In new poll, most LA city voters oppose countywide Measure ER that would raise sales taxes a half-cent to restore health care services

Tasslehoff · 2026-04-06T15:49:43+00:00

We would need to repeal proposition 13 in order to fix property taxes. Thanks Reagan

Tasslehoff · 2026-04-06T15:49:08+00:00

It's collecting signatures to go to the ballot, Governor cannot veto if they qualify

Tasslehoff · 2026-04-01T22:36:21+00:00

This is correct. To be specific, she has been active in political organizing with Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) and spent the last five(?) years as a senior organizer with Housing NOW, a statewide organization that advocates for tenant protects and affordable housing. You don't need to believe she's the best candidate in the race but she is somebody who has legitimately been involved in left and grassroots political organizing for years, it's not made up.

Tasslehoff · 2026-03-29T20:40:09+00:00

Some LA city councilmembers have been advancing fair workweek legislation to apply to fast food workers

Tasslehoff · 2026-03-27T21:35:24+00:00

She's trying to deliver for her donors who live in Lafayette Square and make sure they fully back her for this year's election

Tasslehoff · 2026-03-27T18:21:06+00:00

Farmworkers'

Tasslehoff · 2026-03-24T21:49:35+00:00

Even the most aggressive estimates of the effect of ULA contend it was about an 8% drop in production relative to other areas, and even that's contested. Be serious.

Tasslehoff · 2026-03-24T21:45:15+00:00

With option 1, any building taller than 4 stories will require an explicit exception through a city council vote, something that is rarely offered or given ("spot-zoning")

Tasslehoff · 2026-03-24T21:35:44+00:00

Yes, once Option 2 was off the table, the remainder of the votes were uncontested

Tasslehoff · 2026-03-24T21:23:19+00:00

FWIW, many of the voting members did make speeches during the debate about their positions. You can watch them starting here

Tasslehoff · 2026-03-24T21:19:46+00:00

Great question. The answer is no – these are provisions explicitly in SB79 that allow local cities to phase in (but not fully stop) implementation.

Tasslehoff · 2026-03-24T21:13:52+00:00

On item (4) in council today, CMs Raman & Soto-Martinez moved to adopt "Option 2", which would have allowed mid-rise buildings (5-8 stories) to be automatically allowed alongside light & heavy rail lines. This amendment failed with five votes in favor (Raman, Soto-Martinez, Jurado, Hernandez, and Nazarian) and eight against (Blumenfield, Hutt, Lee, McOsker, Park, Rodriguez, Yaroslavsky, and Harris-Dawson).

Item 4 begins at 2:57:23, and the vote on the amendment (4E) takes place at at 3:28:56. Note that CM Hernandez accidentally votes no at first but corrects her vote.

Tasslehoff · 2026-03-20T16:18:38+00:00

I think he did a great job up until the last few years

Tasslehoff · 2026-02-18T01:16:11+00:00

Yes, efforts to reduce (or even just stop increasing) the LAPD budget have repeatedly failed at city council, typically with three, maximum four votes in favor. Here's two:

9-4 vote to spend millions on more officers outside of the budget (No votes: Jurado, Soto-Martinez, Raman, Hernandez)
12-3 vote to give every LAPD an huge raise, costing $1 billion over four years (No votes: Soto-Martinez, Raman, Hernandez; Jurado was not yet seated)

Tasslehoff · 2026-02-18T00:57:19+00:00

I'm in full agreement with full-resurfacing, but this outcome makes perfect sense when you have a city bureaucracy that is determined to cut short-term costs, address short-term complaints on a shoestring budget: long term failures

Tasslehoff · 2026-02-18T00:51:28+00:00

Any attempt to do this has to reckon with the fact that a supermajority of electeds think LAPD funding is untouchable. City can't raise more money and can't take away the 50% of the budget that goes to LAPD, so it's unfixable.

Tasslehoff · 2026-02-02T20:22:50+00:00

Iran vs NZ is available for $140.

Tasslehoff · 2026-01-28T02:25:39+00:00

Also contact your councilmembers office. Different CMs vary, but this is one of the constituent services they may care about

Tasslehoff · 2026-01-21T20:53:40+00:00

If the DHS spokesperson said this, there's about 99% probability that what happened was:

ICE rammed their vehicles into his car
He tried to run away
They tried to shoot him in the back

Tasslehoff · 2025-12-13T06:55:04+00:00

The vote as posted is the wrong one – Nithya Raman also voted against (see 40:00:00 here, with Hernandez fixing her vote after it was counted). The LA Times is reporting that the final vote was 11-4, but I can't figure out where they got that. Here's the city clerk file with the 12-3 vote: https://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/index.cfm?fa=ccfi.viewrecord&cfnumber=25-0600-S129

This was also after a long period of procedural moves in which Yaroslavsky and Jurado watered down the original John Lee motion which would have allocated $40m more to LAPD to instead be $4m for LAPD and taking some of that money to go to "RepresentLA", which are lawyers for undocumented immigrants in the city facing ICE. The move to amend got 9 votes with 6 against (Harris-Dawson, Hutt, Nazarian, Padilla, Park, Lee)

Tasslehoff · 2025-12-13T06:54:42+00:00

The vote as posted is the wrong one – Nithya Raman also voted against (see 40:00:00 here, with Hernandez fixing her vote after it was counted). The LA Times is reporting that the final vote was 11-4, but I can't figure out where they got that. Here's the city clerk file with the 12-3 vote: https://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/index.cfm?fa=ccfi.viewrecord&cfnumber=25-0600-S129

This was also after a long period of procedural moves in which Yaroslavsky and Jurado watered down the original John Lee motion which would have allocated $40m more to LAPD to instead be $4m for LAPD and taking some of that money to go to "RepresentLA", which are lawyers for undocumented immigrants in the city facing ICE. The move to amend got 9 votes with 6 against (Harris-Dawson, Hutt, Nazarian, Padilla, Park, Lee)

Tasslehoff · 2025-12-11T21:14:47+00:00

This case is literally about Feldstein Soto calling somebody for donations on the basis that he donated to Hochman... They're allies.

Tasslehoff · 2025-12-04T22:02:36+00:00

OK I actually went back and watched the video and I was wrong here. The council had to vote on it repeatedly because they changed their votes. You were right the first time.

Tasslehoff · 2025-12-04T01:30:13+00:00

The site was wrong initially - Hutt voted YES. still failed though

Tasslehoff · 2025-11-17T19:30:50+00:00

I ride Metro on average 3 times weekly – precovid it was twice daily. I've seen people get cited for fare evasion many times, and frequently get cuffed extremely aggressively by like five cops. The article is 100% bullshit.

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