Phil Hemingway
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Phil Hemingway is an at-large member of the Iowa City Community School District Board of Education in Iowa. The seat was up for general election on September 8, 2015. He defeated candidates Shawn Eyestone, Todd Fanning, Jason Lewis, Brian Richman, Lucas Van Orden and Brianna Wills for the seat with a four-year term.[1][2]
Hemingway was a candidate for the board of education in 2013. He lost his election bid for an at-large seat on September 10, 2013. He obtained the fifth-most votes in a race for four seats. He also ran for a seat on the board in 2011.
The controversial closing of an elementary school caused district residents to question the board's 10-year facilities master plan.[3] Hemingway explained why he supports amending the plan to keep the elementary school in question open.[4]
Biography
Hemingway earned his high school diploma from West Branch High School. He owns Phil's Repairs LLC in Iowa City, where he lives with his wife and daughter. He is an ASE certified master auto technician and an ASE certified engine machinist in gas and diesel engines.[5]
Elections
2015
Five of the seven seats on the Iowa City Community School District Board of Education were up for election on September 8, 2015. Four seats have a four-year term, and one seat has a two-year term. All seats on the board of education represent the district at-large.
The candidates for the four-year term seats were LaTasha DeLoach, Shawn Eyestone, Todd Fanning, Phil Hemingway, Jason Lewis, Brian Richman, Lori Roetlin, Lucas Van Orden, Brianna Wills and Tom Yates. Incumbents Patti Fields, Jeff McGinness, Marla Swesey and Orville Townsend did not run for re-election. DeLoach, Hemingway, Roetlin and Yates defeated Eyestone, Fanning, Lewis, Richman Van Orden and Wills for the four seats.[1]
Board member Tuyet Baruah resigned from the board leaving an open seat with a two-year term. The candidates for the vacant seat were Christopher Liebig, Paul Roesler and Megan Schwalm. Liebig defeated Roesler and Schwalm for the seat.[1][6][7]
Results
This election was held September 8, 2015.
| Iowa City Community School District, At-Large, 4-Year Term, General Election, 2015 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 LaTasha DeLoach |
17.5% | 4,316 |
| Phil Hemingway |
14.1% | 3,469 |
| Tom Yates |
13.8% | 3,403 |
| Lori Roetlin |
12.5% | 3,065 |
| Brian Richman | 10.6% | 2,598 |
| Jason Lewis | 10.3% | 2,538 |
| Todd Fanning | 7.5% | 1,833 |
| Brianna Wills | 6.4% | 1,574 |
| Shawn Eyestone | 5.4% | 1,337 |
| Lucas Van Orden | 1.9% | 469 |
| Total Votes | 24,602 | |
| Source: Johnson County Auditor's Office, "School Election Results," accessed November 12, 2015 | ||
Funding
Hemingway reported $835 in contributions and $835 in expenditures to the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board, which left his campaign with $0 in the election.[8]
Endorsements
Hemingway received official endorsements from the Iowa City Federation of Labor, the Save Hoover Committee, the Iowa City Press-Citizen, Carpentars 1260, The Gazette and North Corridor Parents.[9][10]
2013
Hemingway was defeated in an election for a four-year term on September 10, 2013, against eight other candidates for three board seats.[11]
Results
| Iowa City Community School District, At-Large General Election, 4-Year term, 2013 |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan | Tuyet Dorau Incumbent |
16.1% | 3,738 | |
| Nonpartisan | Chris Lynch |
13.5% | 3,121 | |
| Nonpartisan | Brian Kirschling |
13.1% | 3,041 | |
| Nonpartisan | Phil Hemingway | 12.7% | 2,936 | |
| Nonpartisan | Karla Cook Incumbent | 11.5% | 2,671 | |
| Nonpartisan | Sara Barron | 11.1% | 2,563 | |
| Nonpartisan | Jason Lewis | 10.3% | 2,392 | |
| Nonpartisan | Gregg Geerdes | 8.7% | 2,019 | |
| Nonpartisan | James Tate | 2.8% | 659 | |
| Nonpartisan | Write-in votes | 0.2% | 53 | |
| Total Votes | 23,193 | |||
| Source: Johnson County Auditor, "September 10, 2013 School Election Results," accessed January 8, 2014 | ||||
2011
Hemingway was defeated on September 13, 2011, against seven other candidates. He finished fifth in an election for four at-large seats.
