Kenney Enney reclaims seat on Paso Robles school board with convincing win
The Paso Robles Joint Unified School has a new school board member.
Kenney Enney won the school district’s special election by a margin of almost 8.6% of the vote, according to the San Luis Obispo County Clerk-Recorder’s Office.
Enney received 6,486 votes, or 54.3% of the vote, the Clerk-Recorder’s Office reported in its final election results released on Wednesday.
His opponent, Angela Hollander, received 5,461 votes, or 45.7% of the vote.
In total, 11,947 people voted in the school district election, resulting in a turnout of 39% of the registered voters.
The special election was held after a petition by community members gathered enough valid signatures to oust Enney from the seat he was appointed to in October.
The petition organizers, who gathered about 800 signatures in a matter of days, described Enney as an “extremist candidate who held viewpoints that could result in discrimination against LGBTQ+ students.
Enney told The Tribune in an April interview that while the first round of election results were coming out that he had several goals should he be elected to the school board.
This included “expanding charter schools, expanding vocational schools and expanding discipline in the high school especially,” he said.
Enney added that improving test scores was a key priority and noted he had visited schools in the Clovis Unified School District to understand their models of school discipline, which he said appeared to be effective.
The Tribune reached out to Enney for comment and will update this story.
This story was originally published May 3, 2023 at 1:42 PM.
