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Tom Decosimo to run as write-in candidate for Hamilton County school board seat

Tom Decosimo, center, talks with staff members Sharon Hamrick, left, and Shannon Farr during a staff meeting Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, at the offices of Decosimo in Chattanooga, Tenn. / Staff file photo by Doug Strickland
Tom Decosimo, center, talks with staff members Sharon Hamrick, left, and Shannon Farr during a staff meeting Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, at the offices of Decosimo in Chattanooga, Tenn. / Staff file photo by Doug Strickland Tom Decosimo, center, talks with staff members Sharon Hamrick, left, and Shannon Farr during a staff meeting Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, at the offices of Decosimo in Chattanooga, Tenn. / Staff file photo by Doug Strickland

By Meghan Mangrum 3 min read

Local businessman Tom Decosimo has announced he is running as a write-in candidate for the District 2 seat on the Hamilton County school board on this year’s ballot.

“I have enthusiastically entered the race as a write-in candidate and will face Marco Perez, protégé of Kathy Lennon. We have a plan to lock in a strong majority of the District 2 votes. We are very confident our strategy will lead to a significant victory at the ballot box,” Decosimo said Thursday in a news release from the Good Government PAC, a conservative political action committee affiliated with the Good Government Coalition.

Incumbent Kathy Lennon announced that she will not be seeking re-election and withdrew her name from the ballot Thursday – the deadline to do so in Hamilton County.

Candidates had to qualify by April 2, so only one candidate, Marco Perez, will officially appear on the August ballot for District 2.

Decosimo has strong ties in the community and has previously served on the board for the conservative think tank Hamilton Flourishing and helped found the Good Government Coalition.