The race for Los Rios Community College district trustees ended election night, with former state senator Deborah Ortiz winning the Area 6 seat after defeating a lawsuit brought by a rival candidate to block her name from the ballot.
Ortiz’s win was confirmed Nov.4, by LRCCD Associate Vice Chancellor of Communications and Research Susie Williams after pulling just over 53 percent of the vote, according to election results posted in The Bee.
“I feel strongly that I can contribute to what is a great board now,” Ortiz said to the Express.
Throughout her campaign, Ortiz described community colleges as critical components to higher education opportunities for the poor and working class.
She said schools like City College provide “one of the most important accesses to higher education avenues for those students who may not have had the opportunity to do well in high school.”
Much of Ortiz’s campaign activity, however, was raising money to pay legal fees accumulated over the late filing of her candidate statement. The county registrar’s decision to let Ortiz file late incited claims of favoritism and the petition brought by Ken Barnes. Barnes argued the county registrar of voters inappropriately allowed Ortiz to file for the race after the Aug. 6 deadline.
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Paul Frank, City College political science professor, supported Sumner’s decision to let Ortiz run for trustee. He said the district is well-managed, and he hopes disagreement resonating from the lawsuit does not spill over into the board.
“We have rules [and] we have back-ups to those rules,” Frank said. “If we can’t agree on those rules, that’s why we have judges.”
“[Los Rios] is a board that is well respected,” Ortiz said. “It is a board that has a healthy relationship with its chancellor.”
An experienced lawmaker, Ortiz served on the Sacramento City Council in the early 1990s and as a California Senator in 1998. She is now the vice president of public affairs for Planned Parenthood Mar Monte. She attended McClatchy High School and has lived in the Curtis and Oak Park areas.
Oritz will serve as the Area 6 board trustee, which includes Midtown, Campus Commons, East Sacramento, River Park, Arden Arcade, and parts of Carmichael and Rancho Cordova, for the LRCCD. The board governs more than 90,000 students among the district’s four colleges: American River, Cosumnes River, Folsom and Sacramento City colleges.
