Matthew Harrington (California)
Matthew Harrington was a candidate for Trustee Area 7 representative on the Modesto City Schools school board in California. Harrington was defeated in the by-district general election on November 7, 2017.
Elections
2017
- See also: Modesto City Schools elections (2017)
Four of the seven seats on the Modesto City Schools Board of Education in California were up for nonpartisan general election on November 7, 2017. In their bids for re-election, incumbents Cindy Marks and Chad Brown ran unopposed for the Trustee Area 1 and 3 seats, respectively. Those races did not appear on the ballot, and the two incumbents won re-election by default. Rickey McGill, Michael Scheid, and Charlene West ran for the open Trustee Area 5 seat, and West won election to the board. The race for the open Trustee Area 7 seat included Matthew Harrington, Adolfo Lopez, and Ryan Schambers, and Lopez won election to the board.[1][2][3]
The 2017 election was the first time the school district used the by-district election method. Prior to 2017, school board members were elected at large.[4]
Results
| Modesto City Schools, Trustee Area 7 General Election, 4-year term, 2017 |
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|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Adolfo Lopez |
65.08% | 932 |
| Ryan Schambers | 19.62% | 281 |
| Matthew Harrington | 15.01% | 215 |
| Write-in votes | 0.28% | 4 |
| Total Votes | 1,432 | |
| Source: Stanislaus County Elections Office, "Official Results," accessed November 21, 2017 | ||
Funding
The Stanilaus County Registrar of Voters does not publish and freely disclose school board candidate campaign finance reports. If you have any information regarding the campaign finance disclosures in this race, please contact the school board elections team at editor@ballotpedia.org.
Endorsements
Harrington was endorsed by the Stanislaus County Democratic Central Committee, the Stanislaus/Tuolumne Counties Central Labor Council, and the community organization Evolve.[5][6]
Campaign themes
2017
Harrington highlighted why he ran for office on his campaign website:
| “ | Most people would say, 'Why do you want to run for office?'
I say why not! In the last two years of attending school board meetings, I have seen the Modesto City Schools Board of Trustees and the teachers engaged with one another, but not in a healthy way. This needs to stop, and stop it will.
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” |
| —Matthew Harrington (2017)[8] | ||
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See also
- Modesto City Schools, California
- Modesto City Schools elections (2017)
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Stanislaus County Registrar of Voters, "Consolidated District Election - Tuesday, November 7, 2017: Unofficial Candidate List," accessed September 20, 2017
- ↑ Abbey Smith, “Email communication with Stephanie Lopez, Modesto City Clerk," August 14, 2017
- ↑ Stanislaus County Elections Office, "Unofficial Results," accessed November 8, 2017
- ↑ Modesto Bee, "Measure F wins approval, gives Modesto schools option to elect by area," June 7, 2016
- ↑ Evolve, "Endorsements: November 7, 2017 General Election," accessed October 25, 2017
- ↑ Matthew J. Harrington for Modesto City Schools Trustee District 7, "Endorsements," accessed October 25, 2017
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Matthew J. Harrington for Modesto City Schools Trustee District 7, "Running for Office," accessed October 25, 2017
| Modesto City Schools elections in 2017 | |
| Stanislaus County, California | |
| Election date: | November 7, 2017 |
| Candidates: | Trustee Area 1: • Incumbent, Cindy Marks Trustee Area 3: • Incumbent, Chad Brown Trustee Area 5: • Rickey McGill • Michael Scheid • Charlene West Trustee Area 7: • Matthew Harrington • Adolfo Lopez • Ryan Schambers |
| Important information: | What was at stake? • Additional elections on the ballot • Key deadlines |
