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2024 GENERAL ELECTION
Every election, we hear someone say, “This is the most important election of our lifetimes.” Every election is important. We have a modicum of power that we can exert every couple of years. And even if we’re fed up with whomever is at the top of the ballot, there’s always a candidate or a ballot measure that, the passage of which, or the failure to pass, will have a huge effect on our lives.
But this particular election is a very important one.
We are living in an Oligarchy, but are a hair’s breadth away from ushering in a full theocratic dictatorship. Kamala Harris is good on a number of issues, disappointing in her paying lip service to the United States’ support of the horror that Netanyahu’s government is perpetrating in Gaza, the West Bank and now in Lebanon, but for whatever her flaws are, electing her will allow progressives and leftists a lot more room to organize and fight for those issues we care about: Building a more equitable, just and sustainable world.
A right-wing dictatorship won’t provide us any room to stand up for these things. If we want to take back the courts that Leonard Leo guided Donald Trump in packing with Dominionist corporatists, we need to defeat Trump. We also need to take back the House of Representatives and keep control of the US Senate. To achieve this, we will have to hold our nose while casting our votes for some of the Democrats running.
And if you want to prioritize those races that would usher in the kinds of candidates who will work with ADA to achieve our progressive goals, we have designated those candidates as “Progressive Champions.” We link to their websites. There’s only so much time between now and election day, but if you have some time, these are the races that we recommend you volunteer for and donate to.
ADA SoCal offers you our endorsements for General Election. You can see whom we're endorsing. You can click on each name and find out more about them and their campaign. You can also learn why we made many of the endorsements we made and you can learn more about our Endorsement process.
And you can download a printable pdf that you can use to fill out your ballot. Click here to download pdf
Don’t sit this one out, because this is certainly one of the most important elections of our lifetimes!
ENDORSEMENTS
• US President - Kamala Harris
District 23: Derek Marshall
District 27: George Whitesides
District 28: Judy Chu
District 29: Luz Rivas
District 30: Laura Friedman PROGRESSIVE CHAMPION
District 32: Chris Ahuja
District 34: David Kim PROGRESSIVE CHAMPION
District 36: Ted Lieu
District 37: Sydney Kamlager-Dove
District 38: Linda T. Sanchez
District 39: Mark Takano
•State Assembly:
District 44: Nick Schultz
George Gascón PROGRESSIVE CHAMPION
Seat 1 - Sherlett Hendy Newbill
Seat 3 - Scott Schmerelson
Seat 5 – Karla Griego
• Los Angeles City Council
District 2: Jillian Burgos PROGRESSIVE CHAMPION
District 10: Grace Yoo PROGRESSIVE CHAMPION
District 14: Ysabel Jurado PROGRESSIVE CHAMPION
• Burbank City Council
• Lomita City Council:
Wade Kyle
• Pomona City Council:
John Nolte
• Santa Monica City Council:
Dan Hall
Ericka Lesley
Ellis Raskin
Barry Snell
Natalya Zernitskaya
Kay Ambriz
Phillis Dudick
• West Hollywood City Council:
Zekiah Wright
CA Ballot Measures:
2: Bonds for Public Schools and Community College Facilities – YES
3: Constitutional Right To Marriage – YES
4: Bonds for Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention - NO
5: Allows Public Infrastructure Bonds with 55% Approval – YES
6: Eliminates Constitutional Provision Allowing Involuntary Servitude – YES
32: Raises Minimum Wage – YES
33: Expands Authority to Enact Rent Control – YES
34: Restricts Michael Weinstein from Putting Rent Control on Ballot – NO
35: Provides Permanent Funding for Medi-Cal Health Care Services - NO
36: Allows Felony Charges and Increases Sentences - NO
Los Angeles County Ballot Measures:
Measure G: Ethics Commission Amendment – YES
Los Angeles City Ballot Measures:
Charter Amendment DD – Redistricting Amendment – YES
Charter Amendment ER – Ethics Commission Authority – YES
Charter Amendment LL - Redistricting for LA Unified School District – YES
SoCal ADA Presents
EARTH DAY 2023
AMERICANS FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION SOCAL
NOVEMBER 3, 2020 GENERAL ELECTION ENDORSEMENTS
Below is a list of endorsements, and if you'd like to an explanation of our endorsements please click here. If you would like to know how we pick our endorsements click here.
