Compton City Council incumbents Emma Sharif and Janna Zurita are headed to a June 4th runoff. Neither lady captured 50% + 1 of the vote. What’s most shocking is who they will be running against.
2UrbanGirls has received a flurry of inbox messages involving the petty and embarrassing tactics used by many of those who sought office.
Candidates have alleged that the incumbents are sending people to stalk their residence, take ballots out of individuals mailboxes and resort to having community members slander residents opposing Janna Zurita, in particular.
Mysteriously, District 4 candidate Justin Blakely appears to be Sharif’s opponent in June, despite him not attending a single candidates forum.
Michelle Chambers appears to be Zurita’s challenger. She has had to endure her landlords being threatened with code violations, which they must obviously have, in order to have them remove Chambers as their tenant. With Compton not having a rent control ordinance, Chambers has little to no recourse for being asked to move.
Polling data shows Zurita and Blakely benefitted from an enormous amount of vote by mail (VBM) ballots being cast in their favor. Rumors on the ground come from candidates like Jasper Jackson telling folks he’s seen members of the Blakely/Zurita camps stealing ballots from mailboxes. Jackson refused to respond to inquiries on the subject.
Chambers was able to receive all of her votes from those headed to the polls. Zurita benefits from name recognition and not from any real work she is doing on behalf of the community, unless you count the parties her sister throws for the seniors now that she is the head of the Dollarhide Senior Center.
Residents have been up in arms over the failing infrastructure of the city for years. Roads are crumbling and many have brown water, yet the areas Congresswoman Nanette Barragan supported the incumbents. Barragan has yet to publicly identify how her office will ensure the roads and water in her district are safe and consumable. Instead she is making a name for herself championing immigration while a huge chunk of her district is local news fodder over the enormous amounts of potholes engulfing the city.
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How embarrassing that out of an alleged 23,750 registered voters, less than 4,000 votes were cast? There a still a hefty amount of provisional ballots to count.
Compton continues to fail and residents have no one to blame but themselves.
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So they’re doing the usual dirty bird here in Compton again? Interesting…potholes and huge chunks I we all have to navigate around cooperating while driving has become a fine art of citizens still suffering so I think it’s time to contact the LA County DA once again, Comptonites…if not the Feds as in Patricia A. Moore. One thing for sure…the roads and lighting are terrible and during rains, they just get bigger. I have a feeling even God is not pleased with these people we wanted to trust, but they’re too busy doing evil, with no shame, no regrets just power hungry and they hate Mayor Brown too, so who’s willing to file a Rico appeal with the FBI…I think it’s the next logical step if the Jackie Lacey’s office (DA) isn’t already looking to file charges…they just make it too easy to send our officials to Club Fed now…this is disgusting and I happen to be in the middle of things, which are Ying Yang…If the others in Dist 1 would unite, she’d be fired…as in Trump’s Apprentice and if she reads this…I could be a target this thing going really dark now, thanks to Urban Girls for giving readers the real McCoy…speaking of McCoy…OMG I know way too much so I’m gonna just chill and stay back in the cut on that even. Seems we just can’t get away from the crazy stuff I’m reading here. Low voter turnout…all of them hang, the Seniors who they court, at the Dollarhide Senior Center, when did he sister leave the School Board? Conflict of Interest should apply. That was Paul Richards about 15 years ago. Mayor Pro-tem in Lynwood also working simultaneously as an Asst. CM in the city right next to Lynwood. My sources mentioned he had to serve the full Fed sentence 14-15 year for lying to the FBI about his business dealings and just got released. Former Mayor now again, convicted felon…and so on and so forth. Tra, la, la, di, da…so tiring after 65 years. Shut the City of Compton’s doors is impossible and LA County is not interested in taking over and it’s not an easy process anyway, though some neighbors asked if it was possible. So I pray for deliverance in June, but it’s going to be as nasty so these folks will be in hell’s fire and seem to not even care….we call that sociopathic behavior, textbook. That’s why mental health in the minority communities is an afterthought. If you’re mentally deficient, then someone else’s mental illness seems normal behavior. But it’s not. Seriously…someone do a psych profile on some residents here…you’d be shocked how many think and reason here…Next page, please. Horrors….seems we’re screwed. Criminal Acts…for real? Wow…IDK what to reason now…didn’t vote for her either. But those mail in ballots seem suspect maybe..saw the numbers and I do math and ratios fairly well. Chambers is being Rico’ed and needs to contact the LA office of the FBI and their LA number…Cheers.
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4,OOO people voted. How sad that you none voters have lost your hope. Voting my mail is much to easy to do. You keep voting for the same people to end up with same do nothing results. INSANE. Shame on you all. Zurita and Shariff MUST GO. I wish someone would come and try to harrass me for speaking the truth. I am not hopeless nor helpless and have zero fear.