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LA CITY NEWS
MARCH 2011
L.A. CITY COUNCIL - ELECTION EDITION
by Zuma Dogg
Welcome to LA City News - Election Edition.
There is an important Los Angeles City Council election in your district on Tuesday, March 8, 2011.
As someone reading this, we hope you help raise awareness, this election season, letting people know that there is, indeed, ANOTHER election on Tuesday, March 8th.
After the intense round of Gubernatorial and propositions during the recent election, some people may think they are reading about the previous election, not able to fathom that it is ALREADY time to once again have to put on our voter "thinking caps."
The current crop of city hall machine elected official are planning on this election flying under the radar, with as low of a voter turn-out as possible. So they can have their political machines send their people to the polls with as little "grass root," real, community voters casting a ballot AGAINST them, for one of their challengers.
There are seven city council seats up for grabs in the March 8th election: CD 2 (no incumbent Paul Krekorian), CD 4 (incumbent Tom La Bonge), CD 6 (incumbent Tony Cardenas), CD 8 (incumbent Bernard Parks), CD 10 (incumbent Herb Wesson), CD 12 (open seat/no incument), CD 14 (incumbent Jose Huizar).
First of all, we will quickly address three of the seven council seats:
CD 2: Paul Krekorian was just recently elected to the seat about a year and a half ago, and hasn't been in the seat long enough to lose support, yet. And is expected to easily win re-election. (So LA City News is not going to get into this election much, in favor of focusing attention on the other tighter elections where the grass root/community candidates have much more of a viable shot at winning the election.
CD 8: Bernard Parks is the only incumbent that LA City News actively asks you to support for re-election. (It would be nice for Krekorian to lose, and he is part of the slick, political, city hall machine. But Krekorian will easily win, since he is still new, and isn't tagged with being in office while all the disaster was being created. So again, we would like him to lose, but we actually WANT Bernard Parks to WIN! He MUST WIN! He is the only councilmember in chambers that has a grasp on the budget, has been warning council all along, trying to get the body to take responsible action -- and if nothing else, is the councilmember who will always press his button to stand up and expose the problem at hand, before council, that the rest would have allowed to go unsaid, and off the public record and TV 35 airwaves. So we can't kick out the only Councilmember who is trying to put on the brakes for the rest of us watching at home. AND, Councilmember Parks has a lot of competition being thrown at him...some of it most likely from the unions he stands up against. And the political machine opposition they will be running against Parks to try and take his seat will be MUCH WORSE than any other issue you may have with Parks. We are at a BIG PICTURE juncture in this city's history. We aren't gonna lose Park's seat to a grass root candidate. We will lose Park's seat to the TRUE city hall machine candidate. At least Parks is truly a thorn in the mayor (and many times, his own council's) side. HELP SUPPORT PARKS IN HIS CAMPAIGN AND MAKE SURE HE WINS.
AND BERNARD PARKS IS THE ONLY INCUMBENT TO RE-ELECT.
ON MARCH 8, 2011, send a clear message to Los Angeles City Hall and vote out all the current councilmembers (except Parks) -- and replace them with the grass roots/community candidate in your neighborhood.
Keep reading LA City News (online at http://LACityNews.com) for more on the upcoming election.
CD 2: Incumbent Paul Krekorian. Augsto Biasni is the grass roots candidate to vote for to send a message to City Hall!
CD 4: Incumbent Tom La Bonge: Tomas O'Grady and Steve Box running against La Bonge.
CD 6: REPLACE INCUMBENT TONY CARDENAS WITH DAVID BARRON.
CD 8: Re-elect incumbent Bernard Parks.
CD 10: REPLACE INCUMBENT HERB WESSON WITH AUSTIN DRAGON (http://AustinDragon.com). (Althea Shaw supporters vote for Althea. http://AltheaShaw.com)
CD 12: Open seat. Vote for anyone beside City Hall machine candidate Mitch Englander.
CD 14: REPLACE INCUMBENT JOSE HUIZAR WITH RUDY MARTINEZ. (No matter how dirty Jose goes against Rudy at the end of the campaign. You cannot reward Huizar for his performance with another term. If you know someone else running in CD 14 that you want to support and vote for, vote for them. ANYONE BUT HUIZAR. He is still a close ally of the mayor. And keep reading LA City News (online at http://LACityNews.com) for some of the shenanigans (reasons to vote out Huizar) that go on in CD 14.