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Los Angeles County 2022 Midterm results updated

The race to become the next mayor of LA remained too close to call Wednesday & it may be several days before there’s a declared winner

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4 years ago

November 9, 2022

LA Blade Digital Staff

Photo Credit: County of Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES – The following results are as of November 9 after noon. The race to become the next mayor of Los Angeles remained too close to call Wednesday, and it may be several days before one of the candidates is declared the winner.

With about 44% of votes counted, developer Rick Caruso had a 51% to 49% lead over U.S. Rep. Karen Bass.

County Measures

COUNTY MEASURE A

CHARTER AMENDMENT – PROVIDING AUTHORITY TO REMOVE AN ELECTED SHERIFF FOR CAUSE. Shall the measure amending the County of Los Angeles Charter to grant the Board of Supervisors authority to remove an elected Sheriff from office for cause, including a violation of law related to a Sheriff’s duties, flagrant or repeated neglect of duties, misappropriation of funds, willful falsification of documents, or obstructing an investigation, by a four-fifths vote of the Board of Supervisors, after written notice and an opportunity to be heard, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	838,980	68.46%
NO	386,514	31.54%

Majority of votes cast

COUNTY MEASURE C

Los Angeles County Cannabis Business Tax Measure. Shall the measure enacting a tax in the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County on cannabis businesses at annual rates not to exceed $10 per square foot for cultivation (adjusted for inflation) and a percentage of gross receipts for various cannabis businesses, including retail (6 percent), testing laboratory (2 percent), distribution (3 percent), manufacturing and for all other cannabis businesses (4 percent), generating approximately $10,360,000 to $15,170,000 annually, until ended by voters, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	698,674	58.88%
NO	487,991	41.12%

Majority of votes cast

Governor

GOVERNOR

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
GAVIN NEWSOM (D)	816,449	63.45%
BRIAN DAHLE (R)	470,319	36.55%

Voter Nominated

Lieutenant Governor

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ELENI KOUNALAKIS (D)	789,179	62.86%
ANGELA E. UNDERWOOD JACOBS (R)	466,326	37.14%

Voter Nominated

Secretary of State

SECRETARY OF STATE

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
SHIRLEY N. WEBER (D)	799,609	63.70%
ROB BERNOSKY (R)	455,729	36.30%

Voter Nominated

Controller

CONTROLLER

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MALIA M. COHEN (D)	727,000	58.05%
LANHEE J. CHEN (R)	525,432	41.95%

Voter Nominated

Treasurer

TREASURER

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
FIONA MA (D)	781,116	62.56%
JACK M. GUERRERO (R)	467,423	37.44%

Voter Nominated

Attorney General

ATTORNEY GENERAL

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ROB BONTA (D)	787,982	62.72%
NATHAN HOCHMAN (R)	468,308	37.28%

Voter Nominated

Insurance Commissioner

INSURANCE COMMISSIONER

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
RICARDO LARA (D)	787,022	63.77%
ROBERT HOWELL (R)	447,080	36.23%

Voter Nominated

Board of Equalization

MEMBER STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION 3rd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
TONY VAZQUEZ (D)	759,558	66.65%
Y. MARIE MANVEL (N)	379,979	33.35%

Voter Nominated

United States Senator

UNITED STATES SENATOR – Full Term

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ALEX PADILLA (D)	836,481	65.25%
MARK P. MEUSER (R)	445,575	34.75%

Voter Nominated

UNITED STATES SENATOR – Short Term (Unexpired term ending January 3, 2023)

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ALEX PADILLA (D)	824,509	64.99%
MARK P. MEUSER (R)	444,204	35.01%

Voter Nominated

U.S. Representative

UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE, 23rd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JAY OBERNOLTE (R)	1,003	57.09%
DEREK MARSHALL (D)	754	42.91%

Voter Nominated

UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE, 26th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JULIA BROWNLEY (D)	7,099	55.85%
MATT JACOBS (R)	5,611	44.15%

Voter Nominated

UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE, 27th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MIKE GARCIA (R)	65,545	57.58%
CHRISTY SMITH (D)	48,285	42.42%

Voter Nominated

UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE, 28th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JUDY CHU (D)	69,346	65.75%
WES HALLMAN (R)	36,121	34.25%

Voter Nominated

UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE, 29th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
TONY CARDENAS (D)	38,034	62.03%
ANGÉLICA MARÍA DUEÑAS (D)	23,281	37.97%

Voter Nominated

UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE, 30th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ADAM B. SCHIFF (D)	78,812	72.05%
G “MAEBE A. GIRL” PUDLO (D)	30,569	27.95%

Voter Nominated

UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE, 31st District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
GRACE F. NAPOLITANO (D)	47,071	55.00%
DANIEL BOCIC MARTINEZ (R)	38,508	45.00%

Voter Nominated

UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE, 32nd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
BRAD SHERMAN (D)	86,997	64.82%
LUCIE LAPOINTE VOLOTZKY (R)	47,206	35.18%

Voter Nominated

UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE, 34th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JIMMY GOMEZ (D)	33,263	53.06%
DAVID KIM (D)	29,429	46.94%

Voter Nominated

UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE, 35th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
NORMA J. TORRES (D)	7,230	62.98%
MIKE CARGILE (R)	4,249	37.02%

Voter Nominated

UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE, 36th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
TED W. LIEU (D)	98,156	64.84%
JOE E. COLLINS III (R)	53,215	35.16%

Voter Nominated

UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE, 37th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
SYDNEY KAMLAGER (D)	41,540	61.38%
JAN C. PERRY (D)	26,140	38.62%

Voter Nominated

UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE, 38th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
LINDA T. SÁNCHEZ (D)	46,099	54.01%
ERIC J. CHING (R)	39,250	45.99%

Voter Nominated

UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE, 42nd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ROBERT GARCIA (D)	48,410	63.80%
JOHN BRISCOE (R)	27,467	36.20%

Voter Nominated

UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE, 43rd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MAXINE WATERS (D)	49,101	73.88%
OMAR NAVARRO (R)	17,363	26.12%

Voter Nominated

UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE, 44th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
NANETTE DIAZ BARRAGAN (D)	51,441	67.99%
PAUL JONES (R)	24,221	32.01%

Voter Nominated

UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE, 45th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JAY F. CHEN (D)	6,852	53.94%
MICHELLE STEEL (R)	5,852	46.06%

Voter Nominated

State Senator

STATE SENATOR, 20th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
CAROLINE MENJIVAR (D)	42,656	54.26%
DANIEL HERTZBERG (D)	35,958	45.74%

Voter Nominated

STATE SENATOR, 22nd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
SUSAN RUBIO (D)	40,400	56.27%
VINCENT TSAI (R)	31,401	43.73%

Voter Nominated

STATE SENATOR, 24th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
BEN ALLEN (D)	128,013	62.35%
KRISTINA IRWIN (R)	77,316	37.65%

Voter Nominated

STATE SENATOR, 26th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MARIA ELENA DURAZO (D)	75,398	78.48%
CLAUDIA AGRAZ (R)	20,680	21.52%

Voter Nominated

STATE SENATOR, 28th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
LOLA SMALLWOOD-CUEVAS (D)	55,760	55.66%
CHERYL C. TURNER (D)	44,414	44.34%

Voter Nominated

STATE SENATOR, 30th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
BOB ARCHULETA (D)	61,266	57.83%
MITCH CLEMMONS (R)	44,673	42.17%

Voter Nominated

STATE SENATOR, 34th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
TOM UMBERG (D)	3,572	50.59%
RHONDA SHADER (R)	3,489	49.41%

Voter Nominated

STATE SENATOR, 36th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
KIM CARR (D)	6,405	53.07%
JANET NGUYEN (R)	5,664	46.93%

Voter Nominated

Member of the Assembly

MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 34th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
TOM LACKEY (R)	15,452	70.17%
THURSTON “SMITTY” SMITH (R)	6,568	29.83%

Voter Nominated

MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 39th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JUAN CARRILLO (D)	12,645	56.30%
PAUL ANDRE MARSH (R)	9,816	43.70%

Voter Nominated

MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 40th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
SUZETTE MARTINEZ VALLADARES (R)	49,117	54.31%
PILAR SCHIAVO (D)	41,319	45.69%

Voter Nominated

MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 41st District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
CHRIS HOLDEN (D)	44,271	62.66%
MICHAEL MCMAHON (R)	26,383	37.34%

Voter Nominated

MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 42nd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JACQUI IRWIN (D)	24,057	59.47%
LORI MILLS (R)	16,394	40.53%

Voter Nominated

MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 43rd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
LUZ MARIA RIVAS (D)	27,692	70.23%
SIAKA MASSAQUOI (R)	11,741	29.77%

Voter Nominated

MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 44th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
LAURA FRIEDMAN (D)	55,391	66.30%
BARRY CURTIS JACOBSEN (R)	28,154	33.70%

Voter Nominated

MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 46th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JESSE GABRIEL (D)	39,565	60.40%
DANA CARUSO (R)	25,940	39.60%

Voter Nominated

MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 48th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
BLANCA RUBIO (D)	31,038	55.94%
RYAN MAYE (R)	24,444	44.06%

Voter Nominated

MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 49th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MIKE FONG (D)	33,539	62.23%
BURTON BRINK (R)	20,355	37.77%

Voter Nominated

MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 51st District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
RICK CHAVEZ ZBUR (D)	39,092	54.86%
LOUIS ABRAMSON (D)	32,162	45.14%

Voter Nominated

MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 52nd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
WENDY CARRILLO (D)	33,809	60.35%
MIA LIVAS PORTER (D)	22,215	39.65%

Voter Nominated

MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 53rd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
FREDDIE RODRIGUEZ (D)	7,650	64.43%
TONI HOLLE (R)	4,223	35.57%

Voter Nominated

MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 54th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MIGUEL SANTIAGO (D)	27,731	74.26%
ELAINE ALANIZ (R)	9,613	25.74%

Voter Nominated

MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 55th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ISAAC G. BRYAN (D)	55,427	80.05%
KEITH GIROLAMO CASCIO (R)	13,811	19.95%

Voter Nominated

MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 56th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
LISA CALDERON (D)	31,553	54.08%
JESSICA MARTINEZ (R)	26,789	45.92%

Voter Nominated

MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 57th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
REGGIE JONES-SAWYER (D)	21,620	100.00%

Voter Nominated

MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 61st District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
TINA SIMONE MCKINNOR (D)	29,799	60.88%
ROBERT PULLEN-MILES (D)	19,146	39.12%

Voter Nominated

MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 62nd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ANTHONY RENDON (D)	20,457	63.22%
MARIA ESTRADA (D)	11,902	36.78%

Voter Nominated

MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 64th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
BLANCA PACHECO (D)	24,690	57.55%
RAUL ORTIZ, JR. (R)	18,210	42.45%

Voter Nominated

MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 65th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MIKE ANTHONY GIPSON (D)	24,377	64.41%
FATIMA IQBAL-ZUBAIR (D)	13,469	35.59%

Voter Nominated

MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 66th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
AL MURATSUCHI (D)	52,822	55.52%
GEORGE BARKS (R)	42,310	44.48%

Voter Nominated

MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 67th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
SHARON QUIRK-SILVA (D)	6,323	51.67%
SOO YOO (R)	5,914	48.33%

Voter Nominated

MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, 69th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JOSH LOWENTHAL (D)	33,041	59.85%
AL AUSTIN II (D)	22,163	40.15%

Voter Nominated

Supreme Court Justices

For Associate Justice of the Supreme Court – GOODWIN LIU

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	711,477	71.36%
NO	285,598	28.64%

For Associate Justice of the Supreme Court – JOSHUA P. GROBAN

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	689,667	71.10%
NO	280,358	28.90%

For Associate Justice of the Supreme Court – MARTIN J. JENKINS

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	708,620	72.40%
NO	270,092	27.60%

For Chief Justice of California – PATRICIA GUERRERO

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	741,686	73.00%
NO	274,281	27.00%

Appellate Court Justices

For Associate Justice, Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Eight – ELIZABETH ANNETTE GRIMES

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	715,723	77.20%
NO	211,365	22.80%

For Associate Justice, Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Eight – JOHN SHEPARD WILEY JR.

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	651,543	70.70%
NO	270,024	29.30%

For Associate Justice, Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Five – LAMAR W. BAKER

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	667,414	72.03%
NO	259,177	27.97%

For Associate Justice, Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Four – AUDREY B. COLLINS

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	682,237	73.17%
NO	250,156	26.83%

For Associate Justice, Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Four – BRIAN S. CURREY

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	655,234	70.79%
NO	270,370	29.21%

For Associate Justice, Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Seven – JOHN L. SEGAL

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	659,316	71.35%
NO	264,727	28.65%

For Associate Justice, Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Six – HERNALDO J. BALTODANO

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	655,620	70.80%
NO	270,386	29.20%

For Associate Justice, Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Three – LUIS A. LAVIN

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	668,156	71.79%
NO	262,526	28.21%

For Associate Justice, Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Two – JUDITH M. ASHMANN

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	707,327	75.62%
NO	228,014	24.38%

For Presiding Justice, Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Eight – MARIA E. STRATTON

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	684,945	72.86%
NO	255,112	27.14%

For Presiding Justice, Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Five – LAURENCE D. RUBIN

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	679,426	72.19%
NO	261,772	27.81%

For Presiding Justice, Court of Appeal, Second District, Division One – FRANCES ROTHSCHILD

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	673,676	70.39%
NO	283,323	29.61%

Superintendent Public Inst

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
TONY K. THURMOND (N)	690,518	66.09%
LANCE RAY CHRISTENSEN (N)	354,344	33.91%

State Measures

STATE MEASURE 1

CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM. LEGISLATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Amends California Constitution to expressly include an individual’s fundamental right to reproductive freedom, which includes the fundamental right to choose to have an abortion and the fundamental right to choose or refuse contraceptives. This amendment does not narrow or limit the existing rights to privacy and equal protection under the California Constitution. Fiscal Impact: No direct fiscal effect because reproductive rights already are protected by state law.

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	863,331	68.72%
NO	393,030	31.28%

Majority of votes cast

STATE MEASURE 26

ALLOWS IN-PERSON ROULETTE, DICE GAMES, SPORTS WAGERING ON TRIBAL LANDS. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AND STATUTE. Also allows: sports wagering at certain horseracing tracks; private lawsuits to enforce certain gambling laws. Directs revenues to General Fund, problem-gambling programs, enforcement. Fiscal Impact: Increased state revenues, possibly reaching tens of millions of dollars annually. Some of these revenues would support increased state regulatory and enforcement costs that could reach the low tens of millions of dollars annually.

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	412,695	33.05%
NO	836,068	66.95%

Majority of votes cast

STATE MEASURE 27

ALLOWS ONLINE AND MOBILE SPORTS WAGERING OUTSIDE TRIBAL LANDS. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AND STATUTE. Allows Indian tribes and affiliated businesses to operate online/mobile sports wagering outside tribal lands. Directs revenues to regulatory costs, homelessness programs, nonparticipating tribes. Fiscal Impact: Increased state revenues, possibly in the hundreds of millions of dollars but not likely to exceed $500 million annually. Some revenues would support state regulatory costs, possibly reaching the mid-tens of millions of dollars annually.

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	248,571	19.73%
NO	1,011,154	80.27%

Majority of votes cast

STATE MEASURE 28

PROVIDES ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR ARTS AND MUSIC EDUCATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Provides additional funding from state General Fund for arts and music education in all K-12 public schools (including charter schools). Fiscal Impact: Increased state costs of about $1 billion annually, beginning next year, for arts education in public schools.

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	827,153	65.60%
NO	433,824	34.40%

Majority of votes cast

STATE MEASURE 29

REQUIRES ON-SITE LICENSED MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL AT KIDNEY DIALYSIS CLINICS AND ESTABLISHES OTHER STATE REQUIREMENTS. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Requires physician, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant on site during treatment. Requires clinics to: disclose physicians’ ownership interests; report infection data. Fiscal Impact: Increased state and local government costs likely in the tens of millions of dollars annually.

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	430,248	34.38%
NO	821,168	65.62%

Majority of votes cast

STATE MEASURE 30

PROVIDES FUNDING FOR PROGRAMS TO REDUCE AIR POLLUTION AND PREVENT WILDFIRES BY INCREASING TAX ON PERSONAL INCOME OVER $2 MILLION. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Allocates tax revenues to zero-emission vehicle purchase incentives, vehicle charging stations, and wildfire prevention. Fiscal Impact: Increased state tax revenue ranging from $3.5 billion to $5 billion annually, with the new funding used to support zero-emission vehicle programs and wildfire response and prevention activities.

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	493,649	39.12%
NO	768,243	60.88%

Majority of votes cast

STATE MEASURE 31

REFERENDUM ON 2020 LAW THAT WOULD PROHIBIT THE RETAIL SALE OF CERTAIN FLAVORED TOBACCO PRODUCTS. A “Yes” vote approves, and a “No” vote rejects, a 2020 law prohibiting retail sale of certain flavored tobacco products. Fiscal Impact: Decreased state tobacco tax revenues ranging from tens of millions of dollars annually to around $100 million annually.

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	797,770	63.48%
NO	459,053	36.52%

Majority of votes cast

Sheriff

SHERIFF

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ROBERT LUNA (N)	687,127	56.78%
ALEX VILLANUEVA (N)	522,926	43.22%

Board of Supervisors

SUPERVISOR 3RD DISTRICT

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
BOB HERTZBERG (N)	133,942	50.78%
LINDSEY HORVATH (N)	129,838	49.22%

Judge Superior Court

JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT Office No. 60

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ABBY BARON (N)	586,326	58.59%
ANNA SLOTKY REITANO (N)	414,479	41.41%

JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT Office No. 67

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
FERNANDA MARIA BARRETO (N)	556,525	54.77%
ELIZABETH LASHLEY-HAYNES (N)	459,595	45.23%

JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT Office No. 70

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
HOLLY L. HANCOCK (N)	569,168	55.41%
RENEE YOLANDE CHANG (N)	458,055	44.59%

JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT Office No. 90

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MELISSA LYONS (N)	572,808	57.77%
LESLIE GUTIERREZ (N)	418,793	42.23%

JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT Office No. 118

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MELISSA HAMMOND (N)	655,697	65.09%
CAROLYN “JIYOUNG” PARK (N)	351,624	34.91%

JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT Office No. 151

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
PATRICK HARE (N)	558,151	55.81%
KAREN A. BRAKO (N)	441,950	44.19%

Cities

AGOURA HILLS CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
DEBORAH KLEIN LOPEZ (N)	3,101	28.65%
JEREMY WOLF (N)	2,983	27.56%
CHRIS ANSTEAD (N)	2,378	21.97%
DAVID BRAMANTE (N)	1,364	12.60%
JAN GERSTEL (N)	996	9.20%

Vote for no more than three

ALHAMBRA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, Fifth District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ADELE ANDRADE-STADLER (N)	1,411	68.53%
JEFFREY GOMEZ (N)	648	31.47%

ALHAMBRA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, First District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
KATHERINE LEE (N)	871	44.26%
STEPHEN SHAM (N)	588	29.88%
ARI GUTIÉRREZ ARÁMBULA (N)	509	25.86%

ALHAMBRA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, Second District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ROSS J. MAZA (N)	1,300	100.00%

ALHAMBRA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Member, Board of Education, Trustee Area No. 4

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ROBERT L. GIN (N)	2,489	70.89%
WEN “TONY” FAN (N)	1,022	29.11%

ALHAMBRA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Member, Board of Education, Trustee Area No. 5

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
FRED L. CHANG (N)	959	58.69%
BRYAN Y. KIM (N)	675	41.31%

ARCADIA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE CA

Shall the City Charter be amended to provide for election of City Councilmembers by-district, to set the general municipal election for the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November in even-numbered years to align with the Statewide General Election date, to amend the procedure to fill vacant elective offices, to change the City Clerk from elected to appointed, to establish a City Prosecutor, to modify City procurement procedures, and to make other modernizing amendments?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	4,961	64.61%
NO	2,717	35.39%

Majority of votes cast

ARCADIA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE HT

Shall a measure be adopted to increase the maximum rate of the City’s Transient Occupancy Tax (also known as Hotel Tax) charged to guests of hotels and any other overnight lodging facilities from a maximum of 10% to 12% as of January 1, 2023, providing an additional estimated $730,000 annually until ended by voters for City services including public safety response, street repair and maintenance, park construction and maintenance, and for general government use?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	4,180	52.16%
NO	3,834	47.84%

Majority of votes cast

ARCADIA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE SW

Shall the measure to establish a Sports Wagering Tax at a rate of up to 5% of sports wagering gross revenues, providing approximately $1,000,000 annually until ended by voters for general government use such as City parks, streets and public safety, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	4,882	61.19%
NO	3,096	38.81%

Majority of votes cast

ARCADIA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 2nd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
SHARON KWAN (N)	899	42.51%
BOB HARBICHT (N)	689	32.58%
TRACY JENSEN HAN (N)	527	24.92%

ARCADIA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 3rd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
EILEEN WANG (N)	653	60.74%
SHENG CHANG (N)	422	39.26%

ARCADIA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 5th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MICHAEL CAO (N)	849	41.88%
JASON J. LEE (N)	714	35.22%
MICHAEL DANIELSON (N)	435	21.46%
DANIEL MALKI (N)	29	1.43%

ARTESIA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MELISSA RAMOSO (N)	1,239	31.48%
ALI TAJ (N)	1,153	29.29%
RENE J. TREVINO (N)	1,055	26.80%
ALMA L. GRIFFIN (N)	489	12.42%

