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1014 FIGHTING FOR YOU
FinishiQII Polically S1ro111 in 2016
On November 8, 2016, the country elected a new President in what will go down as one of the most contentious campaigns in modern American history. While most of the nation's focus was on the Presidential election, there were a number of critical local elections that will have a remarkable impact on the County of Los Angeles and our Firefighters for many years to come. From that perspec tive, the November elections were a tremendous success as we elected two new Los Angeles County Supervisors that were strongly supported by Local 1014. These two candidates, Janice Hahn and Kath ryn Barger, won decisive victories on
Election Day and we were very proud to support their candidacies. Our other targeted races included our support for Kamala Harris for United States Senate and urging the voters to OPPOSE Proposition 53, which would have eroded local control. Thankfully, Kamala Harris won her race by a wide margin and Proposition 53 lost at the polls by a narrow margin - preserving local control for cities and counties like ours.
elections. At the State level, we were in getting 5 out of 5 State Senate candidates successfully elected and an astonishing 22 out of 22 State Assem bly Candidates elected to office.
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At the local level, we had a tremen dous amount of success in helping to get our endorsed candidates elected to office in key cities including Carson, Palmdale, Santa Clarita, La Habra, Pomona, and Malibu. Most notably, we played in a key role in helping to Prior to the November 8th get Tim Sandoval elected as the Mayor election, Local 1014 sent of Pomona in a highly contentious out our Voter Guide list election. ing our endorsements for Congress, State All of these local government elected Senate, State Assembly, officials have demonstrated that they and local government will make public safety and Firefighter positions and ballot issues a top priority. Thankfully, our measures. political action made a tremendous difference in helping to get these good Local 1014 made 15 endorsements for candidates elected to office. US Congress in the November Gener al Election and we are proud You can find a complete list of election to say that 14 out of our 15 endorsed results at lavote.net/election-results. candidates won their respective
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L.A. COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, 4th DISTRICT: U.S. Representative Janice Hahn won the seat with 56% of the votes over Steve Napolitano who received 44% of the vote L.A. COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, 5th DISTRICT: Kathryn Barger won the seat with 59% of the vote over Darrell Park who received 41% U.S. SENATOR: In the race for the United States Senate Seat in California, we saw current California Attorney General Kamala Harris received 63% of the vote to defeat Loretta Sanchez with 37% PROPOSITION 53: Proposition 53 lost by a margin of 51% to 49%. Although it was a close election, this was a victory for local control, which is the position Local 1014 took in this highly contentious campaign I
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