Dhun May
Dhun May was a candidate for an at-large seat on the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified Board of Education in the California general election on November 4, 2014. Dhun May lost the general election on November 4, 2014.[1]
Biography
May has a master's degree in mathematics and has taught for nearly 40 years.[2]
Elections
2014
The election in Santa Monica-Malibu Unified featured four seats up for general election on November 4, 2014. There was no primary election.
Three at-large incumbents, Oscar de la Torre, Laurie Lieberman and Ralph Mechur ran for re-election. Incumbent Nimish Patel did not run for re-election. The three incumbents who ran faced challengers Patricia Finer, Craig Foster, Dhun May and Richard Tahvildaran-Jesswein.
Incumbents Oscar de la Torre and Laurie Lieberman and challengers Craig Foster and Richard Tahvildaran-Jesswein won the four at-large seats.
Results
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonpartisan |  Laurie Lieberman Incumbent |
20.8% | 15,247 | |
| Nonpartisan | Craig Foster |
16.5% | 12,126 | |
| Nonpartisan | Richard Tahvildaran-Jesswein |
16.7% | 12,277 | |
| Nonpartisan | Oscar de la Torre Incumbent |
16.3% | 11,990 | |
| Nonpartisan | Ralph Mechur Incumbent | 15.7% | 11,522 | |
| Nonpartisan | Dhun May | 7% | 5,169 | |
| Nonpartisan | Patricia Finer | 7% | 5,148 | |
| Total Votes | 73,479 | |||
| Source: Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Los Angeles County Election Results," accessed January 2, 2015 | ||||
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]
Campaign themes
2014
May highlighted the following issues on her campaign website:
| “ | I am a long-time Santa Monica resident and former Malibu resident seeking to promote inexpensive but very effective practices that can help students be more successful. Examples of such practices are:
Also, I would like to see transparency in connection with the possibility that insufficient rental income may have been paid to our school district from the Double Tree Hotel and possible toxic conditions in some of our schools.[6] |
” |
| —Dhun May's campaign website (2014)[7] | ||
Recent news
This section links to a Google news search for the term "Dhun + May + Santa + Monica-Malibu + Unified + School + District"
See also
- Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, California
- Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District elections (2014)
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Los Angeles County Election Results," accessed November 4, 2014
- ↑ Dhun May, "Dhun May for School Board Candidate’s Statement," August 7, 2014
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Dhun May for School Board, "Candidate's statement," accessed October 23, 2014
