Endorsements for the elections on March 5
Here are our endorsements to date for the March 5.
Statewide
No on Proposition 1: “Proposition 1 on the March 5 ballot is a costly bureaucratic power grab that robs counties of mental health services funding and saddles taxpayers with $6.38 billion in debt for what amounts to a bloated version of Project Roomkey and L.A.'s Measure HHH.”
Los Angeles County
Elect Nick Melvoin to Congress in the 30th congressional district
Re-elect Norma Torres to Congress in the 35th congressional district
Re-elect Kathryn Barger to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors: “For us, her fiscal discipline is an absolute necessity on the board, a counter-punch to any free-spending tendencies of her four Democratic colleagues.”
Re-elect Imelda Padilla to the Los Angeles City Council: “She is continuing to engage all stakeholders in the community, including the business sector, in order to improve a district that her predecessor clearly neglected.”
Elect Ethan Weaver to the Los Angeles City Council
Re-elect John Lee to the Los Angeles City Council: “John Lee has provided a touch of much needed balance. We hope he is able to tap the brakes on more of the failed policies that have led to economic stagnation and greater poverty in Los Angeles.”
Elect Dan Chang to the LAUSD school board: “Rarely have voters in the Los Angeles Unified School District had a chance to elect a school board candidate as qualified and potentially impactful as Dan Chang.”
Re-elect Tanya Ortiz Franklin to the Los Angeles Unified School District
No on Measure RW in Long Beach: “Voters in the city of Long Beach will weigh in March 5 on a union-backed proposal to raise hotel workers' minimum wage to a startling $29.50 an hour within four years — with the absurd proviso that the edicts of this Measure
RW would not affect hotels whose workers are already unionized.”
No on Measure HLA in the city of Los Angeles
Orange County
No on Measure E in Westminster: “Westminster needs to tighten its belt and pass pension and other employee compensation reforms. On March 5, voters need to say: Read our lips, no new taxes.”
No on Orange Unified recall: “Is this necessary to protect the public, or are the issues motivating the activists ones better left for the normal election cycle? With regards to the Orange Unified School Board recall on the March ballot, we believe the answer lies in the latter.”
No on Huntington Beach charter amendments A, B and C: “Vote `no' on all three to encourage the council to get back to governing rather than political theater.”
Elect Janet Nguyen to the Orange County Board of Supervisors. Reelect Don Wagner to the Orange County Board of Supervisors
Riverside County
Elect Angelo Farooq to the California State Senate
Elect Jose Medina to the Riverside County Board of Supervisors. Elect Jack Guerrero to the Riverside County Board of Supervisors
Reelect Patricia Lock Dawson mayor of Riverside
Elect Sean Mill, Hasaranga Ratnayake and Warren Avery to the Riverside City Council
San Bernardino County
Re-elect Dawn Rowe to the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors: “Dawn Rowe is a voice of reason in the county's byzantine government.”
Reelect Paul Cook to the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors
Reelect Kimberly Calvin to the San Bernardino City Council Elect Treasure Ortiz, Christian Shaughnessy and Henry Nickel to the San Bernardino City Council