WESTON RANCH – A fiscally healthy Manteca Unified School District and an open communication all around are the two major reasons Alison Ordner threw her hat into the three-way election Area 1 race.The novice politician – this is her first foray into elected office – describes herself as a wife, the mother of four boys ages 7, 9, 11 and 14 and a small-business owner.It was a friend who suggested that she run for the position that is being vacated by Trustee Rex Holiday who decided not to run for re-election when his term expires in November. She discussed it with her husband, and was surprised at his reaction.“I thought he would laugh and he didn’t,” Ordner recalled.As parents, she said, “we’re always doing stuff for the boys at school. We believe that as parents, we’re our children’s advocate.”But she did not jump into a decision right away.