St. Michael-Albertville School Board Incumbents Victorious
Drew Scherber, Carol Steffens and Jeanne Holland will serve another term.
The St. Michael Albertville School Board will retain its three incumbents for another four-year term.
Incumbents Drew Scherber, Jeanne Holland and Carol Steffens collected the majority of the votes. Lone challenger Jim Shovelain came in last.
The numbers are as follows:
- Drew Scherber: 5,456 for 27.70 percent of the vote
- Carol Steffens: 5,129 for 26.04 percent of the vote
- Jeanne Holland: 5,022 for 25.50 percent of the vote
- Jim Shovelain: 3,959 for 26.04
The three took the lead early on in the counts. Holland was second in the race until Steffens surpassed her by seven votes.
Jim Shovelain
1:56 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
I want to say thanks to all those who voted for me. God Bless
Jim Shovelain
Early Cuyler
3:11 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
With those percentages, it makes me think LOTS of people only voted for one candidate.
Early Cuyler
3:17 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
I just did the math. Those percentages are based upon the total of the votes cast for each individual (19566), not the number of total voters.
Al Anderson
9:59 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
It always surprises me that for as fiscally and socially conservative as St Michael-Albertville collectively is -- that the populace will continue to vote for school board members who do not reflect those viewpoints. Each of the school board members do not deserve to be on the school board based on the conservative criteria.
Rick
4:32 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012
Al, you are exactly correct. Quite frankly, listening to some of these school board members comments at open meetings, such as Ms. Hollands essential bragging of "being personal close friends of Governor Dayton and the Governor of North Dakota, both liberal, is particularily telling. I think we are seeing a colossal misinformation gap not only in this community, but this country. People who voted for this levy were purely duped by this school board, it's superintendent, and their lobbyist, of which I would still like to know how this person was paid.
It is quite apparent that this school board has difficulty balancing a budget and have any knowledge whatsoever where and how a dollar is originated.