The Compton City Council election for District 1 has heated up. Ironically, the focus has shifted from stabilizing the city’s finances and infrastructure to Councilwoman Janna Zurita being publicly caught in a lie and bashing the city’s mayor.
The District 1 race has become a “shit show”. A local news channel descended upon the district and had a chance encounter with District 1 Councilwoman Janna Zurita. She lied on camera, to the live viewing audience, about her giving the finger to a now deceased resident Lorraine Cervantes. A very vocal critic of the former and current council.
Zurita blatantly lied about her actions then deflected to blame Cervantes.
Another video circulated of a candid conversation she had with a community member in council chambers. She finally said, what residents already knew. She intentionally doesn’t support projects attached to Mayor Aja Brown.
Instead of directly addressing the residents, she has those in her inner circle creating videos, on her behalf, attacking her challenger Michelle Chambers.
Jasper Jackson, who has run for multiple seats on the city council, has lost every election and has now filed a lawsuit alleging Chambers doesn’t live in the district. They are due back in court later this month.
Jackson and his supporters spent an inordinate amount of time following Chambers and not focusing on his campaign.
Now that he has lost, he has decided to endorse Zurita for re-election. The community realizes that Zurita has once again made some sort of deal with Jackson as he has been a vocal critic of the condition of the district but clearly is seeking something she is offering.
The last election he was offered a seat on the Block Club Commission but that didn’t pan out.
Zurita has also been busy endorsing a candidate for District 4 who has extensive ties to the marijuana industry. An industry she has publicly not supported.
Why the change of heart Councilwoman?
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I saw his photo and saw his eyes…something was off and now I know…I worked in health care and we saw much come through the doors of MLK/Drew and I see it often in the eyes of our young people here since recreational was legalized…he looked like he was high on weed. The campaign shots…the should have photoshopped his red eyes…knew there was something going on here. Now Captain Obvious has revealed the truth. Why I enjoy 2 Urban Girls and their good reporting skills. Some you win, some you get bad data, but this just makes sense now. And once, I did indulge and inhaled, not since this Cali thing, but takes a former toker to catch another. Dig this, FBI will hire you if you’ve smoked MJ,. just don’t lie on the app and say you never did, because they can do a hair test and find out. So what if we somehow could get candidates to do a voluntary drug screen before running for public office. I have a good friend who recently got rear ended by someone DUI and Marijuana was his explanation for running into the back of two parked cars at a stoplight…he car totaled and she’s having medical issues that prevent her from resuming her duties now. All because of a pothead behind the wheel and now, this guy wants to get elected to City Council for Compton? No way in Hades should anyone vote for a pothead and marijuana dealer to represent their district. Time to contact our only real resource now…churches…so they can know the facts. No wonder he didn’t show at the debate, probably high and forgot about it. Happens. They lose keys, forget to pick up the kids and other things being pot dependent. And if he’s attended any of the festivals, how can we find out and let the public know. See, some of us still have this thing about pot smokers…and elected officials have no business using recreational drugs the same way employers will drug test applicants for a job at Union Pacific. Get it? People in Compton, clueless and sort of ignorant, some of them who vote.