L.A.'s Green New Deal divides voters in the Valley, where one of Southern California’s biggest environmental disasters occurred.
For decades, campaigns for city office in the San Fernando Valley foothills have been animated by intensely local issues such as traffic congestion, real estate development, and preserving the culture of horse keeping.
Whether those types of arguments will take hold is unclear. This stretch of the Valley, historically a conservative stronghold, has lost Republican voters in recent decades and gained Democrats and unaffiliated voters. Ash Rosas, left, and John Kerin canvas door-to-door for Los Angeles City Council candidate Loraine Lundquist in Northridge on behalf of the groups Ground Game L.A. and Sunrise Movement.
The mayor’s plan calls for 25% of the city’s drivers to be using electric or other zero-emission vehicles by 2025, and to reach 80% by 2035. Garcetti, who has not endorsed either candidate in the race, also called for therun by the Department of Water and Power, the city utility, by 2029. Those fears have been amplified by the powerful union that represents most DWP employees, which opposes Garcetti’s plan for the three gas plants. Its political arm, Working Californians, has spent more than $280,000 to support Lee, sending voters mailers that claim that Lundquist will force residents to buy electric cars and tack thousands of dollars onto their utility bills.
A committee sponsored by the union that represents most Los Angeles Department of Water and Power workers has sent mailers to voters portraying City Council candidate Loraine Lundquist as an"extremist." Joshua Smith, spokesman for Democratic Socialists of America, Los Angeles, said the DWP union is “overreaching” and believes that voters will not see his group’s endorsement of Lundquist as a bad thing.
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