In case any California voters want to know my opinion, here’s who I’m voting for. I’m gonna break it down from national - state - county - city below and start with my biggest priorities #2020Election #YesOnProp17 #NoOnProp22 #NoOnProp20

PRESIDENT: I’m voting #BidenHarris2020. Although I’m not a big fan of either of them I think the choice is clear bc they support some good things & Trump supports nothing good. Raising the minimum wage to $15 & expanding healthcare access is a start & they can be pushed left

PROP 17: YES. This will restore people’s right to vote after they’ve been released from prison for a felony. I don’t support taking away imprisoned people’s right to vote at all but this is an important step to restoring it & giving people their right to vote. #YesOnProp17

PROP 20: NO. This prop would send more people to prison by upgrading some misdemeanors to felonies & increasing sentences for nonviolent offenders. The exact wrong direction for our state to go. Cops & prison guards want this to pass so DON’T LET IT. #NoOnProp20

PROP 22: NO. This claims to help independent contractors but actually harms us. Uber & Lyft have spent hundreds of millions for this bill so they can avoid paying their drivers more. It would require a 7/8 majority to be repealed or amended meaning Uber wrote permanent CA law.

PROP 14: NO. This bill takes money from taxpayers to support an industry that’s already thriving. Just funneling money from poor people to rich people, no thank you.

PROP 15: YES. Raises property taxes on commercial buildings worth more than $3 mil to fund education. Just realized I accidentally had this wrong on my paper in the first tweet yikes sorry!

PROP 16: YES. Repeals a ban on affirmative action put in place in the 90s.

PROP 18: YES. Allows 17 year olds to vote in a primary if they’ll be 18 by the general. Increasing voting rights is good and the only argument against this is from people who don’t want young people to vote.

PROP 19: NO. This gives wealthy people who own multiple homes a tax break. No thanks. Would lead to increased gentrification. No thanks again.

PROP 21: YES. Allows local governments to establish rent control on properties more than 15 years old while exempting people who own 1 or 2 units so the only people opposed to this are big landlords who want to jack up your rent as much as they want whenever they want.

PROP 23: YES. Establishes a modicum of oversight on kidney dialysis companies, requires doctors on site (weird that wasn’t required before imo!) and reduces these companies’ predatory policies that target low income POC.

PROP 24: NO. Claims to increase data privacy by amending an earlier law that hasn’t taken effect yet. We don’t yet know what unintended consequences will come from that law & doing this as a prop instead of through the legislature will make it hard to amend & change as necessary

PROP 25: NO. This tries to look good by eliminating bail but it would replace it with profiling done by a computer algorithm so you KNOW it will end up being RACIST AS FUCK. We need a different solution to end bail. #NOonProp25

US Representative 43rd DISTRICT: MAXINE WATERS. Waters is an advocate for helping unhoused people and has a long track record in congress while her opponent is a Trump supporter and I feel that’s enough said.

LOS ANGELES DISTRICT ATTORNEY: GEORGE GASCÓN. Jackie Lacey is one of the worst DAs in the country who never prosecutes killer cops. Her husband even pulled a gun on BLM protesters! Gascón supports decrim of drug possession & expunging marijuana convictions #firejackielacey

JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT #72: MAYANNA DELLINGER. Judge races are so important but they can be tough to research so don’t let that stop you from voting in them. Dellinger is a law professor and her opponent is a prosecutor. Prosecutors love putting more people in prison.

JUDGE #80: KLINT JAMES MCKAY. The choice of the public defender union & his opponent is a prosecutor. Swinging courts away from former prosecutors is important to reducing prison population & ending the carceral state.

JUDGE #162: DAVID DIAMOND. Another law professor vs prosecutor race so don’t pick the prosecutor.

LA COUNTY MEASURE J: YES. Takes 10% of county funds from law enforcement and puts them towards rent assistance, mental health & addiction counseling, & alternatives to incarceration. Sheriff Villanueva hates it so you know it’s good

COUNTY SUPERVISOR 2nd DISTRICT: HOLLY J MITCHELL. She wants to increase affordable housing & decrease juvenile sentences. Wesson made the housing crisis worse as city council president & did a bit of corruption in his free time

WEST BASIN WATER DISTRICT DIV 5: EVA RIVERA. Can’t lie this one was tough to research but Rivera seemed to me to be the candidate who was most environmentally conscious and least bought by corporate interests while Dear & Rojas were just interested in smearing each other

STATE SENATOR 35th DISTRICT: STEVEN CRAIG BRADFORD. He supports criminal justice reform and environmental protections.

STATE ASSEMBLY 62ND DISTRICT: AUTUMN BURKE. Definitely a lesser of two evils race. Burke is a corporate dem in the pocket of oil companies but her opponent is one of those Republican tough on crime tools who would probably take oil money AND put us all in prison if he could

I’m a City of Hawthorne voter not a City of LA voter so for my Hawthorne people-
HAWTHORNE MAYOR: HAIDAR AWAD. Awad is the only candidate who doesn’t want to jack up the police budget and the current mayor Alex Vargas is a Trump supporter who hates BLM.

HAWTHORNE CITY COUNCIL: L. DAVID PATTERSON & LUIS DURAN. Patterson wants to invest in education over inflating police budgets & Duran doesn’t seem to want to do much of anything but that’s better than all the awful things the other candidates want to do.

HAWTHORNE MEASURE CC: NO. Would establish a 5% tax on cannabis businesses even though they’re currently not permitted anyway & give that money to the police. Basically further punishment of POC for the sale of marijuana & expanding the already inflated police budget.

HAWTHORNE MEASURE LL: YES. Establishes term limits of 2 terms in office which is good in general but especially in Hawthorne where so many of our elected officials are truly awful!

HAWTHORNE MEASURE UU: NO. Would add a tax on utilities that would disproportionately harm poor people supposedly to fund community programs but it would go into the general fund & could be used for anything. They’re trying to avoid defunding the police budget whatsoever.