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Culver City Mayor Goran Eriksson received good news from the Los Angeles County Registrar this week but the City Council race is not over as mailed-in ballots are still being counted daily. The latest election update show that Eriksson passed challenger Freddy Puza for the third open seat on the City Council. The difference between the two candidates is only 20 votes. According to semi-official results released yesterday, Albert Vera still tops the field with 10,489 votes, followed by Yasmine...
By Alyssa Erdley News with Attitude. As of Tuesday, a full week after the national election, California has only counted 82 percent of the vote. An estimated 2,740,846 ballots have not yet been counted. If this were a battleground state, important in determining a national election, we would be a complete laughingstock. Even under normal conditions, California allows county election officials nearly a month before they have to report their final results for presidential electors to the...
By David Ganezer Thousands took to the streets of major US cities Saturday, to celebrate as Joe Biden seemed to have clinched the 2020 Presidential election. Hundreds of people walked down main street in Santa Monica. Most wore masks, some carried flags and expressed hope for the future. Motorists honked their horns and waved in approval. An even larger celebration took place in downtown Los Angeles. Some wore masks in response to the Covid-19 epidemic, which has killed 250,000 Americans and...
Two political newcomers and a former city commissioner are on the verge of winning the 3 seats on the Culver City Council while the controversial Measure B is headed for defeat. With mail-in ballots still being counted countywide, Yasmine McMorrin leads the Council race with 8,971 votes, followed by former Civil Service Commissioner Albert Vera with 8,889 votes and Freddy Puza with 7432 votes, according to preliminary results released yesterday. Mayor Goran Eriksson currently sits in fourth...
With Holly Mitchell winning a seat on the powerful the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, the race for her current post in the State Senate has begun. Mitchell, who handily defeated former LA City Council President Herb Wesson on Tuesday, will assume her new post on November 30. She will succeed Mark Ridley-Thomas who won a seat on Los Angeles City Council, vacated by Wesson due to term limits. According to state laws, Governor Gavin Newson has until December 14 to call for a special...
• Prop 14: Funding medical research that uses stem cells PASSED • Prop 15: Raising taxes on commercial properties worth more than $3 million FAILED • Prop 16: Bringing back affirmative action in public hiring, contracts and college admissions FAILED • Prop 17: Restoring the voting rights of people on parole PASSED • Prop 18: Letting some 17-year-olds vote in primary and special elections FAILED • Prop 19: Letting senior homeowners pay low property taxes if they move while raising taxes for p...
A proposition that would keep alive California's first-of-its-kind stem cell research program with a $5.5 billion infusion of borrowed money had a narrow lead. With about 11.3 million votes counted, approval for Proposition 14 was ahead 51.1% to 48.9% Wednesday morn. If the proposition passes it would approve a bond sale that would bail out the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, which was created by a similar $3 billion bond measure in 2014 but is now nearly broke. Millions more votes remained to be counted. With dozens of...
In one of two measures involving voting rights, voters decisively passed a ballot measure restoring the right to vote for felons on parole. Proposition 17 will change the state Constitution to allow an estimated 50,000 felons to vote, with 59% over voters approving the measure. Another voting rights measure, Proposition 18, which would allow 17-year-olds to vote in primaries if they turn 18 before the general election, was rejected by 55 percent of voters....
Proposition 19, which would expand one property tax break for seniors but rein in another for transfers of real estate between parents and children, appeared headed to passage, according to unofficial election results. The vote, with all precincts reporting at least partial results, was 51.5% to 48.5% as of Wednesday evening. Bay Area counties gave the ballot measure its strongest support, with yes votes ranging from roughly 56% to 60%. The Legislative Analyst’s Office estimated that the net effect of Prop. 19 would be to raise property tax r...
California voters defeated Proposition 20, endorsing recent efforts to ease mass incarceration by reducing penalties and allowing for earlier releases. Voters rejecting pleas from proponents of Proposition 20 to address what they called the “unintended consequences” of two previously approved ballot measures. One lowered penalties for drug and property crimes in 2014, while the second two years later allowed the earlier parole of most felons. Voters by a 62.3% to 37.7% margin rejected Proposition 20, which would have barred criminals con...
California rejected Proposition 21 which would have permitted stricter rent control laws. Proposition 21 was opposed by 59.8% of the voters, according to the state’s unofficial election tally Wednesday morning. “Yet again, California voters clearly understood the negative impacts Prop. 21 would have had on the availability of affordable housing in our state by clearly rejecting this radical ballot measure,” Tom Bannon, chief executive of the California Apartment Assn., said in a statement. “It is now time to move from ballot-box battles...
