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L.A. Clean Sweep Endorses Goodman for City Council

Posted on January 21, 2011 · 2 Comments

So this is great news, as the campaign picks up speed, it turns out the group L.A. Clean Sweep has endorsed me, Rich Goodman for the March 8th, 2011 election.

L.A. Clean Sweep represents an important endorsement for this campaign since it is a non-partisan  citywide coalition of  community group and activists  working for change at City Hall.  This campaign is part of a movement for the citizens of Los Angeles to regain representation, which is why this campaign accepts only personal donations and not donations from special interests or businesses. It is the individuals of Los Angeles who our elected representatives should be beholden to and no one else.

In the next month and a half, we will continue going door to door, talking to ordinary citizens about how to best represent them, learning how to regain interest in our local government.

If you would like to help out volunteering knocking on doors, or calling people, please feel free to email us at info@goodman4lacitycouncil.com  or call us at 818-835-2011.

Together we can make that difference. Thank you to the L.A. Clean Sweep endorsement committee for your vote of confidence.

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Monday at the Valley Vote

Posted on January 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Last night I had the opportunity to go to the Valley Vote meeting (http://www.valleyvote.org/)  where we had Stuart Waldman from The Valley Industry and Commerce Association (VICA) speaking about the importance of having proper representation in the San Fernando Valley and about all the hard work he and his Association have been doing in making sure we have a fair share of resources and money.

He asked a very important question: “How many people feel the Valley gets its fair share?”

Indeed no one raised their hand, although some did say the situation has gotten a bit better, we still have a lot of work to do to make sure our districts in the Valley get represented properly. We need to go above and beyond what has been done thus far to accomplish this.

We also had some amazing people from Granada Hills Charter School, which apparently is an outstanding school talking about their new project to expand to a second school which is coming up for a vote.

Notable acheivements of Granada Hills Charter School is how they spend $2,000 less per pupil, pay their teachers higher than LAUSD, but still manage to have be one of the best performing schools in Los Angeles. Just amazing. We need more successes for Los Angeles.

Notable to me was VICA’s involvement in the redistricting of the San Fernando Valley that will be taking place with the new redistricting commission of the state, and the principles they have laid out.

This got me thinking about how redistricting also needs to be improved here in our own city of Los Angeles.

The districts are so gerrymandered it’s ridiculous, District 6 looks like a cut out of origami.

This practice needs to be fixed.  I would like to see the same attention taking place at the city level to make sure we have fair redistricting.

I’m primarily fond of this principle from VICA:

All recognized communities should be kept together as part of the compact and contiguous districts which shall recognize geographic features and natural boundaries.

Here’s the flyer about my campaign I was able to hand out, let me know what you think. Long live Los Angeles!

Click here to Check it Out.

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