Patrick McGee Jr.
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Patrick McGee Jr. is the former at-large representative on the North Penn School District school board in Pennsylvania. McGee was initially appointed to the position in January 2017. McGee lost a re-election campaign in the at-large general election on November 7, 2017.
Pennsylvania permits school board candidates to cross-file in primary elections. This means that a candidate may file to run in the primary election for both the Democratic and Republican parties. If a candidate cross-files, he or she needs to win in one party's primary election to advance to the general election. A candidate may also appear on both party's ballots in the general election if he or she wins both nominations in the primary.
McGee was an unsuccessful candidate for the board in 2015. He lost the general election on November 3, 2015.
Biography
McGee is a marketing executive who has worked in media advertising for most of his career.[1]
Elections
2017
Five seats on the North Penn School District school board were up for general election on November 7, 2017. Four seats were up for regular election and one seat was up for special election for a two-year term, due to the death of former board member Carolyn Murphy. A partisan primary election for all five seats was held on May 16, 2017.
A total of eight candidates ran in the general election for the regular terms after all of them advanced from the primary. Four newcomer Democrats won the spots on the board: Christian Fusco, Jonathan Kassa, Tina Stoll, and Mark Warren. Board incumbents Josephine Charnock, Patrick McGee Jr., and Frank O'Donnell cross-filed to run for re-election for both the Democratic and Republican parties in the primary election. They were joined on the ballot by newcomers Fusco, Kassa, Thomas Mancini, Stoll, and Warren, who all cross-filed to run in the primary election. Stoll, Fusco, Warren, and Kassa took the Democratic nominations for the four-year terms, and O'Donnell, Mancini, McGee, and Charnock took the Republican nominations.
In the special election for the two-year term, Jenna Ott defeated Michelle Rupp in the general. Ott won the Democratic nomination and Rupp won the Republican nomination in the primary.[2]
These candidates could have faced independent candidates in the general election. However, no independent candidate filed by the August 1, 2017, deadline to get on the ballot.[3]
McGee Jr., Mancini, O'Donnell, Charnock, and Rupp ran as part of a candidate slate.[4]
General results
| North Penn School District, At-Large General Election, 4-year terms, 2017 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic |  Tina Stoll |
14.20% | 10,061 | |
| Democratic | Christian Fusco |
14.16% | 10,034 | |
| Democratic | Mark Warren |
13.70% | 9,703 | |
| Democratic | Jonathan Kassa |
13.58% | 9,622 | |
| Republican | Patrick McGee Jr. Incumbent | 11.21% | 7,944 | |
| Republican | Thomas Mancini | 11.16% | 7,907 | |
| Republican | Josephine Charnock Incumbent | 11.04% | 7,818 | |
| Republican | Frank O'Donnell Incumbent | 10.94% | 7,750 | |
| Total Votes | 70,839 | |||
| Source: Bucks County, "Municipal Election Tuesday, November 7, 2017," accessed November 8, 2017 and Montgomery County, "Unofficial Results," accessed November 8, 2017 These election results are unofficial and will be updated after official vote totals are made available. | ||||
Democratic primary results
| North Penn School District, At-Large Democratic Primary Election, 4-year terms, 2017 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic | Tina Stoll |
21.67% | 3,896 | |
| Democratic | Christian Fusco |
21.47% | 3,860 | |
| Democratic | Mark Warren |
20.86% | 3,750 | |
| Democratic | Jonathan Kassa |
19.53% | 3,511 | |
| Democratic | Thomas Mancini | 4.44% | 798 | |
| Democratic | Josephine Charnock Incumbent | 4.38% | 788 | |
| Democratic | Patrick McGee Jr. Incumbent | 3.97% | 714 | |
| Democratic | Frank O'Donnell Incumbent | 3.66% | 658 | |
| Write-in votes | 0.02% | 4 | ||
| Total Votes | 17,979 | |||
| Source: Bucks County, "Bucks County Election Results," accessed June 20, 2017 and Montgomery County, "2017 Primary Election Official Results," accessed June 20, 2017 | ||||
Republican primary results
| North Penn School District, At-Large Republican Primary Election, 4-year terms, 2017 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Patrick McGee Jr. Incumbent |
18.29% | 2,784 | |
| Republican | Frank O'Donnell Incumbent |
17.89% | 2,723 | |
| Republican | Thomas Mancini |
17.83% | 2,714 | |
| Republican | Josephine Charnock Incumbent |
14.80% | 2,253 | |
| Republican | Tina Stoll | 10.36% | 1,577 | |
| Republican | Christian Fusco | 8.61% | 1,310 | |
| Republican | Mark Warren | 6.99% | 1,063 | |
| Republican | Jonathan Kassa | 5.19% | 790 | |
| Write-in votes | 0.03% | 4 | ||
| Total Votes | 15,218 | |||
| Source: Bucks County, "Bucks County Election Results," accessed June 20, 2017 and Montgomery County, "2017 Primary Election Official Results," accessed June 20, 2017 | ||||
Funding
| 2017 Campaign Finance Deadlines in Pennsylvania[5] | |
|---|---|
| Date | Deadline |
| May 5, 2017 | 2nd Friday Pre-Primary report due |
| June 15, 2017 | 30-Day Post-Primary report due |
| October 27, 2017 | 2nd Friday Pre-Election report due |
| December 7, 2017 | 30-Day Post-Election report due |
School board candidates in Pennsylvania were required to report their campaign finance activity. Those who spent or received more than $250 in a reporting period had to file full reports. Those below the threshold had to file forms to declare they were exempt from reporting. Candidates could have, but were not required to, form committees to handle campaign finance transactions. They were not required to have separate bank accounts for campaign purposes.[6]
The table to the left details the four campaign finance deadlines in 2017.[5]
2015
Five of the nine seats on the North Penn school board were up for general election on November 3, 2015. There was a primary election on May 19, 2015.
