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Election 2023: Saint Paul School Board

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There are four open school board seats, and this race is not done with instant runoff, you just vote for four people and the top four vote-getters win.

On the ballot:

Zuki Ellis (incumbent)
Chauntyll Allen (incumbent, DFL-endorsed)
Yusef Carillo (DFL-endorsed and not an incumbent but he served on the school board previously to fill out Marchese’s term)
Erica Valliant (DFL-endorsed)
Carlo Franco (DFL-endorsed)
Gita Zeitler
Abdi Omer

Sahan Journal did interviews with every candidate. There was a LWV forum that Zuki Ellis, Chauntyll Allen, Yusef Carillo, and Carlo Franco all attended but the others did not; you can also see the screening interview done by SPFE with Yusef, Erica, and Carlo (although I didn’t get very far because FB video is so frustrating to watch for anything long-form — there’s no easy way to skip forward/backward).

Cut for length.

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Election 2019: St. Paul School Board

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It’s election season! But only in St. Paul — Minneapolis is not voting on anything. Here in St. Paul, we’ve got the following:

  • Saint Paul School Board (vote for 4)
  • Saint Paul City Council
  • Garbage pickup referendum

This means {heavy sigh} that I’m going to have to actually write about the trash pickup issue. Spoiler: I come from Minneapolis, always thought it was ridiculous that St. Paul didn’t have municipal pickup, and have minimal amounts of sympathy for people who don’t think they should have to pay for a municipal service just because they use less of it; that way lies “why should I pay for libraries when I don’t read.”

Anyway, I do feel like I need some information that I still need to research before I can do a truly comprehensive write-up on that one, so in the meantime, I’ll take a whack at the school board race. Here’s who’s running:

Charlie Castro
Omar Syed
Jennifer McPherson
Elijah Norris-Holliday
Jessica Kopp
Tiffany Fearing
Steve Marchese
Zuki Ellis
Ryan Williams
Chauntyll Allen

You get to vote for four. This vote is not ranked. It’s a non-partisan race, but the DFL City Convention endorsed three candidates (Zuki, Steve, and Chauntyll) and then couldn’t settle on a fourth.

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