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AZUSA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Clerk

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JEFFREY LAWRENCE CORNEJO, JR. (N)	3,533	100.00%

AZUSA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Treasurer

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ARTHUR M. VASQUEZ, JR. (N)	3,493	100.00%

AZUSA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Mayor

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ROBERT GONZALES (N)	2,758	63.40%
JONNY M. LIU (N)	1,592	36.60%

AZUSA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ANDREW N. MENDEZ (N)	2,521	41.16%
EDWARD J. ALVAREZ (N)	2,218	36.21%
KIMBERLY HUFF (N)	1,386	22.63%

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AZUSA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council (Unexpired term ending November 12, 2024)

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
DENNIS BECKWITH (N)	3,436	100.00%

BALDWIN PARK CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE BP

To fund Baldwin Park services, including keeping public parks and facilities safe and clean; street maintenance and traffic management; prioritize police response for schools, enhance gang and crime prevention; improve senior, youth, and job programs; shall an ordinance establishing a ¾ cent sales tax be adopted, providing approximately 6 million dollars annually for general government use in Baldwin Park until ended by voters, with annual audits, stakeholders oversight committee, no funds to LA, all funds for Baldwin Park?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	3,241	58.83%
NO	2,268	41.17%

Majority of votes cast

BALDWIN PARK CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE CB

Shall the measure authorizing cannabis retailers to sell and deliver medical cannabis and cannabis products to adults, and adult-use cannabis and cannabis products to persons 21 years and older, with retailers paying a 0.5% tax and 4% tax on gross receipts from sales, respectively, providing $300,000 to $3 million annually for general government use, and authorizing City Council to modify rates up to 5%, until repealed by voters, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	2,640	48.22%
NO	2,835	51.78%

Majority of votes cast

BALDWIN PARK CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE CN

Shall City of Baldwin Park City Council Ordinance No. 1468, establishing campaign contribution limits and penalties lowering the maximum contribution from an individual or political action committee to $750 per candidate/PAC per election cycle be adopted by voters?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	3,854	72.84%
NO	1,437	27.16%

Majority of votes cast

BALDWIN PARK CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE RM

Shall the voters elect five Councilmembers to a four-year term with an annually sequential rotating Mayor and Mayor Pro Tempore of the City Council of the City of Baldwin Park commencing in the year 2024?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	2,887	54.61%
NO	2,400	45.39%

Majority of votes cast

BALDWIN PARK CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE TL

Shall the measure, establishing term limits so that no member of the City Council may serve more than three terms in office in their lifetime (12 years) and no directly-elected Mayor may serve more than six terms in office in their lifetime (12 years) and no member of the City Council or directly-elected Mayor may serve more than a combined 12 years in office, regardless of the office be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	4,234	78.68%
NO	1,147	21.32%

Majority of votes cast

BALDWIN PARK CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Clerk

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
CHRISTOPHER SAENZ (N)	2,571	51.74%
MARIA DAVALOS (N)	2,398	48.26%

BALDWIN PARK CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Treasurer

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JOANNA VALENZUELA (N)	3,863	76.46%
CHRISTOPHER F. GARRIDO (N)	1,189	23.54%

BALDWIN PARK CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Mayor

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
EMMANUEL J. ESTRADA (N)	3,476	63.72%
MANUEL LOZANO (N)	1,577	28.91%
ALBERT MURO (N)	402	7.37%

BALDWIN PARK CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ALEJANDRA AVILA (N)	2,001	23.92%
RICARDO VAZQUES (N)	1,717	20.52%
JEAN M. AYALA (N)	1,710	20.44%
PAUL C. HERNANDEZ (N)	1,657	19.80%
RALPH GALVAN (N)	1,282	15.32%

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BELL GARDENS CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE AA

Shall an ordinance be adopted establishing term limits for Bell Gardens councilmembers where no person may serve more than 3 four-year terms of office cumulatively over the person’s lifetime and where service for the unexpired balance of a vacated City Council seat (whether by appointment or election) will also count as service for a full four-year term of office even if such service is for a period that is less than four years in duration?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	1,665	83.63%
NO	326	16.37%

Majority of votes cast

BELL GARDENS CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ALEJANDRA CORTEZ (N)	829	17.27%
MARCO BARCENA (N)	690	14.38%
MIGUEL DE LA ROSA (N)	639	13.32%
FRANCIS DE LEON SANCHEZ (N)	638	13.29%
JENNIFER RODRIGUEZ (N)	533	11.11%
LISSETH FLORES-FRANCO (N)	469	9.77%
CHRISTIAN MENDEZ (N)	373	7.77%
STEVE MARTIN FIGUEROA (N)	283	5.90%
JOSE ANGEL CRUZ (N)	263	5.48%
ANDREW LEON (N)	82	1.71%

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BELLFLOWER CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 1st District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
RAYMOND Y. HAMADA (N)	1,183	74.54%
RICARDO FOSADO (N)	404	25.46%

BELLFLOWER CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 5th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
RAY DUNTON (N)	912	53.96%
JUAN GARZA (N)	778	46.04%

BURBANK CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Clerk

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
KIMBERLEY CLARK (N)	7,678	54.01%
VIVIANA GARZON (N)	4,820	33.91%
JAMAL EL-AMIN (N)	1,717	12.08%

BURBANK CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Treasurer

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
KRYSTLE PALMER (N)	12,772	100.00%

BURBANK CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
NIKKI PEREZ (N)	8,457	23.71%
ZIZETTE MULLINS (N)	7,814	21.91%
SHARON SPRINGER (N)	7,527	21.11%
TAMALA TAKAHASHI (N)	7,241	20.31%
CARMENITA HELLIGAR (N)	4,622	12.96%

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CALABASAS CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JAMES R. BOZAJIAN (N)	3,419	29.88%
DAVID J. SHAPIRO (N)	3,250	28.40%
EDWARD ALBRECHT (N)	1,787	15.62%
BRIAN CAMERON (N)	1,552	13.56%
JASJEET (MONICA) KAUR PARMAR (N)	1,436	12.55%

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CARSON CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE R

CARSON ESSENTIAL SERVICES PROTECTION MEASURE. To maintain services such as 911 emergency response/public safety; natural disaster/public health emergency preparedness; protect local drinking water; repair streets/potholes and other general City services, shall the measure, continuing the existing 2% Utility Users Tax (no tax increase) limited to electric/gas utilities, exempting senior and low-income households, providing approximately $8,000,000 annually until ended by voters, requiring public spending disclosure, all funds for Carson, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	9,463	77.41%
NO	2,761	22.59%

Majority of votes cast

CARSON CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Clerk

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
KHALEAH BRADSHAW (N)	6,104	53.26%
VERA ROBLES DEWITT (N)	2,720	23.73%
SHARMA HENDERSON (N)	1,440	12.57%
YOLANDA CHAVEZ (N)	1,196	10.44%

CARSON CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Treasurer

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MONICA COOPER (N)	8,880	76.77%
ISAIAS “ISA” JESUS PULIDO (N)	2,687	23.23%

CARSON CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 2nd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JIM DEAR (N)	1,856	71.52%
OSCAR B. RAMOS (N)	476	18.34%
RICARDO CONTRERAS (N)	263	10.13%

CARSON CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 4th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ARLEEN BOCATIJA ROJAS (N)	1,728	65.18%
FREDERICK DOCDOCIL (N)	923	34.82%

CITY OF COMMERCE SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE SL

Commerce City Council Term Limits. Shall the City of Commerce modify existing term limits on the office of City Councilperson so that term limits allow for the extension of Council terms due to the change of election dates mandated by state law?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	558	51.62%
NO	523	48.38%

Majority of votes cast

CLAREMONT CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 2nd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ED REECE (N)	729	54.61%
PETER S. YAO (N)	606	45.39%

CLAREMONT CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 3rd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JENNIFER STARK (N)	877	74.45%
MAURA CARTER (N)	301	25.55%

CLAREMONT CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 4th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JED LEANO (N)	956	56.24%
AUNDRÉ JOHNSON (N)	744	43.76%

CLAREMONT CITY SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE CT

To fund City services, shall a measure establishing a tax on cannabis and hemp businesses of the following rates: 4%-7% of gross receipts for retail businesses; and the higher of 1%-4% of gross receipts or $1-$10 per square foot for other businesses, with certain rates increasing annually, generating an estimated $500,000 annually if cannabis and hemp businesses were to be authorized in the future, until ended by voters, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	4,627	60.95%
NO	2,964	39.05%

Majority of votes cast

COMPTON CITY SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE AM

Shall the measure amending the Compton City Charter to reduce the number of required monthly regular City Council meetings from four to two be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	2,481	41.01%
NO	3,569	58.99%

Majority of votes cast

COMPTON CITY SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE ED

Shall the measure amending the Compton City Charter to change the City’s general municipal election date to coincide with the statewide primary election, change the date of the City’s primary nominating election to an established election date, and make other related and technical changes to the City’s election procedures and terms of office, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	3,808	63.30%
NO	2,208	36.70%

Majority of votes cast

CUDAHY CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE BA

Cannabis Businesses Accountability Measure To increase funding for parks, recreational programs, roads and sidewalks and other general governmental purposes, shall an ordinance authorizing and regulating storefront retail cannabis sales and other commercial cannabis activities be approved with prohibitions on retail operations within 600 feet of schools, churches, childcare facilities and other sensitive uses and with retailers required to pay a 15% gross receipts tax to raise approximately $3,581,952.75 annually until ended by Cudahy voters?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	504	53.11%
NO	445	46.89%

Majority of votes cast

CUDAHY CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ELIZABETH ALCANTAR (N)	585	30.09%
CYNTHIA GONZALEZ (N)	426	21.91%
MARTIN U. FUENTES (N)	286	14.71%
BLANCA LOZOYA (N)	279	14.35%
MARIA JIMENEZ (N)	185	9.52%
PATRICIA COVARRUBIAS (N)	183	9.41%

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CULVER CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE BL

Measure BL: Shall the measure updating Culver City’s business license tax to either a flat tax up to $1,000, or 0.13%-0.35% of gross receipts (depending on business type), 4% for oil well operations, and an additional 0.01% for gross receipts over $100,000,000, exempting the first $200,000 in gross receipts, updating business classifications, generating approximately $10,000,000 annually, until ended by voters, for such general fund services as emergency response, parks, homelessness services, and requiring annual independent audits, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	4,582	58.05%
NO	3,311	41.95%

Majority of votes cast

CULVER CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE VY

Measure VY: Shall the measure amending the City of Culver City Charter to allow Culver City residents aged 16 and 17, who are otherwise eligible to vote under state and local law, to vote on City and School District candidates and ballot measures, provided that each legislative body has approved budgetary funds and determined logistical systems are in place, and that inclusion would not prevent consolidation of City or School District elections with county elections, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	3,701	45.71%
NO	4,395	54.29%

Majority of votes cast

CULVER CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
DAN O’BRIEN (N)	3,923	26.74%
DENICE RENTERIA (N)	3,244	22.11%
FREDDY PUZA (N)	3,110	21.20%
HARDEN ALEXANDER “ALEX” FISCH (N)	3,025	20.62%
KHIN KHIN GYI (N)	733	5.00%
DEVIN YAEGER (N)	634	4.32%

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DIAMOND BAR CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 1st District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
STEVE TYE (N)	1,263	68.98%
RUBEN TORRES (N)	568	31.02%

DIAMOND BAR CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 3rd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ANDREW CHOU (N)	1,151	79.32%
JIANGUO JASON WANG (N)	300	20.68%

DIAMOND BAR CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 4th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
CHIA YU TENG (N)	833	50.48%
LEE MAO (N)	817	49.52%

DOWNEY CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE D

Downey Transient Occupancy Tax Measure: “Shall the measure to increase the rate of the City’s Transient Occupancy (Room) Tax from 9% to 13%, providing approximately $950,000 annually until ended by voters for general government use such as City parks, streets and public safety, and applying the tax to all rent charged to hotel guests, including by online travel and short term rental companies, for transient occupancy of any hotel, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	3,935	32.55%
NO	8,155	67.45%

Majority of votes cast

DOWNEY CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Council Member, District 2

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
HECTOR SOSA (N)	1,739	62.04%
ANTHONY FELIX (N)	588	20.98%
ART MONTOYA (N)	476	16.98%

DOWNEY CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Council Member, District 4

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
CLAUDIA M. FROMETA (N)	2,420	68.87%
JOAQUÍN BELTRÁN (N)	831	23.65%
JUAN MARTINEZ (N)	263	7.48%

DUARTE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE J

Measure J: An Ordinance Establishing a Healthcare Workers Minimum Wage Ordinance in the City of Duarte Shall an ordinance establishing a minimum wage of at least $25 per hour for defined healthcare workers in the City of Duarte; requiring an annual healthcare workers minimum wage increase beginning January 2024; requiring enforcement at the City’s expense; establishing judicial remedies for violations including penalties up to $120 per healthcare worker for each day a violation occurs, attorneys’ fees, and treble damages be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	1,175	36.03%
NO	2,086	63.97%

Majority of votes cast

DUARTE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 1st District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MARGARET E. FINLAY (N)	447	67.73%
LUZ YESENIA PAEZ (N)	213	32.27%

DUARTE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 4th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
TERA MARTIN DEL CAMPO (N)	329	100.00%

DUARTE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 5th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
SAMUEL KANG (N)	387	100.00%

DUARTE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 6th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
CESAR ANDRES GARCIA (N)	205	61.38%
ART RODRIGUEZ, JR. (N)	129	38.62%

EL MONTE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE OT

To enhance funding for police protection and public safety services, community code enforcement and beautification efforts and other general governmental purposes, shall the City of El Monte increase its existing transient occupancy tax paid only by hotel and motel guests from its current rate 10% to a new increased rate of 14% providing an estimated $350,000 annually in additional general fund revenues, until ended by El Monte voters?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	3,296	51.54%
NO	3,099	48.46%

Majority of votes cast

EL MONTE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Clerk

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
GABRIEL RAMIREZ (N)	3,325	55.96%
CATHERINE A. EREDIA (N)	2,617	44.04%

EL MONTE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Treasurer

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
VIVIANA LONGORIA (N)	3,684	61.43%
RICHARD THOMAS (N)	2,313	38.57%

EL MONTE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Mayor

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JESSICA ANCONA (N)	3,656	57.55%
MARIA MORALES (N)	2,697	42.45%

EL MONTE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 2nd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MARTIN HERRERA (N)	543	52.06%
MARYANN G. BARRIOS (N)	500	47.94%

EL MONTE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 3rd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JULIA RUEDAS (N)	737	71.62%
JOAQUINA QUIÑONES (N)	292	28.38%

EL MONTE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 5th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
RICHARD J. ROJO (N)	351	54.76%
MARIO MARTINEZ (N)	290	45.24%

EL MONTE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 6th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MARISOL CORTEZ (N)	550	61.52%
IRMA ZAMORANO (N)	344	38.48%

EL SEGUNDO CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE BT

Shall an ordinance amending business taxes, including: $150 for specified businesses; for others, $150 up to five employees, $138 per additional employee, and $0.26 to $0.30 per square foot above 2,000 square feet; for apartments and hotels or motels, $150 up to three units or rooms plus $150 for each additional; sunsetting current tax credits; generating approximately $3,000,000 annually for public safety, maintaining parks and streets, and other general purposes, until repealed, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	1,771	48.72%
NO	1,864	51.28%

Majority of votes cast

EL SEGUNDO CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE W

City Initiative for Commercial Cannabis Regulation. Shall an ordinance be adopted to repeal the City’s current prohibition on commercial cannabis activities to authorize commercial cannabis retailers east of Pacific Coast Highway in the Multimedia Overlay District by right, if no less than 1,750 square feet, with sensitive receptor buffers and away from major arterial frontages, subject to a City permitting process; and authorize the City Council to subsequently regulate non-retail cannabis businesses?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	1,497	39.70%
NO	2,274	60.30%

Majority of votes cast

EL SEGUNDO CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE Y

Shall an ordinance (a “yes” vote taxing cannabis does “not” make cannabis businesses legal in El Segundo; it creates a tax in case a cannabis business ever becomes legal) funding general municipal expenses such as police, fire, streets, and parks, by establishing taxes upon cannabis businesses not to exceed $20 per square foot for cultivation and 10% of gross receipts for other cannabis businesses, until ended by voters, generating approximately $600,000 to $1,500,000 annually, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	2,635	70.04%
NO	1,127	29.96%

Majority of votes cast

EL SEGUNDO CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
CHRISTOPHER PIMENTEL (N)	1,692	27.37%
RYAN W. BALDINO (N)	1,669	27.00%
MICHELLE KELDORF (N)	1,472	23.81%
JOHN PICKHAVER (N)	847	13.70%
ROBIN PATCH (N)	502	8.12%

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HAWAIIAN GARDENS CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
DANDY DE PAULA (N)	538	21.15%
MARIA TERESA DEL RIO (N)	467	18.36%
JESSE ALVARADO (N)	409	16.08%
REYNALDO O. RODRIGUEZ (N)	397	15.61%
LUIS ROA (N)	388	15.25%
FRANCISCO NOYOLA (N)	345	13.56%

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HAWAIIAN GARDENS CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council (Unexpired term ending November 5, 2024)

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ERNIE VARGAS (N)	595	60.90%
MICHAEL GOMEZ (N)	382	39.10%

HAWTHORNE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE I

CHARTER ADOPTION. Shall the measure to adopt a Charter to provide the City maximum authority over municipal affairs; allow all Councilmembers to appoint members to City commissions subject to approval of the Council; preserve the authority of the City Attorney to prosecute misdemeanors; and set annual compensation for Councilmembers at the 2021 HUD low-income level for a family of two ($75,700), with any future salary adjustments subject to general law, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	2,819	41.60%
NO	3,958	58.40%

Majority of votes cast

HAWTHORNE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Clerk

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
DAYNA S. WILLIAMS-HUNTER (N)	3,873	60.99%
JOHN L. JEFFERSON (N)	2,477	39.01%

HAWTHORNE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Treasurer

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
GREGORY A. FALLON (N)	3,207	50.96%
MARIE POINDEXTER-HORNBACK (N)	3,086	49.04%

HAWTHORNE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
KATRINA MANNING (N)	2,018	17.75%
ALEXANDRE “ALEX” MONTEIRO (N)	1,813	15.94%
DONNISHA SANFORD (N)	1,774	15.60%
HUGO M. ROJAS (N)	1,444	12.70%
JUAN ANTONIO “TONY” REYNOSO (N)	1,196	10.52%
AMIE SHEPARD (N)	1,132	9.96%
MUHAMAD AWADALLAH (N)	1,066	9.37%
EDDYFUNN IKEMEFUNA (N)	928	8.16%

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HERMOSA BEACH CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE B

To maintain Hermosa Beach’s long-term financial stability with locally controlled funds, to be used for programs such as public safety/911 response, enforcement against property crime; street/pothole repair; protection of beach/coastal waters; school safety; cleaning of public areas; retention/attraction of local businesses; homeless services and for general governmental use; shall an ordinance be adopted establishing a ¾¢ sales tax requiring public spending disclosure/independent audits, generating approximately $3,000,000 annually until ended by voters?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	1,993	43.20%
NO	2,620	56.80%

Majority of votes cast

HERMOSA BEACH CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE M

Shall an ordinance proposed by initiative petition be adopted that repeals the City’s existing ban on cannabis businesses and allows by City-approved permit up to two cannabis retail storefront businesses, including home delivery from those stores?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	1,296	27.36%
NO	3,441	72.64%

Majority of votes cast

HERMOSA BEACH CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE T

Shall an ordinance be adopted enacting a local business tax on cannabis/hemp businesses up to $20.00 per square foot for cultivation and up to 10% of gross receipts for all other cannabis/hemp businesses, estimated to generate $700,000 – $1,500,000 annually (assuming two retail stores operating and taxed at maximum rate), until ended by voters, for general governmental use, subject to independent audits, to be effective only if cannabis business operations are allowed in the City?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	3,073	66.04%
NO	1,580	33.96%

Majority of votes cast

HERMOSA BEACH CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE U

Shall Ordinance No. N.S. 211, establishing a civil service system, adopted on June 7, 1960, be repealed to enable the Hermosa Beach City Council to adopt an updated personnel/civil service ordinance?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	2,646	61.79%
NO	1,636	38.21%

Majority of votes cast

HERMOSA BEACH CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
RAYMOND A. JACKSON (N)	1,864	17.48%
ROB SAEMANN (N)	1,464	13.73%
DEAN FRANCOIS (N)	1,440	13.50%
JEFF RAEDY (N)	1,385	12.99%
DANIEL F. GODWIN (N)	1,218	11.42%
RITA A. GERACE (N)	1,197	11.22%
KIERAN HARRINGTON (N)	1,149	10.77%
MATT MCCOOL (N)	949	8.90%

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HIDDEN HILLS CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
LAURA MCCORKINDALE (N)	326	31.26%
JOE LOGGIA (N)	299	28.67%
BRET KATZ (N)	210	20.13%
LARRY G. WEBER (N)	208	19.94%

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HUNTINGTON PARK CITY SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE PP

Huntington Park Overnight Parking Permit Program A YES vote by the residents will establish a City-Wide Overnight Parking Permit Program on public streets. Should there be a City-wide overnight parking permit program of which times and dates will be set by resolution by the City? Fiscal impact will be minimal because permit fees will offset the City costs of processing the permits.

