Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Local Congresswoman Judy Chu appeared on CNN Wednesday to voice her outrage at a regional political Super Bowl ad that many say is racist and stereotypes Asians.
A regional Super Bowl ad for Michigan Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra garnered further disapproval Wednesday when Rep. Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park), the first Chinese American woman elected to Congress, spoke out on CNN against the "violent hateful" ad. Chu is running for Congress in 2012 in the newly drawn 27th Congressional District that includes Altadena, South Pasadena, San Marino, Rosemead, Monterey Park, and San Gabriel, Glendora and parts of Monrovia and Claremont. The Super Bowl commercial depicts an Asian woman speaking in broken English and thanking Hoekstra’s opponent Debbie Stabenow—called Debbie SpenditNow in the ad—for spending so much and giving American jobs to Asians. See the full commercial attached to this article. "I was …
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Lopez will hold a meet and greet at the home of
Luis Lopez, a candidate for the 51st State Assembly District, which includes Northeast Los Angeles, will hold a meet and greet at 2-4 p.m. in Highland Park on Sunday. The event is scheduled to take place at the home of Todd Rinehart, at 263 Lamont Drive. The event is free and open to the public. Lopez currently serves as East Area Planning Commissioner for the Los Angeles Planning Commission. Lopez also serves as co-chairman of the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council. Other candidates for the seat are Arturo Chavez, Los Angeles-area chief of staff for long-time 45th Assembly district representative Gil Cedillo; Jimmy Gomez, Political Director for the United Nurses Associations of California; Oscar Gutierrez, a businessman and Ruben Sierra.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
The city's Arts, Parks and Neighborhoods Committee considers a draft ordinance that would postpone Neighborhood Council scheduled for 2012 until 2014.
The fiscal crisis at City Hall has prompted Los Angeles city officials to consider a policy move anathema to a representative democracy: canceling elections. The city's Arts, Parks and Neighborhoods Committee on Wednesday considered a draft ordinance that would amend the city's administrative code to postpone Neighborhood Council elections slated for 2012 and extend the terms of board members until a City Clerk-administered election is held in 2014. The ordinance was called for as part of the city's 2011-2012 budget that faced a $350 million shortfall. Due to the fiscal crisis, the city did not provide funds for the City Clerk's office to conduct 98 Neighborhood Council elections scheduled for 2012. The Arts, Parks and Neighborhoods …
Thursday, November 24, 2011
The L.A. City Council voted 12-0 to approve a motion that lets Herb Wesson take over Eric Garcetti's city council presidency as of Jan. 2.
As expected, the Los Angeles City Council voted 12-0 to approve a motion that would let current City Council President Eric Garcetti resign as of Jan. 2. Read a related story here. Watch our video interview with Garcetti here. Garcetti said he wanted to resign to spend more time on his mayoral campaign, though he will continue to represent Council District 13, which includes much of Silver Lake and Echo Park. The same vote also put CD 10's Herb Wesson in the president's chair, making him the first African-American to lead the council ever. Wesson's district hugs both sides of the 10 freeway: he represents mid-Wilshire district and Koreatown areas, as well as Jefferson Park, West Adams and Palms. Hundreds Turn Out to See Historic Vote …
Monday, November 14, 2011
Gil Cedillo has represented many of the communities in CD1 in his term as a member of the California State Assembly.
Assemblyman Gil Cedillo said Monday that he will run for the 1st District seat on the Los Angeles City Council in 2013. "Growing up here, I learned from a very early age that Los Angeles was a city of opportunities for anyone who had a dream of living a better life for themselves and their families,'' Cedillo said. "I am announcing my candidacy for City Council District 1 because we need bold and experienced leadership to strengthen and protect the `Los Angeles Dream.''' Term limits prevent the current seatholder, Ed Reyes, from seeking reelection to represent the area stretching from Pico Union northeast through Westlake to Dodger Stadium and through Lincoln Heights to Highland Park. Reyes' chief of staff--Jose Gardea--has also filed …
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Northeast L.A. residents have an opportunity to find out what city council redistricting could mean for their communities tonight.
