Jimmie White
Jimmie White ran for election for an at-large seat of the Newark Public Schools Board of Education in New Jersey. White lost in the general election on April 16, 2024.
Biography
White owns local business I.M.P.A.C.T. (Initial Major Progressive Articles Creating Tranquility) LLC and works for both UPS and the Home Depot. He was a former member of the People's Organization for Progress where he was elected chairman of the Newark chapter in 2012. He also volunteered with the nonprofit International Youth Organization where he served as a chairman of its Alumni and Friends Association.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Newark Public Schools, New Jersey, elections (2024)
General election
General election for Newark Public Schools Board of Education (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Newark Public Schools Board of Education on April 16, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Helena Vinhas (Nonpartisan) | 22.1 | 2,874 |
| ✔ |  | Vereliz Santana (Nonpartisan) | 22.1 | 2,870 |
| ✔ |  | Dawn Haynes (Nonpartisan) | 20.9 | 2,719 |
| Debra Salters (Nonpartisan) | 11.1 | 1,448 | ||
 | Sheila Montague (Nonpartisan) | 8.4 | 1,091 | |
| Latoya Jackson (Nonpartisan) | 6.3 | 819 | ||
| Muta El-Amin (Nonpartisan) | 3.2 | 421 | ||
 | Che' J.T. Colter (Nonpartisan) | 3.0 | 394 | |
 | Jimmie White (Nonpartisan) | 2.8 | 366 | |
| Total votes: 13,002 | |||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for White in this election.
2017
- See also: Newark Public Schools elections (2017)
The Newark Unity slate of candidates—Reginald Bledsoe, Josephine Garcia, and Flohisha Johnson—was victorious in the general election on April 25, 2017. This was the last election the Newark Public Schools Board of Education held before the board regains local control of the district. The board has held advisory status since it was taken over by the state of New Jersey in 1995. A total of 16 candidates filed to run for three seats up for at-large election, including one incumbent. Three of these candidates made up the Newark Unity slate, which was endorsed by Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. Three other candidates formed the Community Team slate. Following the 2016 election, all nine members of the board were Baraka-endorsed candidates and had been members of either the Children First Team or the Newark Unity slate.
Besides board incumbent Philip Seelinger, the candidates who filed to run in this election were Swapan Basu, Reginald Bledsoe, Patricia Bradford, Denise Cole, Anthony Diaz, Josephine Garcia, EZDehar Hatab, Jameel Ibrahim, Flohisha Johnson, Charles Love, Sheila Montague, Ryan Talmadge, Deborah Terrell, and Jimmie White. Bledsoe, Garcia, and Johnson ran as a part of the Newark Unity slate. Cole, Seelinger, and Talmadge made up another slate called the Community Team. Sixteenth candidate Sharon Smith filed for election but later decided she did not want to run in the race. Her name still appeared on the ballot. Diaz's name did not appear on the ballot.[2][3][4]
Results
| Newark Public Schools, At-Large General Election, 3-year terms, 2017 |
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|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Josephine Garcia |
17.93% | 3,595 |
| Reginald Bledsoe |
17.01% | 3,411 |
| Flohisha Johnson |
13.66% | 2,740 |
| Charles Love | 7.82% | 1,568 |
| Deborah Terrell | 7.45% | 1,494 |
| Patricia Bradford | 7.30% | 1,465 |
| Philip Seelinger Incumbent | 5.88% | 1,180 |
| Denise Cole | 5.25% | 1,053 |
| Sheila Montague | 3.79% | 761 |
| Swapan Basu | 3.65% | 732 |
| Jimmie White | 2.99% | 599 |
| Ryan Talmadge | 2.37% | 475 |
| Sharon Smith | 2.28% | 458 |
| EZDehar Hatab | 1.55% | 311 |
| Jameel Ibrahim | 0.91% | 182 |
| Anthony Diaz | 0.00% | |
| Write-in votes | 0.15% | 31 |
| Total Votes | 20,055 | |
| Source: Essex County Clerk, "2017 School Board Election," accessed May 26, 2017 | ||
Funding
School board candidates in New Jersey had to file reports of their campaign financial activity with the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission. Each candidate is required to appoint a treasurer (a candidate may serve as his or her own treasurer) and create a campaign depository (a bank account) and file this information with the commission. Candidates must establish a reporting committee, which has the sole name under which a candidate receives contributions, makes expenditures, labels his or her political identification statements, or otherwise does business. No later than 10 days after establishing a candidate committee, the candidate must file the Single Candidate Committee Certificate of Organization and Designation of Campaign Treasurer and Depository form.[5][6]
A candidate must begin filing reports with the commission on a date that depends upon when the committee's financial activity begins. If a candidate committee is set up within five months or less of the due date of the 29-day pre-election report, the committee must file a 29-day pre-election report as the initial election fund report. If the committee is established more than five months prior to the due date of the 29-day pre-election report, the committee must file a quarterly report as its initial election fund report. Beginning the 13th day before the election day and ending on election day, if a candidate receives more than $1,600 from a single source, the committee must file a report within 48 hours.[7]
There were five campaign finance reporting deadlines in 2017 for this school board election. Each deadline required the candidate to file a cumulative campaign report.
