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November 5, 2024 (Updated October 9)

LAUSD School Board District 1

  • Khallid Al-Alim: Absolutely not. Unfortunately UTLA spent $650,000 and mobilized volunteers before researching his social media pages which were littered with anitsemitism, the glamorization of guns, and porn. It’s not a good fit for a school board member.
  • Sherlett Hendy Newbill: Yes. She’s taught for 25 years at Dorsey, is endorsed by everyone – including the retiring school board member, and is an advocate for community schools.

LA Community College District Member of the Board of Trustees, Seat 1

  • Baltazar Fedalizo: No. This is not a serious candidate. I cannot be bothered to list all the reasons why.
  • Andra Hoffman: Yes, she is currently in this position and her experience is valuable – see ballotopedia. Endorsed by LA Times
  • Peter V Manghera: No, it is unclear what he has to offer that Andra Hoffman does not.
  • Cheyenne Sims: No. She is impressive and could add value with HBCU routes but her press release is littered with typos, grammatical errors, and most alarmingly, biblical references. I’m certain her name will pop up again in other races but religion in your public school press release is deeply problematic and must not go unnoticed.

LA Community College District Member of the Board of Trustees, Seat 3

  • Nancy Pearlman: I am still on the fence, she has an impressive record of service including 16 years in this same position but I cannot find any endorsements. She’s got the CV and knows endorsements matter. I will update this after poking around more. I like what she stands for, now I need to research what she’s accomplished (or not)
  • David Vela: Fine. Current member of the board of trustees, endorsed by LA Times – other than more of the same I’m unclear why we’re voting for him.
  • Louis Anthony Shapiro: No. He doesn’t appear to be seriously in this race

LA Community College District Member of the Board of Trustees, Seat 5

  • Michelle M. Henderson: I mean this husband of hers is everything, the progressive democrats and LA Times both endorse her, but I think we just need to vote for her and get the man out of his “undisclosed location”.
  • Elaine Alaniz: No. It appears she’s also running state assembly.
  • Jason R. Aula: No. It appears he’s also running state assembly.

LA Community College District Member of the Board of Trustees, Seat 7

  • Kelsey Iino: Yes
  • Robert Payne: He has done a great job of identifying the problems but government (thankfully) moves slowly and I’d probably vote for him with a short list of plans that can be accomplished rather than a litany of complaints (which I wholeheartedly agree with)

Member of the State Assembly, 51st District

  • Stephan Hohil: He sells cruise trips? I mean… I dunno. Even his website doesn’t have words, just some selfies. This cannot be real.
  • Rick Chavez Zbur: Yes. He’s endorsed by everyone and he’s the democrat. This could be all the research one does with a post Trump GOP. It’s tragic and I wish I needed to know more about this person, but the reality is that being a Republican is completely unnecessary in a state with open primaries. It’s not so much that we vote for the democrat, it’s that we vote for the people who don’t align themselves with an insurrection.

US State Representative 36th District

  • Melissa Toomim:
  • Ted Lieu: Yes

Measure DD

  • Yes. This has no opposition. During my lifetime Los Angeles’ redistricting has been a blood sport and this takes power away from politicians.

Measure HH

  • Yes: this also has no opposition and requires city commissioners to file financial disclosures before they can be confirmed. We need this.

Measure II

At the moment I think my vote is no but I’m going to reach out to trusted friends for more information. This is what we’d add to the city charter:

Clarify that the El Pueblo Monument and the Zoo are park property; (why?)
● Clarify that departments may sell food and merchandise to support City operations; (why does this need clarification? does this mean we will not be able to have vendors?)
● Include gender identity in non-discrimination rules related to employment by the City; (great!)
Clarify the Board of Airport Commissioners’ authority to establish fees, rules, and
regulations regarding ground transportation at airports;
(how are fees currently established?)
● Allow electronic signatures on certain City documents; (ffs I cannot…)
● Allow the City to lease sites in public parks to the Los Angeles Unified School District
for uses that are consistent with public park purposes; and (why would the city lease property to the city? it’s a park, lease it for a dollar. This is insane)
● Change the title of “Director of the Office of Administrative and Research Services” to
the “City Administrative Officer.” (idgaf – whatever)

Measure ER

Yes. This increases the power and autonomy of our city ethics commision.

Measure FF

No. It’s $23 million this year and more than a million each year thereafter that we don’t have. It’s for the police and fire pension funds. When LAFD requires their firefighters to live in the state of California I’ll consider it. Until then I’ll be voting no. This is absurd.