| Iowa City Community School District, At-Large General Election, 2-Year term, 2011 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan | Marla Swesey |
19.9% | 2,976 | |
| Nonpartisan | Jeff McGinness |
19.1% | 2,856 | |
| Nonpartisan | Sally Hoelscher |
15.4% | 2,305 | |
| Nonpartisan | Patti Fields |
12.8% | 1,910 | |
| Nonpartisan | Phil Hemingway | 12.2% | 1,821 | |
| Nonpartisan | Robert Porter | 10.6% | 1,589 | |
| Nonpartisan | Jeff Alden | 6.2% | 934 | |
| Nonpartisan | James Jim Tate | 3.8% | 572 | |
| Total Votes | 14,963 | |||
| Source: [12] | ||||
Campaign themes
2015
Position on school closing
The advocacy group Save Hoover asked each candidate, "If you are elected, will you support amending the long-term facilities plan to keep Hoover Elementary School open?" Hemingway gave the following response:
| “ | I unequivocally say YES to amending the long-term facilities master plan to keep Hoover open. Recent statements made by administration saying it would cost anywhere from $350,000-400,000 to inform the public on what the new facilities on the Hoover site would be used for is, in my opinion, utter hogwash. And board members who swallowed this tripe might be interested in purchasing the Sutliff Bridge. I am opposed to closing Hoover, Hills, Lincoln, Longfellow, Mann or any other elementary school in existing and vibrant neighborhoods and communities. With what has been provided to the community now, no strong case has been made for the need to close Hoover other than parking, tennis courts, and some future need not yet specified. Money drives all our decisions going forward - which is what I said at many forums during the last elections and it still holds true today. We cannot afford to close elementary schools at a time when we need added elementary school capacity. Does anyone remember that before the (BLDD) consultants came to town, City High was under capacity and needed more students but it took BLDD no time at all to say essentially all our schools are over capacity.
We need Board members to be honest with the public and to live up to their promises of the RPS vote and to make overdue renovations/additions to existing schools and where needed, build new ones. The ICCSD has to strengthen and unify our community not divide it and weaken it.[13] |
” |
| —Phil Hemmingway, [14] | ||
2013
Hemingway released statements during the 2013 campaign outlining his major themes:[15]
Transparency
| “ | The mayor controls the city, now he wants to control the school district? Pawlowski is supporting those people because he can gThey’re transparent as a brick wall,” he said about the board members. “They say, Give us the money, and we can do these great things; I think there’s an honesty issue there.[13] | ” |
| —Phil Hemingway, [16] | ||
Recent news
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See also
- Iowa City Community School District, Iowa
- Iowa City Community School District elections (2015)
- Iowa City Community School District elections (2013)
- Newcomers and incumbents share the victories in Iowa's largest school district elections (September 9, 2015)
- Analysis of incumbency advantage in the 2014 school board elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Johnson County Auditor's Office, "School Election Results," accessed September 8, 2015
- ↑ Johnson County, Iowa, "September 8, 2015 School Election," accessed August 3, 2015
- ↑ KCRG, "Hoover Elementary parents seek more information on reasons for closing school," June 17, 2015
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedhoover - ↑ Phil's Repair LLC, "About Us," accessed July 30, 2013
- ↑ Johnson County, Iowa, "September 8, 2015 School Election," accessed August 3, 2015
- ↑ Iowa City Community School District, "School Board Members," accessed June 23, 2015
- ↑ Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board, "IECDB State/Local Campaign Disclosure Reports," accessed February 2, 2016
- ↑ North Corridor Parents, "Candidate Recommendations," accessed September 6, 2015
- ↑ Phil 4 Board, "Endorsements," accessed September 6, 2015
- ↑ Johnson County Auditor, "September 10, 2013 School Board Election," accessed September 11, 2013
- ↑ Johnson County, "September 13, 2011 School Election," accessed July 30, 2013
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Save Hoover, "Compilation: The School Board Candidates Respond to the Hoover Question," August 16, 2015
- ↑ Daily Iowan, "Phil Hemingway announces bid for School Board," accessed July 30, 2013
- ↑ Iowa City Patch, "Phil Hemingway Speaks Truth to Power; Support His Candidacy for School Board," accessed July 30, 2013
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| Election date: | September 8, 2015 |
| Candidates: | At-large (four-year term): • LaTasha DeLoach • Shawn Eyestone • Todd Fanning • Phil Hemingway • Jason Lewis • Brian Richman • Lori Roetlin • Lucas Van Orden • Brianna Wills • Tom Yates At-large (two-year term): • Christopher Liebig • Paul Roesler • Megan Schwalm |
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