Here’s today’s tally of the LAUSD district four school board race:

One last update:

 

24 hours post-election:

 

One hour from the close of polls only the “positive” campaigning numbers are still rising:

 

Inching up on eleven million….  Here’s the IEs at the close of Monday; Campaign contributions didn’t go up at all today.

 

And let’s just nip in and see how LAUSD6 compares. The relative size of those blue boxes is VERY different:

 

Midday Monday, personal contributions remain the same but Melvoin’s negative campaigning goes up up up:

 

Personal contributions have not increased (it’s Saturday).
But IEs have:

 

 

Direct Contributions To Candidates

           MELVOIN              ZIMMER                       FAVOR TO

            $788,549             $594,389            Melvoin by 1/3 (33%)

And here’s how to think of the independent expenditures:

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To date the grand total of independent expenditures and collected donations is:

$9,860,377.40