{"id":1220,"date":"2010-08-25T15:25:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T19:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2010-08-25T15:25:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T19:25:35","slug":"school-board-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1220","title":{"rendered":"School board election results"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those of you who are curious about what happened to the known creationists running for school board seats across Florida, here’s what we know so far.<\/p>\n

I’ll let commenter Pierce Butler tell us about Alachua County<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The good news is that pro-science candidate Gunnar Paulson picked up a clean win on 8\/24.<\/p>\n

The other two school district races went into run-off, which means they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be decided in November along with the general election. More good news: the District 5 finalists are Jancie Vinson & Carol Oyenarte, both of whom seem to be members of the reality-based community.<\/p>\n

More problematic is the District 1 runoff between Rick Nesbit and April Griffin. Nesbit is the white hat here, but he only garnered 32.7%, while Griffin won 39.1% and the other pro-creationists took 28.3%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In Seminole County<\/a>, Paul Ackerman was defeated while Becky Erwin goes into a runoff.<\/p>\n

In Pasco County<\/a>, John Tracy was defeated, while Mike Ryan goes into a runoff.<\/p>\n

In Palm Beach County<\/a>, Ron Young was defeated.<\/p>\n

In Polk County<\/a>, Terry Pittman was defeated.<\/p>\n

In Hillsborough County<\/a>, it looks like Terry Kemple was defeated, but I have yet to see any official final results posted.<\/p>\n

Let me know if I missed anything, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those of you who are curious about what happened to the known creationists running for school board seats across Florida, here’s what we know so far. I’ll let commenter Pierce Butler tell us about Alachua County: The good news … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-jG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1211,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1211","url_meta":{"origin":1220,"position":0},"title":"Keep an eye on Alachua County","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"August 2, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"A recent forum for Alachua County school board candidates brought out the following tidbit: Some of the candidates thought creationism has a place in public school education, with others saying it should be taught in a class that discusses theories or philosophies of all world religions. 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