Election 2020

Movement toward criminal justice reform, new faces on the County Board of Supervisors, L.A. City Council, Metro board - and more!

Ten days ago, as part of our Streetsie awards celebrations, L.A. County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl joined Streetsblog L.A. for an "Ask Me Anything" interview moderated by SBLA Editor Joe Linton. The interview is filled with interesting information and stories from one of L.A.'s truly trailblazing politicians. If you're finding yourself questioning politics on Election Day 2020, then Kuehl's confident answers delivered with her affable charm are a reminder that in some places there are still people in charge who have the best interests of their constituents in mind.

L.A. County voters will weigh in on Reimagine L.A. this November. The measure would shift ten percent of county funding from policing to community programs and services

Reimagine L.A. would partially defund county law enforcement, shifting funding to services and programs for underserved communities

L.A. isn't buying Ryu's twitter assertion of his record on "healthy and sustainable" mobility. Ryu has been pro-parking, anti-bikeway, and anti-road-diet.

If you believe in breaking car culture, you won't find a 2020 candidate committed to doing it.

City Council candidates Loraine Lundquist (on the ballot) and Asaad Alnajjar (running as a write-in) faced off. Incumbent L.A. City Councilmember John Lee did not attend.

Move L.A. proposes a half-cent clean air sales tax measure in 2020 to raise about $1.5B per year for the South Coast Air Quality Management District, including counties of L.A., Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino.