Ginsburg, Yaros-Ramos, de Leeuw win BOE

GLEN RIDGE, NJ — All incumbents won re-election on Tuesday, Nov. 8, for the Glen Ridge Board of Education. In unofficial results provided by the Essex County Clerk’s Office, with 7,169 votes cast, the top vote-getter was

Elizabeth Ginsburg with 2,220, or 31 percent. Next was Heather Yaros-Ramos, 1,793 votes, or 23 percent; and Michael De Leeuw, 1,641, or 22.9 percent. Finishing out of the running was challenger Teresa Boyle-Vellucci, 1,479, or 20.6 percent. There were 36 write-ins.

Ginsburg, who has never lost an election and has served a total of 16 years on the board, said in a telephone interview before she heard the results, she was wondering if the voters had grown tired of her.

“I have learned not to take anything for granted,” she said. “I am surprised, shocked and gratified.”

She had been thinking all day, she said, what she would do if she lost.
“I don’t know what I would have done,” she said. “It’s gratifying that I don’t have to think about it.”

Ginsburg said she hopes that Boyle-Vellucci will make another attempt for the board.

“Teresa is a wonderful person,” she said. “She’d be a good board member. She said herself that the people couldn’t go wrong, that all the choices were right.”
Ginsburg agreed and called all the candidates terrific people.