Mariah Lauritzen
Mariah Lauritzen was a candidate for District 1 representative on the El Paso Independent School District school board in Texas. Lauritzen was defeated in the by-district general election on May 6, 2017.
Elections
2017
Four of the seven seats on the El Paso Independent School District board of trustees in Texas were up for general election on May 6, 2017. In his bid for re-election to District 1, incumbent Robert Geske defeated Mariah Lauritzen. District 3 incumbent Susannah Byrd ran unopposed and won another term on the board by default. District 4 incumbent Diane Dye and former board member Russell Wiggs defeated Timothy Groover, but neither of them received a majority of the votes cast. Because of this, a runoff election was held on June 10, 2017, where Dye defeated Wiggs to retain her seat. The race for the District 5 seat included incumbent Chuck Taylor and challenger Miguel Rueda. Taylor won re-election to the seat.[1][2][3]
Results
| El Paso Independent School District, District 1 General Election, 4-year term, 2017 |
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|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Robert Geske Incumbent |
59.21% | 1,222 |
| Mariah Lauritzen | 40.79% | 842 |
| Total Votes | 2,064 | |
| Source: El Paso County Elections, "May 6, 2017 - Official Final Election Results," accessed June 6, 2017 | ||
Funding
Lauritzen reported no contributions or expenditures to the El Paso Independent School District as of April 17, 2017.[4]
Campaign themes
2017
Lauritzen highlighted the following statement on her campaign website:
| “ | Why you should support Mariah Lauritzen If you vote for me, I will use my diverse background, experience, and commitment to transparency to help the El Paso school system support our students, teachers, and community better. EPISD is still recovering from a cheating scandal so serious that it resulted in the imprisonment of the last Superintendent and the removal of the entire Board of Trustees. As a result, the El Paso community expects the Board to operate now with transparency and integrity - and the Board struggles with this, as shown in the way they voted to extend the Superintendent's contract, along with a 15% raise. I intend to serve with integrity: I will communicate and involve the community in decisions; I will ask for and listen to input from teachers, PTA's, and citizens; I will work to set priorities based on the best practices of successful education systems. I'm an army brat, so I have lived all over. This gave me lots of exposure to different education systems: I attended two elementary schools, two middle schools, two high schools, two Universities, plus I worked at two other universities - in the United States and Europe. I came to El Paso to work at Western Refining as a chemical engineer. I have lived in Texas for much of my life including Round Rock and Corpus Christi.[5] |
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| —Mariah Lauritzen (2017)[6] | ||
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ El Paso Independent School District, "May 6, 2017 Board of Trustees Election," accessed February 20, 2017
- ↑ El Paso Independent School District, "Minutes of Meeting of Board of Trustees February 28, 2017," accessed April 10, 2017
- ↑ El Paso County Elections, "May 6, 2017 - Uniform Election Unofficial Final Election Results," accessed May 6, 2017
- ↑ El Paso Independent School District, "File Browser - Campaign Finance Reports," accessed April 17, 2017
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ [https://www.crowdpac.com/campaigns/193050/we-can-do-hard-things Crowdpac, "We can do hard things! Candidate for El Paso, TX, El Paso ISD Board of Trustees, (District 1 District)," accessed April 17, 2017]
| El Paso Independent School District elections in 2017 | |
| El Paso County, Texas | |
| Election date: | May 6, 2017 |
| Candidates: | District 1: • Incumbent, Robert Geske • Mariah Lauritzen District 3: • Incumbent, Susannah Byrd District 4: • Incumbent, Diane Dye • Timothy Groover • Russell Wiggs District 5: • Incumbent, Charles Taylor • Miguel Rueda |
| Important information: | What was at stake? • Additional elections on the ballot • Key deadlines |