- March 20, 2017 (29th day pre-election report)
- April 5, 2017 (48-hour reporting began)
- April 7, 2017 (11th day pre-election report)
- April 18, 2017 (48-hour reporting ended)
- May 8, 2017 (20th day post-election report)[8]
White had not reported any campaign contributions or expenditures to the commission as of April 12, 2017.
2016
- See also: Newark Public Schools elections (2016)
Three of the nine seats on the Newark Public Schools Board of Education were up for at-large general election on April 19, 2016. No incumbents filed in the race. Newcomers Jason Dotson, Thomas Ellis, Carole Graves, Tamara Moore, Leah Owens, Tave Padilla, Jody Pittman, Juan Silva, George Tillman, Deborah Kim Thompson-Gaddy, Jimmie White, and former candidate Sheila Montague faced each other for the three seats. Owens, Padilla, and Thompson-Gaddy defeated the remaining candidates and won seats on the Newark board. All three of these candidates were members of the Newark Unity slate endorsed by Mayor Ras J. Baraka. There was no primary.[9]
| Newark Public Schools, At-Large General Election, 3-year terms, 2016 |
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|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
| Deborah Kim Thompson-Gaddy |
21.92% | 5,909 |
| Tave Padilla |
21.86% | 5,892 |
| Leah Owens |
18.62% | 5,018 |
| Sheila Montague | 9.56% | 2,576 |
| Carole Graves | 8.09% | 2,180 |
| Tamara Moore | 6.59% | 1,775 |
| Thomas Ellis | 3.32% | 896 |
| Jody Pittman | 2.95% | 794 |
| Juan Silva | 2.29% | 618 |
| George Tillman | 1.87% | 505 |
| Jimmie White | 1.68% | 452 |
| Jason Dotson | 1.25% | 338 |
| Total Votes | 26,953 | |
| Source: Essex County Clerk, "2016 School Board Election," accessed May 10, 2016 | ||
Funding
White reported no campaign funding in the election.[10]
Endorsements
White did not receive any official endorsements in the election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jimmie White did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2016
The survey below was included in a candidate profile written on White by the Newark Trust for Education:[1]
| “ | Based on your qualifications and experience, what makes you a suitable candidate to serve on the Newark Public Schools Advisory Board ? What experience that makes me suitable to serve on the school board is my unwavering love for the people. Other than this fact, my prior board of trustee experience with the International Youth Organization in being key to preparing of youth in becoming strong leaders, career ready and furthering their education. Also as Director of Education of the FP YouthOutCry Foundation, I assisted in creating programs that improved the educational experience for our youth to prepare them for the 21st Century. I am person who have never given up on our youth. I am suitable because I have the tools , experience, persistence and determination to ensure they get a quality education to break this cycle of poverty. What are your reasons for running? Are you running with an organizational slate? If so, please provide information about your platform. What are your priorities for the district in the coming year?
What attributes and qualifications do you consider essential for effective school board members? Attributes and qualities I feel are essential is love for the people of Newark NJ, strong advocate for education with experience of creating educational avenues for our youth, community servant, organizer of the people, tolerance, a sense and a plan for success to improve the Newark Public school district. Also have the impatience to not let pressing issues linger, organize and mobilize to ensure issues get resolved.[11] |
” |
| —Jimmie White (2016) | ||
See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Newark Trust for Education, "Jimmie White," accessed April 11, 2016
- ↑ NJ, "With local control on the horizon, 16 file to run for Newark school board," March 8, 2017
- ↑ Newark Unity Slate, "Endorsements," accessed March 22, 2017
- ↑ NJ, "On verge of local control, meet Newark's 15 school board candidates," April 3, 2017
- ↑ New Jersey Permanent Statutes, "Title 19:44A-11," accessed January 9, 2014
- ↑ New Jersey Permanent Statutes, "Title 19:44A-10," accessed January 9, 2014
- ↑ New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission, "Compliance Manual for Candidates," accessed January 9, 2014
- ↑ New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission, "2017 Reporting Dates," accessed May 24, 2017
- ↑ Mandy Gillip, "Email communication with Martha Jones, Newark district secretary to the superintendent," March 9, 2016
- ↑ New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission, "Public Information," accessed June 24, 2016
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