Incumbents Carolyn Murphy, John Schilling, and Suzan Leonard won re-election. Edward Diasio and Theresa Prykowski also joined the board. They defeated incumbent Cory Brown and challengers Beverly Dodds, Benjamin Litman, Patrick McGee Jr., and Tina Stoll.
All candidates filed to run in both the Republican primary and the Democratic primary.[7][8]
Leonard, Murphy, Dodds, Litman, and Stoll won the Democratic primary. Brown, Schilling, Diasio, McGee, and Prykowski were victorious in the Republican primary. No independent candidates filed to run in the general election.[2]
Results
| North Penn School District, At-Large, General Election, 2015 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Edward Diasio |
10.6% | 9,372 | |
| Democratic | Carolyn Murphy Incumbent |
10.4% | 9,235 | |
| Republican | John Schilling Incumbent |
10.2% | 8,994 | |
| Republican | Theresa Prykowski |
10.2% | 8,986 | |
| Democratic | Suzan Leonard Incumbent |
10.1% | 8,974 | |
| Republican | Patrick McGee Jr. | 10.1% | 8,939 | |
| Democratic | Tina Stoll | 9.9% | 8,769 | |
| Democratic | Beverly Dodds | 9.9% | 8,718 | |
| Republican | Cory Brown Incumbent | 9.6% | 8,511 | |
| Democratic | Benjamin Litman | 8.9% | 7,898 | |
| Write-in votes | 0.02% | 20 | ||
| Total Votes | 88,416 | |||
| Source: Bucks County, Pennsylvania, "Bucks County Election Results," accessed January 4, 2016 Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, "Montgomery County Election Results," accessed January 4, 2016 | ||||
| North Penn School District, At-Large Democratic Primary Election, 4-year term, 2015 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic | Carolyn Murphy Incumbent |
17.2% | 2,305 | |
| Democratic | Suzan Leonard Incumbent |
16.6% | 2,227 | |
| Democratic | Benjamin Litman |
15.2% | 2,044 | |
| Democratic | Beverly Dodds |
15.2% | 2,041 | |
| Democratic | Tina Stoll |
14.7% | 1,966 | |
| Democratic | Theresa Prykowski | 5.2% | 703 | |
| Democratic | Edward Diasio | 4.7% | 636 | |
| Democratic | Patrick McGee Jr. | 3.9% | 529 | |
| Democratic | John Schilling Incumbent | 3.9% | 519 | |
| Democratic | Cory Brown Incumbent | 3.1% | 414 | |
| Democratic | Write-In | 0.2% | 26 | |
| Total Votes | 13,410 | |||
| Source: Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, "Primary 2015 Official Results," accessed July 8, 2015 and Bucks County, Pennsylvania, "Official Election Results," accessed July 8, 2015 | ||||
| North Penn School District, At-Large Republican Primary Election, 4-year term, 2015 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Patrick McGee Jr. |
14.9% | 2,381 | |
| Republican | John Schilling Incumbent |
14.7% | 2,346 | |
| Republican | Edward Diasio |
14.2% | 2,266 | |
| Republican | Theresa Prykowski |
14% | 2,239 | |
| Republican | Cory Brown Incumbent |
12.3% | 1,958 | |
| Republican | Carolyn Murphy Incumbent | 7.6% | 1,221 | |
| Republican | Suzan Leonard Incumbent | 6.5% | 1,040 | |
| Republican | Beverly Dodds | 6.2% | 993 | |
| Republican | Tina Stoll | 5.4% | 870 | |
| Republican | Benjamin Litman | 4% | 642 | |
| Republican | Write-in | 0.1% | 15 | |
| Total Votes | 15,971 | |||
| Source: Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, "Primary 2015 Official Results," accessed July 8, 2015 and Bucks County, Pennsylvania, "Official Election Results," accessed July 8, 2015 | ||||
Funding
McGee reported no contributions or expenditures to the Montgomery County Voter Services Department in the election.[9]
Endorsements
McGee received an official endorsement from the Lansdale Republican Committee.[10]
See also
- North Penn School District, Pennsylvania
- North Penn School District elections (2017)
- North Penn School District elections (2015)
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ The Reporter Online, "Six newcomers, four incumbents running for North Penn School Board in primary," May 12, 2015
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Montgomery County, "Official Candidate List," accessed May 11, 2017 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "candidates" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Bucks County, "Candidate List Municipal Election, November 7, 2017," accessed October 25, 2017
- ↑ Quality Education Matters, "Home," accessed May 15, 2017
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Pennsylvania Department of State, "2017 Election Calendar," accessed April 19, 2017
- ↑ Pennsylvania Department of State, "Campaign Finance Reporting Law," accessed January 15, 2014
- ↑ North Penn School District, "Elected School Directors," accessed March 13, 2015
- ↑ Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, "Voter Services," September 22, 2015
- ↑ Montgomery County Voter Services, "Campaign Finance Expense Report Filings," accessed February 3, 2016
- ↑ Lansdale Republican Committee, "2015 Elections," accessed May 17, 2015
| North Penn School District elections in 2017 | |
| Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Montgomery County, Pennsylvania | |
| Election date: | Primary: May 16, 2017 General: November 7, 2017 |
| Candidates: | At-Large (regular): Incumbent, Josephine Charnock (R) • Incumbent, Patrick McGee Jr. (R) • Incumbent, Frank O'Donnell (R) • Christian Fusco (D) • Jonathan Kassa (D) • Thomas Mancini (R) • Tina Stoll (D) • Mark Warren (D) At-Large (special): Jenna Ott (D) • Michelle Rupp (R) |
| Important information: | What was at stake? |
