place on November 6.
For the third year in a row, Jean Marie Mitchell is running for school board. “I am dedicated to be on this board,” Mitchell, 50, said. “I am dedicated to the school district.” While Mitchell ran and lost last year, she already served a year on the board during the 2010-2011 school year. In April 2010, Mitchell was elected to fulfill a one-year term on the board. As the mother of a sophomore at Hoboken High School, Mitchell said she wants to make move the district forward and make more people aware of the Hoboken High School, which she calls “Hoboken’s best kept secret.” Mitchell’s son has been in the Hoboken public schools since Kindergarten, she said. The Kids First ticket of which Mitchell is part, recently underwent some changes. …
Monday, September 24, 2012
It's election season in Hoboken. Kids First kicked off its campaign on Saturday.
The Kids First school board candidates kicked off their campaign this weekend in anticipation of the November 6 elections. These are the first elections since the Hoboken Board of Education voted to move the elections from April to November. Jean Marie Mitchell, who served on the BoE once before, Tom Kluepfel—one of the founders of the Elysian Charter School—and sitting board member Ruth McAllister. More than 70 people, including many Hoboken notables and sitting Kids First school board members. Council members Jennifer Giattino, Carol Marsh and Peter Cunningham also attended the event. Kluepfel initally ran as an independent, but joined the Kids First ticket after sitting school board member Theresa Minutillo announced that she would …
Monday, August 13, 2012
School Board member Theresa Minutillo has decided not to seek another term.
Kids First announced its new slate for the School Board elections in November on Monday morning, according to a press release from school board member Ruth McAllister. Tom Kluepfel—one of the founders of the Elysian Charter School and the parent of a Hoboken High student—will run on the Kids First ticket. Minutillo, whose term was also up and who had been planning to run as of June, will not seek another term. As of June, Kluepfel was planning to run independently. Now, he has been added to the Kids First ticket. "Although I was saddened to hear that long time friend and colleague Theresa Minutillo decided not to seek re-election, I fully understand the need for her to take this time and focus on her family and career," McAllister …
Ojo Rojo
12:44 pm on Friday, November 30, 2012
The winners in 2010 got something like 1,500 votes each. The winners in 2011 got closer to 1900 I believe. This election the winners got over 4,000 votes. more ›