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	1,443	51.61%
NO	1,353	48.39%

Majority of votes cast

INGLEWOOD CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE HC

Ordinance To Establish Minimum Wage For Certain Employees Of Privately Owned Covered Healthcare Facilities. Shall the ordinance to establish a $25 per hour minimum wage, subject to annual increase, for certain employees employed to work at or by a privately owned covered healthcare facility located within the City of Inglewood, and provide for enforcement by the City, a Healthcare Worker or their representative, or another person acting on behalf of the public be approved?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	6,163	53.49%
NO	5,359	46.51%

Majority of votes cast

INGLEWOOD CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Mayor

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JAMES T. BUTTS (N)	6,432	55.64%
FREDRISHA “SHA” DIXON (N)	1,846	15.97%
MIYA ANGELOU WALKER (N)	1,462	12.65%
RAINA CARRILLO (N)	1,336	11.56%
ANGELIQUE Y. JOHNSON (N)	391	3.38%
CHIKA OGOKE (N)	93	.80%

INGLEWOOD CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 1st District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
GEORGE W. DOTSON (N)	1,199	32.34%
GLORIA GRAY (N)	873	23.54%
YOLANDA DAVIDSON (N)	790	21.31%
ALENA CINDY GIARDINA (N)	386	10.41%
LEONARD REDWAY (N)	331	8.93%
TAJ POWELL (N)	91	2.45%
KEVIN GLENN TAYLOR II (N)	38	1.02%

INGLEWOOD CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 2nd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ALEX PADILLA (N)	1,983	68.03%
BOBBY BROWN (N)	932	31.97%

IRWINDALE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
HECTOR “MANUEL” ORTIZ (N)	203	31.67%
ALBERT F. “ALBIE” AMBRIZ (N)	179	27.93%
JASON L. HICKMAN (N)	138	21.53%
ROSEMARY P. MARTINEZ (N)	121	18.88%

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LA PUENTE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
CHARLIE KLINAKIS (N)	1,691	34.31%
VALERIE MUÑOZ (N)	1,563	31.72%
RICARDO MARTINEZ (N)	945	19.18%
AMADEO RODRIGUEZ (N)	729	14.79%

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LA PUENTE CITY SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council (Unexpired term ending December 10, 2024)

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
NADIA MENDOZA (N)	1,613	55.20%
JOHN MICHAEL SOLIS (N)	1,309	44.80%

LAWNDALE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Clerk

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ERICA HARBISON (N)	2,028	100.00%

LAWNDALE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Mayor

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ROBERT PULLEN-MILES (N)	1,895	77.79%
WARRENDELL JACKSON (N)	541	22.21%

LAWNDALE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
BERNADETTE LOURDES SUAREZ (N)	1,322	34.81%
PAT KEARNEY (N)	901	23.72%
SAMUEL CRUZ (N)	615	16.19%
DAN REID (N)	567	14.93%
WANZA TOLLIVER (N)	393	10.35%

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LONG BEACH CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE BB

Long Beach Water and Gas Consolidation. Shall the City Charter be amended to merge the existing water, sewer and gas utilities into a single publicly-owned utility, governed by the existing independent Water/Utility Commission; eliminate duplicative costs by consolidating like operations, improve customer service efficiency with increased flexibility in sharing of staffing/equipment, reduce impacts to streets through coordinated utility pipeline street repairs; and achieve cost savings through greater economies of scale?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	34,778	63.00%
NO	20,423	37.00%

Majority of votes cast

LONG BEACH CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE E

Shall the Long Beach City Charter be amended to establish a Police Oversight Commission and add a Police Oversight Director, to redesign City’s police oversight and accountability through modified practices, including a Director with authority to audit Police Department complaint investigations, review major use of force incidents, and make recommendations on Police Department operations, policies, procedures, and trainings, and a Commission to provide feedback to the Director, and which would replace the Citizen Police Complaint Commission?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	31,880	57.61%
NO	23,458	42.39%

Majority of votes cast

LONG BEACH CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE LBC

Realign City and State Election Dates Shall the City Charter of Long Beach be amended to realign the City’s primary and general election dates with the State’s primary and general election dates held in even-numbered years, and make other related and technical changes to City election procedures?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	40,003	73.12%
NO	14,709	26.88%

Majority of votes cast

LONG BEACH CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Mayor

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
REX RICHARDSON (N)	30,321	53.40%
SUZIE PRICE (N)	26,462	46.60%

LONG BEACH CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 3rd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
KRISTINA DUGGAN (N)	6,106	60.22%
KAILEE CARUSO (N)	4,034	39.78%

LONG BEACH CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 5th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MEGAN KERR (N)	5,386	50.53%
IAN PATTON (N)	5,273	49.47%

LONG BEACH CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 9th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JONI RICKS-ODDIE (N)	2,127	64.99%
GINNY GONZALES (N)	1,146	35.01%

LOS ANGELES CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE LH

AUTHORIZATION FOR ADDITIONAL LOW-INCOME HOUSING. PROPOSITION LH. Shall a measure authorizing public entities in the City of Los Angeles to develop, construct, or acquire up to 5,000 additional units of low-income rental housing in each Council District to address homelessness and affordable housing needs, subject to availability of funding and City development requirements, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	309,219	66.47%
NO	155,954	33.53%

Majority of votes cast

LOS ANGELES CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE SP

PARKS AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES PARCEL TAX. PROPOSITION SP. Shall an ordinance providing funding for parks, recreational centers, pools, playgrounds, waterways, beaches, green spaces, open spaces, childcare and other facilities, and increasing park equity in the City of Los Angeles, through a tax of $0.08414 per square foot on improved parcels, reduced to $0.0222 upon completion of certain programs or in 30 years, with citizen oversight and exemptions for low-income households, generating approximately $227 million annually, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	166,029	35.66%
NO	299,530	64.34%

Majority of votes cast

LOS ANGELES CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE ULA

FUNDING FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND TENANT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS THROUGH A TAX ON REAL PROPERTY TRANSFERS OVER $5 MILLION. INITIATIVE ORDINANCE ULA. Shall an ordinance funding and authorizing affordable housing programs and resources for tenants at risk of homelessness through a 4% tax on sales/transfers of real property exceeding $5 million, and 5.5% on properties of $10 million or more, with exceptions; until ended by voters; generating approximately $600 million – $1.1 billion annually; be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	251,562	53.56%
NO	218,077	46.44%

Majority of votes cast

LOS ANGELES CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Attorney

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
HYDEE FELDSTEIN SOTO (N)	245,305	57.78%
FAISAL M. GILL (N)	179,236	42.22%

LOS ANGELES CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Controller

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
KENNETH MEJIA (N)	261,832	60.81%
PAUL KORETZ (N)	168,710	39.19%

LOS ANGELES CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Mayor

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
RICK J. CARUSO (N)	252,476	51.25%
KAREN RUTH BASS (N)	240,194	48.75%

LOS ANGELES CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 5th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
KATY YOUNG YAROSLAVSKY (N)	25,420	55.53%
SAM YEBRI (N)	20,357	44.47%

LOS ANGELES CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 11th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
TRACI PARK (N)	28,947	55.46%
ERIN DARLING (N)	23,248	44.54%

LOS ANGELES CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 13th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
HUGO SOTO-MARTINEZ (N)	17,401	52.26%
MITCH O’FARRELL (N)	15,896	47.74%

LOS ANGELES CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 15th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
TIM MCOSKER (N)	15,321	64.83%
DANIELLE SANDOVAL (N)	8,311	35.17%

LYNWOOD CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE TR

Shall the City adopt Ordinance No. 1752 establishing a 5%, but not to exceed 10% tax on businesses selling cannabis products at retail stores in the City to help fund City general fund services such as senior citizen programs, City beautification efforts, enforcement of illegal cannabis operations, public safety, housing programs, recreation services, infrastructure, and homeless reduction and other City efforts? Estimated revenues are $3 to $6 million annually until terminated by the City Council.

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	2,391	65.27%
NO	1,272	34.73%

Majority of votes cast

LYNWOOD CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JOSE LUIS SOLACHE (N)	1,660	20.17%
GABRIELA CAMACHO (N)	1,635	19.87%
MARISELA SANTANA (N)	1,616	19.64%
JUAN MUÑOZ-GUEVARA (N)	1,317	16.00%
LORRAINE AVILA MOORE (N)	1,197	14.54%
JORGE CASANOVA (N)	805	9.78%

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MALIBU CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE MC

To support such city services as public safety, crime and fire prevention, addressing homelessness, keeping public areas safe and clean, preventing speeding and reckless driving, protecting coastal waters and beaches from pollution, preserving natural areas, supporting local businesses, and other general city services; shall a measure be adopted establishing a 1/2¢ transactions and use (sales) tax providing approximately $3,000,000 annually until ended by voters, requiring public spending disclosures and local control of funds?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	1,544	53.09%
NO	1,364	46.91%

Majority of votes cast

MALIBU CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
DOUG STEWART (N)	1,376	27.11%
MARIANNE RIGGINS (N)	1,052	20.72%
BILL SAMPSON (N)	1,029	20.27%
HAP HENRY (N)	814	16.04%
RYAN EMBREE (N)	493	9.71%
JIMY TALLAL (N)	312	6.15%

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MANHATTAN BEACH CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE MB

Shall a measure repealing Manhattan Beach’s existing prohibition of all commercial cannabis activity; allowing three cannabis retailers within city limits; allowing the Manhattan Beach City Council discretion to legalize other cannabis uses; and imposing operational, design, and location requirements on such businesses, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	2,127	21.77%
NO	7,644	78.23%

Majority of votes cast

MANHATTAN BEACH CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE V

Shall the measure readopting Manhattan Beach’s existing: (1) prohibition of all commercial cannabis activities in the City; and (2) allowance of limited indoor cannabis cultivation consistent with state law, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	6,555	67.81%
NO	3,112	32.19%

Majority of votes cast

MANHATTAN BEACH CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
AMY HOWORTH (N)	4,030	22.89%
DAVID LESSER (N)	3,969	22.54%
SUZANNE HADLEY (N)	3,316	18.83%
FRANK CHIELLA (N)	2,163	12.28%
RITA CRABTREE-KAMPE (N)	1,859	10.56%
MARK BURTON (N)	1,782	10.12%
STEWART L. FOURNIER (N)	490	2.78%

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MAYWOOD CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Clerk (Unexpired term ending December 1, 2024)

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ANDREA AGUILAR (N)	1,112	100.00%

MAYWOOD CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MAYRA AGUILUZ (N)	651	21.36%
EDUARDO “EDDIE” DE LA RIVA (N)	645	21.16%
HEBER MARQUEZ (N)	585	19.19%
MARIA ROSAS (N)	456	14.96%
CARMEN PEREZ (N)	425	13.94%
CARLOS ALVAREZ (N)	286	9.38%

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MONTEBELLO CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Treasurer

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
DAVID MATANGA (N)	3,171	61.03%
OSVALDO LIRA (N)	2,025	38.97%

MONTEBELLO CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 1st District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
GEORGINA TAMAYO (N)	623	35.74%
KIMBERLY A. COBOS-CAWTHORNE (N)	554	31.78%
ROSIE VASQUEZ (N)	384	22.03%
EDWARD FRANCO (N)	182	10.44%

MONTEBELLO CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 2nd District (Unexpired term ending November 5, 2024)

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
SCARLET PERALTA (N)	726	65.46%
STEVEN ANDRADE (N)	383	34.54%

MONTEBELLO CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 3rd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
SALVADOR MELENDEZ (N)	501	54.10%
MARIE LEDEZMA (N)	425	45.90%

MONTEBELLO CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 4th District (Unexpired term ending November 5, 2024)

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
DAVID TORRES (N)	635	60.42%
RAFAEL GUTIERREZ (N)	416	39.58%

MONTEBELLO CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 5th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ANGIE JIMENEZ (N)	384	42.86%
RICK ALONZO (N)	333	37.17%
JOSEPH R. SANCHEZ (N)	142	15.85%
EDUARDO GARFIAS (N)	37	4.13%

MONTEREY PARK CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE MP

Shall an ordinance maintaining Monterey Park’s long term financial stability and locally controlled services such as 9-1-1 emergency/safety response; conducting neighborhood/park police patrols; helping prevent thefts/property crimes; protecting local drinking water; preparing for drought; retaining/attracting local businesses/jobs; repairing streets/potholes; addressing homelessness; and allowing other government use by establishing a ¾¢ transactions and use (sales) tax until ended by voters, generating approximately $6,000,000 annually, with audits/public spending disclosure, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	3,733	58.75%
NO	2,621	41.25%

Majority of votes cast

MONTEREY PARK CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Clerk

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MAYCHELLE YEE (N)	3,149	53.36%
HANS LIANG (N)	2,752	46.64%

MONTEREY PARK CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Treasurer

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
AMY LEE (N)	3,094	52.45%
VINCENT DIONICIO CHANG (N)	2,805	47.55%

MONTEREY PARK CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 1st District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
THOMAS WONG (N)	909	69.07%
JASON DHING (N)	407	30.93%

MONTEREY PARK CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 5th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
VINH T. NGO (N)	786	55.43%
TERESA REAL SEBASTIAN (N)	495	34.91%
JOE RAY AVILA (N)	75	5.29%
DELARIO M. ROBINSON (N)	62	4.37%

MONTEREY PARK CITY SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 3rd District (Unexpired term ending November 5, 2024)

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JOSE SANCHEZ (N)	750	60.05%
TAMMY C. WONG (N)	499	39.95%

NORWALK CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JENNIFER PEREZ (N)	3,925	26.02%
TONY AYALA (N)	3,912	25.93%
PETRA PEÑA (N)	2,710	17.96%
LUIS NAVAS (N)	2,290	15.18%
DORA SANDOVAL (N)	2,250	14.91%

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PALMDALE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 3rd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
LAURA BETTENCOURT (N)	1,223	46.95%
DAVE T. GOMEZ (N)	786	30.17%
MARCOS T. ALVAREZ (N)	596	22.88%

PALMDALE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 4th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ERIC OHLSEN (N)	1,164	47.55%
VERGION JESSE SMITH (N)	674	27.53%
GETRO F. ELIZE (N)	610	24.92%

PALMDALE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 5th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ANDREA ALARCON (N)	1,276	59.60%
ERIKA GLORIA ALVERDI (N)	509	23.77%
MARIO MOISES MELARA (N)	356	16.63%

PALOS VERDES ESTATES CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
VICTORIA A. LOZZI (N)	2,529	28.68%
MICHAEL KEMPS (N)	2,459	27.89%
DAVID MCGOWAN (N)	2,157	24.46%
DESIREE “DEZ” MYERS (N)	1,672	18.96%

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PASADENA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE H

Pasadena Charter Amendment Initiative Petition Measure Imposing Rent Control Shall an amendment to the Pasadena City Charter limiting rent adjustments in the City of Pasadena annually to 75% of the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for multifamily rental units built before February 1, 1995; prohibiting evictions from rental units, except for just cause based on 11 specified criteria; and creating an independent Rental Housing Board appointed by the City Council to oversee and adopt rules and regulations, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	11,939	50.27%
NO	11,810	49.73%

Majority of votes cast

PASADENA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE L

Pasadena Public Library Services Continuation Measure To keep City libraries well-maintained; provide books/materials, youth reading/homework programs; maintain library hours/days open; retain qualified librarians; ensure computer access; shall the City of Pasadena continue the voter-approved annual parcel tax, currently $41 for single-family residences and condominium units and specified rates for other parcel types, generating $2,800,000 annually for 15 years, limiting annual increases to the Consumer Price Index; requiring audits, locally controlled funds, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	19,671	81.63%
NO	4,426	18.37%

2/3 of votes cast

PICO RIVERA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE AB

To improve 911 response, prevent crime/thefts; protect local drinking water sources; repair streets/potholes; address homelessness; other general City services; shall an ordinance to simplify/update Pico Rivera’s 64-year-old business license fee, to protect local small businesses and ensure all businesses operating in the City pay their fair share; with no tax increase on residents, be adopted, generating approximately $5,800,000 annually until ended by voters; requiring City spending disclosure/local control of funds?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	4,709	73.95%
NO	1,659	26.05%

Majority of votes cast

PICO RIVERA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE F

Term Limits for Members of the City Council Shall the terms served by City Council Members in the City of Pico Rivera be limited to not more than three (3) consecutive four (4) year terms, after which City Council Member shall not be qualified to serve in that elected office for a period of four (4) years?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	5,361	84.25%
NO	1,002	15.75%

Majority of votes cast

PICO RIVERA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
GUSTAVO V. CAMACHO (N)	3,513	34.61%
JOHN “JOHNNY” GARCIA (N)	2,766	27.25%
RAUL ELIAS (N)	2,002	19.72%
ANTONIO “TONY” HERNANDEZ (N)	1,869	18.41%

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POMONA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE PC

For the Campaign Finance Measure: Shall the City Charter be amended to change the City’s campaign finance and conflict of interest laws; including updates to the City’s campaign contribution limits, voluntary expenditure ceiling, rules for use of surplus campaign funds, and mandating disclosure of certain campaign contributions by a Councilmember prior to casting a vote on a City matter where the contributor is the applicant?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	7,824	72.24%
NO	3,006	27.76%

Majority of votes cast

POMONA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE PE

For the Ethics Commission Measure Shall the City Charter be amended to create an ethics commission of Pomona residents who shall be responsible for monitoring, advising, educating and responding to issues regarding applicable State and local governmental ethics laws, including campaign finance limits and disclosure, nepotism, lobbying, conflict of interest and open meeting laws, and for the administration and implementation of programs to accomplish the goals and purposes of the commission?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	7,782	69.51%
NO	3,413	30.49%

Majority of votes cast

POMONA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE PG

For the General Charter Update Measure: Shall the City Charter be amended to make various updates and clarifications to City policy, including addition of a preamble outlining the City’s values, updating rules for filling Mayoral and Council vacancies, increasing notice of public meetings, updating rules for appointed commissions and boards, and making various other technical changes as specified therein?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	7,580	70.49%
NO	3,173	29.51%

Majority of votes cast

POMONA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE PI

For the Independent Redistricting Commission Measure: Shall the City Charter be amended to create an independent citizens’ redistricting commission of Pomona residents who shall determine the boundaries of City Council electoral districts every ten years or as needed after the United States Census in accordance with applicable Federal and State law?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	6,958	63.23%
NO	4,046	36.77%

Majority of votes cast

POMONA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE PL

For the Local Primary Measure: Shall the City Charter be amended to establish a local primary election for the office of Mayor and City Councilmember to coincide with the Statewide Primary Election, beginning in the year 2024; whereby if a candidate secures majority voter approval in the local primary, he or she will be elected, and if no candidate secures majority voter approval, the top two candidates shall stand for a run-off election to coincide with the Statewide General Election?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	8,054	73.92%
NO	2,841	26.08%

Majority of votes cast

POMONA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE PO

For the Police Oversight Commission Measure Shall the City Charter be amended to create a police oversight commission of Pomona residents who shall be authorized to receive community complaints and concerns about police matters; to review, investigate and report on incidents in connection with the Pomona Police Department; and to advise City officials and conduct public outreach on policing/community relations issues?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	7,712	67.83%
NO	3,657	32.17%

Majority of votes cast

POMONA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE PR

For the Resign to Run Measure: Shall the City Charter be amended to establish a “resign to run” rule whereby any current City Councilmember running for Mayor must resign his or her Council seat if the new Mayoral term will begin before the City Councilmember’s current term ends?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	7,417	67.69%
NO	3,541	32.31%

Majority of votes cast

POMONA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE PS

Shall the City of Pomona adopt the measure enacting a $0.15 per gross square foot special tax on industrial parcels located within the City, subject to annual CPI adjustment, generating approximately $14,000,000 annually in dedicated revenue that may be used solely for the capital improvement, operation, maintenance, repair and/or restoration of Pomona public streets, roadways, sidewalks, roadway lighting, traffic signals or other right of way improvements that implement a Complete Streets Plan, until ended by voters?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	5,943	53.53%
NO	5,160	46.47%

2/3 of votes cast

POMONA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE PT

For the Term Limits Measure: Shall the City Charter be amended to enact a three consecutive term limit on elected service in Pomona, whether serving as Mayor or as a Council Member, followed by a four-year “cooling off” period after serving three consecutive terms during which a person may not serve on the City Council?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	8,232	74.13%
NO	2,873	25.87%

Majority of votes cast

POMONA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 2nd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
VICTOR PRECIADO (N)	616	50.12%
JACKY ELIZALDE (N)	613	49.88%

POMONA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 3rd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
NORA GARCIA (N)	793	69.02%
LARRY ORTEGA (N)	356	30.98%

POMONA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 5th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
STEVE LUSTRO (N)	1,971	70.22%
DE’ANDRE VALENCIA (N)	836	29.78%

RANCHO PALOS VERDES CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
DAVID L. BRADLEY (N)	5,950	25.79%
BARBARA FERRARO (N)	4,975	21.56%
PAUL SEO (N)	4,551	19.73%
STEPHEN PERESTAM (N)	3,779	16.38%
KEVIN JAY YOURMAN (N)	2,421	10.49%
MICHELE P. CARBONE (N)	1,396	6.05%

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ROLLING HILLS CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
PAT WILSON (N)	341	24.91%
LEAH MIRSCH (N)	323	23.59%
JAMES BLACK (N)	319	23.30%
ARUN “ABLE” BHUMITRA (N)	276	20.16%
JAMES H. AICHELE (N)	110	8.04%

