Here in California (and in Los Angeles in particular), we have an election coming up. For months, one of the wealthiest candidates has been blanketing the airwaves, together with ads from the Native-American Casino Lobby, fighting against a ballot initiative that isn’t even on this ballot. Now that both the sample ballots and the real ballots* have been mailed, the political advertising has increased by an order of magnitude. That’s where I come in. Every election, I do a detailed ballot analysis of my sample ballot. This is where I examine each candidate and share my conclusions, and invite you to convince me to vote for the other jerk.
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* California gives all registered voters the option to vote by mail and to vote early.
Because this is a long ballot, I’m splitting it into a few chunks:
- National Offices** (including US Congress)
- Local Offices*** (excluding US Congress and State Assembly)
- Judicial Offices
- California Statewide Offices*** (including State Assembly)
- Summary
** Bucking the convention of my sample ballot, however, I’m including our Congressional Representative in this section.
*** Bucking the convention of my sample ballot, I’m including state legislative officers with the Statewide officers. In my case, that is my Assemblycritter, as we have no State Senator running for office this election.
This part provides a summary of my ballot analysis results. Please read the full explanation of why I chose who I chose in the links above.
(I) National Offices (including US Congress)
| US Senator – Full Term (Jan 2023 through Jan 2029) | ⚫ Alex Padilla (D) Inc |
| US Senator – Short Term (ending Jan 2023) | ⚫ Alex Padilla (D) Inc |
| US House of Representatives, 32nd District | ⚫ Brad Sherman (D) Inc |
(II) County and Local Offices
| City of Los Angeles | |
| Mayor | ⚫ Karen Ruth Bass |
| City Attorney | ⚫ Faisal M. Gill |
| Controller | ⚫ Kenneth Mejia |
| Measure BB | ⚫ Yes on BB |
| County of Los Angeles | |
| Supervisor 3rd District | ⚫ Lindsey Horvath |
| Sheriff | ⚫ Robert Luna |
| Assessor | ⚫ Jeffrey Prang Inc |
(III) Judicial Offices
| Office № 3 | ⚫ Tim Reuben |
| Office № 60 | ⚫ Sharon Ransom |
| Office № 67 | ⚫ Fernanda Maria Barreto |
| Office № 70 | ⚫ Holly L. Hancock |
| Office № 90 | ⚫ Melissa Lyons |
| Office № 116 | ⚫ David B. Gelfound Inc |
| Office № 118 | ⚫ Klint McKay |
| Office № 151 | ⚫ Patrick Hare |
| Office № 156 | ⚫ Carol Elswick Inc |
(IV) California Statewide Offices (including State Assembly)
| California Legislature | |
| Member of the State Assembly, 40th District | ⚫ Annie E. Cho (D) |
| California Executive Branch | |
| Governor | ⚫ Gavin Newsom (D) Inc |
| Lieutenant Governor | ⚫ Eleni Kounalakis (D) Inc |
| Secretary of State | ⚫ Shirley N. Weber (D) Appointed Inc |
| Controller | ⚫ Ron Galperin (D) |
| Treasurer |
⚫ Fiona Ma (D) Inc |
| Attorney General |
⚫ Rob Bonta (D) Appointed Inc |
| Insurance Commissioner | ⚫ Marc Levine (D) |
| State Board of Equalization, 3rd District | ⚫ Tony Vazquez (D) Inc |
| Superintendent of Public Instruction | ⚫ Tony K. Thurmond Inc |
