Endorsements for today's elections

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

Reelect Norma Torres to Congress in the 35th congressional district

Reelect 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.”

Reelect Imelda Padilla and John Lee to the Los Angeles City Council

Elect Ethan Weaver to the Los Angeles City Council

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.”

Reelect Tanya Ortiz Franklin to the LAUSD school board

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

Reelect Bill Essayli to the state Assembly

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

Reelect 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

Elect Michelle Lauron to judge

Reelect Kimberly Calvin to the San Bernardino City Council: “Kimberly Calvin's voice on the council is badly needed to keep the city moving in the right direction.”

Elect Treasure Ortiz, Christian Shaughnessy and Henry Nickel to the San Bernardino City Council