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SAN FERNANDO CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JOEL FAJARDO (N)	1,111	26.87%
MARY MENDOZA (N)	879	21.26%
MARY SOLORIO (N)	744	17.99%
SYLVIA BALLIN (N)	730	17.65%
VICTORIA GARCIA (N)	671	16.23%

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SAN GABRIEL CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Clerk

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
THU “JULIE” NGUYEN (N)	2,222	64.95%
MARY ACUNA GARCIA (N)	1,199	35.05%

SAN GABRIEL CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Treasurer

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
KEVIN B. SAWKINS (N)	2,369	72.27%
DAVID LOCALIO (N)	909	27.73%

SAN GABRIEL CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JOHN WU (N)	1,913	21.36%
DENISE MENCHACA (N)	1,504	16.79%
ERIC CHAN (N)	1,487	16.60%
JORGE HERRERA AVILA (N)	1,122	12.53%
CARINA RIVERA (N)	1,041	11.62%
JEANNE E. RAYA (N)	1,018	11.36%
REYNA ISELA LOPEZ BOWLES (N)	873	9.75%

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SAN MARINO CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE Z

Shall the measure to levy an annual special parcel tax on specified vacant commercial and residential properties within the City of San Marino to fund public safety services (including police, fire protection, and code enforcement), maintenance of school facilities and school staffing, in the flat amount of $10,000, estimated to generate $4,700,000 annually (assuming a 10% vacancy rate), subject to an annual cost of living increase, for ten years, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	1,492	55.22%
NO	1,210	44.78%

2/3 of votes cast

SAN MARINO CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
GRETCHEN SHEPHERD ROMEY (N)	1,415	22.71%
TONY CHOU (N)	1,304	20.92%
CALVIN LO (N)	1,249	20.04%
SUBHADRA SU VISWANATHAN (N)	788	12.64%
DIANA MILKIE NIXON (N)	541	8.68%
GRANT FUJIWARA (N)	533	8.55%
STEVEN JONES (N)	402	6.45%

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SANTA CLARITA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
BILL MIRANDA (N)	19,491	20.30%
LAURENE WESTE (N)	19,398	20.20%
MARSHA MCLEAN (N)	16,537	17.22%
DENISE LITE (N)	15,008	15.63%
SELINA M. THOMAS (N)	7,885	8.21%
JEFFREY MALICK (N)	7,530	7.84%
DAVID BARLAVI (N)	6,753	7.03%
DOUGLAS FRASER (N)	2,337	2.43%
KODY AMOUR (N)	1,071	1.12%

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SANTA FE SPRINGS CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JUANITA MARTIN (N)	1,138	20.12%
BILL ROUNDS (N)	1,128	19.94%
ANNETTE RODRIGUEZ (N)	1,070	18.91%
JOHN MORA (N)	1,001	17.69%
GABRIEL JIMENEZ (N)	757	13.38%
BLAKE CARTER (N)	563	9.95%

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SANTA MONICA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE CS

MEASURE CS: To address homelessness, improve 911 emergency response times and neighborhood police protection, make public areas safer and cleaner, including streets, sidewalks, parks, and the beach, and provide other vital City services, shall the City of Santa Monica increase the transient occupancy tax – which is paid entirely by overnight visitors – by 1% for hotels and motels, and by 3% for home-shares, providing approximately $4.1 million annually, until ended by voters, with all funds benefitting Santa Monica?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	12,828	72.26%
NO	4,925	27.74%

Majority of votes cast

SANTA MONICA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE DT

MEASURE DT: Shall the measure to enhance the City of Santa Monica’s general governmental services by increasing the one-time tax on real property sales over $8 million, and establishing an additional incremental tax of $25.00 per $1000 of the value in excess of $8 million, excepting transfers: per State law, involving tax-exempt charitable organizations, and certain ground leases; providing an estimated $12-25 million annually through February 28, 2033, subject to a five-year extension by Council supermajority vote, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	5,879	34.06%
NO	11,381	65.94%

Majority of votes cast

SANTA MONICA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE DTS

MEASURE DTS: ADVISORY VOTE ONLY: If the “Comprehensive Real Property Transfer Tax Measure” is enacted, should at least 30% of its additional revenue be used for housing assistance to protect seniors and low-income families from housing displacement, with the remainder of the additional revenue to be used for homelessness services; behavioral health services; public safety and emergency response teams for City streets and parks; reopening public libraries; after-school programs; and crossing guards near public schools?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	9,287	56.61%
NO	7,117	43.39%

Majority of votes cast

SANTA MONICA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE EM

PROPOSITION EM: Shall the City Charter be amended to allow the Rent Control Board to disallow or modify annual general rent adjustments for rent controlled units during a declared state of emergency by the President of the United States, the Governor, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Officer, or the City Council or Director of Emergency Services while maintaining the landlord’s ability to petition for a rent adjustment per Section 1805 of the City Charter?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	9,566	57.32%
NO	7,122	42.68%

Majority of votes cast

SANTA MONICA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE GS

MEASURE GS: Shall the measure adding Santa Monica Municipal Code Chapter 4.90 to establish designated funds for schools, homelessness prevention, and affordable housing, and an eleven-member resident oversight committee, and amending Chapter 6.96 to provide a third tier transfer tax rate of $56.000 per $1,000 of value for property transfers of $8,000,000 or more, providing an estimated $50,000,000 annually for homelessness prevention, affordable housing, and schools, until repealed, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	9,075	51.82%
NO	8,437	48.18%

Majority of votes cast

SANTA MONICA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE HMP

Measure HMP: Shall the measure to establish a business tax on every licensed cannabis business (including adult-use nonmedicinal cannabis retailers, distribution, manufacturing, cultivation, laboratory testing, or any other licensed cannabis business) and retailers of products containing psychoactive cannabinoids, including cannabinoids derived from industrial hemp, up to 10% of gross receipts on cannabis and/or hemp-derived psychoactive products sold in the City, which all together could generate an estimated $3-5 million annually until repealed, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	11,374	66.22%
NO	5,803	33.78%

Majority of votes cast

SANTA MONICA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE PB

MEASURE PB: Shall the City Charter be amended to: (a) expand eligibility requirements for service on the City’s Personnel Board to include, in addition to City of Santa Monica (“City”) residents, residents of Los Angeles County that are employed full-time within the City, or own real property in the City, or have been issued a business license by the City; and (b) reduce the term of service for Personnel Board members from five to four years?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	9,711	59.48%
NO	6,616	40.52%

Majority of votes cast

SANTA MONICA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE RC

PROPOSITION RC: Shall the City Charter be amended to require intended owner occupancy of rent-controlled units for two years before tenant eviction; require owner occupancy within 60 days of vacancy; reduce the maximum Annual General Adjustment from 6% to 0.8% from 2/1/23 through 8/31/23, or average not to exceed 3%, with a 3% maximum Annual General Adjustment thereafter; and require elections only if the number of qualified candidates exceeds the number of open Board positions?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	9,412	56.89%
NO	7,133	43.11%

Majority of votes cast

SANTA MONICA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
CAROLINE M. TOROSIS (N)	8,327	18.91%
JESSE ZWICK (N)	7,321	16.63%
LANA NEGRETE (N)	5,494	12.48%
ELLIS RASKIN (N)	5,002	11.36%
ARMEN MELKONIANS (N)	4,994	11.34%
NATALYA ZERNITSKAYA (N)	4,943	11.23%
WHITNEY BAIN (N)	1,937	4.40%
ALBIN GIELICZ (N)	1,729	3.93%
TROY HARRIS (N)	1,578	3.58%
SAMANTHA MOTA (N)	1,046	2.38%
JONATHAN MANN (N)	913	2.07%
ARTHUR JEON (N)	742	1.69%

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SANTA MONICA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the Rent Control Board

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ERICKA LESLEY (N)	9,938	36.13%
DANIEL S. IVANOV (N)	9,207	33.48%
KURT GONSKA (N)	8,359	30.39%

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SIERRA MADRE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE HR

Shall the general plan land use designation change from “Institutional” to “Hillside” and the zoning designation change from “Institutional” to “Hillside Management” for the Mater Dolorosa Property?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	1,160	39.84%
NO	1,752	60.16%

Majority of votes cast

SIERRA MADRE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
KRIS LOWE (N)	1,583	23.60%
GENE GOSS (N)	1,541	22.97%
EDWARD GARCIA (N)	1,447	21.57%
COLIN BARR (N)	1,246	18.57%
CHRISTINE MORAN (N)	892	13.30%

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SIGNAL HILL CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Clerk

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
CARMEN BROOKS (N)	1,375	100.00%

SIGNAL HILL CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Treasurer

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
DAVID HOPPER (N)	1,377	100.00%

SIGNAL HILL CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
KEIR JONES (N)	962	37.01%
TINA L. HANSEN (N)	950	36.55%
RICHARD DASKAM (N)	401	15.43%
SALVADOR HERNANDEZ (N)	286	11.00%

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SOUTH EL MONTE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE CM

Shall the measure, permitting and thoroughly regulating limited cannabis retail businesses (1 adult-use/medical with option of up to 3 total after the measure’s 1st year), establishing a general tax at a maximum 8% of noncultivation cannabis business proceeds and $25/square foot of cultivation space (with CPI increases) applicable to permitted/unpermitted businesses, generating approximately $720,000 annually until ended by voters, for general City services (e.g., police, maintenance), be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	756	53.85%
NO	648	46.15%

Majority of votes cast

SOUTH EL MONTE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE X

Shall the measure, permitting/regulating limited cannabis businesses (5 dispensaries, 2 cultivation, 1 testing facility, 2 manufactures/distributors); regulating personal cannabis use; establishing a maximum 6% special excise tax on retail cannabis/edibles sales generating approximately $126,000 annually until ended by voters for implementation costs, clinical trials, municipalities where cannabis business are located, senior/youth programs, infrastructure (streets/roads/sidewalks), public safety (sheriffs/fire department), existing/future commercial, industrial, and affordable housing developments, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	615	44.66%
NO	762	55.34%

Majority of votes cast

SOUTH EL MONTE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MANUEL “MANNY” ACOSTA (N)	879	40.08%
GRACIE RETAMOZA (N)	662	30.19%
RUDY BOJORQUEZ (N)	652	29.73%

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SOUTH GATE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE PD

Business License Tax Measure. To assist in maintaining public safety, repair streets, maintain parks, services for seniors, and other general city services, shall the annual taxes and solid waste processing fees paid by Material Recovery Facilities be increased to $500 plus $1.94 per ton and annual CPI adjustment, and provide for increases every three years to all other Business License Taxes based on cost of living increases, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	2,584	46.74%
NO	2,944	53.26%

Majority of votes cast

SOUTH GATE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Clerk

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YODIT GLAZE (N)	4,614	100.00%

SOUTH GATE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Treasurer

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JOSE DELAPAZ (N)	2,759	53.26%
GREG MARTINEZ (N)	2,421	46.74%

SOUTH GATE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
AL RIOS (N)	2,273	27.81%
JOSHUA BARRON (N)	2,151	26.32%
RUBY M. NAVARRO (N)	1,425	17.44%
JOVANNA LABORIN (N)	1,071	13.11%
ROBERT MONTALVO (N)	879	10.76%
ADOLFO VARAS (N)	373	4.56%

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SOUTH PASADENA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – MEASURE LL

To maintain funding for the operation and maintenance of the South Pasadena Public Library, including technology upgrades, resources for students, and programs such as family story time and summer reading, shall an ordinance be adopted extending South Pasadena’s Library Special Tax, which is due to expire on June 30, 2024, to remain in effect until otherwise terminated by a majority vote of the South Pasadena electorate?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	4,404	83.35%
NO	880	16.65%

2/3 of votes cast

SOUTH PASADENA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Treasurer

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ZHEN TAO (N)	2,879	63.08%
ALAN M. EHRLICH (N)	1,685	36.92%

SOUTH PASADENA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 4th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MICHAEL A. CACCIOTTI (N)	798	100.00%

SOUTH PASADENA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 5th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JANET BRAUN (N)	988	100.00%

WEST COVINA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Clerk

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
NICKOLAS LEWIS (N)	9,536	100.00%

WEST COVINA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION City Treasurer

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
COLLEEN B. ROZATTI (N)	5,193	47.23%
MARSHA SOLORIO (N)	3,594	32.68%
SUE AUGINO (N)	2,209	20.09%

WEST COVINA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 2nd District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
LETTY LOPEZ (N)	1,883	100.00%

WEST COVINA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 4th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
OLLIE CANTOS (N)	1,161	45.37%
DANIEL LUNA (N)	842	32.90%
YARA WOLFF (N)	556	21.73%

WEST COVINA CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council, 5th District

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
TONY WU (N)	1,181	44.58%
FREDRICK SYKES (N)	1,001	37.79%
RICHARD REYES (N)	369	13.93%
HOSSEIN RAMBOD SOTOODEH (N)	98	3.70%

WEST HOLLYWOOD CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
LAUREN MEISTER (N)	3,388	17.54%
JOHN HEILMAN (N)	2,296	11.88%
JOHN DURAN (N)	2,087	10.80%
ROBERT OLIVER (N)	1,848	9.57%
CHELSEA BYERS (N)	1,796	9.30%
ZEKIAH N. WRIGHT (N)	1,673	8.66%
STEVE MARTIN (N)	1,375	7.12%
SARAH ADOLPHSON (N)	1,247	6.45%
BEN SAVAGE (N)	1,186	6.14%
MARQUITA THOMAS (N)	1,037	5.37%
JORDAN COCKERAM (N)	990	5.12%
ADAM DARVISH (N)	396	2.05%

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WESTLAKE VILLAGE CITY GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION Member of the City Council

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
BRAD HALPERN (N)	1,648	28.43%
SUSAN MCSWEENEY (N)	1,382	23.84%
RAY PEARL (N)	1,349	23.27%
MARC BAKERMAN (N)	779	13.44%
PAM JOHNSON (N)	639	11.02%

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Schools

ABC UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 2

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
SOO YOO (N)	1,518	57.52%
BRIAN LOUIS FERRER (N)	1,121	42.48%

ABC UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 3

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ERNIE NISHII (N)	1,605	69.18%
SAM DESAI (N)	715	30.82%

ABC UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 6

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
OLGA RIOS (N)	641	50.00%
VERONICA MICHELLE LUCIO (N)	641	50.00%

ANTELOPE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 2

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
STEVE D. BUFFALO (N)	3,936	57.03%
MIGUEL S. CORONADO (N)	1,840	26.66%
GIOVANNI CHRISTON-POPE (N)	1,126	16.31%

ANTELOPE VALLEY JOINT UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 1

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
CHARLES F. HUGHES (N)	6,823	55.61%
SUSAN STROM (N)	5,446	44.39%

ANTELOPE VALLEY JOINT UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 4

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
CARLA CORONA (N)	2,433	46.48%
RAQUEL ALVA DERFLER (N)	1,759	33.60%
JUAN BLANCO (N)	1,043	19.92%

ANTELOPE VALLEY JOINT UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 5

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MIGUEL SANCHEZ (N)	4,003	62.62%
VLADIMIR GOMEZ (N)	2,390	37.38%

AZUSA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 3

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
SANDRA BENAVIDES (N)	591	53.73%
DIANA REYES WILLIAMS (N)	509	46.27%

BALDWIN PARK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JOHN BERNARD DE LEON (N)	3,090	40.74%
DEANNA CORONADO ROBLES (N)	2,265	29.86%
ANNALYNN C. APOLINARIO (N)	2,230	29.40%

Vote for no more than two

BASSETT UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
DOLORES CASTRO RIVERA (N)	1,056	28.75%
PATRICE STANZIONE (N)	1,039	28.29%
AARON SIMENTAL (N)	798	21.73%
VIRGINIA GARCIA (N)	780	21.24%

Vote for no more than three

BELLFLOWER UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
BRAD CRIHFIELD (N)	4,426	26.22%
AMIE M. STEWART (N)	4,189	24.81%
RENITA ARMSTRONG (N)	3,836	22.72%
TOMAS IVENS (N)	3,165	18.75%
RICHARD O. DOWNING (N)	1,266	7.50%

Vote for no more than three

BEVERLY HILLS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
RACHELLE MARCUS (N)	3,184	32.45%
JUDITH MANOUCHEHRI (N)	2,906	29.62%
MICHAL A. SALKIN (N)	1,804	18.39%
FARRAH DODES (N)	1,502	15.31%
JANESSA LAVOICE (N)	416	4.24%

Vote for no more than two

BONITA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 2

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
DEREK HAMID BAHMANOU (N)	1,069	58.38%
CRYSTAL JONES-BACON (N)	762	41.62%

BONITA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 3

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JIM ELLIOT (N)	1,420	59.29%
JOSEPH M. MUSGROVE (N)	975	40.71%

BONITA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT SPECIAL ELECTION Governing Board Member (Unexpired term ending December 13, 2024)

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
CHRIS ANN HORSLEY (N)	6,328	56.47%
BRITTANY ALLISON (N)	4,878	43.53%

BURBANK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
CHARLENE TABET (N)	5,240	21.48%
ABBY PONTZER KAMKAR (N)	4,957	20.32%
LARRY APPLEBAUM (N)	4,873	19.97%
BRIAN J. SMITH (N)	4,314	17.68%
HARUTYUN KETIKYAN (N)	1,879	7.70%
JAMES L. MORRISON (N)	1,661	6.81%
MICHAEL MORGAN (N)	1,476	6.05%

Vote for no more than two

CASTAIC UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area E

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MAYREEN BURK (N)	396	61.59%
TRACY FORD (N)	247	38.41%

CENTINELA VALLEY UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 1

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MARISELA RUIZ (N)	7,845	100.00%

CENTINELA VALLEY UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 2

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
HUGO M. ROJAS (N)	7,850	100.00%

CENTINELA VALLEY UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 5

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ESTEFANY ALEJANDRA CASTANEDA (N)	4,889	58.23%
VIRGINIA V. GOMEZ (N)	3,507	41.77%

CERRITOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 7

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ZURICH LEWIS (N)	4,304	65.43%
ANGELO GANDALF MALDONADO (N)	2,274	34.57%

CERRITOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT SPECIAL ELECTION – MEASURE CC

CERRITOS COLLEGE SAFETY, REPAIR, CAREER TRAINING MEASURE. To repair, upgrade, and replace instructional, training, and support facilities; remove asbestos/ lead paint; maintain safe drinking water; earthquake/fire safety; prepare local workforce, students/veterans with modern job training and university transfer; acquire equipment, facilities, sites, shall Cerritos Community College District’s measure authorizing $425,000,000 in bonds at legal rates, levying $25/$100,000 assessed valuation, raising $19,000,000 annually while bonds are outstanding, be adopted, requiring independent audits/ public disclosure of spending?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	26,568	55.35%
NO	21,434	44.65%

55% of votes cast

CITRUS COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 3

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
CHERYL A. ALEXANDER (N)	1,995	53.47%
PAUL NACCACHIAN (N)	945	25.33%
IRENE MURRAY (N)	791	21.20%

CLAREMONT UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 4

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
STEVEN LLANUSA (N)	1,060	51.73%
AARON T. PETERSON (N)	989	48.27%

COMPTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 1

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ANDRES RAMOS (N)	1,522	51.51%
ANTHONY PERRY (N)	896	30.32%
SKYY D. FISHER (N)	537	18.17%

COMPTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 4

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JUANITA DOPLEMORE (N)	2,386	71.65%
ALFREDO BAÑUELOS (N)	944	28.35%

COMPTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 5

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
SHARONI DENISE LITTLE (N)	2,752	55.31%
LETICIA VASQUEZ WILSON (N)	2,224	44.69%

COMPTON UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT SPECIAL ELECTION – MEASURE AAA

To fix deteriorating roofs, plumbing, heating, electrical, and other systems, enhance school safety, and construct, reconstruct, renovate, rehabilitate and modernize classrooms, sites and facilities, including media and performing arts centers, technology centers and athletic complexes, shall Compton Unified School District’s measure authorizing $350,000,000 in bonds at legal rates be adopted, levying $0.06 per $100 of assessed valuation ($21,526,770 annually) while bonds are outstanding, with mandatory audits, citizen oversight, no money for administrator salaries, and all money staying local?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	7,375	71.06%
NO	3,004	28.94%

55% of votes cast

COVINA-VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 4

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JOHN P. SIMON WRIGHT (N)	1,296	57.81%
GARY C. RODRIGUEZ (N)	946	42.19%

CULVER CITY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
BRIAN GUERRERO (N)	3,202	16.66%
TRISTON EZIDORE (N)	3,040	15.81%
STEPHANIE LOREDO (N)	2,971	15.45%
HOWARD ADELMAN (N)	2,712	14.11%
DARREL MENTHE (N)	2,690	13.99%
SUMMER MCBRIDE (N)	2,474	12.87%
MARCI BAUN (N)	2,136	11.11%

Vote for no more than three

DOWNEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT SPECIAL ELECTION – MEASURE K

To repair and improve Downey’s aging neighborhood schools, improve school safety/security systems, fix deteriorating roofs, plumbing, electrical, ventilation; repair, construct, acquire classrooms, labs, facilities/ equipment, support student achievement and college/career readiness in math, science, technology, engineering, arts/ skilled trades, shall Downey Unified School District’s measure be adopted authorizing $504,000,000 in bonds at legal rates, levying 5 cents per $100 assessed value ($20,000,000 annually) while bonds are outstanding, with independent citizen oversight and all money locally-controlled?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	7,230	55.42%
NO	5,817	44.58%

