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Phillip Peters
2021 - Present
2029
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Phillip Peters is a member of the Kern County Board of Supervisors in California, representing District 1. He assumed office on January 4, 2021. His current term ends on January 8, 2029.
Peters won re-election to the Kern County Board of Supervisors to represent District 1 in California outright in the primary on March 5, 2024, after the general election was canceled.
Biography
Peters was born and raised in Bakersfield, California. He is a husband and father and owns an industrial waste water recycling and cleaning business. Peters is involved in the Kern County Farm Bureau, the Workforce Investment Board and the Association of Builders and Contractors.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Municipal elections in Kern County, California (2024)
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Kern County Board of Supervisors District 1
Incumbent Phillip Peters won election outright against David Fluhart and Mary Little in the primary for Kern County Board of Supervisors District 1 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Phillip Peters (Nonpartisan) | 60.7 | 22,070 |
| David Fluhart (Nonpartisan) | 26.1 | 9,471 | ||
| Mary Little (Nonpartisan) | 13.2 | 4,806 | ||
| Total votes: 36,347 | |||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Peters in this election.
2020
See also: Municipal elections in Kern County, California (2020)
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Kern County Board of Supervisors District 1
Phillip Peters won election outright against David Fluhart and Daures Stephens in the primary for Kern County Board of Supervisors District 1 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Phillip Peters (Nonpartisan) | 52.2 | 25,062 |
| David Fluhart (Nonpartisan) | 24.4 | 11,697 | ||
 | Daures Stephens (Nonpartisan) | 23.4 | 11,215 | |
| Total votes: 47,974 | |||
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2014
Four seats on the Kern High School District Board of Trustees were up for general election on November 4, 2014. In Trustee Area 1, incumbent Mike Williams faced challenger Aurora Cooper and won re-election. The Trustee Area 2 seat was up for election due to a vacancy on the board. Jeff Flores was the only candidate to file for the seat. He ran unopposed and won the election by default. The Trustee Area 4 race featured incumbent Martha McCuen Miller and challengers Anna Laven and Phillip Peters. Peters defeated Miller and Laven to win a seat on the board. In Trustee Area 5, incumbent Bryan Batey ran unopposed and won re-election by default.
Results
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonpartisan |  Phillip Peters |
36.5% | 7,923 | |
| Nonpartisan | Martha McCuen Miller Incumbent | 34.6% | 7,504 | |
| Nonpartisan | Anna Laven | 28.9% | 6,274 | |
| Total Votes | 21,701 | |||
| Source: Kern County Registrar of Voters, "Official Final Results: November 4, 2014 Consolidated General Election," accessed December 19, 2014 | ||||
Funding
Peters reported $7,200.00 in contributions and $2,659.24 in expenditures to the Kern County Registrar of Voters as of September 30, 2014, leaving his campaign with $4,540.76 cash on hand.[2]
Endorsements
Peters received endorsements from Assemblywoman Shannon Grove (R) and Assemblyman Tim Donnelly (R).[3] He also received endorsements from several community leaders. A list of his supporters can be found here.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Phillip Peters did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2020
Phillip Peters did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
2014
Peters highlighted the following issues on his campaign website:
| “ | OBJECTIVES:
For many students, college is a great pathway to a career in their field of interest. For some students however, college can be a financial burden which carries no guarantee of employment. Additionally, seventy-one percent of college seniors last year graduated with an average of $29,400 dollars in debt. In Kern County alone last month, nearly 58% of jobs were in the following categories: Farming, mining, logging, construction, manufacturing, trade, transportation, utilities, leisure and hospitality. Kern County is in the top five counties in the nation for both crop value and oil production. By not offering more vocational training and by not promoting alternate pathways to success, we are doing our students a disservice.
Charter schools just make sense. They introduce an element of healthy competition into the education system, which means that providers (schools) must strive for excellence in order to better serve their customers (students). According to a report by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, Los Angeles charter school students significantly outperformed their public school counterparts. The gains were particularly large for schools serving low-income Hispanic students. Charter schools are more accountable, better suited to serve a variety of children and provide smaller class sizes and more individual attention. On top of all of these benefits comes a greater level of parental involvement, which not only create stronger families but would also help to curb the high expulsion rates in the district.
As we all know, Common Core has become an area of intense debate, and unbiased information is hard to come by. From the Constitution to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, our country has time and again affirmed that education is not to be regulated by the federal government. The right to determine how best to educate our kids is a duty that has been entrusted to the states, which allows more input from both parents and educators. While Common Core is not technically mandated by the federal government, it is in effect mandated by the enticement of federal dollars. While states should all hold their students to the highest possible academic standards, there are better ways to establish it than a one-size-fits-all federal program. Parents, teachers and administrators, working together with policy makers can best establish and provide programs to meet the needs of their students.
Many district residents are familiar with the case at Independence High School regarding the alleged sexual assault of a female autistic student. While the Kern High School District did accept responsibility, the situation was admittedly mishandled from the very beginning. During the course of a lawsuit filed by the victim’s family, there was an unjustifiable lack of communication between Self-Insured Schools of California (SISC) and the Kern High School District (KHSD). SISC, acting on behalf of the KHSD, had an obligation to report developments and settlement offers in the course of the lawsuit, which it did not. Additionally, SISC hired a private investigator to follow and video tape the autistic student. Although investigating parties involved in lawsuits is common practice, it was not in the best interest of the student and KHSD should have been informed, then immediately put a stop to it. If elected to the KHSD Board of Trustee’s, Phillip will hold accountable every agency and department in the district, and ensure that if they are not acting in our student’s best interest, then they will no longer represent the KHSD.[4] |
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| —Phillip Peters' campaign website (2014)[5] | ||
See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Phillip Peters for KHSD Trustee, "About Phillip Peters," accessed October 23, 2014
- ↑ Kern County Registrar of Voters, "Documentos en el archivo para: PHILLIP PETERS - KERN HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT-GOVERNING BOARD MEMBER AREA 4," accessed October 26, 2014
- ↑ Phillip Peters for KHSD Trustee, "Endorsements," accessed October 23, 2014
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Phillip Peters KHSD Trustee 2014, "Objectives," accessed October 7, 2014
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