Alita Godwin
Alita Godwin was a candidate for at-large representative on the Compton Unified School District school board in California. Godwin was defeated in the at-large general election on November 7, 2017.
Elections
2017
Four of the seven seats on the Compton Unified School District Board of Education in California were up for at-large general election on November 7, 2017. In their bids for re-election, incumbents Margie N. Garrett, Alma Taylor-Pleasant, Mae Thomas, and Satra D. Zurita defeated former member Alita Godwin, former candidates Barbara Calhoun, Willie Dewitt Carson, Joseph L. Lewis, and Gregory Pitts, and newcomers Barbara Banks, Rodney Lonnell Curry, Jesse Harris, Ricky Hicks, Mary Jackson-Freeny, Luis Landeros, Anthony Lee Perry, Shawn Poole-Louis, Jonathan Taylor, and Tracy Shawn Wiggins.[1][2]
Results
Compton Unified School District, At-large General Election, 4-year terms, 2017 |
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Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
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13.50% | 2,654 |
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12.36% | 2,430 |
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10.19% | 2,003 |
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7.72% | 1,517 |
Gregory Pitts | 7.62% | 1,497 |
Rodney Lonnell Curry | 6.35% | 1,248 |
Barbara Calhoun | 6.20% | 1,218 |
Jonathan Taylor | 5.95% | 1,169 |
Alita Godwin | 5.08% | 998 |
Mary Jackson-Freeny | 4.67% | 918 |
Barbara Banks | 4.33% | 852 |
Luis Landeros | 3.90% | 766 |
Joseph L. Lewis | 2.54% | 500 |
Shawn Poole-Louis | 2.52% | 496 |
Willie Dewitt Carson | 2.08% | 408 |
Tracy Shawn Wiggins | 1.88% | 369 |
Jesse Harris | 1.27% | 249 |
Ricky Hicks | 0.97% | 190 |
Anthony Lee Perry | 0.88% | 172 |
Total Votes | 19,654 | |
Source: Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Local and Municipal Consolidated Elections November 7, 2017," accessed November 21, 2017 |
Funding
At the time of this election, the Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk did not publish school board candidate campaign finance reports online. Ballotpedia staffers requested this information, but the only free method of viewing the files was at their office.
The Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk targeted the end of 2018 to make school board candidate campaign finance reports available online for free. From that point forward, Ballotpedia began including campaign finance data for Los Angeles County school board candidates.[3][4][5]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Candidate List: Local And Municipal Consolidated Elections 11/7/2017," accessed August 12, 2017
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Local and Municipal Consolidated Elections," accessed November 8, 2017
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Campaign Finance Reports," accessed July 2, 2014
- ↑ Daniel Anderson, “Email communication with Brenda Duran, Los Angeles County Public Information Officer," October 7, 2016
- ↑ Abbey Smith, “Email communication with Brenda Duran, Los Angeles County Public Information Officer," January 2, 2018