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In Orange County, 90 percent of candidates backed by CAA’s political action committee scored victories in the Nov. 8 election, an unprecedented accomplishment, although losses resulted in a couple of key contests.
Highlights
Victories
Anaheim: Three of four CAAPAC-supported candidates won in City Council races.
Santa Ana: All four supported council candidates won.
Irvine: Assemblyman Don Wagner was elected mayor, and Christina Shea was re-elected to the City Council.
Fullerton: Mayor Jennifer Fitzgerald was re-elected to the City Council.
Huntington Beach: Patrick Brennon elected to the City Council.
Costa Mesa: Alan Mansoor elected to City Council.
Loss
Costa Mesa: Steve… Read More
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Despite aggressive opposition from CAA, a measure to impose rent control and just-cause eviction policies in Mountain View has won passage at the ballot box.
Ballots cast to approve Measure V garnered 53 percent of the vote. All told, five Bay Area cities had measures on the Nov. 8 ballot asking voters whether to approve rent control. As in Mountain View, Richmond voters approved the policy, while voters in Alameda, Burlingame and San Mateo rejected it.
Despite aggressive opposition from CAA, a measure to impose rent control and just-cause eviction in Richmond has won passage at the ballot box.
Ballots cast to approve Measure L garnered 64 percent of the vote. Other Bay Area cities with rent control on the Nov. 8 ballot included Alameda, Burlingame, Mountain View and San Mateo.
After facing aggressive opposition from CAA, a measure to impose rent control and just-cause eviction policies in Burlingame has failed passage at the ballot box.
Ballots cast to approve Measure R garnered just 33 percent of the vote. Rent control measures also failed in Alameda and San Mateo, although they passed in Mountain View and Richmond.
After facing aggressive opposition from CAA, a measure to impose rent control and just-cause eviction policies in San Mateo has failed passage at the ballot box.
Ballots cast to approve Measure Q garnered just 39 percent of the vote. Rent control measures also failed in Alameda and Burlingame, although they passed in Mountain View and Richmond.
Voters on Tuesday rejected strict rent control laws in Burlingame, San Mateo and Alameda but approved them in Richmond and Mountain View.
All five measures proposing rent control faced strong opposition from local property owners, homeowners, businesses, real estate groups and the California Apartment Association.
In Burlingame and Alameda, voters rejected rent control by a roughly 2-1 margin. Ballots cast in favor of Burlingame’s Measure R garnered 33 percent of the vote, while yes votes for Alameda’s M1 earned 34 percent. In San Mateo, the rent control measure also failed decidedly, with Measure Q receiving just 39 percent approval.
Political mailers that highlight criticism of rent control as noted by the Legislative Analyst’s Office do not violate the Fair Political Practices Act, a state agency concluded this week.
The state’s Fair Political Practices Commission said it found no evidence of campaign violations, concluding that the mailers appear to be “properly identified as coming from the California Apartment Association Issues Committee.”
Tenant advocates filed a complaint with the FPPC after the CAA Issues Committee published campaign literature detailing the LAO’s conclusion that rent control doesn’t work.
The mailers are intended to inform the electorate of the LAO’s misgivings about rent… Read More
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The San Mateo Daily Journal this morning editorialized against rent control initiatives in San Mateo and Burlingame.
The newspaper’s editorial board urges voters to reject the introduction of rent control, just-cause-for-eviction policies and costly rent boards in both cities. The editorial board had met with the California Apartment Association before publishing this morning’s piece.
On talk radio this week, the CEO of the California Apartment Association and a Stanford University law professor faced off in an hour-long debate over the rent control measures going before voters in the November election.
The debate featured CAA’s Tom Bannon and Juliet Brodie, director at the Stanford Community Law Clinic.
KQED’s Michael Kransy moderated the discussion. Visit this page to stream the show.
Also this week, Bannon discussed housing issues on Capitol Public Radio and on KFI AM 640 in Los Angeles.
The campaign against rent control measures appearing on Bay Area ballots Nov. 8 now includes a lineup of four television ads and a radio spot. The California Apartment Association Issues Committee paid for each of the ads.
Each one, including the video below on the San Mateo and Burlingame measures, highlights serious flaws in the rent control and just-cause eviction initiatives. To see all of the ads, including videos on the Richmond and Alameda measures, visit our YouTube channel by clicking the button below.
To listen to the radio ad, use the player below.
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