Asked about his bombastic tweets attacking President Biden and Hillary Clinton, City Controller-elect Kenneth Mejia said, 'Definitely, I regret doing those things.'
Kenneth Mejia wins the race for L.A. city controller, becoming the first Asian American elected to citywide office in L.A.who refused to get vaccinated, racked up staggering amounts of overtime pay and lived out of state. Mejia, a candidate at the time, was already acting like a controller, and he had tweeted a list of the 20 top-paid city employees in the first nine months of 2021.
As part of his campaign, Mejia produced a map of affordable housing units with instructions on how people could apply for them. He identified the areas where the most parking tickets were being written. And he crunched data during the City Council debate on banning homeless encampments near schools and day-care centers, finding that 20% of the city would be off limits to tents.of traditional campaigning in ways that galvanized support, especially among young people.
“Definitely, I regret doing those things,” Mejia told me. He said that despite his political differences with establishment figures, the way he “expressed” himself is “definitely not how I would have done it today.” Mejia, who grew up in the San Fernando Valley, said his parents divorced when he was 7 and his mother essentially raised him and his three older siblings on the money she made as a registered nurse. His interest in social justice is rooted, he said, in having watched his single mother’s struggles.
As for the LAPD, he said, “we just want to figure out … how is that $3.2 billion being used? Is it being used … efficiently for public safety?”
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