Inglewood City Clerk Yvonne Horton will not be seeking re-election for a seat she has held for nearly two decades. The nomination period closed on August 3, 2020, with Inglewood election’s to be held Tuesday, November 3, 2020.
Horton’s deputy, Aisha Thompson, has moved into the city and pulled papers to run for her bosses seat. Thompson previously worked for Yvonne’s husband Jerome and is a listed board member of the California Educational Solutions Corporation, which is the non-profit belonging to the Horton’s. Thompson has yet to be certified by the L.A. County Registrar’s office. DeAndre Warren has also filed to run for city clerk.
During the July 7, 2020 regular city council meeting Yvonne Horton made the following comment.
“I want to remind everybody that nomination period starts on Monday, July 13th, through August 7th from 9:30am to 5:30pm in order to obtain the packet AND return it,” said Horton.
City Hall was closed on Friday, August 7th and there was no public announcement from the city clerk’s office that you had until Monday, August 10th to return nomination packets as claimed by Thompson.
In fact, during the regular council meeting held on July 21, 2020, Thompson reiterated the nomination period closed on August 7th.
“Just a reminder that nomination period closes August 7th,” said Deputy City Clerk Aisha Thompson.
2UrbanGirls contacted the city clerk’s office August 10 and spoke to Thompson about the confusion of the last day to file papers.
“City Hall was closed on Friday, August 7th, but Mrs. Horton and I were here to take appointments for people who had to turn in papers,” said Thompson. “Because we were closed, Faulk and I had until Monday, August 10th, to turn in our packets.”
This directly goes against the dates Horton gave the public for when the nomination period closed to turn in packets which could be perceived that special accommodations were given to Thompson and Faulk to have extra days, to obtain signatures, that others did not have, due to their last minute decision to pull papers on the final day of the nomination period.
The city clerk’s office expects to have a certified candidates list available on August 12th.
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Thank you for sharing the reality about democracy not being the Inglewood experience!
When election integrity is not existent we can not believe that the elected represent anyone except the corrupt manipulators.
The CITY CLERK knows as does every other city elected and employed that CITY HALL IS CLOSED EVERY OTHER FRIDAY .
The deadline for returning nomination papers complete with signatures should have been scheduled with that in mind.
To accept ANYONES paperwork after the “DEADLINE” SCREAMS unfair advantage !!!!
So very sad that the upcoming Inglewood election is compromised before it is even begun,
Let us consider who is linked to who and let FEDERAL agents know we deserve Fair elections not one which has an outcome prearranged /selected by the establishment or outsiders,
One thought and two questions come to mind after reading this article. The thought is this. The biggest brouhaha that Yvonne Horton participated in during her tenure as city clerk was when she removed now mayor James Butts’ from Inglewood’s mayoral ballot in his 1st run for mayor because Butts had actually filed documentation late (with the county recorders office), making him ineligible to run, but now Horton has apparently completely ignored a deadline she herself set, to allow a friend and colleague to run for office. My questions are these. First, how could both candidates for city clerk, who we must assume are opponents, be late and need exactly one extra day to file. What a coincidence! And, were there Any other applications from Any other candidates submitted on time? Because if there were, and especially if there was only one other application filed on time, legally, we may already know who the next city clerk is going to be.
Thompson said because city hall was closed Friday they had until Monday but city clerk was open Friday by appointment so there was no legal need to grant them additional time. Public records requests have been initiated for all candidates nominations which would be verifiable by time stamp of when papers were returned.
Yvonne Horton’s tenure is a disgrace and shame to the City of Inglewood. Her departure is phenomenal news. It’s good to see employees with a long track record of incompetence and impropriety leave City Hall. Hopefully we’ll get a big change at all levels this year so the City has a chance to get back on track for growth. It’s incomprehensible that the authorities have failed to investigate James Butts and others like Yvonne Horton for years of blatant mismanagement.
This shows Yvonne Horton is a SMART WOMAN!!! She clearly knows it is time to move on.
Yvonne thank you for your service to the community, but I’m so glad you are smart enough not to seek reelection.
Let’s hope WANDA BROWN follows Yvonne’s lead and does NOT run for city treasurer again!!!
GOOD LUCK Aisha Thompson with your campaign!!