Correcting the Record

Dan Wolk speaks at the 2015 MLK Day Event

In Sunday’s Commentary, (Sunday Commentary II: Council Future May Depend on What Dan Wolk Decides to Do ), we wrote: “Mr. Wolk, as you will recall, in 2012 was the top vote getter in the city of Davis, becoming the first candidate to sweep every precinct in the city. ”  While it is true that Mr. Wolk swept all of the precincts, finishing first, it was pointed out by a reader that he may not be the first to do so.  In the pre-World War II days, several candidates received 100 percent of the vote including Anderson and Nickerson in 1928, Covell in 1930 and again in 1938 and 1942.  While I have not seen precinct level data, it seems likely that some of those early candidates won every precinct, although whether they won them outright is unclear.

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    Greenwald is the founder, editor, and executive director of the Davis Vanguard. He founded the Vanguard in 2006. David Greenwald moved to Davis in 1996 to attend Graduate School at UC Davis in Political Science. He lives in South Davis with his wife Cecilia Escamilla Greenwald and three children.

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