Early East County election results for school boards

Mt. Hood Community College

Zone I

In early results in the race for Zone 1 of Mt. Hood Community College, Susie Jones was winning with a landslide 71.5 percent of the vote, or 2,474 votes, to Sharon Kay Barker’s 27.23 percent of the votes, or 942 votes.

Forty-four candidates were written in, or 1.27 percent of the vote.

Jones is a retired Mt. Hood faculty members and president of the Mt. Hood Jazz Festival, while Barker is a retired city employee.

Zone 2

James Zordich, a retired museum curator, was zipping past Ron Weisdorfer, a retired teacher, in the race for Zone 2 director.

Zordich received 67.94 percent of the vote, 1,047 votes, to Weisdorfer’s 29.98 percent of the vote, or 462 votes.

Zone 4

George Sonny Yellott, the sole candidate for Zone 4 who refused to speak with the Gresham Outlook and the campus paper, The Advocate, received 2,747 votes, with 138 write-in votes.

Centennial School District

Position 7

In early election results, incumbent Ernie Butenschoen was leading with 55.21 percent of the vote in the contested race for Position 7 on the Centennial School District School Board.

Butenschoen, a retired middle school teacher in the David Douglas District, held 1,276 votes to Jeff Nelson’s 956, or 41.37 percent of the vote.

Nelson is the semi-retired owner of Nelson Wasp Control with civil experience as a campaign manger for county commission and legislative candidates.

About 3.42 percent, or 79 votes, were write-ins.

Corbett School District

Of the four contested races for Corbett’s school board, three candidates were winning in a landslide in early results.

Incumbents Todd Mickalson, Charlie O’Neil and Bob Buttke each received more than 60 percent of the vote, while newcomer David Gorman was leading by 57.42 percent of the vote for Position 4.

Position 2

In the race for Position 2, Mickalson, an excavator and operator for Perfect Climate, Inc., held 61.25 percent of the vote, or 509 votes, to Nick Kerslake’s 38.63 percent of the vote, or 321 votes.

Position 3

Charlie O’Neil, a self-employed small-business owner, led by 64.06 percent, or 533 votes to Janet M. Ruddell’s 35.82 percent of the vote, or 298 votes, for Position 3.

Position 4

David Gorman, a senior program manager at AECOM Technology Corporation, led Carrie Evans, a senior paralegal at Green & Merkley, P.C., with 57.42 percent of the vote, or 472 votes, to 42.46 percent of the vote, or 349 votes.

Position 5

Rounding out the Corbett races, Bob Buttke, a small business owner, general contractor and project manager, led Karina Lande, a homemaker and mom, with 516 votes, or 62.47 votes to Lande’s 37.41 percent of the vote, or 309 votes.

Gresham-Barlow School District

Position 6, at-large

With early results from Clackamas and Multnomah counties, Position 6 incumbent Dale Clark, a supervisor at PGE, was beating Alan M. Baird, a teacher in the Parkrose District, with a landslide 2,876 votes to 1,078.

Clark was receiving 72.7 percent of the vote, while Baird held 26 percent and about 1.62 votes were written in.

Reynolds School District

This year’s races for Reynolds School District were marked by young candidates, including one teenager and one twenty-something.

Position 4

In the one contested race for Position 4, incumbent Joe Teeny, an Internet and fleet sales manager at Webb Autogroup, led with 56.94 percent of the vote, or 2,126 votes, to 19-year-old entrepreneur Jake Woolsey’s 41.40 percent of the vote, or 1,546 votes.