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Zimmer Irate Over Reform Coalition Attacks
It was perhaps no surprise that District 4 School Board member Steve Zimmer was visibly upset when he happened to run into Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s Deputy Mayor for Education, Joan Sullivan, at today’s United Way education event. “RFK, Joan? Really?” said Zimmer as the two rode the escalator together. “That’s just wrong.” “I don’t know what...
By Hillel Aron | February 27, 2013
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Coalition, SEIU, County Fed Spend on Candidates
With the March 5 election day now less than a month away, the Coalition for School Reform, the LA County Federation of Labor, and the Local 99 branch of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) have each kicked their LAUSD School Board spending up a notch, but UTLA-PACE — a major player in past elections...
By Samantha Oltman | February 6, 2013
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UTLA Focus: Defend Zimmer, Defeat Garcia
As KPCC reported on Friday, United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) has endorsed Eric Garcetti for Mayor but has no plans to spend any money to campaign for him. “We’re focusing our money on the School Board races,” UTLA secondary Vice President Gregg Solkovits explained to LA School Report. But UTLA won’t be focusing equally on...
By Hillel Aron | February 5, 2013
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UTLA Defends Disclosure and Reporting
Over the weekend, United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) Director of Communications Suzanne Spurgeon emailed us a statement about our Friday story on how UTLA has been reporting and spending its money so far in the LAUSD School Board campaign: “To our knowledge PACE has reported expenditures in a timely and proper manner. If there have...
By LA School Report | February 4, 2013
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Campaign Coffers: What’s UTLA Going to Do With Its Money?
According to new documents unearthed by LA School Report (but not otherwise available online), the political action arm of United Teachers Los Angeles, called UTLA-PACE, has amassed a war chest of $671,000 and begun spending funds on polling and consulting. However, UTLA-PACE has yet to deem any of its campaign spending as “independent expenditures,” which must be...
By Samantha Oltman | February 1, 2013
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Reform Coalition Reports $1.2 Million Raised
The Coalition for School Reform reported over $1.2 million raised during the first 19 days of the year, according to campaign disclosure statements obtained from the City Ethics Commission (download document here). The Coalition is, which is supporting School Board candidates Monica Garcia, Kate Anderson and Antonio Sanchez, was also major force in the 2011 School...
By Hillel Aron | January 29, 2013
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Reform Coalition Weighs In for Anderson, Sanchez, & Garcia
Late on Friday, the Coalition for School Reform, an Independent Expenditure (IE) committee, filed paperwork indicating that it had spent its first money: $45,457 for District 4 candidate Kate Anderson, $33,431 for District 6 candidate Antonio Sanchez and $29,238 for District 2 incumbent Monica Garcia. Most of the money went to The Feldman Group, which has...
By Hillel Aron | January 28, 2013
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Update: January Contribution Reports, Part 2
A day later, the rest of those campaign contribution reports are in covering the first 19 days of the new year. You’ll see some interesting ups and downs, but as we’ve told you before the big money is going to be coming in through independent expenditure (IE) committees, which are reported separately. In the Eastside’s...
By Hillel Aron | January 25, 2013
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Update: SEIU Spends Big On District 4’s Zimmer
School Board Steve Zimmer’s campaign fundraising has been less than stellar in terms of direct contributions, but it got a big boost this week courtesy of an Independent Expenditure (IE) from SEIU Local 99, which represents classified LAUSD employees. According to the latest expenditure reports, SEIU Local 99 has thrown down $68,688 to support Zimmer,...
By Hillel Aron | January 25, 2013
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Fundraising: Latest Reports Trickling In
Today’s just-arriving round of campaign contribution statements covers just the first 19 days of the year. (You can see a full list of city-wide candidates and their campaign contributions here.) Based on the reports that have been uploaded thus far, we can tell you that sitting School Board President and District 2 Board Member Monica...
By Hillel Aron | January 24, 2013