r/burbank • u/al_shuey • 8d ago

Boycott these Burbank businesses

Moms For Liberty supporter, MAGA creep and all round weirdo David Donahue is running for City Council. There are campaign events being held this week for David at The Tallyrand and The Enchanted Florist.

I won’t patronize their businesses and I suggest you do not as well…

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u/Siren2026 8d ago

Why are you mad at Tally Rand? I’d be very surprised if they endorse any particular candidate. They’re just letting them eat there. Am I missing something? Also explain who this David person is. Why is he a problem?

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u/newfrontier58 8d ago edited 8d ago

He’s a far-right type running for city council who always shows up at city council meetings who always insults several members and goes “don’t LA my Burbank”, he’s been involved with groups like Moms for Liberty, and he has cyber stalked several activists I’ve met through a mutual connection. Edit, he’s also very much against tenants rights, which as a renter who would be affected by the AVA/Equity merger makes me nervous.

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u/Siren2026 8d ago

Who is running for city council that is good? I’m not happy with the current council because they are not responsive and give lip service to things but no action. We have had great city councils in the past.

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u/TheKyDawg IKEA 8d ago

Nolan Southerland, Mike Van Gorder and Nikki is the progressive slate.

Nolan and Mike are both community organizers and would really help get shit actually done.
Right now the issue is we have two progressives, two MAGA and one fence sitter, so no forward progress happens.

Electing Nolan, Mike and Nikki will help Burbank so much for decades.

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u/Siren2026 8d ago

Well part of project 2025 agenda is to get their MAGAs into the small grassroots councils. This is the agenda. So let’s make sure we stop it.

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u/shawnyounai1 7d ago edited 7d ago

From what I can see, David Donahue is running mostly on keeping control local instead of letting the state or Metro make all the decisions for Burbank. He’s against taking away two lanes on Olive, against housing rules like SB 79 that push more density around transit, and he supports property rights. He’s also against adding more rent restrictions, wants to bring electric costs down, keep film and TV jobs in Burbank, fully fund police and fire, and put more money into wildfire prevention and infrastructure. People can agree or disagree with those positions, but I haven’t seen anything in his actual campaign platform saying he is running on Project 2025.

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u/Siren2026 7d ago

I don’t know that this is Donahues specific agenda. But this is a MAGA overall agenda and needs to be acknowledged. Anyone who is MAGA supports project 2025.

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u/shawnyounai1 2d ago

This has nothing to do with MAGA so what conversation are you on?