55% of votes cast

DUARTE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 4

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ROSA E. HOLGUIN (N)	351	57.45%
ALTON W. PRESTON (N)	260	42.55%

DUARTE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 5

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
REYNA E. DIAZ (N)	297	72.44%
BETTY SANCHEZ (N)	113	27.56%

DUARTE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT SPECIAL ELECTION Governing Board Member (Unexpired term ending December 13, 2024)

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
KEN BELL (N)	1,990	55.63%
TOM N. REYES (N)	1,587	44.37%

EASTSIDE UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT SPECIAL ELECTION – MEASURE ES

To repair and improve East Lancaster’s aging neighborhood elementary and middle schools, fix deteriorating roofs, plumbing, electrical systems, upgrade school safety systems, repair, construct, and acquire classrooms, labs, facilities/ equipment, support hands-on instruction in math, science/ technology, shall Eastside Union School District’s measure be adopted authorizing $23,000,000 in bonds, without raising taxes above current rates, levying 3 cents per $100 assessed value ($1,000,000 annually) while bonds are outstanding, with independent citizen oversight and all money locally-controlled?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	1,545	62.42%
NO	930	37.58%

55% of votes cast

EL MONTE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
LISETTE IDALIA MENDEZ (N)	3,083	28.48%
ELIZABETH “BETH” RIVAS (N)	3,043	28.11%
CHRISTINA FLORES (N)	2,534	23.41%
V. “MAJOR” PATEL (N)	2,164	19.99%

Vote for no more than three

EL MONTE UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 4

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
FLORENCIO BRIONES (N)	761	51.14%
SALVADOR RAMIREZ (N)	727	48.86%

EL MONTE UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 5

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
RICARDO PADILLA (N)	1,117	55.41%
RUBY ROSE YEPEZ (N)	657	32.59%
MICHAEL LINN GEORGIA (N)	242	12.00%

EL RANCHO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ESTHER MEJIA (N)	2,928	23.62%
JOHN CONTRERAS (N)	2,646	21.35%
HECTOR LAFARGA JR (N)	2,334	18.83%
JACQUELINE PEREZ VALENCIA (N)	2,330	18.80%
CAROLYN CASTILLO (N)	2,158	17.41%

Vote for no more than three

EL SEGUNDO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
TRACEY I. MILLER-ZARNEKE (N)	1,906	24.08%
MEREDITH J. BEACHLY (N)	1,763	22.27%
FRANK GLYNN (N)	1,594	20.14%
YADRANKA LUCIA DRASKOVIC (N)	1,365	17.24%
DAWN GARRETT (N)	1,288	16.27%

Vote for no more than three

GLENDORA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 1

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
GARY CLIFFORD (N)	1,051	60.40%
ZONDRA BORG (N)	689	39.60%

GLENDORA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 2

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
SHAUNNA ELIAS (N)	1,052	53.51%
MONICA GARCIA (N)	914	46.49%

HACIENDA LA PUENTE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 2

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
NANCY LOERA (N)	930	54.42%
NOEMI AGUILAR (N)	461	26.97%
PALOMA CAROLINA ORTIZ-ROJAS (N)	318	18.61%

HACIENDA LA PUENTE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 4

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
GINO KWOK (N)	2,240	74.10%
ELKE TAPIA (N)	783	25.90%

HACIENDA LA PUENTE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 5

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JEFFREY DE LA TORRE (N)	1,821	61.58%
TIM FOX (N)	812	27.46%
RICHARD BERGERON (N)	324	10.96%

HUGHES-ELIZABETH LAKES UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 5

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
LOLA SKELTON (N)	90	55.90%
JUSTICE PETER BALDWIN (N)	71	44.10%

INGLEWOOD UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Member of the Board of Education, District 1

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JOYCE RANDALL (N)	2,590	69.21%
ZYRA MCCLOUD (N)	715	19.11%
RONALD GOMEZ (N)	437	11.68%

INGLEWOOD UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Member of the Board of Education, District 2

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
CARLISS R. MCGHEE (N)	3,039	100.00%

INGLEWOOD UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Member of the Board of Education, District 3

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
BRANDON GEORGE MYERS (N)	1,456	100.00%

INGLEWOOD UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT SPECIAL ELECTION Member of the Board of Education, District 5 (Unexpired term ending December 16, 2024)

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ERNESTO CASTILLO (N)	1,300	100.00%

KEPPEL UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ANDREW STEVEN RAMIREZ (N)	1,043	25.56%
ALMA I. RODRIGUEZ (N)	907	22.22%
ANA LAURA QUILES (N)	735	18.01%
BLANCA NAVA (N)	703	17.23%
GEORGIA HALLIMAN (N)	693	16.98%

Vote for no more than three

LA CAÑADA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JOE RADABAUGH (N)	2,745	28.77%
DAN JEFFRIES (N)	2,573	26.97%
OCTAVIA THUSS (N)	2,123	22.25%
DEBRA N. BARSOM (N)	2,100	22.01%

Vote for no more than three

LAS VIRGENES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ANGELA CUTBILL (N)	8,065	29.29%
LESLI STEIN (N)	7,971	28.95%
DALLAS B. LAWRENCE (N)	7,344	26.68%
JOSHUA ALPERT (N)	4,151	15.08%

Vote for no more than three

LAS VIRGENES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT SPECIAL ELECTION – MEASURE S

To upgrade classrooms, science labs, career-training facilities and instructional technology to support college/career readiness in math, science, technology, engineering, arts and skilled trades; improve safety/security systems; remove asbestos, repair, construct/acquire classrooms, facilities, sites/equipment, shall Las Virgenes Unified School District’s measure be adopted authorizing $340,000,000 in bonds at legal rates, without increasing current tax rates, levying $36 per $100,000 assessed value ($23,000,000 annually) while bonds are outstanding, with citizen oversight and all money staying local?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	9,111	61.33%
NO	5,745	38.67%

55% of votes cast

LAWNDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 2

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
SHIRLEY RUDOLPH (N)	471	64.97%
ANGEL JESUS SANCHEZ (N)	254	35.03%

LONG BEACH COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT Member, Board of Trustees, Trustee Area No. 3

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
SUNNY ZIA (N)	4,950	72.51%
MARIANNE CASE (N)	1,877	27.49%

LONG BEACH COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT Member, Board of Trustees, Trustee Area No. 5

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
VIRGINIA L. BAXTER (N)	10,304	60.30%
JUAN CEPEDA-RIZO (N)	6,783	39.70%

LONG BEACH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, District 1

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MARIA ISABEL LOPEZ (N)	4,957	54.59%
NUBIA FLORES (N)	4,123	45.41%

LONG BEACH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT SPECIAL ELECTION – MEASURE LBU

Realign Long Beach Unified School District and State Election Dates. Shall the City Charter of Long Beach be amended to realign the Long Beach Unified School District’s primary and general election dates with the State’s primary and general election dates held in even-numbered years, and make other related and technical changes to Long Beach Unified School District election procedures?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	44,696	71.13%
NO	18,137	28.87%

Majority of votes cast

LONG BEACH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT SPECIAL ELECTION – MEASURE Q

LONG BEACH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT CLASSROOM REPAIR, STUDENT HEALTH/SAFETY/ACHIEVEMENT MEASURE. To repair/upgrade neighborhood public schools, vocational, technology, math, science classrooms/labs; provide safe drinking water; upgrade security, door locks, cameras, earthquake/fire safety; remove lead paint/asbestos; repair, construct, acquire facilities/equipment, shall Long Beach Unified School District’s measure authorizing $1,700,000,000 in bonds, at legal rates levying $0.06 per $100 of assessed valuation ($105,000,000 annually) while bonds are outstanding be adopted, requiring oversight, public spending disclosure, all funds used locally?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	37,669	57.71%
NO	27,599	42.29%

55% of votes cast

LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT Member of the Board of Trustees, Seat 2

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
STEVEN VERES (N)	328,412	64.18%
JASON R. AULA (N)	106,645	20.84%
GLENN TRUJILLO BAILEY (N)	76,666	14.98%

LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT Member of the Board of Trustees, Seat 4

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
SARA HERNANDEZ (N)	270,982	52.30%
ERNEST H. MORENO (N)	159,616	30.80%
CHRISTINE T. LAMONICA (N)	87,575	16.90%

LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT Member of the Board of Trustees, Seat 6

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
GABRIEL BUELNA (N)	354,160	70.37%
ROBERT L. PAYNE (N)	149,113	29.63%

LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT SPECIAL ELECTION – MEASURE LA

LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT SAFETY, REPAIR, JOB TRAINING MEASURE. To repair/upgrade local community colleges, classrooms, water pipes, sewer/gas lines, technology, science labs for nurses, paramedics, firefighters, veterans; prepare students for jobs/university transfer; remove asbestos, lead paint; acquire, construct, repair facilities, sites, equipment; shall Los Angeles Community College District’s measure authorizing $5,300,000,000 in bonds at legal rates, levying $25 per $100,000 of assessed valuation, generating $345,000,000 annually while bonds are outstanding, be adopted, requiring oversight, all funds used locally?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	363,470	60.36%
NO	238,728	39.64%

55% of votes cast

LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT SPECIAL ELECTION Member of the Board of Trustees, Seat 7 (Unexpired term ending December 13, 2024)

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
KELSEY IINO (N)	299,326	57.93%
NANCY PEARLMAN (N)	148,092	28.66%
MARK DUTTON (N)	69,287	13.41%

LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Member of the Board of Education, District 2

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MARIA BRENES (N)	27,140	50.80%
ROCÍO RIVAS (N)	26,288	49.20%

LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Member of the Board of Education, District 6

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
KELLY GONEZ (N)	26,921	50.28%
MARVIN A. RODRÍGUEZ (N)	26,623	49.72%

LOWELL JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 2

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
CHRISTINE BERG (N)	686	65.27%
KATHI LUNDSTROM (N)	365	34.73%

MANHATTAN BEACH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JENNIFER “JEN” FENTON (N)	4,950	20.58%
CHRISTINA “TINA” SHIVPURI (N)	4,713	19.59%
KRISTEN “WYSH” WEINSTEIN (N)	4,443	18.47%
CHRISTY BARNES (N)	3,354	13.94%
JOHN GEORGE URIOSTEGUI (N)	3,311	13.76%
MIKE WELSH (N)	3,286	13.66%

Vote for no more than three

MONROVIA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT SPECIAL ELECTION – MEASURE MM

To repair/upgrade classrooms, science labs, career-training facilities, and instructional technology to support student achievement and college/career readiness in math, science, technology, engineering, arts and skilled trades; fix deteriorating roofs, plumbing, electrical systems; and improve school safety/security systems, shall Monrovia Unified School District’s measure be adopted authorizing $75,000,000 in bonds at legal rates, levying 3 cents per $100 assessed value ($4,700,000 annually) while bonds are outstanding, with independent citizen oversight and all money locally-controlled?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	4,250	58.69%
NO	2,991	41.31%

55% of votes cast

MONTEBELLO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JENNIFER GUTIERREZ (N)	5,958	23.61%
CARLOS CERDAN (N)	4,995	19.80%
MARISOL M. URIBE (N)	4,811	19.07%
AARON REVELES (N)	3,659	14.50%
JAMES SANTANA (N)	3,080	12.21%
NELLY NIEBLAS (N)	2,729	10.82%

Vote for no more than three

MOUNTAIN VIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
CINDY WU (N)	1,312	23.29%
ADAM C. CARRANZA (N)	1,131	20.07%
VERONICA SIFUENTES (N)	999	17.73%
GRISELDA S. OLIVARES (N)	941	16.70%
DARLENE REYES (N)	530	9.41%
DINORAH JIMENEZ (N)	520	9.23%
ARNOLD HERNANDEZ (N)	201	3.57%

Vote for no more than three

NEWHALL SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 1

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
BRIAN D. WALTERS (N)	1,204	51.76%
DONNA MICHELLE ROBERT (N)	1,122	48.24%

NEWHALL SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 2

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
RACHELLE HADDOAK (N)	1,634	52.46%
SUVERNA MISTRY (N)	1,481	47.54%

NORWALK-LA MIRADA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
LORENA E. VIDAURRE (N)	5,048	14.20%
NARCIS BRASOV (N)	5,004	14.08%
ROBERTO “ROB” CANCIO (N)	4,938	13.89%
NORMA AMEZCUA (N)	4,750	13.36%
CASEY P. CHATTLE (N)	4,691	13.20%
JORGE ALBERTO TIRADO (N)	4,233	11.91%
BECKY LANGENWALTER (N)	4,106	11.55%
RUDY O. MIRANDA (N)	2,781	7.82%

Vote for no more than four

PALMDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
NANCY K. SMITH (N)	5,285	27.89%
RALPH VELADOR (N)	5,112	26.98%
SIMONE ZULU (N)	4,877	25.74%
TONYA ALENNA SCHOFIELD (N)	3,674	19.39%

Vote for no more than three

PALMDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT SPECIAL ELECTION – MEASURE PRM

To continue improving local District schools; replacing leaky roofs/windows; making school safety, security, energy, water efficiency improvements; modernizing science, technology, engineering, arts, and math labs; and acquiring learning technology/equipment; shall Palmdale (Elementary) School District’s measure authorizing $120,000,000 in bonds, at legal rates, levying approximately 3 cents per $100 of assessed value on average (raising $6,338,000 annually) while bonds are outstanding, with independent oversight, audits, no money for administrators and all funds staying local, be adopted?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	6,056	54.41%
NO	5,074	45.59%

55% of votes cast

PALOS VERDES PENINSULA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
LINDA KURT (N)	5,826	16.77%
SARA H. DEEN (N)	5,664	16.30%
JEREMY VANDERHAL (N)	5,298	15.25%
JULIE HAMILL (N)	5,211	15.00%
MATTHEW R. BRACH (N)	4,336	12.48%
JENNIFER “JENNY” HANDJIAN (N)	4,240	12.21%
JEAN LIU CHRISTEN (N)	4,163	11.98%

Vote for no more than three

PALOS VERDES PENINSULA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT SPECIAL ELECTION Governing Board Member (Unexpired term ending December 13, 2024)

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
AMI GANDHI (N)	6,817	50.93%
AARON C. CHAN (N)	6,567	49.07%

PARAMOUNT UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
SONIA OLMOS DE LEON (N)	1,920	18.46%
ALICIA LINDEN ANDERSON (N)	1,738	16.71%
CARMEN PATRICIA GOMEZ (N)	1,502	14.44%
YESENIA MARIA CUARENTA (N)	1,470	14.13%
ROSE MARY MENDEZ (N)	1,440	13.85%
SANDRA NILDA CUEVAS (N)	1,277	12.28%
MARCIE GARCIA-BRIDGES (N)	1,053	10.13%

Vote for no more than three

PARAMOUNT UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT SPECIAL ELECTION – MEASURE P

Shall the members of the Paramount Unified School District Board of Education be limited to three (3) four-year terms of office for a maximum of 12 years?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	3,578	72.17%
NO	1,380	27.83%

Majority of votes cast

PASADENA AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT SPECIAL ELECTION – MEASURE PCC

To upgrade aging labs, instructional technology, classrooms and career-training facilities, improve student access to affordable, high quality education in subjects like nursing, health sciences, engineering, technology and skilled trades; fix deteriorating roofs, plumbing and electrical systems; and remove asbestos/ lead pipes, shall the Pasadena Area Community College District bond measure authorizing $565,000,000 at legal rates be adopted, levying 2¢ per $100 of assessed value ($32,000,000 annually) while bonds are outstanding, with citizen oversight and all money locally controlled?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	44,269	67.22%
NO	21,588	32.78%

55% of votes cast

PASADENA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Board of Education, District No. 1

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
KIMBERLY KENNE (N)	2,646	54.22%
BILLY MALONE (N)	1,521	31.17%
RITA MILLER (N)	713	14.61%

PASADENA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Board of Education, District No. 3

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MICHELLE RICHARDSON BAILEY (N)	1,923	60.82%
PAT AMSBRY (N)	1,239	39.18%

PASADENA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Board of Education, District No. 5

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
PATRICE MARSHALL MCKENZIE (N)	2,263	53.45%
XILIAN C. STAMMER (N)	1,971	46.55%

PASADENA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Board of Education, District No. 7

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YARMA VELÁZQUEZ (N)	3,827	64.06%
JUAN PABLO ALBÁN (N)	2,147	35.94%

POMONA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 1

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
LISA NASHUA (N)	2,147	68.86%
JOHN MENDOZA (N)	971	31.14%

POMONA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 4

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ROBERTA A. PERLMAN (N)	1,182	42.92%
SANDRA BIBLE (N)	890	32.32%
JOHN KISSINGER (N)	682	24.76%

POMONA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 5

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
PATRICIA “PATTY” TYE (N)	2,350	64.52%
CHIDI BENJAMIN UDENGWU (N)	1,292	35.48%

RIO HONDO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 1

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ANAIS MEDINA DIAZ (N)	2,539	54.21%
DAVID SIEGRIST (N)	2,145	45.79%

RIO HONDO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 5

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
OSCAR VALLADARES (N)	5,558	58.11%
VANESSA C. TYSON (N)	4,007	41.89%

ROSEMEAD SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
NANCY ARMENTA (N)	1,379	31.77%
JOHN QUINTANILLA (N)	1,309	30.15%
DIANE BENITEZ (N)	1,072	24.69%
JONATHAN L. SMITH (N)	581	13.38%

Vote for no more than three

ROWLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 5

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
KEVIN T. HAYAKAWA (N)	1,434	53.21%
DONNA FREEDMAN (N)	1,261	46.79%

SAN MARINO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
C. JOSEPH CHANG (N)	1,915	31.36%
SHELLEY RYAN (N)	1,847	30.25%
JOANNA LAM (N)	1,228	20.11%
JAMES F. BARGER (N)	1,116	18.28%

Vote for no more than three

SAN MARINO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT SPECIAL ELECTION Governing Board Member (Unexpired term ending December 13, 2024)

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
FRANCESCA GILL (N)	1,334	57.20%
MACKENZIE MARIE BROWN (N)	998	42.80%

SANTA MONICA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT Member of the Board of Trustees

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
SION ROY (N)	11,699	23.58%
NANCY GREENSTEIN (N)	11,561	23.30%
TOM PETERS (N)	11,214	22.60%
BARRY SNELL (N)	10,854	21.87%
PATRICK ACOSTA II (N)	4,295	8.66%

Vote for no more than four

SANTA MONICA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT SPECIAL ELECTION – MEASURE SMC

SANTA MONICA COLLEGE AFFORDABLE HIGHER EDUCATION, CAREER TRAINING, CLASSROOM UPGRADES. To improve access to affordable education for local students, veterans, first-generation college students; provide affordable housing for homeless students; modernize instructional labs for nursing, healthcare, sustainability, media, science career training; repair/upgrade obsolete vocational classrooms/aging facilities, shall Santa Monica Community College District authorize $375,000,000 in bonds at legal rates, levying 2.5 cents per $100 assessed valuation, raising $23,000,000 annually while bonds are outstanding, with citizens oversight, public spending disclosure?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	11,300	54.57%
NO	9,407	45.43%

55% of votes cast

SANTA MONICA-MALIBU UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Member of the Board of Education

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
LAURIE LIEBERMAN (N)	9,902	17.29%
STACY ROUSE (N)	9,296	16.23%
RICHARD TAHVILDARAN-JESSWEIN (N)	9,186	16.04%
ALICIA MIGNANO (N)	8,923	15.58%
ESTHER HICKMAN (N)	5,971	10.42%
ANGELA DIGAETANO (N)	5,857	10.22%
MILES WARNER (N)	5,587	9.75%
KEITH COLEMAN (N)	2,563	4.47%

Vote for no more than four

SAUGUS UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 1

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JESUS H. HENAO (N)	1,581	50.64%
CASSANDRA NICOLE LOVE (N)	1,541	49.36%

SAUGUS UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 2

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ANNA GRIESE (N)	2,788	58.68%
LAURA ARROWSMITH (N)	1,963	41.32%

SAUGUS UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 5

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
CHRISTOPHER TRUNKEY (N)	1,737	50.79%
SHARLENE ROSE DUZICK (N)	1,683	49.21%

SNOWLINE JOINT UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No.1

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
CHRISTINA L. BEHRINGER (N)	23	63.89%
JOHN E. KOZYRA (N)	13	36.11%

VALLE LINDO SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JACQUELINE J. RUBIO (N)	464	32.49%
RUDY T. MARTINEZ (N)	369	25.84%
VERONICA LAURIA (N)	363	25.42%
REYNALDO REY SOTO (N)	232	16.25%

Vote for no more than three

WALNUT VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
HELEN HALL (N)	5,277	29.64%
YI TONY TORNG (N)	5,145	28.90%
CINDY RUIZ (N)	4,452	25.01%
HONG DIANA ZHAO (N)	2,928	16.45%

Vote for no more than three

WEST COVINA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ROSE LOPEZ (N)	3,731	40.05%
EILEEN MIRANDA JIMENEZ (N)	3,249	34.87%
FRANCES GONZALEZ (N)	2,337	25.08%

Vote for no more than two

WHITTIER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 5

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
LINDA LEE ANN SMALL (N)	1,008	62.11%
ALANA JADE GRIEGO-MELGAR (N)	615	37.89%

WHITTIER UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 4

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
CHRIS HARDEMAN (N)	3,502	52.44%
IRMA RODRIGUEZ MOISA (N)	3,176	47.56%

WHITTIER UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 5

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
GARY MENDEZ (N)	1,991	56.05%
MIGUEL “MIKE” BEJARANO (N)	1,561	43.95%

WILLIAM S. HART UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 2

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
BOB JENSEN (N)	7,075	69.72%
ANDREW TABAN (N)	3,073	30.28%

WILLIAM S. HART UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 3

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
CHERISE MOORE (N)	3,951	58.98%
TERESA TODD (N)	2,748	41.02%

WILLIAM S. HART UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 5

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JOE MESSINA (N)	7,558	62.24%
REBECCA HINDMAN (N)	4,585	37.76%

WILSONA SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area No. 3

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
DANIELA “DANI” SANCHEZ (N)	93	59.62%
ROBERT HARRIS (N)	63	40.38%

WISEBURN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT SPECIAL ELECTION – MEASURE EE

To upgrade school security, emergency communications and fire safety systems, upgrade classroom technology, science, computer and engineering labs; repair aging gas/water lines, leaky roofs; ensure school drinking water remains safe; repair, construct, acquire equipment, sites/facilities; shall Wiseburn Unified School District’s locally controlled measure authorizing $98,000,000 in bonds at legal rates, levying 3¢ per $100 of assessed valuation, generating $6,300,000 annually while bonds are outstanding be adopted, requiring audits, independent oversight and public disclosure of all spending?