The lines just keep on shifting. With the redistricting process for State electoral lines recently completed, and county board of supervisors line drawing fully underdway--Los Angeles residents still need to brace themselves for another political boundary battle. The Los Angeles Redistricting Commission must submit their revised political boundary maps to the city council by March 2012. Then council then has until July 2012 to approved the redistricting plan. Northeast Los Angeles residents who want to plug-in to what promises to be a lenghty and complex battle over political lines can attend a redistricting workshop hosted by the Northeast Los Angeles Coalition on Thursday, August 25 at 6 p.m. inside the Glassell Park Senior Center on …
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
As a deadline for new proposed Board of Supervisor electoral boundaries passes, supervisors Mark Ridley-Thomas, Gloria Molina, and Don Knabe all released new plans for how to draw the county's electoral boundaries for the next 10 years.
Three new proposals for how to draw new electoral boundaries for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors were released on Tuesday just before a deadline for submissions. As the deadline has now passed, the Board will ultimately have to choose from one of the three new plans, all of which bear at least some similarities to the two major plans being previously discussed. Whether any of the plans can get the required support of four out of the five county supervisors remains to be seen: the supervisors own handpicked Boundary Review Committee (BRC) split bitterly over the two plans with one plan receiving 6 out of 10 votes, and the other receiving 4 out of 10. Two Divergent Views of Redistricting The issue over how to divide the …
Saturday, July 30, 2011
The California Citizens Redistricting Commission voted on Friday to approve its final maps for congressional and state legislative offices. There will now be a two week public review period before the final vote, but there will be no revisions to the map.
A state redistricting commission approved its final maps for congressional and state legislative electoral districts on Friday, making it likely that they will become the voting districts until the next redistricting process in 10 years. The final meeting of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission will be on August 15, according to the commission's spokesman Rob Wilcox. At that point, the commission will either vote to finalize the maps, or reject them- there will be no further revisions before that deadline, Wilcox said (for more on the commission and its process read here). That means that the maps that have been released (which can be viewed at right or on an interactive map here) will most likely be the next state districts. …
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Previously uncounted provisional, absentee and damaged ballots were included in Thursday's total.
UPDATE: The LA City Clerk Elections division posted the accompanying document early Thursday night, confirming that Bennett Kayser is the winner in the race for the open LAUSD district 5 seat now held by Yolie Flores. Former-teacher Kayser defeated Luis Sanchez, chief of staff for current board chair Monica Garcia, by 602 votes. ------------------------------------------------------------ According to observers at Thursday's "final tally" all eligible ballots from the May 17 election have now been tallied by computers. A cellphone photo of the final tally shows Bennett Kayser to have defeated Luis Sanchez 10,741 (51.44 percent) to 10,139 (48.56 percent) in the race for the board seat in LAUSD district 5. The photo shows Scott Svonkin …
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Almost 13 percent of the ballots cast in Tuesday's citywide municipal runoff election remain uncounted and may affect Bennety Kayser's unofficial victory for the LAUSD district 5 seat.
Almost 14-thousand votes remain to be tallied from Tuesday's election, according to the L.A. City Clerk's Elections Division. 110,636 total ballots were cast in the election, which included a race for the Los Angeles Community College District, as well as the district 5 race. Outstanding are about 2,600 provisional ballots, 10,300 votes-by-mail and about 8,500 so-called SNAGs-ballots smeared, torn or in other need of special evaluation--a total of 13,600. According to the City Clerk, what's not known is how many of these votes were cast in the LAUSD district 5 race pitting Bennett Kayser against Luis Sanchez. 17,436 ballots have currently been counted in that race. That "unofficial election night tally" from the City Clerk shows Kayser the…
R. Ray Morford
9:14 am on Monday, February 20, 2012
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