CA: Vote no on Anaheim's Recall of Natalie Rubacalva (D)\
To start off, Rubalcava voted – along with every member of the Anaheim City Council – to approve Disneyland’s aggressive Disneyland Forward initiative that will invest a ton of money into the park and the city that will pay off handsomely with new building trade union jobs and nearly 14,000 new employees. Others who voted for this are on the ballot in November, but why not recall other council members who aren’t?
Rubalcava got IEs from Disneyland’s SOAR PAC? So did most other members of the city council. And some got money from a variety of Labor Unions. If you want to have political reform so that council members who benefit from IEs can’t vote on items before the council, shouldn’t that apply to Labor Union contributions too? By pointing out how much Disney PACs spend to support candidates they want, isn’t Nelson forgetting something? Anaheim voters are electing these people. Does he really think Anaheim voters are so stupid that they don’t know what they are getting when they cast a ballot?
Disneyland will pay for city streets that Nelson says Anaheim residents want to keep public. I’m sure some of them do. Only 1,000 people have signed a petition which is just shy of 3/10ths of one percent of the city’s residents. And without a vote or broad survey on the topic, I doubt the majority of Anaheim residents even care. This was the same vote as every member of the city council.
On affordable housing, which is actually a city-wide issue, is the funding offered by Disneyland only for the new employees? Or can any Disneyland employee apply? What about non-Disneyland employees? Unlike Orlando, which has a ton of land, there’s not a lot of room in Anaheim to build new housing period – affordable or not. Condo-style high rises offer increased numbers of housing units but also increased density. Again, this vote was taken by every member of the city council. And as employees go, Disney isn;t hold a gun to anyone’s head to go work for them.
Maybe the Angels will leave to greener pastures and the city can build affordable housing on the site of the old stadium.
https://theliberaloc.com/2024/05/24/vote-no-on-anaheims-recall-of-natalie-rubacalva/