Link – STLtoday – Elections pay off for bond issues and incumbents
In Mehlville, a slate of three candidates campaigned as “reformers,” promising fiscal responsibility and no new taxes. Just weeks earlier, district leaders revealed that, due to a budgeting error, they were on pace to be $6 million poorer than expected by the end of the 2009-2010 school year.
But none of the three won. Instead, relatively unknown district parents Erin Weber and Drew Frauenhoffer took home the most votes. Incumbent Karl Frank, Jr., came in third.
Frank said the election means the district has the leadership it needs to heal.
“We’re very excited with how the results came out,” Frank said. “Essentially what it means is that public education means something to this community.”
The reform slate “not once (talked) about what’s good for the kids,” Frank said. “They ran on their wallets.”
