Stobie did not respond to messages seeking comment. » READ MORE: Pennsylvania Republicans want voters to be able to recall elected officials - but only in Philly “I really think we need to go back to what the focus should be, the students.” In the meantime, the recall attempt against Tillett failed because the petitioners were unable to gather signatures from the required 25% of the town’s 7,662 registered voters.īoard member Radiah Gamble said she opposed Stobie’s nomination because Stobie was one of the petitioners who had threatened to next target Gamble, the only other Black member of the school board. Tillett, an attorney and an associate vice chancellor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, resigned in June from the seat representing Mansfield on the regional school board that also covers Chesterfield, North Hanover, Springfield Township, and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. None of the residents who filed the petition provided a reason for the recall. The sprawling rural district just south of Trenton has been in upheaval since Tillett was targeted in January in what the three petitioners once said would be the first of several efforts against the school board. Now, Burlington County Executive County Superintendent Raymond Marini is tasked with choosing between Adwoah Adomako and Stobie to serve as an interim board member until the November general election, when Stobie is on the ballot to complete the remaining year of the term and Adomako is running as a write-in candidate. When Kerri Tillett was targeted early this year in an attempt to oust her from the Northern Burlington County Regional school board, she vowed to fight for her position.īut then life had other plans, and a summer move with her family to North Carolina has left her seat on the nine-member board in question again.Ĭhoosing between Tillett’s endorsement - a political newcomer and Northern Burlington alum - and Kelly Stobie, one of the three residents who spearheaded the recall attempt, the bitterly divided board could not agree on which candidate to succeed her.
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