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
YES	1,619	53.89%
NO	1,385	46.11%

55% of votes cast

Water Districts

ANTELOPE VALLEY-EAST KERN WATER AGENCY Member, Board of Directors, Division 3

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
FRANK S. DONATO (N)	4,936	76.65%
MIKE LANG (N)	1,504	23.35%

CENTRAL BASIN MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT Member, Board of Directors, Division 3

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
ARTURO CHACON (N)	14,886	72.22%
LEONARD MENDOZA (N)	5,725	27.78%

CRESCENTA VALLEY WATER DISTRICT Member, Board of Directors

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JAMES BODNAR (N)	2,260	36.29%
KERRY ERICKSON (N)	1,983	31.84%
JEFFERY W. JOHNSON (N)	1,244	19.97%
ALEC HYELER (N)	741	11.90%

Vote for no more than three

LAS VIRGENES MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT Member, Board of Directors, Division 3

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
GARY BURNS (N)	1,392	51.75%
LEE RENGER (N)	1,298	48.25%

ORCHARD DALE WATER DISTRICT Member, Board of Directors

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JOSEPH VELASCO III (N)	1,184	35.78%
DENISE DOLOR (N)	821	24.81%
CHARLES LUAS (N)	810	24.48%
KEVIN NOONAN (N)	494	14.93%

Vote for no more than three

PALMDALE WATER DISTRICT Member, Board of Directors, Division 2

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
DON F. WILSON (N)	1,198	61.98%
YVETTE SILVA (N)	735	38.02%

ROWLAND WATER DISTRICT Member, Board of Directors, Division 3

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JOHN EDWARD BELLAH (N)	505	75.37%
KARL JOHAN LJUNGBERG (N)	165	24.63%

SANTA CLARITA VALLEY WATER AGENCY Member, Board of Directors, Division 1

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
BILL COOPER (N)	9,247	66.09%
NICOLE WILSON (N)	2,519	18.00%
MELISSA K. CANTU (N)	2,225	15.90%

SANTA CLARITA VALLEY WATER AGENCY Member, Board of Directors, Division 2

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
DIRK MARKS (N)	9,442	57.09%
SAGE G. RAFFERTY (N)	4,845	29.29%
KATHY COLLEY (N)	2,252	13.62%

SANTA CLARITA VALLEY WATER AGENCY Member, Board of Directors, Division 3

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MARIA GUTZEIT (N)	8,097	51.74%
LYNNE PLAMBECK (N)	7,553	48.26%

THREE VALLEYS MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT Member, Board of Directors, Division 1

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
CARLOS GOYTIA (N)	2,689	58.10%
FRANK CARLOS GUZMAN (N)	1,939	41.90%

THREE VALLEYS MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT Member, Board of Directors, Division 3

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JEFF HANLON (N)	6,981	50.63%
BRIAN BOWCOCK (N)	4,683	33.96%
JAVIER AGUILAR (N)	2,125	15.41%

UPPER SAN GABRIEL VALLEY MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT Member, Board of Directors, Division 1

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
TONY FELLOW (N)	10,735	56.51%
SERGE HADDAD (N)	8,262	43.49%

UPPER SAN GABRIEL VALLEY MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT Member, Board of Directors, Division 5

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JENNIFER SANTANA (N)	10,116	80.16%
ROMAN RODRIGUEZ (N)	2,504	19.84%

WALNUT VALLEY WATER DISTRICT Member, Board of Directors, Division 2

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
EDWIN M. HILDEN (N)	1,618	54.66%
ANDREW Y. WONG (N)	1,342	45.34%

WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Member, Board of Directors, Division 1

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JOY LANGFORD (N)	28,520	54.14%
GERARD MCCALLUM (N)	16,227	30.80%
JANNA ELIZABETH ZURITA (N)	7,936	15.06%

WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Member, Board of Directors, Division 3

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
JOHN ALLEN (N)	37,936	49.77%
MIKE MURCHISON (N)	19,845	26.04%
GERRIE SCHIPSKE (N)	18,439	24.19%

WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Member, Board of Directors, Division 4

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
SERGIO JOSEPH CALDERON (N)	25,656	64.11%
JOSE R. GONZALEZ (N)	14,365	35.89%

WEST BASIN MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT Member, Board of Directors, Division 1

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
HAROLD WILLIAMS (N)	13,794	52.59%
CAROL KWAN (N)	12,436	47.41%

WEST BASIN MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT Member, Board of Directors, Division 4

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
SCOTT HOUSTON (N)	17,221	64.42%
SANJAY GAUR (N)	9,512	35.58%

Health Care

ANTELOPE VALLEY HEALTH CARE DISTRICT Member, Board of Directors

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
DODDANNA KRISHNA (N)	19,543	29.21%
DON V. PARAZO (N)	15,534	23.22%
MICHAEL P. RIVES (N)	9,478	14.17%
STEVE FOX (N)	8,694	13.00%
GETRO F. ELIZE (N)	4,323	6.46%
JOHN BRYSON (N)	3,694	5.52%
OLLIE M. MCCAULLEY (N)	3,533	5.28%
GORDON V. JEFFERSON (N)	2,098	3.14%

Vote for no more than two

ANTELOPE VALLEY HEALTH CARE DISTRICT SPECIAL ELECTION Member, Board of Directors (Unexpired term ending December 6, 2024)

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
STEVEN D. HOFBAUER (N)	14,482	36.02%
JAWAD BERMANI (N)	13,777	34.27%
MATEO OLIVAREZ (N)	11,943	29.71%

BEACH CITIES HEALTH DISTRICT Member, Board of Directors

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
MICHELLE ANNE BHOLAT (N)	16,177	45.33%
NOEL LEE CHUN (N)	15,142	42.43%
MICHAEL KELLY MARTIN (N)	4,368	12.24%

Vote for no more than two

Party Key:

(D) – Democratic |

(N) – Non Partisan |

(R) – Republican |

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Congress

Lindsey Graham has passed away. Do LGBTQ+ people have a right to celebrate his death?

SC senator opposed marriage equality, despite speculation over sexual orientation.

Published

6 days ago

July 16, 2026

Uncloseted Media

The late-U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in 2022. (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key)

Uncloseted Media published this article on July 16.

By SPENCER MACNAUGHTON | On Sunday, the office of Lindsey Graham reported that the Republican senator and Trump ally from South Carolina died “from a brief and sudden illness.” The office said that the preliminary cause of death was a rupture of his aorta due to a hardening of his arteries.

Since then, many folks in the LGBTQ+ community, including a large number of Uncloseted followers, have — for better or worse — celebrated the senator’s death. When we posted the news on our Instagram page on Sunday, our followers commented:

“Maybe he rest in hell”—this one got 194 likes.
“She made sure to wait until Pride was over.”
“And just like that the world is a better place.”

These responses are fueled by allegations that the senator lived as a closeted gay man while supporting policies that would roll back LGBTQ+ rights. In 2006, he voted in support of a constitutional amendment that would have restricted marriage to only being between one man and one woman. After gay marriage became legal across the U.S. in 2015, he said “I am a proud defender of traditional marriage.” And in 2022, he told CNN he would oppose the Respect for Marriage Act and later reiterated that states should decide the issue of marriage.

Outside the Washington rumor mill, there wasn’t much evidence that Graham could be gay until 2020, when adult video performer Sean Harding wrote on Twitter that “There is a homophobic republican senator who is no better than Trump who keeps passing legislation that is damaging to the lgbt and minority communities. Every sex worker I know has been hired by this man. Wondering if enough of us spoke out if that could get him out of office?”

Harding followed up with another post, writing “If you’d be willing to stand with me against LG please let me know,” and, “So far I have two individuals who would be willing to go public and support my claims. Anyone else?”

A few days later, another anonymous sex worker came forward and made similar allegations.

But after that, there was silence, with some believing these sex workers were slapped with non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). And while at least one lawyer took to Twitter saying that he’d “be more than happy to read the NDAs and look for loopholes. For free!” nobody else came forward.

That is until earlier this week, when author Jesse James Rose posted to her Instagram that Graham had paid her for sex work prior to her gender transition. Rose wrote that “Most of you know him as the homophobic senator from South Carolina but to me he will always be the man who paid a twinky pre-transition college student a fat stack of cash to do unspeakable things to him in a hotel room while he wore red lingerie.”

This dynamic has created a complicated question for LGBTQ+ people: Is it appropriate to posthumously celebrate the death of a man who railed against our community and used his position of power to make our lives less equitable and less safe? Is it even more fair to criticize him if he was living a secret queer life?

Or should we go high and give his track record on LGBTQ+ issues a positive spin now that he’s no longer with us?

In a time where social media feels like a breeding ground for angertainment, I’ll admit that the immediacy of the response to his death at first felt intense.

At the same time, I knew I didn’t want to send thoughts or prayers to a man who tried to rip my rights away.

If the alleged NDAs that Graham handed his sex workers were legitimate, they likely evaporated after his death. So now really may be the first time people can speak their truth and offer an accurate window into the absurd hypocrisy between Graham’s public and private life.

For that, I think it’s fair game to speak candidly about the story he may have worked hard to muzzle while he was here.

Pentagon

Hegseth announces testosterone initiative as trans troop ban continues

SPARTA Pride criticized Pentagon policy

Published

6 days ago

July 16, 2026

Joe Reberkenny

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key)

The U.S. military will begin testing and treating service members with hormone therapy despite banning similar medical care for transgender service members.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that troops ages 30 and older will be subject to annual testosterone screenings, while younger service members will have the option to voluntarily opt in. Some troops may then be recommended for hormone therapy, he explained in a video posted to social media.

“Under the supervision of our world-class medical professionals, warfighters age 30 and older are going to be tested annually as part of their periodic health assessment,” Hegseth said in a video posted to X, captioned “The High-T Department of War.”

This push to test testosterone levels, as the hormone is commonly referred to as “T,” runs counter to current medical guidelines. Physicians are generally advised to discuss testosterone therapy only with men who have symptoms consistent with low testosterone and documented low hormone levels on two separate blood tests.

Testosterone is a vital sex hormone that all humans naturally produce. It helps regulate muscle mass, bone density, and sex drive. In men, it is primarily produced in the testicles, while in women it is produced in the ovaries and adrenal glands.

Natural testosterone levels in men decline with age and have long been associated with issues such as erectile dysfunction, low libido, mood changes, and weight gain. However, experts continue to debate whether these conditions should routinely be treated with testosterone therapy.

Hegseth’s announcement aligns with other actions taken by the Trump-Vance administration — including efforts by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — to make testosterone therapy more accessible for men, particularly those assigned male at birth.

Last month, the Food and Drug Administration proposed easing prescribing restrictions on testosterone gels, pills, patches, and injections following a December advisory panel that recommended reducing regulatory hurdles to expand access to testosterone therapy.

Currently, FDA labeling specifies that these medications are approved only for men with hypogonadism, a medical condition that causes abnormally low testosterone levels.

The announcement came as a shock to many LGBTQ+ advocates because Hegseth and the Defense Department have cited the use of hormone therapy by trans service members as justification for their dismissal under President Donald Trump’s 2025 executive order, “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness.“

The Pentagon continues to pursue implementation of the trans military ban as litigation proceeds. As a result, many trans service members have had their gender-affirming medical care halted, even as similar hormone therapy is now being expanded for cisgender service members. Under the executive order, the military currently disqualifies individuals diagnosed with gender dysphoria and has begun formal administrative separation proceedings for trans personnel.

SPARTA Pride, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization made up of trans service members, veterans, and their allies, issued a statement to the Los Angeles Blade following Hegseth’s announcement.

“If hormone therapy helps warfighters perform at their best, then it cannot simultaneously be used as evidence that transgender service members are unfit to serve,” said Kara Corcoran, executive director of SPARTA Pride. “The same class of evidence-based medical treatment cannot be characterized as readiness-enhancing for one group and readiness-destroying for another.”

The legal fight over trans military service remains ongoing.

On June 1, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that trans service members already serving in the military could continue to do so, while allowing the armed services to continue refusing to enlist new trans recruits.

The Blade reached out to the Pentagon to ask why cisgender service members could receive hormone therapy while trans service members could not, but did not receive a response by the time of publication.

Politics

Political drama in Angie Craig’s Minnesota Senate race heats up

Craig already voted twice to impeach Trump

Published

1 week ago

July 13, 2026

Karen Ocamb

Rep. Angie Craig with wife Cheryl Greene at Twin Cities Pride; June 29, 2026 (Photo via Angie Craig for Minnesota)

by Karen Ocamb and Trudy Ring

After an historic and expensive July 4^th fireworks display capped Donald Trump’s self-indulgent commemoration of America’s 250^th birthday, voters are now watching state races explode into political pyrotechnics as Democrats fight to win majorities in Congress and Republicans plan to keep buying power.

With the midterm elections just over three months away and several primary races still undecided, most pundits predict the decline in Trump’s approval ratings will result in Democrats winning the House, if infighting doesn’t turn off voters.

Democrats’ dream of taking the Senate, however, turned into a nightmare with the scandalous Graham Platner debacle in must-win Maine. Energized party leaders hope to put on a Master Class in democracy as they pick a new candidate before July 27.

The hike to Senate victory is still steep. Republicans have a 53-47 advantage – meaning Democrats must win 8 of 11 competitive races, including defending seats currently held in Minnesota, Michigan, New Hampshire, and Georgia, for a net gain of four seats.

LGBTQ+ people intent on reversing Project 2025’s prolific erasure might focus on lesbian Rep. Angie Craig’s race in Minnesota.

With the retirement of Democratic Sen. Tina Smith, The Cook Political Report’s out guru Amy Walter labeled the open seat “likely” Democrat but with only a +3-point advantage.

New York Times Polling data reporter Alex Lemonides notes that “Trump lost Minnesota by four percentage points in 2024, and Minnesotans have not sent a Republican to the Senate since the 2002 midterms, so a Republican win in the general election would buck the trend.”

But this whole election cycle is about bucking trends. With so many Democratic Socialists defeating Establishment candidates, “socialist” is no longer a slur, forcing Trump to switch to the old Cold War charge of Communist!

In Minnesota, Bernie Sanders-backed candidate Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan is out-polling Craig, a more centrist Democrat who flipped a battleground House seat in 2018. Their primary is on August 11.

Republicans are salivating over challenging Flanagan for her administrative role in the scandal that forced Gov. Tim Walz to forgo a third term and deal with widespread fraud in social programs.

Former NBC’s Sunday Night Football sideline reporter and current political podcaster Michele Tafoya has a built-in “bro” audience. The announcement of her Republican candidacy was featured on ESPN.com.

“As Minnesota’s senator, I will clean up the system, fighting corruption, ending the fraud, and protecting your tax dollars,” Tafoya said. “I will protect what’s fair and safe, standing with our law enforcement officers, deporting dangerous criminals, and keeping female sports for female athletes.”

Craig responded quickly. “Trump’s hand-picked candidate just jumped in the race for US Senate,” she said on social media. “Minnesota needs a Senator who will stand up and fight for our state – and we know it won’t be MAGA Michele.”

Craig tells LGBTQ+ Freedom Fighters that she has been happy to represent Minnesota’s Second Congressional District in the U.S. House since 2019. Now she wants to represent the entire state as a U.S. senator.

“The state of Minnesota has been so good to me and my family,” says Craig, who chose to move to the state because it would accept her family.

Craig grew up in a mobile home park in Arkansas, one of three children of a single mother. She worked her way through the University of Memphis, earning a degree in journalism, and became a reporter with the Memphis Commercial Appeal.

She has a long history of fighting for LGBTQ+ rights, including her own. In the late 1990s, while living in Tennessee, Craig and her then-partner, Debra Langston, adopted their first son, Joshua. Under Tennessee law at the time, only one of them could be recognized as an adoptive parent; Craig was listed as Langston’s roommate.

The birth mother wanted the couple to have Joshua, but her parents intervened, seeking to adopt him. The courts had to decide if Langston and Craig were “fit” parents. One appellate court judge objected to the boy being raised by “open, practicing lesbians,” but his two colleagues disagreed, and Langston and Craig won the precedent-setting case in 2000, albeit with lots of caveats.

“The issue in this case is not whether the members of this court approve the homosexual lifestyle or the adoption of children by homosexuals, but rather whether the adoption of this child by this prospective parent is in the child’s best interest. As in any adoption case, the determinative issue was and remains what is in the child’s best interest,” wrote Judge Alan E. Highers in his opinion concurring with the majority in ruling In re: ADOPTION OF M.J.S. in the Tennessee Court of Appeals.

By then, Craig was working in corporate communications for Smith & Nephew, a multinational maker of medical equipment, and the couple had another son, Jacob, born to Craig through alternative insemination. She and her family moved to London, where the company was based, in the early 2000s. They returned to the U.S. in 2005; Craig went to work for another medical equipment company, St. Jude Medical, in the suburbs of Minneapolis-St. Paul. She later said it was the least lucrative job offer she had, but she took it because she knew the area was welcoming to LGBTQ+ people.

Craig and Langston separated in 2006, and Craig married Cheryl Greene in California in 2008. They have four sons and three grandsons, with a fourth on the way. Greene is a former middle school teacher still involved with youth programming.

Craig worked for LGBTQ+ equality within her company and for statewide marriage equality in Minnesota. She also fought against an anti-marriage equality constitutional amendment in 2012, which voters rejected. The state legislature passed a marriage equality bill the following year that Gov. Mark Dayton signed into law.

In 2016, when she ran for Congress in Minnesota’s 2^nd District, a Republican stronghold for more than a decade, she told the Twin Cities Pioneer Press that the fight for custody of Joshua gave her strength.

“Whether I win or lose on Election Day, I know that that won’t be the hardest thing or the biggest challenge that I’ve ever faced,” said Craig, then 44. “When you get up every day and wonder, ‘Am I going to (still) have my child the next day?’ you get pretty good at being focused on the big picture.”

“I’ve always talked about my family openly” on the campaign trail and in office, Craig, Co-Chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus, tells LGBTQ+ Freedom Fighters. Often at events in her district and around the state, she’ll meet someone who mentions they have an LGBTQ+ family member, she notes. She finds that if she listens to constituents and addresses what’s important to them, her identity isn’t an issue.

What Craig has addressed for constituents includes health care costs, such as capping the out-of-pocket cost of insulin and limiting overall out-of-pocket drug costs for people on Medicare. These came from a bill introduced by Craig and became provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law by President Joe Biden in 2022. She also wants a public option for health insurance, an increased child tax credit, and she introduced a bill to eliminate federal taxes on Social Security benefits.

*Rep. Angie Craig campaigning (Photo via Angie Craig for Minnesota)*

In a June 19 SurveyUSA poll, Minnesotans say their single most important issue is inflation (39%) and cost of living, followed by health care, immigration, gas prices, and the war in Iran.

But immigration may soon jump to the front as more information leaks out about ICE agents shooting and killing Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a traffic stop in Houston, Texas, on Tuesday morning, July 9. Homeland Security says the father, with no criminal record, driving to work, ignored verbal instructions and tried to ram their vehicle. ICE shot him in self-defense – the same excuse ICE used on January 7th, 2026, when an ICE agent killed nonviolent protester Renee Good. In both instances, video footage proved ICE lied.

Also caught on tape was Craig’s angry confrontation with Republican Majority Whip Tom Emmer on the House floor the day Renee Good was killed after Emmer supported ICE on social media. The story and her response went viral.

But Craig continues to be criticized for voting for the Laken Riley Act, named for a woman who was killed by an undocumented immigrant. It allows for undocumented immigrants to be detained or deported if they are simply accused of crimes, even nonviolent ones. Critics say she has never apologized – but she has.

In a commentary for The Minnesota Star Tribune in May, Craig wrote, in part:

“The text of the bill did not include the word deportation. I made the difficult decision to vote for it. Democrats like Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff — leaders I deeply respect — all came to the same conclusion.

But as I stood side by side with protesters on the streets of Minneapolis and opposite dozens of armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at the Whipple Federal Building after Renee Good’s killing — and again after the killing of Alex Pretti — I couldn’t help but question whether I made the right call last year… It’s also become clear that supporting any bill that gives ICE new authority in this administration was the wrong decision. And I regret my vote.”

