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Letty Mendoza
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Letty Mendoza was a member of the ABC Unified School District school board Trustee in California, representing Area 1. Mendoza assumed office in 2015.
Mendoza ran for re-election to the ABC Unified School District school board Trustee to represent Area 1 in California. Mendoza won in the general election on November 3, 2015.
Biography
Mendoza is a teacher. She lives in Artesia.[1]
Elections
2015
Opposition
Four of seven seats on the ABC Unified School Board were up for general election on November 3, 2015. The election was held by district.[2]
Candidates Letty Mendoza and Greg Uttecht ran for the open Trustee Area 1 seat. The Trustee Area 2 race featured incumbent Maynard Law and challenger Latha Vasan. Incumbent Sophia Tse faced challenger Hugo Enciso in Trustee Area 5. Christopher Apodaca and Silvestre Vasquez ran for the open seat in Trustee Area 7.[3][4] Both incumbents won another term on the board. Mendoza and Apodaca were elected to the Trustee Area 1 and 7 seats, respectively.[5]
Jean McHatton originally filed to run in the Trustee Area 5 race, but she withdrew due to her father's failing health. Her name did not appear on the ballot.[6][7]
Results
| ABC Unified School District, Trustee Area 1, General Election, 2015 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Letty Mendoza |
54.9% | 706 |
| Greg Uttecht | 45.1% | 581 |
| Total Votes | 1,287 | |
| 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.[8][9][10]
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.[11]
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
Mendoza was endorsed by the Los Angeles County Democratic Party and by the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor AFL-CIO.[12][13]
See also
- ABC Unified School District, California
- ABC 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
- ↑ Press-Telegram, "ABC Unified to hold first by-district election after settling lawsuit," September 26, 2015
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, “2015 Scheduled Elections,” accessed January 27, 2015
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedcandidates - ↑ ABC Unified School District, "School Board Members," accessed January 27, 2015
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "NOVEMBER 03, 2015 - LOCAL AND MUNICIPAL CONSOLIDATED ELECTIONS: Semi-Final Official Election Returns," accessed November 4, 2015
- ↑ Abbey Smith, “Email communication with Jean McHatton," October 20, 2015
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Final List of Qualified Candidates to appear on the ballot," accessed October 20, 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
- ↑ Los Angeles County Democratic Party, "Endorsements," accessed October 26, 2015
- ↑ Los Angeles County Federation of Labor AFL-CIO, "Endorsements," accessed September 30, 2015
| 2015 ABC Unified School District Elections | |
| Los Angeles County, California | |
| Election date: | November 3, 2015 |
| Candidates: | Trustee Area 1: • Letty Mendoza • Greg Uttecht Trustee Area 4: • Incumbent, Maynard Law • Latha Vasan |
| Important information: | What was at stake? • Key deadlines • Additional elections on the ballot |
