GRACE YOO, CHAMPION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING, SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT
HOLLY MITCHELL INTERVIEW PART 3 The interview in its entirety can be read on our website.
GRACE YOO ATTORNEY AND CANDIDATE FOR LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 10
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n an expensive, deceptive flyer mailed out to residents across CD 10, LA County Supervisor Mark RidleyThomas accused me of being against affordable and supportive housing. My campaign immediately responded with a video that confirms my staunch support of affordable housing. Poll numbers indicate Ridley-Thomas' campaign to serve a fourth (and last) term on the City Council is failing and his campaign strategy is now focused on desperate, false attacks. My opponent, who has had 29 years in office and has overseen budgets in the billions of dollars, is trying to divert from his record of failure on these issues. Since his massive campaign funds keep bankrolling his false and malicious attacks, let me set the record straight.
PENSIONS TNN: Pensions are a big issue in LA. The county has significant unfunded liability for its pension and other post-employment benefits, OPEB plans. The LA 2020 Commission recommended an independent review in 2014, but nothing came out of it. Would you support the formation of a pension commission to review and analyze these liabilities and come up with recommendations to make these plans more sustainable or eliminate the liabilities? This would increase transparency.
Right now, LA is facing unprecedented challenges. I’m a leader who wants to talk about solving problems, not throw false accusations around as political ammunition. Not only do I support affordable housing and solving our homelessness crisis, it is one of my top priorities. And I don’t just talk the talk; I walk the walk. Recently, my neighbors and I supported a new development adjacent
HOLLY MITCHELL: Yes, I would support that. I think the issue of public pensions is going to be an ongoing issue that we have to talk about. We need to create a sense of balance for government workers, public sector workers and their ability to pay into a defined compensation system as well as the general public who pay their salaries. And so, I think any level of both scrutiny and oversight as well as transparency and creative thinking about how we enter this new economy and develop a pension system that will continue to be solid, is welcome. We’ve worked very hard at the state level to create ways to pay down past debt and to really make sure we shore up CalPERS and CalSTRS. And I think every level of
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These types of false attacks do not help anyone. These are the kind of attacks everyone hates; attacks that turn off voters and don’t help us reach solutions.
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