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Caney Arnold
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Elections and appointments
Last election

June 5, 2018

Education

Bachelor's

UCLA

Graduate

California State University, Long Beach

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Caney Arnold (Democratic Party) ran for election to the California State Assembly to represent District 66. He lost in the primary on June 5, 2018.

Arnold was a candidate for District 15 representative on the Los Angeles City Council in California. Arnold was defeated in the primary election on March 7, 2017. While the election was nonpartisan, Arnold was a registered Democrat. He briefly joined the Green Party during the 2016 presidential election but later rejoined the Democratic Party.[1]

Biography

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Born in 1956, Arnold earned a B.A. in economics from UCLA in 1974 and an M.P.A. from CSU, Long Beach in 1994. He worked for over 32 years in logistics and acquisition management for the U.S. Department of Defense. He retired in 2011 at the civilian rank of GS-14.[1]

Elections

2018

See also: California State Assembly elections, 2018

General election

General election for California State Assembly District 66

Incumbent Al Muratsuchi defeated Frank Scotto in the general election for California State Assembly District 66 on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Al Muratsuchi
Al Muratsuchi (D)
 
60.5
 
108,627
Image of Frank Scotto
Frank Scotto (R)
 
39.5
 
71,057

Total votes: 179,684
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 66

Incumbent Al Muratsuchi and Frank Scotto defeated Caney Arnold in the primary for California State Assembly District 66 on June 5, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Al Muratsuchi
Al Muratsuchi (D)
 
50.9
 
47,976
Image of Frank Scotto
Frank Scotto (R)
 
43.2
 
40,727
Image of Caney Arnold
Caney Arnold (D)
 
6.0
 
5,612

Total votes: 94,315
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2017

See also: Municipal elections in Los Angeles, California (2017)

The city of Los Angeles, California, held primary elections for mayor, eight city council seats, city attorney, and city controller on March 7, 2017. Three community college board of trustees seats were also up for general election on that date.

Most races where no candidate earned a majority (50% plus one) of the primary votes cast advanced to a general election on May 16, 2017. This rule did not apply to the community college board races, which were determined by a plurality winner in the March election.[2]

This election was the second impacted by Charter Amendment 1. Passed in March 2015, the amendment shifted city elections to even-numbered years beginning in 2020. As a result, officials elected in 2017 won special five-and-a-half year terms ending in 2022. Incumbent Joe Buscaino defeated Caney Arnold and Noel Gould in the primary election for the District 15 seat on the Los Angeles City Council.[3]

Los Angeles City Council, District 15 Primary Election, 2017
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.png Joe Buscaino Incumbent 74.85% 12,497
Caney Arnold 16.47% 2,750
Noel Gould 8.68% 1,449
Total Votes 16,696
Source: Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "March 7, 2017, Election Results: Statement of Votes Cast," accessed May 22, 2017

Campaign finance

Arnold had received $3,669.00 in contributions and had made $2,815.10 in expenditures, leaving the campaign with $853.90 on hand as of reports available from the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission on February 27, 2017.[4]

Campaign themes

2017

On his campaign website, Arnold listed "grassroots democracy and government transparency, ecology, social justice, [and] non-violence" as values he would hold, if elected. Below are selected excerpts from his statement on each matter:[1]

  • Grassroots democracy, government transparency, and accountability:
    • "I will ensure that my office actively seeks input from each NC before I make my vote on the City Council."
    • "We need to make sure that the promises for a minimum of one-to-one continuance of low income housing is maintained, I would advocate working to improve that ratio to provide additional low income housing. We also need to ensure the commitment to 30% hiring of local residents is kept."
  • Ecology:
    • "We need to create a plan for a Just Transition from our fossil fuel infrastructure to sustainable 100% renewable sources of energy. This plan needs to be more than just a stack of paper. It needs to be approved by the Mayor and Council to provide a firm schedule with adequate funding and governmental and citizen oversight."
  • Social justice:
    • "We need to stop the approach of requiring the homeless to lift themselves by their bootstraps, to a Housing First approach where we remove the homeless from the unsafe environment of the streets, get them into housing, and provide them with services to help them find jobs and again become self-sustaining."
  • Nonviolence:
    • "In addition to the diversion programs for rehabilitation, we need to review police use of force policy, train deescalation techniques, and create a fair policy to open police video footage to the public."
  • Fiscal conservatism:
    • "While I understand that an initial investment is required for housing, the City Council in advocating Prop HHH did not demonstrate how savings in the future will be reimbursed to taxpayers by lowered tax rates."

See also

Los Angeles, California California Municipal government Other local coverage
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