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Rob Thompson
Rob Thompson is a former member of the Chesterfield County School Board in Virginia. He represented the Matoaca District from 2015 to 2019.[1] Thompson did not file to run for re-election.
Elections
2019
Rob Thompson did not file to run for re-election.
2015
Opposition
The Chesterfield County School Board is a five-member board elected by district to serve staggered four-year terms. All five seats were up for election on November 3, 2015.
John Erbach defeated fellow challenger Michael Jackson for the Dale District seat vacated by board member David Wyman. Rob Thompson defeated Bill Hastings Jr. to replace Thomas Doland in Matoaca District.
Incumbents Carrie Coyner and Dianne Smith and newcomer Javaid Siddiqi ran unopposed and won the Bermuda District, Clover Hill District and Midlothian District seats, respectively. Midlothian District board member Debra Girvin also did not file for re-election.
Results
| Chesterfield County School Board, Matoaca District, General Election, 2015 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Rob Thompson |
50.7% | 6,656 |
| Bill Hastings Jr. | 48.9% | 6,416 |
| Write-in votes | 0.38% | 50 |
| Total Votes | 13,122 | |
| Source: Virginia Department of Elections, "2015 November General", accessed November 3, 2015 | ||
Funding
Thompson reported $13,866.95 in contributions and $8,754.52 in expenditures to the Virginia State Board of Elections, which left his campaign with $5,112.43 on hand as of October 28, 2015.[2]
Endorsements
Thompson earned the endorsements of the Chesterfield County Republican Committee and the Richmond Realtors PAC.[3][4]
Campaign themes
2015
Candidate website
Thompson's campaign website listed the following themes for 2015:
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Leadership I will work closely with the principals, teachers, students and parents of the Matoaca District to ensure that we are transparent and responsive and that we encourage an open dialogue. The School Board must take input from all groups and weigh all the facts before making a decision. I want to hear about both the good and the bad in our schools. I believe in accountability at all levels. No individual or organization is perfect, but when mistakes are made, they need to be addressed quickly and processes put into place so it doesn’t happen again. I will hold the school administration accountable. Innovator Effective leadership for our schools requires the ability to look to the future and make decisions now based on solid analytics that will pay dividends later for our children. This includes the areas of instruction, technology, construction and infrastructure. Fiscal Conservative There are a lot of commercial best practices out there that the School Board can leverage. The budget needs to be scrubbed and looked at for “ROI” (return on investment). The board needs to look at new ways to save dollars so we can reinvest them back into the classrooms – for instance, new ways to do contracting, such as using “performance based” contract vehicles versus the older style “firm fixed price” or “cost plus” contracting. That means that instead of a contractor being paid no matter what his performance, responsiveness and timeliness is, there are standards that they are measured against. This allows us to hold back payments or even assess penalties on quarterly basis. [5] |
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| —Rob Thompson (2015), [6] | ||
See also
- Chesterfield County Public Schools, Virginia
- Chesterfield County Public Schools elections (2015)
- Incumbency no guarantee of success in Nov. 3 school board elections (November 6, 2015)
- What happened in Nov.'s top board elections? (November 4, 2015)
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Virginia Department of Elections, "List of Candidates," September 9, 2015
- ↑ Virginia State Board of Elections, "Campaign Finance Reports," accessed October 27, 2015
- ↑ Chesterfield County Republican Committee, "Candidates: School Board," accessed October 22, 2015
- ↑ Richmond Association of Realtors, "RPAC Releases Slate of Endorsements for the General Election," September 24, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Friends of Rob Thompson, "Home," accessed October 26, 2015
