League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
	Los Angeles County, CA March 3, 2015 Election
	Council Member; City of Los Angeles; District 4 Voter Information 4 Year Term. A runoff may be held on 5/19/2015 between the top 2 candidates who received the most votes if neither receives a majority. If one candidate receives a majority of votes in this election, that candidate wins and no runoff will be held. If Charter Amendment 1 is approved, the City Council members elected in this Primary Election and the May runoffs will serve terms of 5-1/2 years.

Results as of Mar 31 4:45am

Runoff Election 5/19/2015 Candidates (Vote for 1) Click on highlighted name for additional information supplied by candidate. Contact non-highlighted candidates and encourage them to provide information for voters. Carolyn Ramsay 3,719 votes 15.3% Occupation: Councilmember's Staff Chief 15 years of experience strengthening our neighborhoods Chief of Staff, Councilmember Tom LaBonge Local Program Director, Trust for Public Lands CarolynRamsay2015@gmail.com Priorities: Holding City Hall accountable to our neighborhoods Fixing our streets, sidewalks, and water pipes Helping local businesses succeed and creating good-paying jobs David Ryu 3,634 votes 14.9% Occupation: Community Health Director Director of Development & Public Affairs, Kedren Acute Psychiatric Hospital and Community Health Center Senior Deputy, County Supervisor Yvonne Burke Netkal Fellow, USC School of Social Work Bachelor of Arts, Economics, UCLA info@davidryu.com Priorities: Ensure neighborhood concerns about city services and quality of life are heard and respected at City Hall. Improve City-resident communications with ombudsman service, early community input on development issues. Strengthen our economy by raising the minimum wage and phasing out the gross receipts tax. Tomás O'Grady 3,427 votes 14.1% Occupation: Non-Profit Director/Entrepreneur I am a father of four, and for over six years have dedicated myself to unpaid public service in our public schools and communities. tomasogrady@tomasogrady.com Priorities: Environmental and financial sustainability Development Transportation Wally Knox 2,669 votes 10.9% Occupation: Attorney California State Assembly Trustee, Los Angeles Community College Board wallyknox@earthlink.net Priorities: Create an enforceable legal framework for city planning and development. Create a program of Continuous Improvement in City services. Maintain City revenues but change from a gross receipts tax on business to a net receipts tax. Teddy Davis 2,631 votes 10.8% Occupation: Attorney/Educator Senior Aide to the Mayor of Los Angeles Special Assistant to the Governor of California Emmy Award winning ABC News journalist Unruh Fellow at USC J.D., The Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law B.S., Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service teddydavis2000@gmail.com Priorities: Taking Care of the Basics -- Fixing Streets, Repairing Sidewalks, Trimming Trees -- through Strong Fiscal Management Protecting Neighborhoods Holding DWP Accountable Steve Veres 2,332 votes 9.6% Occupation: Los Angeles Community College Trustee District Director for State Senate Pro Tem Kevin de León Chair of LACCD'S Facility Master Planning & Oversight Committee Appointed to the Metropolitan Transit Authority's San Fernando Valley Service Sector Governance Council Elected and served on San Fernando City Council Appointed to the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Representative Brian@MethodCampaigns.com Priorities: Improving the LADWP's quality and cost of service Investing in public safety to prevent and minimize the presence of property and violent crimes Influencing better Land Development Decisions to maximize ability to utilize the City of Los Angeles to decrease congestion of traffic Sheila Irani 1,990 votes 8.2% Occupation: Businesswoman/Community Leader Owner,National, Award Winning Transportation Planning and Marketing firm, 1995 to Present Director of Special Projects, Councilman Tom LaBonge 2011-2013 Founder, Women & Words, benefiting services for high risk youth and battered women, 2004 - Present Outreach Chair, Hollywood United Neighborhood Council Chancellor's Scholar, UCLA, BA Economics, BA Psychology Entrepreneur Winner, UCLA Anderson School, MBA sheila@sheilairani.com Priorities: Adopt Pension & Compensation Reform and Live within Our Means Charter Demand Response Vanpools to connect commuters from home to transit Limit Development to match infrastructure capacity Joan Pelico 1,418 votes 5.8% Occupation: Chief of Staff, LA City Council For 9 1/2 years I have worked hand in hand with the community working for the City of Los Angeles City Council District Director, LA City Council Field Deputy, LA City Council joanpelico4you@gmail.com Priorities: Bringing Real Customer Service to City Hall Finding Realistic Solutions to Fix Our Infrastructure Bring Stakeholders Together to Address Development Jay Beeber 1,164 votes 4.8% Occupation: Community Advocate/Businessman Eliminated LA's Red Light Cameras Leading Parking Reform 2nd VP - Sherman Oaks Neighborhood Council LA Pedestrian Advisory Committee Executive Director - SaferStreetsLA Jay@Jay4LA.com Jay@Jay4LA.com Priorities: Fix the City's budget. Reduce skyrocketing pension and employee benefits costs. Reform DWP - workers earn 20% more than other city employees. Save on employee costs and fix failing infrastructure. Currently leading reform of LA's abusive parking policies. I'll finish this. Rostom "Ross" Sarkissian 530 votes 2.2% Occupation: Small Business Owner Master in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government BA in Diplomacy and World Affairs, Occidental College Coro Fellow in Public Affairs Richter Scholar Non Profit Grant Writer rostoms@gmail.com Priorities: Balanced budget Reduce traffic Protect neighborhoods from overdevelopment Tara M Bannister 309 votes 1.3% Occupation: Association Director/ Educator BA in Political Science and Minor in Economics from USC Voted AD45 Female Democrat of the Year in 1993 Voted LA County Democrat of the Year in 1993 Domestic and international advocate for HIV/AIDS Founder of the Business Federation (BizFed) Senior Advisor to Governor Grey Davis cait@votetara.com Priorities: I will dramatically increase the quality and accessibility of our sidewalks in CD4 and the rest of the City. I will modernize and decrease the overhead costs of City services to ensure our tax dollars are spent wisely and frugally. I will fight to upgrade the Orange Bus Line to a light rail line as soon as possible. The Orange Line light rail can move twice as many people in h Mike Schaefer 268 votes 1.1% Occupation: Public Interest Advocate City Prosecutor, City of San Diego City Councilman, City of San Diego Business degree, U.C.Berkeley Juris Doctor, Georgetown Law Center oz.blueman@yahoo.com Priorities: Protecting our citizens from being abused by the bureaucracy Parking: limiting street sweeping ban to one hour, not 3 hours Prompt Pay 50% discount on parking fines within 1 week Fred Mariscal 182 votes 0.7% Occupation: Marketing Executive Greater Wilshire Neighborhood Council, Board Member Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Coalition, Vice Chair Greater Wilshire NC, Budget Rep., & Outreach Committee Chair Neighborhood Watch Captain (founder) USC Film School graduate, Class of '96 Fire Department CERT graduate mariscal1776@gmail.com Priorities: Job Creation Parking Enforcement Reform Homelessness and the Protection of our Neighborhoods Step Jones 105 votes 0.4% Occupation: Owner xoxo vapor bar Step Jones bio at "linked in" Step Jones is easy to "Google" Stepjones0313@yahoo.com Priorities: Los Angeles city budget, Do you know how much and where your Council is spending your money? Not interested in your social or moral affairs, i am interested in where our money goes. Out of control pensions in the City Charles Craig Jackson (write-in) Basic candidate data supplied by the applicable elections official. Order of candidates is random and changes daily.

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