School board incumbents Roberts and Redovian lose to challengers
- 12/1/10
- Categorized in: DeKalb News, Education, Politics
After two terms as District 7 representative on the DeKalb County School Board, Zepora Roberts lost her seat to challenger Donna Edler, who took 72.36 percent of the vote in a Nov. 30 runoff election with 100 percent of the precincts reporting.
Roberts is one of two DeKalb County Board of Education incumbents whose bid for re-election was thrown into a runoff.
The other defeated incumbent, District 1’s Jim Redovian, lost to Nancy Jester, who said that her victory indicates that voters recognized that “we’ve got to change the trajectory of the DeKalb County Schools. We worked really hard to take our message to the voters, to let them know why we needed to change and what we plan to change. I’m a parent myself and I think that really resonated with voters.”
Jester is a former actuarial accountant, who now is a full-time parent and volunteer.
Edler, who in a statement before the election said she seeks to bring professional, qualified and responsible leadership to District 7, has a background in accounting and describes herself as a homemaker and community organizer and activist. She added, “New leadership and better school board governance are first steps toward restoring confidence and credibility. Minimizing waste, fraud and abuse preserves educational dollars for children and classrooms.”
We need public safety is the best form we can get. We do not need people who have ideas that will make the county go broke, friends who want awards for the dumbest reasons, and the constant display of being in front of a microphone in the BOC theater giving praise to some dingbat who sat on their butts for doing nothing.
I have watched many times for example, many trucks and equipment of the ROADS AND DRAINAGE and WATERSHED MANAGEMENT departments, driving all through Dekalb County aimlessly with no end point in sight. These same vehicles spend countless hours parked in the rear of Northlake Mall, QT staions, and side streets with their employees are sound asleep on any given day with the motor running, I do not and have seen any county manager or department head do anything to eliminate this mass waste of taxpayers dollars.
If we. the taxpayer want to waste our taxpayer dollars, then lets flush this money down the toilet and accomplish the same thing.
"And the beat goes on"
Go run for streetsweeper which doesn't need any brains becasue you do not have any to make people worry.