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Richard Couder
Richard Couder is a former member of the Ysleta Independent School District school board in Texas. He represented District 3 on the school board from 2017 to 2020.
Couder filed to run for the seat in the by-district general election on May 6, 2017, but the election was canceled due to lack of opposition. Couder was elected to the board by default.[1] On May 8, 2020, Couder resigned after he learned "of a YISD error regarding the employment of his wife."[2]
Elections
2017
Four of the seven seats on the Ysleta Independent School District board of trustees in Texas were up for general election on May 6, 2017. In her bid for re-election to the District 1 seat in the general election, incumbent Ana Maria Dueñez faced challengers Carlos Jesus Bustillos and Mitch Brice. Bustillos won election to the seat. Richard Couder ran unopposed and won the open District 3 seat by default. A runoff election for District 5 was held on June 10, 2017, for incumbent Paul Pearson and challenger Cruz Ochoa. They defeated Miguel Payan and Leila Melendez in the general election. Ochoa defeated Pearson in the runoff election to win his first term on the board. No one filed to run as a regular candidate for the District 7 seat. Write-in candidate Kathryn Hairston was appointed to that seat.[3][1][4][5]
Results
This election was canceled due to lack of opposition. Newcomer Richard Couder won election to the board by default.[1]
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 El Paso County Elections Department, "Sample Ballot: Ysleta ISD (PDF)," accessed April 12, 2017
- ↑ El Paso Times, "Ysleta ISD trustee Richard Couder resigns due to wife's 2018 hiring by district," May 8, 2020
- ↑ Ysleta Independent School District, "School Board," accessed March 6, 2017
- ↑ El Paso County Elections, "May 6, 2017 - Uniform Election Unofficial Final Election Results," accessed May 6, 2017
- ↑ USA Today, "Bustillos unseats incumbent Dueñez in YISD District 1 race," May 7, 2017
| Ysleta Independent School District elections in 2017 | |
| El Paso County, Texas | |
| Election date: | May 6, 2017 |
| Candidates: | District 1: • Incumbent, Ana Maria Dueñez • Mitch Brice • Carlos Jesus Bustillos District 3: • Richard Couder District 5: • Incumbent, Paul Pearson • Cruz Ochoa • Miguel Payan • Leila Melendez District 7: • Kathryn Lucero (write-in candidate) |
| Important information: | What was at stake? • Additional elections on the ballot • Key deadlines |