If you would like to download a PDF copy click here
NOVEMBER 3, 2020 GENERAL ELECTION ENDORSEMENTS
President: Joe Biden
US Congress:
District 27 - Judy Chu
District 29 - Angelica Dueñas
District 33 - Ted Lieu
District 34 – David Kim
District 37 - Karen Bass
District 43 - Maxine Waters
District 44 - Nanette Barragan
District 45 - Katie Porter
District 47 - Alan Lowenthal
District 50 - Ammar Campa-Najjar
California State Senate:
District 25 - Anthony Portantino
District 27 - Henry Stern
California Assembly:
District 43 - Laura Friedman
District 46 - Adrin Nazarian
District 47 - Eloise Reyes
District 59 - Reggie Jones Sawyer
District 63 - Maria Estrada
District 70 - Patrick O'Donnell
LA County Supervisor:
District 2 - Holly Mitchell
LA County District Attorney:
George Gascón
Superior Court
Office 72 - Steve Morgan
Office 80 - Klint James McKay
LA City Council
District 2 - Paul Kerkorian
District 4 - Nithya Raman
District 10 - Grace Yoo
Burbank City Council
Nick Schultz
Culver City Council
Khin Khin Gyi
Los Angeles School Board:
Patricia Castellanos, Scott Shmerelson
Los Angeles Community College District:
Trustee #1 – Andra Hoffman
Trustee #3 – Anthony Danna
Trustee #5 – Michelle Manos
Trustee #7 – Mike Fong
Garden Grove School Board – Nick Dibs
California Ballot Measures:
| Prop. 15 – Split Roll on Prop. 13 - | YES |
| Prop. 16 – A Return to Affirmative Action – | YES |
| Prop. 17 – Would Allow Parolees to Vote - | YES |
| Prop. 18 – Would Allow 17-year-olds to vote – | YES |
| Prop. 19 - Property Tax Exemptions - | YES |
| Prop. 20 – Tougher Parole – | NO |
| Prop. 21 – Rent Control – | YES |
| Prop. 22 – Special Rules for the Gig Economy – | NO |
| Prop. 23 – Kidney Dialysis – | YES |
| Prop. 24 – New Consumer Privacy- | YES |
| Prop. 25 – Eliminate Cash Bail - | YES |
| LA County Measure J – Alternatives to Incarceration - | YES |
RE-ENVISIONING SAFETY IN AMERICA
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The horror of George Floyd's murder has inspired a deep debate about re-envisioning Public Safety in America. The call to “Defund The Police!” does not mean the elimination of law enforcement -- it means divesting money from bloated police budgets and investing instead in people to deal proactively with addiction, homelessness and mental illness. Gun-toting police aren’t the answer to these problems. So many police shootings occur in the context of these issues.
Militarizing the Police hasn’t reduced crime. Neither has throwing more and more money at police departments. It’s time to try something different. Eugene, Oregon has been diverting money from its police to the hiring of medics and social workers to address addiction issues, mental illness or homelessness ---and it’s been very effective.
The latest Los Angeles City Budget was slated to devote 54% of discretionary funds to the LAPD. Now, in response to the protests, the City Council is considering cutting between $100 and $150 million from Mayor Garcetti's original budget. But this is merely rolling back a yearly hike in spending — it's not the serious change that’s needed. New York's City Council is talking about cutting $1 billion from their police budget, so LA could make more drastic cuts and fund needed community services. This would also free up police officers to do things they are uniquely suited to - such as solving crimes!
Black Lives Matter has put together a powerful proposal along these lines. You can read it at: https://peoplesbudgetla.com.
We’re asking LA Residents to call their City Council members and ask them to get serious about a new approach to public safety -- substantial cuts to LAPD and moving the money into community services for crime prevention and for non-violent crisis resolution. Tell them his is the moment for real substantive change, not merely trimming around the edges. Here is a list of Los Angeles City Council members:
CONTACT YOUR LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO FIND YOUR REPRESENTATIVE IN YOUR DISTRICT
Map of Council District Boundaries
| Council Member District 1 - Gil Cedillo | (213)473-7001 |
| Council Member District 2 - Paul Krekorian | (213) 473-7002 |
| Council Member District 3 - Bob Blumenfield | (213) 473-7003 |
| Council Member District 4 - David E. Ryu | (213) 473-7004 |
| Council Member District 5 - Paul Koretz | (213) 473-7005 |
| Council Member District 6 - Nury Martinez | (213) 473-7006 |
| Council Member District 7 - Monica Rodriguez | (213) 473-7007 |
| Council Member District 8 - Marqueece Harris-Dawson | (213) 473-7008 |
| Council Member District 9 - Curren D. Price, Jr. | (213) 473-7009 |
| Council Member District 10 - Herb J. Wesson, Jr. | (213) 473-7010 |
| Council Member District 11 - Mike Bonin | (213) 473-7011 |
| Council Member District 12 - John Lee | (213) 473-7012 |
| Council Member District 13 - Mitch O'Farrell | (213) 473-7013 |
| Council Member District 14 - Jose Huizar | (213) 473-7014 |
| Council Member District 15 - Joe Buscaino | (213) 473-7015 |
When you’ve made the call, please email us back at [email protected] and let us know what the result of your call was.
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