Friends Don't Let Friends Vote for Scott Svonkin

Scott Svonkin
Illustration by Kyle T. Webster / LA Weekly

It's election day on Tuesday and though there are only a couple of races at most on the ballot, it's very important that voters go to the polls and make sure some pretty awful folks out of the power elite don't get elected.

For the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees, food spraying San Gabriel School Board Member Scott Svonkin wants to get on the panel that controls millions of your tax dollars going towards campus construction. The LA Weekly documented many of Svonkin's issues while serving in his current role. Svonkin is friends with the big developers who line up with politicians to ruin LA and is most notably the guy, while shilling for Home Depot, who called the good folks of Sunland-Tujunga racists.

On the other hand, Svonkin's opponent, Lydia Gutierrez is a former teacher and aerospace administrator, who hails from South Central, and would be an awesome addition to the panel. Lydia surprised many as a grassroots, community candidate who managed to make the runoff.

In the race for LAUSD School Board Seat 5, pick your poison. The UTLA backed Bennett Kayser or the Villaraigosa-Huizar-Garcia backed Luis Sanchez.

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Please Don't Vote for Scott Svonkin on May 17th, Thank-you!

Lydia Gutierrez on May 17th!

May is nearly upon us with a run-off election to contend with. This one is for a seat on the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees.. The candidates are the highly qualified Lydia Gutierrez and the infamous food spewer and tantrum thrower Scott Svonkin. Please do us all a favor and keep Scott Svonkin away from the adult table, will ya? Mars Melnicoff has a new piece up at the LA Weekly that serves as part 2 in her series on the misadventures of Mr. Svonkin. Part 1 is here.  Yet another reason not to vote for Scott Svonkin here.

Please stop this one man self-serving disaster in his tracks-Vote Lydia Gutierrez on May 17!

Learn more about Lydia.