{"id":7674,"date":"2011-06-22T13:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=7674"},"modified":"2012-11-02T13:51:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T17:51:55","slug":"tedesco-elected-school-board-vice-chair-after-56-rounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2011\/06\/22\/tedesco-elected-school-board-vice-chair-after-56-rounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Tedesco Elected School Board Vice-Chair after 56 Rounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><right><div id=\"attachment_7675\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7675\" title=\"wcsb_ballots\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wcsb_ballots-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ballots pile up as the rounds of voting for vice chair continued.<\/p><\/div><\/right><\/p>\n<p>The Wake County Board of Education spent more than two hours electing its officers Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The election of board chair went through easily; current board chair Ron Margiotta was re-elected with five votes against Kevin Hill\u2019s four votes.<\/p>\n<p>But the vote for the role of vice chair turned into a game of chicken, with 56 separate secret votes called until current Vice-Chair Deborah Goldman blinked.<\/p>\n<p>With Republican Margiotta unable to vote, all four Democrats rallied behind Keith Sutton. Remaining Republicans splintered, with one, two or three votes going to Chris Malone, Deborah Prickett, Debra Goldman or John Tedesco, depending on the round.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans even offered up the lame-duck Democrats Anne McLaurin and Carolyn Morrison in some rounds.<\/p>\n<p>John Tedesco finally began to consistently garner three votes in the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> round, with Debra Goldman earning the one remaining vote for 12 rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the limited power of the position, Republican Goldman \u2014 who has frustrated the conservative board majority\u2019s agenda on occasion, including in their move toward neighborhood schools in the beginning of 2010 \u2014 continued to vote for herself for more than two hours with no support from her colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Board Policy 1200 outlines the duties of the vice chair: \u201cThe Vice-Chairperson will perform duties assigned by the Chairperson.\u00a0In the absence of the Chairperson, the Vice-Chairperson of the Board will assume all the rights and responsibilities of the Chairperson.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what kind of statement somebody is trying to make,\u201d Hill said, during the second of two recesses.<\/p>\n<p>Just before she shifted her vote to conservative board member Tedesco, Goldman made a statement explaining her decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to cast my vote different this time because this is vote 56, and that\u2019s the year my parents got married and for me that symbolizes unity,\u201d she said. \u201cI cast my vote this time and take myself out of that position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With a 4-4 tie between Sutton and Tedesco, Margiotta cast the deciding vote in favor of Tedesco.<\/p>\n<p><em>bleclaire@raleighpublicrecord.org<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After more than two hours and 56 rounds of voting, the Wake County School Board elected John Tedesco as vice chair. 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