Newly installed Third District Supervisor Sheila Kuehl tops the list of CAPE-endorsed winners in the November 2014 General Elections. All of CAPE's county-wide candidates won election, and all but a few of CAPE's statewide candidates won election or re-election to the State Senate and Assembly.
On the long list of winners, Kuehl stands out as the big win for CAPE members in the November General Elections. She overcame a low-turnout of voters to win by a 5% margin over Kennedy family member Bobby Shriver. CAPE participated as a strong supporter in the ambitious County Federation of Labor Independent Expenditure campaign program to push Kuehl to victory. The labor program included an ambitious voter contact effort in the Third District, which covers West Los Angeles, Mid-City, Pacific Palisades, Malibu and the San Fernando Valley. Mail touting Kuehl’s experience and qualifications blanketed several portions of the District from the date that vote-by-mail applications dropped leading up to Election Day.
According to polls leading up to the election, the contest between Kuehl and Shriver was a tie that could have gone either way. CAPE also generated support on Election Day, helping with the turnout by participating in the Get-Out-The-Vote program walking precincts and making phone calls.
Sheila Kuehl joins First District Supervisor Hilda Solis, who won a majority of the votes and her County Board seat in the June 2014 Primary election, along with Second District Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas who is up for re-election in two years, and Mike Antonovich and Don Knabe, who are termed out of office in 2016.
After interviewing all of the candidates in the June Primary for County Assessor, CAPE remained neutral in the race. Jeffrey Prang won an extremely close countywide contest to become the new County Assessor. Roughly 10,000 votes separated Prang from his opponent, John Morris.
CAPE representatives attended the swearing-in ceremonies for Supervisors Sheila Kuehl and Hilda Solis, as well as the new Assessor Jeffrey Prang on Monday, December 1st. The skills, qualifications, and experience of these newly elected countywide leaders is cause for much optimism about the future of County services, and what it will mean for CAPE members’ ability to provide those services.
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| Pictured l-r: Maria Elena Durazo, Executive Secretary-Treasurer, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor; Sheila Kuehl, LA County Supervisor, Third District; and Carlos Clayton, CAPE President, on Election Night. |