If you are going to collect signatures you have just about two months. If you are going just pay the entrance fee you have just about three.
Thus far 10 candidates have filed including the other two school board incumbents but nowhere in sight is W.C. Gentry.
The first time he ran for school board Mr. Gentry raised over a hundred thousand dollars for his campaign, I imagine most of it his own money, so that is quite a war chest he has access too. By comparison the ten filed candidates this go around have declared about two thousand dollars total.
I see two scenarios explaining why he hasn’t filed. In the first he is going to wait until just before the deadline when he will pay the entrance fee. He will then hope to rely on his incredible wealth and name recognition to get him reelected. In the second he has had a change of heart, which will be his second as he announced moth ago on the radio program First Coast Connect that he was not going to run for reelection.
If you missed it W.C. Gentry recently made then news with the lack of details he had in the notes he took about the firing of the superintendent. It’s no surprise however as according to the Times Union he has advocated keeping fewer details in board records.
Apparently keeping people in the dark is one of his specialties.
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