Politics & Government
What's on Tuesday's Ballot?
Tuesday is a Presidential Primary election, but Sierra Madre will also vote on Congress, Senate, Assembly, District Attorney and Superior Court representatives, Measure A, plus state and local measures. Read about them here.
Sierra Madre and Los Angeles County voters will head to the polls Tuesday. Here's what will be on the ballot:
State Senator, 25th District
Carol Liu - Democratic
P O BOX 8663, La Crescenta, CA 91224
Phone - (626) 794-7271
liu4statesenate@gmail.com
www.carolliu.com
Ameenah Fuller – Democratic
1307 Yellow Rose Way, Upland, CA 91786
Phone - (909) 963-1033
ameenahfuller4senate@californiamail.com
www.votefuller.net
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- Republican
P O BOX 70216, Pasadena, CA 91117
(626) 765-6470
U.S. Representative, 27th District
Judy Chu - Democratic
1531 Purdue Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90025
(626) 320-4835
chuforcongress@gmail.com
http://www.judychu.org
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Bob Duran - Republican
P O BOX 1067, Pasadena, CA 91102
bob@bobduran.org
bobduran.org
- Republican
316 W Foothill Blvd., Monrovia, CA 91016
626-629-VOTE (8683)
www.JackOrswell.com
State Assembly, 41st District
- Democrat
P.O. BOX 983
Pasadena, CA 91102
Phone: (626) 817-2430
michael@michaelcacciotti.com
www.michaelcacciotti.com
- Republican
25 E. Huntington Drive, Suite 104
Arcadia, CA 91006
Phone: (626) 221-0707
Email: ecolton@sbcglobal.net
- Democrat
790 E. Colorado Blvd., Suite 506
Pasadena, CA 91101
(626) 535-0710
chris@holdenforassembly.com
- Republican
1495 Via Zurita
Claremont, CA 91711
Phone: (626) 833-0607
donna@votedonnalowe.com
votedonnalowe.com
- Democrat
96 N. Sunnyslope Ave., Suite 200
Pasadena, CA 91107
Phone: (626) 462-3170
victoria@rusnakforassembly.com
www.rusnakforassembly.com
Pasadena Unified School District Measure
Measure A - Formation of Geographic Subdistricts in PUSD
"Shall the Charter of the City of Pasadena be amended to provide for the nomination and election of members of the Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education by geographic sub-districts, with geographic sub-districts adopted by the School Board and redrawn after each federal census based upon a citizen Redistricting Commission recommendation?"
L.A. County Measures
Measure H- Hotel Occupancy Tax Continuation Measure
"Shall the existing unincorporated county hotel room tax be readopted to ratify, continue and update the existing ordinance at the current rate of 12-percent to fund essential County general fund services, such as parks, libraries, senior services, and law enforcement; to continue exempting hotel stays longer than 30 days, to add exemptions for emergency shelter referrals, and for individuals on official government business pursuant to federal law?"
Measure L- Landfill Tax Continuation Measure
"Los Angeles County's existing tax on landfills be readopted to ratify and continue the existing 10-percent tax on landfill operators' gross receipts from waste disposal in landfills in the unincorporated county, to fund essentual general fund services, such as parks, libraries, seniors services, and law enforcement; and to update the administrative appeal process, and clarify definitions to ensure the tax is properly calculated?"
State Measures
Proposition 28 - Limits on Legislators' Terms in Office. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.
"Reduces total amount of time a person may serve in the state legislature from 14 years to 12 years. Allows 12 years' service in one house. Applies only to legislators first elected after measure is passed. Fiscal Impact: No direct fiscal effect on state or local governments."
Proposition 29- Imposes Additional Tax on Cigarettes for Cancer Research. Initiative Statute.
"Imposes additional five cent tax on each cigarette distributed ($1.00 per pack), and an equivalent tax increase on other tobacco products, to fund cancer research and other specified purposes. Requires tax revenues be deposited into a special fund to finance research and research facilities focused on detecting, preventing, treating, and curing cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and other tobacco-related diseases, and to finance prevention programs. Creates nine-member committee charged with administering the fund."
Superior Court Judges
Sixteen candidates are vying for six seats on Tuesday, in offices 3, 10, 38, 65, 78 and 114. Click on a name to learn more about the candidate.
Office 3
Office 78
Office 114
County Bar Assoc. Ranks the 16 Candidates
L.A. County District Attorney
- John L. Breault, III, Deputy District Attorney
- Danette E. Meyers , Senior Deputy DA
- Alan Jackson, Gang Homicide Prosecutor
- Bobby Grace , Deputy District Attorney
- Jackie Lacey , Chief Deputy DA
- Carmen Trutanich, Los Angeles City Prosecutor
Presidential Candidates
This election isn't a high-stakes presidential primary, as Mitt Romney has already earned the GOP nomination. However, voters can still cast ballots for presidential candidates.
More on the Election
The election will mark the first major test of the state's "top two" primary system approved by California voters in 2010. Under the system, only the top two vote-getters, regardless of political party, will advance to a Nov. 6 runoff. The system does not apply to local, presidential or central committee races.
The system was intended to produce more moderate candidates, said Fernando Guerra, a Loyola Marymount politics professor and director of the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles.
The intention, however, is likely to be counteracted by low voter turnout.
"Voters that are motivated by ideology are still going to dominate this election," Guerra said.
Guerra said the "top two" runoff system is also likely to devastate third parties.
"I predict there will not be a single third-party candidate on the (runoff) ballot in November for the first time in decades, in almost 50 years," Guerra said.
In some cases that could leave as much as 10 percent of the electorate up for grabs during a runoff election.
Dan Schnur, director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at USC, said it could force candidates to communicate more with voters.
"It's not just a quantity of voter communication. It's the nature of that communication as well," Schnur said. "Candidates will find that they can no longer rely solely on the most ideologically intense members of their own party. They will be forced to reach out to a broader range of voters."
The results of the every-10-year redistricting process also affected the makeup of candidates on Tuesday's ballot. The 2010-11 redistricting, the practice of redrawing political district boundaries to reflect changing demographics, was conducted by a non-partisan citizens commission, rather than lawmakers. In some cases the process forced incumbents of the same party into the same district.
For more information on candidates or the June 5 primary election visit the Los Angeles County Clerk website.