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FBISD & Missouri City have largest number of candidates filed

By Barbara Fulenwider
The candidate filing season for seats on the Fort Bend ISD board and city councils has ended with the school district and Missouri City district council races each attracting the largest number of candidates.

Seven people filed to run for two school district trustee positions, eight filed to run for four Missouri City district seats, five filed to run for four Sugar Land district seats and the only mayor who is running for re-election in an east Fort Bend County town is Leonard Scarcella and he drew one opponent while the three Stafford city councilmen up for re-election all filed and have no opponents.

The two candidates vying for FBISD Trustee Position 3 are incumbent Lisa Rickert and John Robert Broxson. Broxson lists his occupation as consultant, is 50 years old, has lived in Sugar Land for almost 11 years and in the district for nine and a half years. Rickert, 44, lists her occupation as computer consultant and has lived in Sugar Land and the school district for almost 15 years. She is seeking a second three-year term

The five candidates running for Position 7 on the school board are one-term incumbent Ken Bryant, 54, attorney; Daniel Mendez, 36, engineer; David Reitz, 42, manager; Noel Pinnock, 33, educator, and Annie Mae Hopkins, 58, FBISD administrator.

In Missouri City eight people filed to run for four council seats and only one incumbent, Brett Kolaja, who represents District D, filed for re-election and has no opponent. Eunice Reiter, an accountant and the District A incumbent, filed for re-election and will oppose Rodney Leverett Griffin, who is self employed in financial services. Reiter has lived in Missouri City for 43 years and Griffin has lived there almost 27 years.

Candidates for the District B council seat are incumbent Don Smith, a retiree, who has lived in the city for 64 years. He is opposed by Cynthia Lenton-Gary, a professor of sociology and Missouri City resident for 27 years, and Louis Henry Hunter, a mortgage broker and 18-year Missouri City resident.

It’s a two person race for the District C seat with Kevin Dale Tunstall and Barbara Jo Gibson running. Tunstall is a healthcare administrator and resident for almost six years and Gibson is retired and has lived in Missouri City for almost 27 years. Council Member Bob Burton filed for re-election to the District C seat and then withdrew. . .(click the title link above for the full story).


Comment: If you are a Sienna area resident then call/e-mail or contact the challengers in the city race to see if you can help! These council members make decisions for the entire city including the ETJ areas and we need to let them know we count. Remember the current incumbents (without our input) recently ok'd another taxing district in our community and voted in favor of a plan that will increase our MUD debt load. Support the challengers in districts A, B and C and consider being a volunteer in the Arcola races too for Hilton, Rojas or DeVoge who oppose the airport expansion project that will increase air traffic over our community impacting our quality of life.

Contact these candidates to support them: Rodney Griffin (District A), Kevin Tunstall (District C), & Lou Hunter (District B). See their info below:

Missouri City:

http://elect.kdtunstall.com/
kdtunstall@houston.rr.com -- Tunstall

griffin7918@sbcglobal.net -- Griffith

louhhunter@yahoo.com -- Hunter

FBISD Missouri City Area Candidate Noel Pinnock can be reached at -- noelpinnock@gmail.com

Arcola:

Tom Hilton at http://www.citizensforbettergovt.org/ (or call him, he is listed in the Arcola directory).

Rosie Rojas & James DeVoge (or call them, they are listed in the Arcola directory).


--We will continue to update this thread as the election season continues!