Kim Bentley
Kim Bentley ran for election to the Virginia Beach City Public Schools to represent District 10. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Bentley completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Kim Bentley's career experience includes working in information technology.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Virginia Beach City Public Schools, Virginia, elections (2022)
General election
General election for Virginia Beach City Public Schools, District 10
Kathleen Brown defeated Kim Bentley in the general election for Virginia Beach City Public Schools, District 10 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Kathleen Brown (Nonpartisan) | 50.4 | 5,679 | |
 | Kim Bentley (Nonpartisan)  | 49.0 | 5,521 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.7 | 77 | ||
| Total votes: 11,277 | |||
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Endorsements
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2017
Incumbent John Atkinson (R) defeated Susan Bates Hippen (D) and Kim Bentley (Independent) in the Virginia Beach Treasurer General Election.[2]
| Virginia Beach Treasurer, General Election, 2017 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican |  John Atkinson Incumbent |
58.25% | 68,905 | |
| Democratic | Susan Bates Hippen | 33.19% | 39,256 | |
| Independent | Kim Bentley | 8.06% | 9,536 | |
| Write-in votes | 0.49% | 585 | ||
| Total Votes | 118,282 | |||
| Source: Virginia Beach, Virginia, "Voter Registration & Elections," accessed November 7, 2017 | ||||
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Kim Bentley completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Bentley's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- In order to not just manage retention, but attract new talent we need to be a leader in the Hampton Roads region in pay/benefits for faculty AND staff. It's imperative in retaining an invaluable resource - institutional knowledge
- Addressing the disparity between schools not just in infrastructure but in gifted academic programs and extracurricular clubs
- Increasing real, genuine parent engagement with the schools’ teachers and curriculum by boosting participation in PTAs. Giving parents the ‘hands on’ interaction by utilizing the tools we already have that go neglected within VBCPS
I'm excited to help working class individuals of Virginia Beach achieve their collective bargaining power. Additionally, a core position of my platform is that for every Career Day that hosts colleges or military recruiters in attendance, we should ALSO have Brothers and Sisters from our local Unions representing the heart of the modern labor movement.
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2017
Bentley's campaign website included the following themes for 2017:
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For too long, we the average citizen have relied on career politicians to solve our problems. We’re busy people after all. We work, we take care of our families, take pleasure in our hobbies, and pursue our dreams. We trust that when our leaders talk that they are presenting objective evidence in the interest of the whole truth. We expect our leaders to act as public servants, and to act with integrity in our best interests while we live our lives. In this capacity, our leaders have failed us. Time and again our best interests have been sold out in backroom meetings to sweetheart deals. The same banks, the same contractors, mysteriously keep getting the best offers from the city. The public prosperity tossed aside so a select few entrenched partisans can enrich themselves at the expense of the working class. False narratives and bald faced lies spun into platitudes, patting themselves on the back with one hand and holding the masses back with the other. It is irresponsible for our leaders to blame younger generations for economic issues that have existed long before they were born; the same economic issues they’re quick to lay at the feet of “others” with no actual suggestions for resolution. The generations of today and tomorrow aren’t looking for freebies and handouts, they’re looking for our government to function with interest in the public good that elevated their parents and grandparents to their stations in life. Any politician that vows to take us backwards and focuses on the past – a past which only exists when viewed through the narcotic haze of nostalgia – certainly has no path forward or plans for the future. I decided to take action, to do more than just make my voice heard but to be a positive force of change and prosperity. To be a force of inclusion, and objective rationalization. To be a helper, a leader, and most importantly, to serve all members of my community. It’s time that we as individuals take our future into our own hands.[3][4] |
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| —Kim Bentley (2017) | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Candidate Virginia Beach City Public Schools, District 10 |
Personal |
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on November 3, 2022
- ↑ Virginia Department of Elections, "November 7, 2017 General Election, Candidates List for Local Offices," July 14, 2017
- ↑ Kim Bentley 2017 campaign website, "Home," accessed September 22, 2017
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
