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Donald La Plante
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Donald La Plante is the Trustee Area 4 representative on the Downey Unified Board of Education. He has served on the board since December 1979.[1]
La Plante sought another term in the general election on November 3, 2015.[2] He successfully won another term on the board.[3]
Elections
2015
Opposition
Four of the seven seats on the Downey Unified School District Board of Education were up for general election on November 3, 2015. The election was held by district, with the seats from Trustee Areas 2, 3, 4 and 6 on the ballot.[4][5]
Incumbent Tod Corrin ran unopposed and won re-election to the Trustee Area 2 seat. In Trustee Area 3, incumbent Willie Gutierrez defeated challenger Claudia Medina, winning his bid for re-election. The Trustee Area 4 race featured incumbent Donald La Plante and challengers Maria Avalos and Linda Salomon Saldana. La Plante won another term on the board. Trustee Area 6 Incumbent D. Mark Morris defeated challenger Vanessa Rodriguez.[2][3]
Results
| Downey Unified School District, Trustee Area 4, General Election, 2015 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Donald La Plante Incumbent |
51.7% | 390 |
| Linda Salomon Saldana | 30.6% | 231 |
| Maria Avalos | 17.6% | 133 |
| Total Votes | 754 | |
| Source: Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "NOVEMBER 03, 2015 - LOCAL AND MUNICIPAL CONSOLIDATED ELECTIONS: Final Official Election Returns," accessed November 24, 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.[6][7][8]
The first campaign finance reporting deadline was September 24, 2015, and the second one was October 22, 2015. If candidates raised or spent more than $1,000 from a single source, including their own funds, between August 5, 2015, and November 2, 2015, they had to file a campaign finance report within 24 hours.[9]
If you have any information regarding the campaign finance disclosures in this race, please contact the school board elections team at editor@ballotpedia.org.
Endorsements
La Plante was endorsed by the Downey Education Association (DEA).[10]
2011
Four seats from Trustee Areas 2, 3, 4 and 6 were up for election on November 8, 2011. Tod Corrin, Willie Gutierrez, Donald La Plante, and D. Mark Morris were all unopposed in their respective districts and won uncontested elections.
Recent news
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See also
- Downey Unified School District, California
- Downey Unified School District elections (2015)
- Incumbency no guarantee of success in Nov. 3 school board elections (November 6, 2015)
- What happened in Nov.'s top board elections? (November 4, 2015)
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Downey Unified School District, "Donald E. LaPlante," accessed September 21, 2015
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Candidate List: Local And Municipal Consolidated Elections - 11/3/2015," accessed August 11, 2015
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Candidate List: Local And Municipal Consolidated Elections - 11/3/2015," accessed August 11, 2015
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, “2015 Scheduled Elections,” accessed January 27, 2015
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, “Running for Office,” accessed January 27, 2015
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Fair Political Practices Commission, "Filing Schedule for Candidates and Controlled Committees for Local Office Being Voted on November 3, 2015," accessed August 5, 2015
- ↑ The Downey Patriot, "LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Teachers endorse DUSD incumbents," August 4, 2015