Measure LL

Yes, emphatically. We need politics out of our public schools and independent redistricting is an essential tool.

Measure US

Yes I hate adding onto my already enormous tax burden, but we need to maintain our schools.

District Attorney

  • George Gascon: In a perfect world a progressive DA would work with a progressive police department and we’d all sing kumbaya and offenders would go to prisons where they would be rehabilitated. In this world we had a half dozen homes burgled in our neighborhood in two weeks and Gascon won’t use the gang enhancement for sentencing. We tried. We cannot do this anymore. I want to ride my bike under the freeway, I also cannot do that. We need a prosecutor who will actually prosecute.
  • Nathan Hochman: Yes. I’m sure he’s deeply flawed too, but I want that gang enhancement in play. I’m tired of havoc in my neighborhood.

Judge of the Superior Court Office No. 12

  • Rhonda Haymon
  • Lynn Olson

Judge of the Superior Court Office No. 39

Judge of the Superior Court Office No. 48

  • Ericka J. Wiley: not a wrong vote, but not mine.
  • Renee Rose: Yes.

Judge of the Superior Court Office No. 93

  • Victor Avila

Judge of the Superior Court Office No. 97

Judge of the Superior Court Office No. 115

  • Christmas Brookens
  • Keith Koyano

Judge of the Superior Court Office No. 124

  • Emily Spear
  • Kimberly Repecka

Judge of the Superior Court Office No. 130

  • Osman Taher
  • Christopher Darden
  • leslie Gutierrez

Judge of the Superior Court Office No. 135

  • Steven Yee Mac: The LA Times endorses him as the more experienced candidate which I find to be confusing as Ms. Huerta appears to be infinitely more experienced.
  • Georgia Huerta: Yes. Voting for either candidate will deliver a capable judge but Huerta’s endorsements tell a story.

Judge of the Superior Court Office No. 137

  • Tracey Blount: yes, the bar association finds she is the more qualified candidate.
  • Luz Herrera

County Measure G

Emphatically Yes! This would increase the number of commissioners on the County Board of Supervisors and create an independent ethics commission. Currently Commissioners cover huge districts – you wouldn’t know it’s all the same city. This would also require department budgets to be presented in public meetings – of course the sheriffs and firefighters are against this, they never want oversight.

County Measure A

No. Current funds are woefully mismanaged, more money will only be more money gone, not more people helped.

State Measure 2 (California Prop 2)

No. It breaks my heart to vote no on a school bond, but we must take the charter schools out of it. If they won’t serve their local community they shouldn’t get local funding. We all know that the charter schools (funny how my typo autocorrected to cheater) will find a way to get the bulk of the funds.

State Measure 3 (California Prop 3)

Yes. Obviously everyone is entitled to marry. (If you’re deeply homophobic a yes vote means that gays would have to deal with divorce too so this should unite everyone)

State Measure 4 (California Prop 4)

No. I have read the full text and it looks to me like all of these objectives should be met with existing agencies and funds. If I am wrong then perhaps the text of the measure should be written in plainer language so we can see which gaps taking out more debt would fill.

State Measure 5 (California Prop 5)

No. Higher property taxes, higher rent, more homelessness. Stop it. This is dumb.

State Measure 6 (California Prop 6)

Yes. Amends the California Constitution so that prisoners aren’t forced into labor.

State Measure 32 (California Prop 32)

No. This isn’t the moment to increase the minimum wage, but it doesn’t matter all that much because the large city mayors will do it step by step the way they did for $15.

State Measure 33 (California Prop 33)

AbsoFuckingluetly NO. Michael Weinstein is behind 33 this – nuff said. (if it’s not enough for you read this, he’s terrible for our city)

State Measure 34 (California Prop 34)

NO This is insane. Anything with Michael Weinstein attached to it is bound to be problematic, but this is the worst one yet.

State Measure 35 (California Prop 35)

No. We already have a Medi-Cal Tax. We don’t need to make a $7 billion commitment permanent. Health insurance is not static, our funding shouldn’t be either.

State Measure 36 (California Prop 36)

No. This is a good enough idea but it won’t stand up in court the same way three strikes didn’t. Brown and Black youth will pay the price and it will cost us a fortune to defend the indefensible. We are better off electing District Attorneys who enforce existing laws and Mayors who will appoint department leaders that align with your personal beliefs.

United States Senator

  • Steve Garvey: Never. He will strip away your rights to bodily autonomy starting with abortion and who knows where it will end.
  • Adam B. Schiff: Yes. Without question Schiff is who we want and need on the Senate Floor.

United States Senator Short term

  • Adam Schiff