Felipe Fuentes

Mitch O'Farrell Beats the Candidate from Nowhere, John Choi, and a Union Machine

Hollywood and the Tri-Hipster Area are nothing if not independent, and on Tuesday they defied months of wrongheaded conventional wisdom that said John Choi, a guy nobody in City Council District 13 had heard of, could win an L.A. City Council seat thanks to riches from the Los Angeles County Federat ... More >>

L.A. Council District 6 Early Election Results: Cindy Montanez and Nury Martinez in Front

Updated below; first posted at 9:03 pm Early returns in tonight's most specialist election, the City Council Dstrict 6 special election, puts Cindy Montanez in first place with 46 percent of the vote, with Nury Martinez in a distant second with 18 percent. The contest, which will choose a replacem ... More >>

Los Angeles Voter Guide May 21, 2013: Mayor, Weed Measures, City Council, City Attorney, LAUSD Board and The Works

Here's a quick guide to the key races and issues on the May 21, 2013 ballot in the city of Los Angeles. Los Angeles Mayoral Race: Read this fascinating dissection of the five main behavioral and philosophical differences between 2013 Los Angeles mayoral candidates Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti, ... More >>

Why Are Women Practically Nonexistent on L.A. City Council?

Of 15 City Council seats, the Valley's may soon have the sole female

Who is Mystery Man John Choi?

To represent Hollywood, Silver Lake and Echo Park, it pays to be chosen by Maria Elena Durazo

Voter Guide to L.A. Weekly's March 5 Election Stories: Prop. A, Garcetti, Greuel, Perry, James, Pleitez, CD 1, CD 3, CD 7, CD 9, CD 13, LAUSD

Here is key coverage so far by the L.A. Weekly staff regarding the Los Angeles March 5, 2013 primary: --Proposition A: Sales Tax or Scam? By Hillel Aron --and Prop. A Sales Tax Goliath Fought by "David" Jack Humphreville, By Patrick Range McDonald --Wendy Greuel Dined with IBEW Boss During Critici ... More >>

Why Did the L.A. Times Endorse Felipe 'Worst Legislator in California' Fuentes For L.A. City Council?

One of the most troubling endorsement's this campaign season came from the Los Angeles Times when the paper recently backed former state Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes, also known as the "Worst Legislator in California." He's running for the L.A. City Council District 7 seat in the northeast San Fernand ... More >>

Eric Garcetti Wins Backing Of Democratic Party of San Fernando Valley

In order to be elected mayor, Eric Garcetti will have to make inroads in the San Fernando Valley. About 40% of the votes in the March election are going to come from the Valley, and it's Wendy Greuel's home turf.This evening, Garcetti has planted his flag there by winning the endorsement of the Demo ... More >>

Assembly District 39 Election Results: Landslide Win For Raul Bocanegra Over Richard Alarcon

In the California Assembly District 39 race, longtime political aide Raul Bocanegra has won in a landslide over L.A. City Councilman Richard Alarcon -- a one-time political force in the northeast San Fernando Valley. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Bocanegra won 58.5 percent of the vote to ... More >>

Assembly District 39 Raul Bocanegra and Richard Alarcon: Early Returns Show Bocanegra with 17 Percent Lead

In the California Assembly District 39 race, Democrat and longtime political aide Raul Bocanegra has a major lead over Democratic L.A. City Councilman Richard Alarcon. Sixty-three percent of voters back Bocanegra and 36 percent support Alarcon. During the campaign, Alarcon had been hit with a major ... More >>

Assembly District 39's Dilemma

Alarcon, circling the drain over corruption charges? Or yes-man Bocanegra?

California Assembly District 39 Campaign: Will Raul Bocanegra Be Any Different Than Richard Alarcon?

