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LA Councilman Mike Bonin recall fails to qualify for ballot Margaret Shuttleworth City News Service
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he recall effort against Councilman Mike Bonin failed to receive enough signatures to qualify for the ballot, the Los Angeles city clerk announced Tuesday. The recall campaign, which required 27,317 signatures from registered voters in the district to qualify for the ballot, submitted 39,188 raw signatures to the City Clerk's Office to verify on Nov. 10. However, City Clerk Holly Wolcott said only 25,965 signatures were valid, 1,352 less than required. "Today is the end of a wasteful, distracting abuse of the electoral process -- but it's nowhere near the end of attacks on progressive values and the real solutions to homelessness," Bonin said Tuesday. "I believe housing and services end homelessness and make everyone safe. "Recall proponents and re-election challengers oppose housing and services and insist on doubling down on failed, expensive strategies, like pushing unhoused people from block to block
Councilman Mike Bonin. | Photo courtesy of Councilmember Mike Bonin
or throwing them in jail. I am pleased by today's news, and I am going to keep on fighting for what I know is right."
The rejected signatures included 3,543 from signers who were not registered to vote, another 2,823 who signed multiple times,
2,139 which had an invalid address and 1,581 with an invalid signature, according to Jinny Pak, the division manager of the office's
Election Division. Bonin was reelected in 2017 with 71% of the vote and is seeking reelection in the June primary to
continue to represent the 11th District, which includes Venice, Pacific Palisades, Mar Vista, Marina del Rey and Sawtelle. The petition for Bonin's recall was approved on July 13, which made him the second of three council members to be targeted by a recall in 2021, following Councilwoman Nithya Raman and preceding Councilman Kevin de Leon. Organizers of all three recall efforts cited opposition to the council members' handling of the city's homelessness crisis. Leading up to the recall effort, Bonin faced increased backlash from constituents since introducing a motion to have the city explore housing homeless people in temporary cabins and safe camping sites on beach parking lots, including one at Will Rogers State Beach. Bonin sent an email to constituents in May in an attempt to dispel what he said were rumors that his motion, which asked only for a report on feasibility, would actually create encampments. See Mike Bonin Page 3
Pasadena boy in critical condition after shooting, investigation ongoing By City News Service
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15-year-old boy was shot in Pasadena Tuesday and hospitalized in critical condition. The teen was riding in a car in the 1600 block of
North Los Robles Avenue, three blocks north of Washington Boulevard, at 3:03 p.m. when police received a call from the Pasadena Fire Department regarding a gunshot victim, said Lt. Marcia
Taglioretti of the Pasadena Police Department. The boy, a Pasadena resident, was taken to a hospital in critical condition. Police responded at 3:06 p.m. to a second
shooting of a 20-year-old West Covina man in the 500 block of Eldora Road, about three blocks south of Washington Boulevard, soon after the boy was shot, Taglioretti said. The condition of the
second victim was not immediately known. Detectives were working to determine if the two shootings were related. No suspect description was provided.
Anyone who has information regarding these shootings is asked to call the Pasadena Police Department at 626-7444241. Anonymous callers can call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS (8477).
