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Endorsements

November 2022 Endorsements

Our club prioritizes endorsements in races where Westside voters can significantly impact our government’s commitment to impact sustainability, affordability, and equity.

You can find all of LA County’s ballot measures here and races here.

County

Sheriff — Robert Luna

Board of Supervisors, District 3 — Lindsey Horvath

Ballot Measures

Yes — A (Charter amendment-providing authority to remove an elected Sheriff for cause)

Yes — C (General tax on cannabis business in the unincorporated area of count)

City

Los Angeles

Mayor — Karen Bass

Controller — Kenneth Mejia

City Council

District 5 — Katy Young Yaroslavsky

District 11 — Erin Darling

Ballot Initiatives

Yes — Measure LACC
Yes — Measure ULA
Yes — Measure LH
Yes — Measure SP

Community College Trustees

Seat 4 — Sara Hernandez

Seat 7 — Kelsey Iino

Santa Monica

City Council

Caroline Torosis

Natalya Zernitskaya

Jesse Zwick

Rent Control Board

Daniel S. Ivanov

Kurt Gonska

SMMUSD School Board

Laurie Lieberman

Richard Tahvildaran-Jesswein

SMC Board

Sion Roy

Nancy Greenstein

Ballot Measures

Yes — GS
No — DT/DTS
Yes — RC
Yes — EM
Yes — G
No — HMP
No Consensus — CS, PB

Culver City

City Council

Alex Fisch

Freddy Puza

School District

Triston Ezidore

Stephanie Loredo

Summer McBride

Ballot Measures

Yes — Charter Amendment Age Requirements (lowers voting age to 16)

Yes — Business License Tax

West Hollywood

City Council

Chelsea Byers

Robert Oliver

Zekiah Wright

State

Assembly

District 42 — Jaqui Irwin

District 51 — Rick Chavez Zbur

District 55 — Isaac Bryan

Senate

District 24 — Ben Allen

District 28 — Lola Smallwood-Cuevas

US

Congress

District 30 — Adam Schiff

District 36 — Ted Lieu

District 37 — Sydney Kamlager

Endorsement Requests

If you are a candidate in our district seeking an endorsement, please fill out this form or email our political director.

All candidates seeking WYD endorsement must:

  • Sign a statement affirming that Black Lives Matter.
  • Not accept any donations from police unions.
  • Support legislation that mandates that all law enforcement entities be subject to a Civilian Oversight Commission, with subpoena power,  that will issue regular findings and reports of police-involved shootings and incidents.
  • For candidates that will have direct oversight of police contracts: upon taking office, call for an independent, third-party review of their department's “use of force” techniques and policies. The results of the finding must be made available to the public.

Endorsement Process

The E-Board will review candidate questionnaires and make recommendations for the individual races. The recommendation will either be for a candidate or "no consensus."

If the E-Board reaches "no consensus" in an endorsement recommendation, campaigns eligible for the endorsement may have up to three speakers address our club for one minute and thirty seconds each, or four minutes and thirty seconds total per campaign. The speakers will alternate (one speaker for candidate A, one speaker for candidate B, one speaker for candidate C and so forth). After the speakers, a vote will take place and only eligible voting members will be able to vote. The vote will take place through a zoom poll. In order to vote in a zoom poll, you must join the meeting through a computer or the mobile app, you may not call into the meeting. A campaign must receive 60%+ of votes to be endorsed. If no campaign receives 60% of the votes on the first round and there are more than two campaigns seeking our endorsement in the race, there will be a runoff between the top two campaigns. If, after the runoff, no campaign receives 60%+ of the votes, the recommendation will be "no consensus."

If a candidate is recommended by the E-Board, the recommendation goes to the consent calendar. 15%+ of the voting members present must raise their virtual hands to pull the recommended candidate off the consent calendar. If under 15% of the voting membership present raises their virtual hands to pull the recommendation, the recommendation becomes an official endorsement. If a recommendation is pulled, the same process as "no consensus" is followed.

After endorsements are confirmed, endorsed campaigns will have the opportunity to address the club.

If you have questions about the endorsement process and/or meeting, please email westsideyd@gmail.com.

California Young Democrats

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