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Susan Corso

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Educator

Susan Corso was a candidate for Trustee Area 1 representative on the Lancaster Board of Education in California. The general election was held on November 3, 2015.[1] She lost the election.[2]


Elections

2015

See also: Lancaster School District, California elections (2015)

Opposition

Two of the five seats on the Lancaster School District Board of Education were up for general election on November 3, 2015. The election was held by district.[3][4] The seats of incumbents Merle "Mel" Kleven and John Lee Miller from Trustee Areas 1 and 3, respectively, were on the ballot.[5]

Kleven ran against five challengers: Debra Cook-Lewis, Susan Corso, Cheryl Gayfield, Keith Giles and George Chris Zelazo. Giles won the seat. Miller did not file to run for the Trustee Area 3 seat. The race featured five candidates: William "Bill" Buck, Antoine Hawkins, Shannon Renee McDonald, Chuck Simons and Gregory Tepe. Tepe won the election.[6][2]

Kevin Fryer and Brett Sinclair Hitchcock originally filed to run for the Trustee Area 1 seat and Jayson Stonne filed for the Trustee Area 3 seat, but all three of them withdrew from the race.[7]

Results

Lancaster School District, Trustee Area 1, General Election, 2015
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.png Keith Giles 27.2% 215
Merle "Mel" Kleven Incumbent 22.8% 180
Susan Corso 19.9% 157
Debra Cook-Lewis 13.6% 107
Cheryl Gayfield 11.2% 88
George Chris Zelazo 5.3% 42
Total Votes 789
Source: "Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "NOVEMBER 03, 2015 - LOCAL AND MUNICIPAL CONSOLIDATED ELECTIONS: Final Official Election Results," accessed November 24, 2015

Funding

See also: Campaign finance in the Lancaster School District election

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]

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Endorsements

Corso received no official endorsements in this election.

Recent news

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See also

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Footnotes

  1. Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Candidate List: Local And Municipal Consolidated Elections - 11/3/2015," accessed August 14, 2015
  2. 2.0 2.1 Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "NOVEMBER 03, 2015 - LOCAL AND MUNICIPAL CONSOLIDATED ELECTIONS: Semi-Final Official Election Returns," accessed November 5, 2015
  3. Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, “2015 Scheduled Elections,” accessed January 27, 2015
  4. Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, “Running for Office,” accessed January 27, 2015
  5. Lancaster School District, "Meet the Board," accessed January 27, 2015
  6. Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Candidate List: Local And Municipal Consolidated Elections - 11/3/2015," accessed August 14, 2015
  7. Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Local and Municipal Consolidated Elections: Final List of Qualified Candidates to Appear on the Ballot," accessed October 28, 2015
  8. Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Campaign Finance Reports," accessed July 2, 2014
  9. Daniel Anderson, “Email communication with Brenda Duran, Los Angeles County Public Information Officer," October 7, 2016
  10. Abbey Smith, “Email communication with Brenda Duran, Los Angeles County Public Information Officer," January 2, 2018
  11. Fair Political Practices Commission, "Filing Schedule for Candidates and Controlled Committees for Local Office Being Voted on November 3, 2015," accessed August 5, 2015