Northeast San Fernando Valley voters are making their final choices in the LA City Council District 7, a two-person race in which the candidate who gets 50% of the vote plus one on June 7 wins.
Northeast San Fernando Valley voters are making their final choices today in the LA City Council District 7 primary, a two-person race in which the candidate who gets 50% of the vote plus one on June 7 wins outright — either community activist Elisa Avalos or powerful incumbent Monica Rodriguez.
Both cite similar goals, particularly when it comes to homelessness. Both say they are on the side of law enforcement. But their approaches differs. Rodriquez backed increases in the number of LAPD officers in the San Fernando Valley, and led attempts to redirect mental health calls to trained professionals. Avalos supports community policing and calls the police defunding movement “childish and shortsighted.