Lyrics from The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" (see video after the jump) have probably been used many times before by political pundits, but that won't stop us from using them again: "Meet the new boss/Same as the old boss!" Those immortal words from The Who's Pete Townshend are particularly relev ... More >>

10 Stupidest California Bills That Legislators Are Trying to Slam Through at Final Hour

The last possible moment for California's bumbling state senators and assemblymen to nudge their pet bills onto Governor Jerry Brown's desk is this Friday, August 31 at midnight. Needless to say, the state Capitol is in a state of fluttering papers/utter mayhem right now. It's hard enough to know ... More >>

Will Felipe Fuentes and Gov. Jerry Brown Water Down Teachers' Evaluations?

California's education reform wars are popping up again -- this time over a controversial bill called AB 5, which reform activists say will water down teachers' evaluations. The grassroots group EdVoice has taken a full-page ad in today's A section of the Los Angeles Times to sound the alarm and g ... More >>

AD 39: Alarcon Is Trailing Bocanegra Because He's Lost Touch With 'Comadre Network' in Northeast Valley, Says Political Consultant

Richard Alarcon is in trouble. After easily winning various elections in the San Fernando Valley area over the last 20 years -- hopping from the L.A. City Council to the State Senate to the State Assembly and back -- he's finally losing his grip. This became embarrassingly clear on Tuesday night ... More >>

Tony Cardenas Picks Up Support From San Fernando Valley Latinos

Tony Cardenas​Latino lawmakers are lining up behind Councilman Tony Cardenas in his race for the new "Latino" Congressional seat in the San Fernando Valley.Cardenas announced the endorsements today of Sen. Alex Padilla and Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes. No big surprise there: Padilla used to work for ... More >>

Felipe Fuentes, Valley Assemblyman, Proposes to Outlaw Pensions For All Elected Leaders Convicted of Felonies

Obligatory head-above-the-frame shot of Felipe Fuentes.​As it stands many leaders in California who scam the people while in office can ream y'all one more time by taking healthy retirement benefits home when they hang up their fangs. It sucks, we know. People like some former members of the ... More >>

John Chiang Audit Hammers California Redevelopment Agencies: Millions of Dollars Gone from Affordable Housing Funds

Is this California's definition of "blight" if the neighbors are too sick or too fat?​Update: The Los Angeles City Council is deciding today whether to hide $1 billion in redevelopment cash from Governor Jerry Brown. Few overweight or sickly Californians ever knew that the Los Angeles City Co ... More >>

$20,000 buys California laws: Felipe Fuentes, Charles Calderon, dozens of legislators take cash from special interests who ghost-write laws

Assembly Felipe Fuentes: is he selling California laws?​We've already reported that Los Angeles' State Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes is "The Worst Legislator in California," putting his name on laws that are actually ghostwritten by corporations, unions -- and anyone else Fuentes thinks he can sq ... More >>

KVETCHING ABOUT (AND MAPPING) THE 99

Journos Dan Walters, Dan Morain Have Dueling Takes On 'LA Weekly's' Story About Felipe Fuentes -- 'Worst Legislator In California'

Felipe Fuentes: The worst or just the norm?​There's a small debate brewing in media circles about whether LA Weekly's story this week on "The Worst Legislator in California" -- San Fernando Valley Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes -- constitutes true news. The story is based on a San Jose Mercury Ne ... More >>

The Worst Legislator in California

San Fernando Valley Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes takes Sacramento bill-peddling to a new low

Surprise: Rest Of The Shoo-Ins Win* California State Senate, Assembly And Congressional Districts In Election 2010, Banding Together For Mass Extermination Of Opponents

In a startling upset, Gerrymandering Congressman Howard Berman wins again​*OK, so we fibbed in the headline. The final results aren't in. But -- thanks to sleazy incumbent fixing of elections in California by the Berman brothers -- the new crop of California Senators, Assemblymen and Congressm ... More >>

Anti-Choice Mayor

A political machine squeezes out Tokofsky, Montañez and Fuentes, giving voters sanitized choices

Pulling a Huizar

An insider talks trash as he eyes his boss’s lucrative City Council seat

Shameless in Sacramento

The strange ways of Richard Alarcón

8 who left Mayor James K. Hahn in 2003