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Weighing in on two city council races | Letters
Vote for Campos for council I’m writing about the unusual council campaigns in Ventura this year. Particularly district 1. It is rare for a sitting council member to form a PAC attempting to overthrow a sitting council, but this is what we are seeing. My particular concern is the hate speech being thrown about by a group led by a clearly hateful minister. Council member Liz Campos has had her campaign signs marked with anti-LGBTQ graffiti and marked with hateful messages about people with disabilities. It makes me wonder what kind of city Ventura has become. Hateful messages and drawings are being scrawled on school trustee Peterson’s signs as well. Let’s go back to being kind Ventura. Liz Campos may be disabled but she has shown over the last for years why she was elected in the first place. Liz Cares for immigrants’ rights, LGBTQ protections, animal welfare, and children’s safety from drug use. All these as reflected in the policies she has brought and passed. Liz Campos is currently waiting for policies to ban flock cameras, ban data centers citywide and stop building more gas stations or other toxic industries in historically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Liz is a first-class climate
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