Rideshare/gig economy apps such as Uber, Lyft and Doordash may continue to pay their employees as independent contractors, as California voters approved Proposition 22. The measure reversed legislation passed in Sacramento, that mandated gig economy workers be paid as employees. This would mean deductions for workers compensation, and for other taxes. Uber and other ride share companies spent over $200,000,000 on passing the measure, a record for any ballot initiative in any US...
by Stan Greene According to the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters, George Gascon has been elected Los Angeles County District Attorney. Gascon won 54% of the Los Angeles County vote, about 1.5 million in raw votes. Incumbent District Attorney Jackie Lacey has just 46%. The carpetbagger from San Francisco favors no prosecution of homeless people for any crime, no drug prosecution, no minor crime enforcement, and an emphasis on social justice over, well, justice. Jackie Lacey was elected in 2...
Culver City residents have until November 3 to vote on the candidates for the City Council and School Board as well as decide the fate of two separate measures dealing with rent control and property transfer tax. They'll also have their say on the candidates for the Presidency, County Board of Supervisors, state and federal offices and a multitude of state propositions. Voting by can be conducted by mail or in person at Early Voting Centers at West Los Angeles College and Four Points by...
With thousands of mail-in ballots stll being counted ImaniI McMorrin leading with 8,527 votes followed by ALBERT Vera with 8,409 votes, then Freddy Puza for seats on the Culver City Council follows with 7101 votes. Incumbent Councilman Goran Eriksson following a close fourth place trailing by less than 200 votes behind Puza. The Culver City Police Department has instituted an operational plan to ensure the protection and safety of all our residents, business owners, and visitors. The Emergency...
What do you see as the most important issue affecting Culver City at this time? How do you plan to address it as a Council Member? Why do you feel you're especially qualified to deal with it? What is your position regarding Measure B, rent control? What is your position on the proposal to defund the Culver City Police Department by 50%? Those were the questions this publication posed to the nine candidates shown on the Culver City website as contending for three open City Council seats to be fil...
By Samuel Alioto It may not go down as the most significant endorsement of the political season, but a local storage unit operator has come out against Proposition 15. "Normally, we do not communicate with our customers about ballot measures," writes "Your SoCal Self Storage Team." We prefer to talk ab out our Nice customer service, cool organizational tips, rainbows, and sunsets. But Prop 15, also known as the Schools and Communities First initiative, has us REALLY concerned." reads a letter sent to all storage customers. "Prop 15 threatens...
LO- Sen. Bernie Sanders announced Friday his endorsement of Sen. Holly Mitchell for Supervisor as part of his slate of 19 progressive Democratic candidates running for state, city and county level positions in California for the general election. Mitchell is in the run-off for Los Angeles County's Second Supervisorial District. "Our campaign was never about one election or one candidate," Sanders said in a statement. "The only way our movement can continue is if we work together to elect great,...
Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara today announced the newest members of the California Department of Insurance’s Curriculum Board, the California Life and Health Insurance Guarantee Association’s (CLHIGA) Board of Directors, and the California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s (WCIRB) Governing Committee. “I am very pleased to announce my newest appointments to three important boards which help further my Department’s work to protect all Californians,” said Commissioner Lara. ”Their expertise and breadth of experiences wil...
Leaders of Protect Culver City, the much-maligned, local political action committee that placed the rent control initiative on November 3 ballot, told the Observer this week that Measure B was never meant as a “statement for or against rent control, but as a simple demand: City Council let us (voters) have the final word on it.” Ron Bassilian, president of Protect Culver City (PCC), said his group -- composed of local business owners, residents and landlords, wanted to have “proper citywide conversation about the issue and let people decid...
By David Ganezer The L.A. County Registrar-Recorder's Office mailed ballots for the Nov. 3 elections to every registered voter - not just those who have opted into mail-in voting - on Monday, Oct. 5. Voters may complete their ballots anytime. Voters must sign the eligibility oath and date the return envelope for their vote to count. Every signature is verified before the ballot is cleared for counting. If a signature is missing or if the signature does not match the one on file, according to...
For More Information or to Register to Vote, Visit lavote.net To commemorate National Voter Registration Day, SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park, Los Angeles Chargers and Los Angeles Rams today announced that a Vote Center location will be established on the grounds of SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA. The announcement was made jointly with the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk and the California Secretary of State's office. SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park's Vote Center will be located adjacent to the stadium and open for a five-day...
On May 1, the Los Angeles County Registrar/Recorder's office qualified the proposed ballot measure to allow voters to decide the issue of rent control. The measure will appear on the November ballot. If passed, the ballot measure would reverse the City Council's decision to freeze residential rents for one year pending the review of a possible rent control ordinance and would require voter approval for any action on rent control. The contentious issue began when the city council approved a so ca...
The Culver City Council will select a new mayor Monday night without the acrimony of last year's annual rotation. Vice Mayor Goran Eriksson will most likely take over the mayoral reins as current Mayor Meghan Sahli-Wells announced at a recent council meeting that she would support him for that ceremonial post. Councilmember Alex Fisch is the longest serving councilmember who hasn't served in either position and is expected to be elected vice mayor. Prior councils had loosely followed the...
