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
View candidates endorsed by California Young Democrats here.