“What happened under Operation Metro Surge was horrific,” Craig tells LGBTQ+ Freedom Fighters. The U.S. can secure its borders in a humane fashion while providing a path to citizenship for undocumented people, those brought here as children, and others, she adds.

On LGBTQ+ rights, Craig says the Equality Act has been a huge priority of hers in the House and would remain so in the Senate.

Since 2019, Craig has introduced The John Lewis Every Child Deserves a Family Act that “would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, religion or marital status in those programs, prohibit the use of federal funds for so-called ‘conversion therapy’ and create a resource center for LGBTQ+ foster and adoptive youth within the Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families,” according to a press release.

Another priority is passage of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, named for the late civil rights activist and longtime congressman. “I was lucky enough to serve with John Lewis,” she says.

Additionally, Craig supports campaign finance reform. The recent Supreme Court ruling that further loosened restrictions was “just another blow to our democracy,” she says. She supports limits on Supreme Court terms.

On foreign policy, she condemns Trump’s war of choice in Iran. “The administration has had zero strategic objectives,” she says, adding that the war has caused “tremendous economic damage,” such as the spike in gas prices.

And though Craig supports a two-state solution to the ongoing Israel-Palestinian conflict, with Palestinians having their own state, her campaign does not accept direct donations from AIPAC’s political action committee — the pro-Israel group held fundraisers for her before her Senate announcement – another point exploited by primary opponent Flanagan.

On gender-affirming care for trans youth, Craig says politicians should not interfere with decisions made by young people and their parents. Regarding trans girls and women in sports, she says the matter is best handled locally—and that local conversations can foster understanding.

But Craig has had a strong public reaction to federal transphobia. After that, Reps. Tulsi Gabbard and Markwayne Mullin introduced the Protect Women’s Sports Act in December 2020. Craig released the following statement:

“As a lesbian woman, I am no stranger to prejudice and intolerance — but this legislation is beyond the pale. Plain and simple, the Protect Women’s Sports Act is transphobic — and this type of discrimination has no place in the halls of Congress. Especially at a time when the transgender community is suffering from a tragic rise in suicide rates and experiencing a surge of transphobic violence, such a bigoted and appalling effort is simply unacceptable. Queer and transgender women must stand together in the face of intolerance — and I am proud to do so today by emphatically denouncing this narrow-minded and hateful legislation, which is harmful not only to transgender women but to the LGBTQ Community at-large.”

Craig has been endorsed by prominent LGBTQ+ groups, including Victory Fund, the Human Rights Campaign PAC, Equality PAC, and LPAC. She has also been endorsed by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her, plus many nationally known political figures, such as former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

Flanagan has the endorsement of Sen. Smith and her predecessor, Al Franken, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, and, from outside the state, Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, among others. Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and the state’s governor, Tim Walz, so far haven’t made endorsements.

“I’m ready on day one” to serve in the Senate, says Craig, noting her four terms in the House, her substantial career before going into politics, and her two votes to impeach Trump. “If we can take the House and Senate, we can put a cap on this administration.”

This is a cross-post from Karen Ocamb’s LGBTQ+ Freedom Fighters Substack.

Congress

Who might replace Lindsey Graham? The contenders and their LGBTQ+ records

Long-time SC senator died suddenly on Saturday

Published

1 week ago

July 13, 2026

Joe Reberkenny

The late-U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key)

Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has died, and what he has left behind is a power vacuum for his U.S. Senate seat — and within the Republican Party.

The South Carolina senator had been a major part of Republican politics up until his Saturday death at his home in Washington, reportedly of an aortic dissection related to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

Graham has been a fixture in government at both the state and federal level. He began his political career in the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1992, representing the Palmetto State’s 2nd District before eventually moving to the federal government.

He moved up to Capitol Hill after his 1994 run for the U.S. House of Representatives. In 2003 he stepped across the rotunda to the Senate in 2003 following the retirement of longtime U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond.

He consistently opposed LGBTQ+ rights while alive.

He voted against the 2022 Respect for Marriage Act, saying the decision should be left up to state governments, and the 2013 Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and opposed the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.

With Graham’s sudden passing, the Republican Party is scrambling to find a replacement who can advance both its goals and those of the president as Republicans’ supermajority in the federal government begins to shrink.

Among those reportedly in the running is Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the highest-ranking openly LGBTQ+ federal official in American history and fifth in the presidential line of succession.

Bessent, a South Carolina native, was formerly a supporter of the Democratic Party and donated to several Democratic presidential candidates before switching parties in 2017 following Trump’s election in 2016. He later donated $1 million to Trump’s 2017 presidential inaugural committee.

On Sunday, Bessent was also fielding calls from people asking him to run, according to a person familiar with the communications. A person close to Bessent told Politico that he is not interested in the seat, saying he is happy in his role as Treasury secretary, a position he has long wanted.

The Los Angeles Blade reached out to the Treasury Department for comment, but did not receive a response by publication time.

One of the most anticipated and widely discussed names for the vacant Senate seat is Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette.

Evette is a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump and has gone as far as criticizing Republicans for not supporting the conspiracy theory that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Trump also endorsed her gubernatorial campaign, though she ultimately lost to her now-boss, Gov. Henry McMaster.

McMaster has a long history of opposing LGBTQ+ rights.

During an October 2022 gubernatorial debate, McMaster said that if the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Obergefell v. Hodges, he would enforce South Carolina’s preexisting law banning same-sex marriage. In 2022, he also signed legislation requiring student athletes from elementary school through college to compete on teams corresponding to the sex listed on their birth certificates.

Other names reportedly being considered include U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), who has had a contentious relationship with LGBTQ+ issues during her time in Congress. She began as a supporter of LGBTQ+ rights, becoming one of the few Republicans to publicly support the Respect for Marriage Act, before making a complete about-face as transgender issues became a central part of the Republican Party’s political strategy.

As part of that strategy, Mace introduced a resolution to ban trans women from using female restrooms in the U.S. Capitol, a move she acknowledged was in direct response to the election of U.S. Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.), the first out trans person elected to Congress.

In a November 2024 post on X, Mace wrote: “We support gay marriage, and voted for the Respect for Marriage Act twice. However, if you think protecting women is discrimination, you are the problem. We don’t care if you’re trans, if you have balls we don’t want you in the women’s bathroom.”

Two other names being floated are U.S. Rep. Russell Fry, who represents South Carolina’s 7th Congressional District, and U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman, who represents the state’s 5th Congressional District.

Trump recommended Graham’s sister, Darline Graham, should serve as the state’s temporary senator in a post on Truth Social on Monday.

“This would be a fabulous tribute to Lindsey, who loved her dearly!” Trump wrote on his social network.

The scramble comes as Republicans hold increasingly narrow majorities over Democrats in both the Senate and House, potentially complicating efforts to advance Trump’s agenda. That agenda includes continuing the war in Iran, securing Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general, and adding $350 billion in defense spending to the SAVE America Act — a controversial proposal deemed a “Jim Crow 2.0” among voting rights advocates.

McMaster is expected to announce Graham’s interim replacement on Monday at 4 p.m. ET.

Congress

Lindsey Graham dies at 71

Republican SC senator passed away ‘from a brief and sudden illness’ on Saturday

Published

1 week ago

July 12, 2026

Staff reports

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) at now former Attorney General Pam Bondi's 2025 confirmation hearing. (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key)

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) died suddenly on Saturday.

The South Carolina Republican’s office in a statement said Graham, 71, “passed away from a brief and sudden illness.” The Washington Post reported first responders responded to Graham’s Washington home on Saturday and transported him to a local hospital.

Graham had been in the U.S. Senate since 2002.

The close Trump ally was running for re-election. Graham died a day after he returned to the U.S. from Ukraine.

Speculation over Graham’s sexual orientation persisted during his tenure.

The Los Angeles Blade will update this story.

Politics

Is America on the brink of a makeover?

PART 2: AHF’s Michael Weinstein on grassroots power and the pendulum swinging

Published

2 weeks ago

July 8, 2026

Karen Ocamb

We the People Rally and March for Freedom

Count on “the people” to determine how they wanted to celebrate the 250^th birthday of the United States of America during the July 4^th weekend. For those not fixated on FIFA World Cup matches or Taylor Swift’s wedding to Travis Kelce or CNN’s Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper getting drunk waiting for the ball to drop in Times Square marking the historic Independence Day, FOX News breathlessly covered poster-boy-for-pomposity Donald Trump as he took a massive South Dakota stage against the backdrop of Mount Rushmore, where he hopes to mount his own visage.

Mount Rushmore is internationally famous as the backdrop used by director Alfred Hitchcock in his 1958 film “North by Northwest.” One Hitchcock scholar described the acclaimed movie in which villain James Mason chases Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint over recreations of the granite presidential faces as “a comic thriller about mistaken identity, political depravity, sexual blackmail, and ubiquitous role-playing.”

The weather also added drama for 4,800 fans who secured tickets through an online lottery. “A nearby lightning storm Friday afternoon pushed people indoors before the programming started, with hundreds cramming into the memorial’s cafeteria,” the South Dakota Searchlight reported. “Thunder, hail, and heavy rain continued for over an hour.”

After Trump’s speech, California-based Pyro Spectaculars, with a $700,000 contract, produced a fireworks show to The Village People’s gay anthem “YMCA.”

Trump evoked a hell storm of his own, warning about “a resurgence of the communist menace in our land,” resurrecting his Red and Lavender Scare closeted gay McCarthy era mentor, Roy Cohen.

“Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty,” Trump said, apparently alluding to the recent primary victories of Democratic socialist candidates. “It is the greatest threat to our country, including World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, or even 9/11.”

AP fact check: linking Democrats to communism is “inaccurate.”

Trump’s penchant for an “alternative facts” Orwellian spin that demands loyal acceptance of a lie suggests this is his new gauntlet for the midterms. “Communism is the exact opposite of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” he declared. “It’s death, tyranny, and the pursuit of evil.”

In his Mount Rushmore speech, Trump “was sharpening a line of attack that the White House has started to use to head off a newly insurgent progressive wing of the Democratic Party that appears to be resonating with liberal voters,” the New York Times reported. “He said the word ‘communism’ so many times, you might’ve thought the Cold War was still on.”

Trump also asserted that Republicans will “not lose an election for a hundred years” if they end the filibuster and pass the SAVE America Act, which would require anyone attempting to register to vote to prove U.S. citizenship and show identification at the polls. He wants to choose who votes, flipping the democratic principle of having voters choose their own leaders and representatives.

For America’s 250^th birthday, Trump has shifted from talking about kings and dictators to comparing himself favorably to other American presidents, especially George Washington. As CNN noted in 2019, during an April 2018 tour of Washington’s home with French president Emmanuel Macron, Trump reportedly remarked on Mount Vernon and Washington: “If he was smart, he would’ve put his name on it. You’ve got to put your name on stuff, or no one remembers you.”

This Washington comparison is also familiar. “I don’t know if you knew it, but he actually ran his business simultaneously when he was president,” Trump said during an October Cabinet meeting. “George Washington was actually considered a very rich man at the time. … George Washington, they say, had two desks. He had a presidential desk and a business desk.”

Trump cited Washington again in his March 2025 State of the Union speech. “In fact, it has been stated by many that the first month of our presidency — it’s our presidency — is the most successful in the history of our nation. And what makes it even more impressive is that, do you know who No. 2 is? George Washington. How about that? I don’t know about that list. But we’ll take it.”

Experts disagree. On Feb. 18, 2024, Justin Vaughn and Brandon Rottinghaus said their Presidential Greatness Project poll ranked Trump last.

“Trump,” the scholars wrote in the Los Angeles Times, “maintains the position he held six years ago: dead last, trailing such historically calamitous chief executives as James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson. In that and other respects, Trump’s radical departure from political, institutional and legal norms….puts him behind not only Buchanan and Johnson but also such lowlights as Franklin Pierce, Warren Harding and William Henry Harrison, who died a mere 31 days after taking office.”

*Trump – Washington banners in DC (Screenshot from TikTok)*

Given Trump’s tantrums over aerial photos showing low attendance for his big 250 State Fair address, one wonders if splashing his name and image on buildings, money, and other “beautification” projects, currently projected by Forbes to be roughly $162.5+ million – plus the “vanity” $1.4+ billion ballroom – might be his middle finger to critics. Might his ultimate goal be replacing Washington DC’s name with his own?

Trump raked in a $2 billion haul last year, according to a 927-page financial disclosure report showing how he and his family “reaped huge financial rewards in 2025 through his money-losing Trump Media venture and a separate cryptocurrency firm called World Liberty Financial, even as routine investors suffered vast losses,” the New York Times reported July 1. “He also amassed hundreds of millions through deals that involved foreign governments or corporations with agenda items pending before the Trump administration.”

Meanwhile, the federal government debt as of July 5 is $39.46 trillion or $115,625 per American, according to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.

Washington warned about potential despots like Trump. Sarah Pruitt’s 2020 analysis of Washington’s Farewell Address, the first version of which was written by his friend and protégé Alexander Hamilton, concludes that the retiring president focused on three themes: 1) the Importance of unity; 2) The ‘Worst Enemy’ of Government: Loyalty to Party Over Nation; 3) Danger of Foreign Entanglements.

Shirking the nation’s common interest could engender a “spirit of revenge” and prompt the rise of “cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men” who would “usurp for themselves the reins of government; destroying afterward the very engines, which have lifted them to unjust dominion,” Washington cautioned.

The Constitution’s system of checks and balances and separation of powers prevented despots or groups from taking control of the government. And the system also allowed for change through laws or constitutional amendments rather than by force.

Washington urged unity above all. “The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations,” he wrote. “You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together; the independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint counsels, and joint efforts of common dangers, sufferings, and successes.”

In their survey, the presidential scholars said their assessments “are driven not only by traditional notions of greatness but also by the evolving values of our time.”

*NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, July 3, 2026 (Screenshot from NYC YouTube)*

That emphasis on common interests and shared values was represented on July 3 by New York City Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani, an inspirational Democratic Socialist, who delivered remarks commemorating America’s 250th Fourth of July birthday while sitting at George Washington’s desk, surrounded by recently naturalized American citizens.

“Two hundred and fifty years presents a rare opportunity for more than 340 million people to turn together — both towards one another and towards ourselves, to take measure of who we are as a nation. When we look at America, what do we see?” he asked.

“The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence — that work endures, my friends, and it belongs to us all. It belongs, too, to our newest Americans, those standing here with me today,” Mamdani said.

“Patriotism has never been about pretending our nation is without flaws,” he said. “Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent, it is every march led under the heavy sun, it is every protest held a decade before its time. It is precisely because we love this nation that we will not leave it. After all, who loves America more than those who have sacrificed so much to make it free?”

*AHF’s We the People March in Florida, July 3, 2026, with AHF President Michael Weinstein and legendary Latina labor activist Dolores Huerta helping lead their large coalition. (Photo courtesy AHF)*

The real celebrations of America’s 250 anniversary came from regular grassroots folks like the thousands organized by AIDS Healthcare Foundation and representatives from 50 coalitions for their “We the People March for Freedom” in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on July 3. Gov. Ron DeSantis missed the patriotism. He was at Mount Rushmore with Trump.

*Marchers at AHF-led We the People march in Florida on July 3, 2026. (Photo courtesy AHF)*

The marchers were encouraged to bring signs with messages about issues that matter to them, such as the war in Iran, affordability, which Trump called a “hoax,” and housing, which he calls “a yawn”.

Longtime AHF friend, labor leader and activist Dolores Huerta, Haitian American activist Santra Denis, Healthcare advocate Alecia Tramel-McIntyre, Gen Z activist Maxx Fenning, and AHF President/CEO Michael Weinstein all participated in a rally and marched through downtown Fort Lauderdale, culminating in another event with a powerful musical performance by award-winning gospel artist Erica Campbell.

Florida is of particular importance to AHF and other HIV/AIDS activists. Recently, AHF and coalition members won a strong pressure campaign against the state, requiring DeSantis to restore ADAP funding to his state budget, though other serious issues remain.

“This victory belongs to our whole coalition, the clinicians, providers, and people living with HIV who told their stories at real personal cost,” Esteban Wood, Director of Advocacy and Legislative Affairs at AHF, said in a press release. “We led this fight together. For months, it was a promise. Today it is the law, and people can finally breathe.”

In a recent hour-long Zoom conversation, Michael Weinstein and I talked about Trump’s obsession with communism; Michael’s long association with Democratic Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders; how the issue of income equality crosses all lines; opposition to corporate politics expressed by young Democratic Socialists; and comparing the possibility of their influence and pull to the pull the Tea Party had on the Republican Party.

Michael also gives his take on the political scene and disapproval of Trump – in Part 1, along with strong comments on Gaza, immigration, race, and Texas political star James Talarico.

POZ Magazine founder and leading HIV/AIDS advocate Sean Strub and AHF co-founder Michael Weinstein discuss the possibility of at-home HIV Test kits during a meeting in the late 80s at the home of Republican strategist Bruce Decker who helped found Concerned Americans for Individual Rights. When Decker died of AIDS in 1995, he asked for donations to go to AHF. (Photo by Karen Ocamb)

In Part 2 of our interview here, Michael and I talked more about politics, HIV/AIDS, and AHF. I’ve been covering AHF since the late 1980s, when the nonprofit was AIDS Hospice Foundation While AHF is now a global $3 billion healthcare organization with 10,000 employees (for which they won a Forbes Award as one of America’s Best Large Employers, #98), Michael’s through-line from the Lavender Left until now is his deep commitment to helping those in need. At the end of our conversation/interview on the cusp of this historic moment, I asked him what freedom and independence meant to him.

MW: “Well, on a personal level, it means being able to be all of who I am – a senior, a gay man who’s married to another man, a history thinker. I’m an activist on a societal level.

I still get goosebumps when I drive by the Capitol, when I see the Lincoln Memorial. When I reflect on so many American heroes.

We are very imperfect, right? But that’s humanity. We have a choice between the angels of our nature and the sub-basement of our nature. It’s up to us individually and collectively to bring out the best in us.

And I have found the individual protests, which I usually go to in my neighborhood. I don’t go to the one downtown. I go to the one in Hollywood – and seeing that mix of people with their homemade signs and seeing the people honking and all that – it’s a tonic.

Sometimes I argue with my family members who are… I describe them as: left, very left, and extremely left – more or less. It’s my extended family, too, [with] a couple of conservatives thrown in there, but not much. We don’t have to worry about arguing at family gatherings. But sometimes I have to say to them, ‘I like living in the California bubble’….

So, it’s all about keeping the promise, right? The promise isn’t fulfilled. But it’s about aspiring to keep the promise.

And if I just reflect on LGBTQ and AIDS issues, America stepped up to bring treatment to the world. Nobody else did that, besides us.

When I think about the movement for LGBTQ rights, we were the spearhead of that.

I think about the Women’s Movement. I think about the Civil Rights Movement – we’ve both lagged behind but also been the tip of the spear.

*AHF President Michael Weinstein hugs friend and legendary activist Dolores Huerta at We the People march on July 3, 2026, in Florida. (Photo courtesy AHF)*

And so, I’m American, through and through. And I’m an Angeleno. This is my fate, for better or worse. I’m gonna make the best of it….

Sometimes when I’m talking to progressive people, I have to say, ‘I have a simple definition of being a progressive: I want to help the most people in need with the things they need the most.’

I think part of my evolution from being a far lefty to where I am now is – it was a point at which I gave up on ideology. I said – that is not the answer. The answer is how to help….

This is so extreme [now]. I mean, this makes the Pharaohs and the Gilded Age look like child’s play. It’s not sustainable. It’s not going to continue this way. It can’t continue. You can’t have this many people so disenfranchised. It will change. The pendulum does swing.

And it will.”

Watch the full interview with Michael Weinstein.

This is a cross-post from Karen’s LGBTQ+ Freedom Fighters Substack.

Politics

In Trump’s divided America, Michael Weinstein’s AHF responds

PART 1 | AHF helps Venezuela, Weinstein on social Democrats, and the Florida march

Published

2 weeks ago

July 5, 2026

Karen Ocamb

As the United States of America acknowledges her 250^th birthday, too many Americans are partying with fewer family and friends because their wallets and their patriotic hearts just aren’t in it. Meanwhile, the president is using taxpayer dollars to finance ugly pet projects , and a war of choice with Iran that no one wants, and Congress didn’t authorize, while We the People just watch an uncontrolled Trump train speeding through American lives.

Theoretically, this is nothing new. Since the nation’s founding in 1776, individuals have struggled with where to place their allegiance to best uphold their personal freedom and protect the collective unity of the country.

But now the simple democracy-project premise “of the people, by the people, and for the people” has been upended and subverted by Donald Trump, the amoral corrupt 47^th president who is using the once independent Justice Department to bypass “due process” and pursue retribution against his enemies – especially around his baseless 2020 election claims – while rewarding his Jan. 6 army of criminal loyalists with pardons and a proposed $1.8 billion “anti-Weaponization” slush fund, now temporarily blocked by a federal judge.

There have been amoral and ineffectual presidents in the past, as well as arrogant presidents who wielded power inhumanely, such as Andrew Jackson, who defied the Supreme Court and oversaw the Indian Removal Act, and Rutherford B. Hayes, who pulled troops out of the South, effectively ending the post-Civil War Reconstruction era. And there have been dangerous, outright liars like Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, and Warren G. Harding, whose Teapot Dome Scandal in his administration may have killed him.

