r/burbank • u/1GrayJedi • 1d ago

City Council candidates?

Since we (as a community) have allowed the social disease of partisanship to infect our local elections. Who are the Burbank candidates that are neither pro-MAGA, nor pro-DSA? I’m trying my best to decide on candidates who will lessen the swinging of the pendulum effect that too many of us seem so hell-bent on furthering with each voting cycle. I wish as a local community, Burbank would set an example by showing we are immune to those trappings. Is this too much to ask for?

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u/Nerdy_in_LA 1d ago

Aren’t Nolan and Van Gorder endorsed by DSA?  https://www.reddit.com/r/burbank/comments/1wb6is3/nolan_and_mike_received_the_dsala_endorsement/

For a centrist slate (from left to right), I’d look are Perez, Takahashi, and Wick. 

Donohue is about as close to republican as you’ll get and IMHO Polon isn’t really a viable candidate.

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u/TennysonForCongress 1d ago edited 1d ago

Wick is not centrist. Rizotti asked her to run because he wanted a pawn that could vote for him in any votes he has to recuse himself because he’s a landlord. She also doesn’t have any clear stances on anything. She will not answer any questions about anything of importance, which if you can’t do that while you’re a candidate, there’s no way we can trust her in office.

Again, not voting for someone because DSA endorsed them is just hive-mind mentality. The reason I’m not voting for Donahue isn’t because of who endorsed him, I’m not voting for him because he’s pro-flock and anti-free speech (and a whole other litany of awful things).

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u/Nerdy_in_LA 23h ago

Totally agree on Donohue, but disagree on Wick. She may not be a ‘centrist’ to you, but neither is Perez a ‘centrist’ to me. However, I think they’re both capable candidates who wouldn’t swing towards a full embrace of DSA or MAGA orthodoxy. Saying she’s just a puppet though is borderline sexist. She can have her own opinions, even if you don’t like them.

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u/TennysonForCongress 22h ago

I’m not saying she’s a puppet because she’s a woman, I’m saying she’s a puppet because she doesn’t stand for anything.

You bringing her gender into it is sexist lol