3 Incumbents, 2 Newcomers Win Election in Inglewood

Three incumbents held on to their seats on the Inglewood City Council and school board, while two newcomers were set to join Inglewood’s city government.

City officials announced Wednesday that veteran Councilwoman Judith Dunlap and incumbent school board members Eveline Ross and Alice B. Grigsby won by wide margins in the balloting completed Tuesday night.

Teacher Cresia Green-Washington, who took Inglewood Unified School District seat No. 1, and Curren De Mille Price, who will represent the city’s 1st District, both ran for open seats. Price is executive director of HERD Community Development Corp.

The openings were created when former Councilman Jerome Horton resigned after his election to the state Assembly and school board member Thomasina Reed was forced out by term limits.

The vote tallies are not yet official. But Green-Washington’s 3 percentage point lead over pastor and college administrator Johnny Young was the closest contest.

Dunlap’s victory marks her third term representing Council District 2.

Because of her opposition to projects often favored by a generally development-friendly council, some colleagues had hoped for her defeat, Councilman Lawrence Kirkley said.

“I’d pick either of the three [other candidates],” Kirkley said, though he admitted that Dunlap had endorsed him when he ran for the council two years ago. “When you have one council member standing against all--all the time--it’s a problem.”

Dunlap could not be reached for comment but her campaign statement, which condemns the city’s sale of a senior citizen’s center and other assets, concedes that her outspokenness “may disqualify me as a ‘team player’ among my colleagues.”