Albert Corado

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Albert Corado

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Last election

June 7, 2022

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Los Angeles, Calif.

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Albert Corado ran for election to the Los Angeles City Council to represent District 13 in California. Corado lost in the primary on June 7, 2022.

Corado completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Albert Corado was born in Los Angeles, California.

Elections

2022

See also: City elections in Los Angeles, California (2022)

General election

General election for Los Angeles City Council District 13

Hugo Soto-Martinez defeated incumbent Mitch O'Farrell in the general election for Los Angeles City Council District 13 on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Hugo Soto-Martinez (Nonpartisan)	57.8	38,069
		Mitch O'Farrell (Nonpartisan)	42.2	27,797

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 65,866
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Los Angeles City Council District 13

Hugo Soto-Martinez and incumbent Mitch O'Farrell defeated Kate Pynoos, Steve Johnson, and Albert Corado in the primary for Los Angeles City Council District 13 on June 7, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Hugo Soto-Martinez (Nonpartisan)	40.6	19,196
✔		Mitch O'Farrell (Nonpartisan)	31.6	14,952
		Kate Pynoos (Nonpartisan)	15.6	7,371
		Steve Johnson (Nonpartisan)	7.7	3,648
		Albert Corado (Nonpartisan)	4.4	2,081

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 47,248
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Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Albert Corado completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Corado's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Albert Corado was born and raised in LA after his mother and father moved here from Mexico and El Salvador. He worked for years in the food service industry before throwing himself into community organizing after the LAPD murdered his little sister Mely Corado in 2018 while she worked at Trader Joe's. The city's indifference and then determination that Mely's murder was "in-policy" brought Albert into community organizing for abolition and our right to live full, dignified lives. Albert has worked with SELAH (a homelessness outreach organization) and NOlympics LA, where he helped write pieces of analysis and lead teach-ins about the harmful nature of the Olympics. He has also spoken at and attended many Black Lives Matter Los Angeles actions against former DA Jackie Lacey and against police associations. In 2020, in response to the City’s failure to meet the people’s needs as the pandemic swept through our city and killed our neighbors, Albert co-founded People’s City Council, a mutual aid and direct action organization. Through that organization, Albert helped raise over $2 million to keep people informed, fed, housed, and out of jail during the pandemic. Albert continues working with People’s City Council and is on the board of the Robinson SPACE, an organizing space for abolitionist and anti-white supremacist groups and movements.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• No human belongs in a cage. We need abolition now.
• Housing is a human right - not a profit opportunity for the wealthy.
• People deserve to be paid a living wage and free, public transit.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

I want to fight to ensure a good life for all Angelenos; I define a good life as the guarantee of human rights, civil rights, and climate rights for all people. My top priority is to abandon the failed strategy of criminalization by funneling money away from police, weapons, and surveillance towards services and infrastructure that make us safer. Instead of spending on LAPD’s helicopters, I want to accelerate our transition to clean energy and make public transit free. I’m here to significantly invest in our communities.

As a city councilmember, I will make sure the City is doing its part in making sure everyone has food and a safe place to live.

Housing affordability will continue to be an issue so long as elected officials consider housing an opportunity for profit instead of a human right. I would push for the necessary policy changes to treat housing as a right, such as taxing vacant units, taxing commercial landlords (those with multiple residential properties for leasing), and expanding rent control to the extent possible under current state law. We need to quickly implement measures that will make an immediate impact as well as measures that provide long-term solutions. For example, we clearly need an immediate increase of available services (bathrooms, cooling/heating centers, shelter equipment, etc) along with decriminalizing being unhoused (unhoused individuals are currently arrested at much higher rates than housed individuals).

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