{"id":63638,"date":"2023-08-01T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/leslie-hamada-donald-cook-lead-kent-school-board-aug-1-primary-race\/"},"modified":"2023-08-02T17:05:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T00:05:04","slug":"leslie-hamada-donald-cook-lead-kent-school-board-aug-1-primary-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/leslie-hamada-donald-cook-lead-kent-school-board-aug-1-primary-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Hamada, Donald Cook lead Kent School Board Aug. 1 primary race | Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent School Board incumbent Leslie Hamada dominated the Aug. 1 primary while Donald Cook stands in second followed by Stephanie Lawson and Lizz Morgan.<\/p>\n<p>The two candidates with the most votes advance to the Nov. 7 general election.<\/p>\n<p>Hamada has 48.75% (8,067 votes), Cook 23.96% (3,965 votes), Lawson 18.40% (3,045 votes) and Morgan 8.15% (1,348 votes), according to King County Election results updated Wednesday, Aug. 2.<\/p>\n<p>King County Elections will update results each weekday until the election is certified Aug. 15.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson said in a Facebook post Aug. 2 that she is endorsing Cook over Hamada for the position on the November ballot.<\/p>\n<p>None of the candidates have much in campaign contributions, according to the state Public Disclosure Commission on Aug. 1. Morgan had the highest amount at $1,450 followed by Cook with $710. Hamada and Lawson showed no contributions on their reports.<\/p>\n<p>Voters elected Hamada to the District 3 seat in November 2019 when she ran unopposed. Her four-year term ends in November 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamada has large lead for one of two spots on Nov. 7 ballot; candidate Lawson endorses Cook <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":63639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-63638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63638"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=63638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}