[FoxNews] 10-5 vote sends charter amendment question to November ballot for city and school board races
The Los Angeles City Council advanced a proposal Wednesday to give voters a say in November over whether city leaders may authorize noncitizens to vote in municipal and school board elections, drawing backlash from Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, GOP senators and conservative commentators.
"They have imported voters to win," Musk said on X.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, also criticized the proposal, tying it to Los Angeles officials’ opposition to federal immigration enforcement.
"The LA City Council wants to give local voting rights to illegals for the explicit purpose of empowering them against ICE and immigration enforcement," Lee said.
The proposal was introduced by Los Angeles City Councilman Hugo Soto-Martínez, and seconded by Councilwoman Ysabel Jurado, both Democratic socialists. The council approved the noncitizen voting provision on a 10-5 vote as part of a broader charter reform package headed toward the November ballot.
The city clerk's file says the measure would ask the city attorney to prepare documents for a November 2026 charter amendment giving the council authority to later introduce an ordinance authorizing noncitizen voting.
During the council debate, Soto-Martínez said a noncitizen parent who has lived in Los Angeles for years could have less electoral influence than a citizen who recently arrived for work.
"It just does not make sense to me that someone who moves to Los Angeles for a temporary job has more of a voice than a parent who has been here for decades raising their children through public schools," Soto-Martínez said.
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said the Los Angeles vote fit into his broader concerns about California elections and federal voter eligibility legislation.
"Nobody should be surprised. They’ve always wanted illegals to vote, and they want fraud. That’s why I asked the DOJ to investigate what’s going on with California’s elections, and it’s EXACTLY why Democrats REFUSE to support the SAVE America Act," Scott said.
RealClearPolitics White House and national political correspondent Susan Crabtree said the vote showed why national Republicans should invest more heavily in California voter registration and turnout operations.
"On my podcast last week, LA GOP Chair Roxanne Hoge said the national Republicans need to stop using California as a punching bag and a bank (donations from deep-pocketed donors) and start investing in voter registration drives and turn-out operations," she said.
"Now we see why. The LA City Council just took steps to make illegal immigrant voting legal."
Elizabeth Barcohana, California GOP Jewish engagement chair, said the vote placed the issue on the same ballot as a statewide voter ID fight.
"It happened. LA City Council voted 10-5 to include giving illegals the right to vote in the City Charter reform referendum that will be on the November ballot," Barcohana said.
Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez, one of five members who opposed the provision, questioned whether Los Angeles County had been consulted on how it would implement a noncitizen voting system, according to CBS Los Angeles.
"I don’t even know that the county has actually been consulted in their ability to implement such a concept," Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez also warned that city leaders could be advancing the proposal before knowing whether it could be carried out.
"I have apprehension of making false promises that give the suggestion that we’re able to advance something without even further vetting the ability to implement this," Rodriguez said, according to the New York Post. "I don’t want to pretend that people are going to take away from this that this is going to be available to them, and it’s not, because it’s not been baked out."
Federal law prohibits noncitizens from voting in federal elections, while the Los Angeles proposal would be limited to city and Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education races.
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LA City Council members are full on freaking bolsheviks and sociopaths. The theory has been advanced that their intention is to destroy Los Angels so they can impose their totalitarian vision upon the rubble. They things look, they are well on their way to succeeding.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
06/20/2026 11:19 Comments ||
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#5
That would disenfranchise all the fake and dead people.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
06/20/2026 11:34 Comments ||
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Can we just bulldoze LA and San Fran into the ocean?
Posted by: Chris ||
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San Fran has some nice people and areas, Chris.
Unfortunately they're overshadowed by the surrounding rot.
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And the good news is that the illegals are already registered to vote.
#9
Congress should invalidate ANY states federal elections allowing non-citizens to vote so that they lose representation in Congress, no vote for an federal office.
[FoxNews] Luria opposed proposals to ban congressional stock trading while serving in the House from 2019 to 2023, calling them 'bullsh--'
What began as a selfie request quickly turned into an ambush pressing former Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., on her personal finances and stock trading while serving in Congress, according to a video posted by a top staffer for Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Va.
"Elaine Luria, how much money did you make insider training?" the unidentified man in the video asked.
"Your net worth went over, over 2000%," he continued. "It's a shame. You're so corrupt."
The man repeatedly questioned Luria about the growth of her net worth during her four years in Congress.
"How do you explain it, Elaine Luria? You were in Congress for four years, and your net worth went over 2,000%. Explain that, Elaine, Luria. Explain it.
Financial disclosure records show Luria entered Congress with substantial investment holdings. No major controversies over a spike in her personal finances during her time serving in Congress have been reported on.
In 2022, as support grew for legislation banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks, Luria loudly opposed these proposals. She argued that the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, signed into law in 2012, already provided safeguards against insider trading by lawmakers and federal officials.
"This whole concept is bullsh--," Luria said in 2022 about banning members of Congress from stock trading.
The confrontation comes as scrutiny of lawmakers' stock trading has remained a bipartisan issue on Capitol Hill, with members of both parties often facing questions about whether Congress should be permitted to buy and sell individual stocks while serving in office. Proposals to tighten or ban congressional stock trading have been brought to the floor over the last decade, but lawmakers have yet to enact any prohibition.
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How does she explain that to the American citizens? She walks away.
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#4
Rather than trying to ban congressional stock trading, why not let the rest of us in on the game. A Nancy Pelosi Index fund is probably a good investment.
One of the things that makes Donald Trump unique is not just his utter Trumpiness, but the fact that he was rich *before* he got into politics.
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[FoxNews] 10-5 vote sends charter amendment question to November ballot for city and school board races
