Endorsements For Tuesday's City Election

There's an election tomorrow in the City of Los Angeles. Yes, THIS Tuesday. March 6.

MadProfessah lives in Mayor Antonio Villaraigoas's former City Council district, Council District 14, where Jose Huizar is now the incumbent. Huizar is being challenged by a former employee named Alvin Parra who has run for this seat a number of times before without success. Mad Professah's endorsement for this race is for the incumbent, Jose Huizar.

However, there are a number of other races which you may not be aware. There are 4 seats on the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles Community College District up for election on Tuesday. The Los Angeles Times published an article on the fact the incumbents and the challengers are both running as slates of candidates last Friday. Mad Professah endorses the slate of incumbents with Sylvia Scott Hayes, Mona Field, Georgia Mercer and Warren Furutani.

Last (and least) there are two City of Los Angeles ballot measures: Measure L and Measure M.
Measure L is the controversial one. It is sponsored by Huizar and would "reform" school board elections by placing City Council-like limits on financial contributions and on terms (12 years). It would also establish a commission to study whether school board members should become full-time employees with commensurate pay. Although generally opposed to term limits the rest of measure sounded reasonable and thus Mad Professah endorses passage of both measures L and M.