But American history has never seen such a profoundly corrupt con artist who has taken over the federal government, installing ideological autocratic loyalists intent on expanding Trump’s power in the Supreme Court and Congress – the second and third branches of government intended to provide checks and balances to an overreaching Executive.

And now, in allegiance to White Supremacy and Christian Nationalism, Trump is trying to claim the right and power to decide who gets to claim citizenship, how he can pre-determine the outcome of elections through gaslighting and disinformation, and how he can make American residents afraid and silently complicit by not challenging his blatant racism, sexism, and transphobia.

New York Times columnist M. Gessen writes: “Read the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on transgender athletes — the majority’s decision, written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and the dissent, written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor — and you will see the members of the court arguing about something more fundamental than the law. They are arguing about who should be seen, whose story ought to be heard, and who deserves to be protected.”

AIDS Healthcare Foundation co-founder and President Michael Weinstein might add that deciding who lives and dies is fundamental, too. The nonprofit is the world’s largest provider of HIV medical care, cutting-edge medicine, and advocacy regardless of ability to pay , with 3 million in care and 50 countries served.

AHF has a history of acting quickly with coalitions when there is a need. For that, Weinstein was honored by the Los Angeles Urban League on June 24 with the John W. Mack Legacy Award during the annual Whitney M. Young Jr. Awards Celebration.

“The Los Angeles Urban League is proud to present the John W. Mack Legacy Award to Michael Weinstein — transformative leader, fearless advocate, and champion for health equity and human rights,” they wrote in their announcement on Facebook.

“As Founder & President of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Michael Weinstein has led one of the largest global HIV/AIDS medical care providers in the world, expanding access to treatment, housing, prevention, and advocacy for underserved communities. His bold leadership has saved lives while challenging stigma and systemic inequities in healthcare,” they continued.

“For decades, he has stood at the intersection of public health and social justice — building systems of care that affirm dignity, expand access, and ensure that the most vulnerable are not left behind. His unwavering advocacy reflects the very principles that guide the Los Angeles Urban League’s mission: advancing equity, protecting opportunity, and strengthening communities,” they said. “In many ways, his work echoes the legacy of Whitney M. Young Jr. — courageous leadership rooted in policy, partnership, and a belief that justice must be both spoken and enacted.”

Interestingly, on June 24, the night the Urban League celebrated Weinstein as “a leader whose impact continues to shape a more just and compassionate future,” two consecutive 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes struck northern Venezuela, killing and injuring thousands.

Interim President Delcy Rodríguez later called the earthquakes the “most brutal natural catastrophe” in Venezuela’s history.

In a horrific twist of fate, the BBC reported that ICE had deported more than 140 Venezuelans back to their home country on June 24, where they were housed in a hotel near the coast. The massive quakes struck there hours later, killing at least 2,200 people, injuring more than 10,000, and, according to UN figures, leaving 50,000 missing.

On July 2, the Venezuelan government estimated that 2,295 people died in the earthquakes, with another 11,000 injured.

“However, that’s believed to be a vast undercount. Gianluca Rampolla del Tindaro, the United Nations’ humanitarian coordinator for Venezuela, said the organization was procuring 10,000 body bags. And U.N. emergency relief coordinator Tom Fletcher called an estimate of 50,000 missing people ‘terrifyingly plausible,’” PBS reported.

Remember when Trump said the U.S. will ‘run’ Venezuela after capturing Maduro in surprise military strike?

Meanwhile, AP reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 10,000 people over a five-day period at the end of June – that’s roughly 2,000 arrests per day – continuing Trump’s mass deportations agenda. No news about where they might be sent.

*Supplies for Venezuela arriving. (Photo courtesy AHF)*

But while Trump is wildly spinning about his Fourth of July plans, AHF is in Venezuela, actively helping those in desperate need.

“The number of fatalities continues to rise, and many shelters have been set up in public spaces to help those in need. Hospitals and morgues are working tirelessly beyond their capacity, demonstrating the community’s resilience. Fortunately, international rescue teams have arrived, offering much-needed assistance to recover those still trapped in the debris. Venezuela’s government response has been uncoordinated, poor, and delayed, influenced by political interests,” Dr. Patricia Campos, Latin America Bureau Chief, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, wrote to Weinstein on Monday, June 29.

“Despite the communication challenges, our team from AHF Colombia has been communicating with 600 of the 1080 of our patients in care who live in Venezuela. We are continuing to search for the 480 others to be sure they are alive or to support them,” Campos concluded, noting that AHF´s Emergency Aid supplies arrived with 11/13 Foundation and distribution was underway.

In an hour-long Zoom interview, Weinstein talked about a number of issues, including his long association with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described Socialist, and the New York races that just yielded three Democratic Socialist candidates (Part 1) and his long, successful fight against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ HIV/AIDS cuts (Part 2).

Check out the video interview here.

“Well, as a native New Yorker,” Weinstein says, “the election in New York is a clash between the corporate Democrats and, particularly, a younger generation, with the exception of Bernie. It’s an epic change, right? And I would say that younger people who powered this (New York Mayor) Mamdani, AOC (Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez), and the rest of the movement do not feel that they have a stake in the system the way it is, right? And so, they’re willing to look at more radical answers.

“And this really is similar to the 1930s, you know, whereby when [President Franklin D.] Roosevelt came to office, who was a blue blood, right? He basically said, ‘in order to save the system, we have to move in the direction of socialism.’ He may not have called it that, but that’s essentially what it was,” Weinstein says.

“I mean, the model for democratic socialism is essentially Scandinavian and Northern European countries, right? Which is, essentially, a capitalist system that has a strong safety net, or basically says, ‘we’re going to tax the rich heavily in order to maintain a minimum level of existence for everyone.’

“So that’s basically what Bernie is espousing, and what Mamdani and others are espousing. And I don’t take too seriously…the characterizations that Trump has of them being Communist, et cetera, et cetera.”

Weinstein, longtime Latina activist Dolores Huerta, and an expected crowd of thousands in an AHF-created coalition are participating in a We The People March for Freedom in Trump’s Florida backyard on Friday, July 3.

“At a time in our nation when healthcare is being rationed, and rents are outpacing wages, teachers are working second jobs, and rural hospitals are closing, we must continue to stand up for what’s right for all Americans. July 4, 2026, marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence. The We the People March for Freedom is not just an event to celebrate this document or its declaration of independence, but the night before the fireworks, to remind America what and who it’s for,” stated Esteban Wood, AHF Director of Advocacy and Legislative Affairs and March for Freedom coordinator.

This is a cross-post from Karen’s LGBTQ+ Freedom Fighters Substack.

Politics

Former council member John Duran is running for one last term

Duran said his years of experience are needed

Published

3 weeks ago

July 3, 2026

Victoria Ivie

Long-time West Hollywood resident and activist John Duran surprised many by announcing he was running again for West Hollywood City Council in the upcoming general election.

“I’m only doing this because I think it is absolutely necessary for the city’s health to have one person with some experience on the council,” Duran told the Los Angeles Blade. “I really think the city is heading in the wrong direction and is on the wrong track.”

Duran has a long history of advocacy for the LGBTQ+ community and was one of the founders of Equality California. He is known around the city and in his political career as having defended LGBTQ+ rights during 40 years of his legal career, including being an attorney for ACT UP during the AIDS epidemic, and was the statewide co-chair of the Life AIDS lobby when laws on HIV and AIDS were being made in the 80s.

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Duran served on the West Hollywood City Council for two decades, starting from 2001, and passed on his mayoral seat in March 2019 after multiple sexual harassment allegations were made about Duran by past and current members of the Gay Men’s Chorus. Duran cited a health issue as his reason for stepping down as mayor.

In February 2019, Duran left his board position within the Gay Men’s Chorus, claiming his departure was planned before these accusations came to light.

An investigation into the allegations, published by the Los Angeles Times, included claims that Duran made inappropriate remarks and put his hand down two men’s waistbands. At the time, protestors and media scrutiny demanded his resignation from the council; after stepping down as mayor, Duran served the rest of his term as a city council member until Nov. 2020.

Prior to these accusations, in 2016, an aide received a $500,000 settlement from a sexual harassment suit against the City of West Hollywood and Duran. Neither Duran nor the city admitted wrongdoing in the settlement or suit.

In the six years since his last term, Duran said he’s enjoyed his privacy but is ready to get back to work for one last term.

He’s only eligible for another four years, so he feels he can use his expertise to get the council on better footing for long-term success.

“A lot of the votes right now are three to two, with the two people with lots of experience in the minority, and I think that produces some threats to the city in terms of growth, economic growth, housing development, and transportation,” Duran said. “All of the nuts and bolts of the city are under threat.”

Some issues he says he’s been frustrated seeing the council voting on are affordability and increasing safety along Fountain Ave.

“I think affordability is a big issue, and one of the issues that I disagree with the current council majority on is the issue about affordable housing and what to do about it,” Duran said.

The strongest tool for affordable housing? Duran says it’s rent control.

“We cannot build our way out of this (lack of affordability) issue,” Duran said. “What’s happening now is the incentive to try to build more is resulting in the destruction of rent-controlled units, and so the net effect is we’re going backwards by tearing down rent-controlled apartment buildings.”

Long-term, he hopes to see the council continue to strengthen rent control and follow up on earthquake retrofitting that Duran says was “largely abandoned” since he left the council.

Issues Duran hopes to tackle if he’s voted in for his last four-year term include “boring” everyday policies and issues to improve within municipal government.

“There are too many unfunded capital projects in the city’s budget, like well over 50,” Duran said.

Focusing on boring things like this can help fund future projects for the city long-term, he said.

“We need to look at our capital improvement projects and figure out which ones have to be cut, so we can put those unfunded projects back into our prudent reserves and really focus on how we’re going to use our prudent reserves.”

With so many capital improvement projects sitting in the pipeline, Duran said many of them are not being built due to economic shifts post-pandemic.

Another aspect he’d like to focus on improving if he gets voted back onto the city council is leadership development, especially for older council members, in cultivating younger LGBTQ+ leaders.

“I think a lot of the younger people that I see that are now running are inspired by being anti-Trump. I totally get that; I am too,” Duran said. “But really, what we have to start thinking about in terms of West Hollywood governance is the way that technology, artificial intelligence, and robotics are reshaping the world around us.”

“To me, those are the kind of conversations that need to happen for the future planning of West Hollywood,” he added. “I know I’m only going to be part of the launching of these conversations.”

Overall, Duran hopes that the spirit of West Hollywood, its defiant origins, and important LGBTQ+ history remain and shape the future of West Hollywood.

“I’ve been coming here to West Hollywood since the 70s, when they said we were mentally ill and I got to watch the whole history of the LGBT community from my front doorstep,” Duran said. “I think it’s worth having at least one person on the council who’s got a sense of where we came from and helping direct where we need to go.”

That Duran has “no interest” in running for higher office in Sacramento or D.C. is a plus for voters, he said.

“I don’t want to see West Hollywood become like the rest of Los Angeles,” Duran said. “That would be so heartbreaking to think that we’re going to become just like Brentwood, Westwood, Hollywood. We’re not; we’re something unique, completely different.”

Congress

EXCLUSIVE: Pressley rips State Department over LGBTQ+ rights rollbacks abroad

Massachusetts Democrat sent letter to Marco Rubio on Tuesday

Published

3 weeks ago

June 30, 2026

Joe Reberkenny

U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) is pushing back against Secretary of State Marco Rubio's anti-LGBTQ+ foreign policy. (Photo public domain)

Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging the Trump-Vance administration to take urgent action to defend LGBTQ+ people across the globe; including in countries that are violating international human rights protections for LGBTQ+ individuals, putting at risk the safety of civilians and U.S. citizens working, living, and traveling abroad.

The letter, which the Los Angeles Blade got an exclusive preview of prior to it’s sending, criticizes the Trump-Vance administration’s foreign policy direction at the State Department, arguing that it has moved to roll back LGBTQ+ protections that have long been part of the U.S.’s global human rights posture.

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“Criminalizing LGBTQI+ individuals undermines democracy globally, as well as U.S. national security. Thus, we urge the State Department to take adequate measures to speak out against this criminalization and protect U.S. citizens abroad, including your staff, who may be detained or harmed under such laws, policies, and practices,” Pressley, a Democrat who represents roughly three-fourths of Boston and much of the city’s suburbs, said. “U.S. civilians, diplomatic personnel, military members, and nonprofit workers on the ground providing health care and disaster support will be affected and have their safety threatened if the U.S. does not take action. Even U.S. citizens perceived as being part of the LGBTQI+ community and traveling or living in those countries may be used as bargaining chips. This is a serious U.S. national security concern.”

In the letter, Pressley underscores what she describes as a global escalation in criminalization and violence against LGBTQ+ people, noting that one-third of countries still criminalize consensual same-sex sexual relationships and that 12 countries impose the death penalty. She argues that these conditions make LGBTQ+ travelers, diplomats, and aid workers particularly vulnerable, and calls on the State Department to reassert U.S. leadership in defending human rights abroad.

“Every person deserves to live authentically, yet several countries are violating international human rights laws that protect LGBTQI+ individuals,” she said. “One-third of countries around the world criminalize same-sex consensual acts between adults, and 12 countries allow LGBTQI+ people to be executed for being themselves.”

She also invokes the U.S. has played in promoting democratic values internationally, arguing that LGBTQ+ rights should remain central to that mission.

“Historically, the United States has played a critical diplomatic role in promoting democracy and freedom for all individuals, including LGBTQI+ persons. The U.S. should be a world leader promoting human rights domestically and globally.”

In a separate statement included in the letter, Pressley emphasized both the moral and national security implications of the issue, warning that rising anti-LGBTQ+ laws abroad are endangering lives and require a coordinated U.S. response.

“Every person deserves to show up as their true, authentic selves here in the United States and in countries across the globe — and that includes our LGBTQI+ community members,” she said.

“However, we are witnessing a deeply concerning rise in human rights violations and criminalization of LGBTQI+ individuals in other countries, endangering the lives of civilians and U.S. citizens. It is incumbent upon the United States to protect our LGBTQI+ siblings at home and abroad not only for our national security but for the safety and freedom of LGBTQI+ people everywhere.”

The letter goes on to press the State Department for concrete action, including a public reaffirmation of U.S. commitments to LGBTQ+ human rights, the restoration of LGBTQ+ analysis in annual country reports, and clearer guidance for Americans traveling abroad. It also seeks clarity on whether the department is tracking cases of U.S. citizens detained or harmed under anti-LGBTQ+ laws and what proactive steps are being taken to warn and protect LGBTQ+ travelers.

While she is not a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Pressley remains highly active in international affairs and global policy.

While the letter focuses on current policy, it also lands in the broader context of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s long record on LGBTQ+ issues. Rubio, a former senator from Florida, has consistently opposed same-sex marriage, calling the federal Respect for Marriage Act, which he voted against, a “stupid waste of time.” He has also expressed support for efforts to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.

During his time in the U.S. Senate and as a Florida political leader, Rubio has a long anti-LGBTQ+ track record. He defended state policies that LGBTQ+ advocates say target queer and transgender people, including Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law — commonly known by critics as “Don’t Say Gay” or “Don’t Say Trans” — which restricts classroom discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity.

He has also drawn criticism for his voting record, including a 0/100 score from the Human Rights Campaign’s Congressional Scorecard, reflecting opposition to expanding federal civil rights protections for LGBTQ+ people and for opposing adoption rights for same-sex couples.

Now serving as secretary of state, Rubio has overseen changes at the State Department that LGBTQ+ advocates say have reduced visibility and protections for transgender people, including the removal of trans-specific references from parts of the department’s public-facing materials and travel guidance. He has also been linked to broader restructuring efforts involving U.S. foreign assistance programs, including the U.S. Agency for International Development, which has historically supported global HIV prevention and LGBTQ+ rights initiatives in regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, and Latin America.

Those cuts and shifts, critics argue, have weakened programs like PEPFAR — credited with saving millions of lives worldwide — and reduced U.S. support for LGBTQ+ communities facing persecution abroad. The program is credited with saving at least 25 million lives.

Pressley’s own record stands in contrast, with a 100/100 on HRC’s Congressional Scorecard and a long history of legislative and advocacy work centered on LGBTQ+ equality. In recent years, she has secured federal funding for The Pryde, an affordable housing development for LGBTQ+ seniors in Boston, and has repeatedly pushed for expanded civil rights protections, including support for the Equality Act and the Equal Rights Amendment.

She has also advanced policy efforts aimed at LGBTQ+ survivors of violence, trans, and nonbinary individuals navigating credit and legal systems, and broader protections under housing and civil rights law — framing her work as part of a sustained effort to ensure LGBTQ+ people are included in federal policy at every level.

*U.S. Rep. **Ayanna Pressley** (D-Mass.), center. (Photo courtesy of Ayanna Pressley’s office)*

Politics

California State Senator Scott Wiener slammed during Trans Pride over his stance on Gaza

Over the weekend, California State Senator Scott Wiener was confronted by a group of around seven people while attending a Trans Pride event in San Francisco on Friday, June 26.

Published

3 weeks ago

June 29, 2026

Victoria Ivie

A video posted on X by user Dimitry Yakoushkin of the incident went viral, showing Wiener being chased out of Dolores Park, while the group screamed at him. Multiple people in the protest group were wearing black ski masks that concealed their identities.

Wiener is contending to take over Nancy Pelosi’s seat in Congress in the upcoming November general election.

The video started off with Yakoushkin, a local activist, highlighting how great Wiener’s LGBT+ policies and lawmaking work are. As Yakoushkin started to criticize Wiener about his housing policies, others started to gather around the politician.

Yakoushkin and the group quickly transitioned to yelling at him about his stance on the genocide in Gaza.

“You’ve been wonderful for trans people, and… you’ve been terrible on Gaza,” Yakoushkin is heard saying in the video. “You do not belong here (at Trans Pride) anymore, Scott.”

“I want to support someone who’s so positive on trans rights, but you’re a piece of sh*t on Gaza,” he says later in the video. “How could you do that?”

Other protestors shouted obscenities that were hard to distinguish from, but some that jumped out included cries of “f*ck you” and “You’re a piece of sh*t.”

When it was clear this would not be a one-and-done criticism, Wiener is seen on video pivoting to exit Dolores Park, with the group following behind until Wiener was out of the park.

The video garnered over 12 million views as of Monday, June 29.

Scott Wiener showed up to the trans march and for the first time we kicked his ass out. It's sad because while he's written some good legislation for queers, hes ultimately a genocidal-supporting center right shill. Trigger warning: broken man walking away defeated. Vote Connie! pic.twitter.com/TXIB7omxde
— Dimitry Yakoushkin (@decadimitry) June 27, 2026

In early January of this year, Wiener declined to call Israel’s actions in Gaza a genocide during a congressional debate forum, as many other politicians have.

A week later, on Jan. 11, Wiener reversed that decision.

“For years, I’ve condemned (Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin) Netanyahu and his extremist government and the devastation they’ve inflicted on Gaza,” Wiener posted on X. “It’s why I’ve been clear I won’t support U.S. funding for the destruction of Palestinian communities. I’ve stopped short of calling it genocide, but I can’t anymore.”

This was after two years of Israeli bombing that led to thousands of Palestinian deaths in the Gaza Strip, following the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas.

After Friday’s incident, Wiener posted a statement, calling it “physical intimidation and harassment” by “people who had previously targeted” him with “aggressive behavior in the past.”

“Last night I attended the Trans March, as I’ve done each year for the past 22 years since the first march in 2004,” the statement said. “I attend each year in solidarity with our trans siblings, who are facing existential threats from right-wing extremists, including the President.”

“I have no objection whatsoever to anyone disagreeing with me, opposing me, or protesting me.

All of that is core to democracy,” the statement continued. “I also have no issue when people talk to me on the street and ask questions or express opposition. That’s democracy, even when the people engaging in this conduct misrepresent my views. But when opposition and disagreement transition to harassment, including cornering me, touching me, or trying to physically bully me out of a public event, that crosses a line.”

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Wiener’s congressional opponent, Supervisor Connie Chan, appeared to march without any incident.

Many critics of Wiener took to social media to point out that Wiener posted this statement and used it as a fundraising opportunity, while not posting about the heavy police presence and arrests during San Francisco’s Pride weekend.

Independent journalist Jersey Noah made an Instagram post to Wiener saying, “What do you have to say about (San Francisco Police Department) assaulting and arresting trans people on the public streets of San Francisco for two consecutive nights? Because you haven’t said a… word.”

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This is not the first time a politician has been ousted from San Francisco’s Trans Pride festivities, according to San Francisco-based outlet Mission Local.

Past politicians forced to leave over the last decade include Mayor Daniel Lurie, then-Mayor Ed Lee, City Attorney David Chiu, and then-State Senator Mark Leno, according to Mission Local.

Yakoushkin said the protest was spontaneous, saying, “It was not planned, I was walking home, and I saw him from a distance and I got my camera out to start filming,” according to Mission Local.

The California Senate Democratic Caucus and California LGBTQ+ Caucus made a joint statement of support for Wiener, denouncing the verbal harassment toward Wiener as “unacceptable.”

“Senator Wiener has spent the last 16 years in service to San Francisco,” their statement said. “In that time, he has been a fearless champion for the LGBTQ+ community even when it was not politically popular, leading on landmark legislation advancing the rights and protections for Transgender, Gender Expansive, and Intersex people. He is a steadfast advocate for his communities.

“In California, we believe everyone deserves dignity and respect, regardless of political differences,” the statement continued.