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Jillian Burgos
Jillian Burgos ran for election to the Los Angeles City Council to represent District 2 in California. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Burgos completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Jillian Burgos was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Burgos earned a bachelor's degree from The Ohio State University. Her career experience includes working as a small businesswoman, licensed optician, writer, and director.[1]
As of 2024, Burgos was affiliated with the following organizations:[1]
- LA Forward
- Feel the Bern SFV and LA
- Our Revolution
- NoHo Neighborhood Council
Elections
2024
See also: City elections in Los Angeles, California (2024)
General election
General election for Los Angeles City Council District 2
Adrin Nazarian defeated Jillian Burgos in the general election for Los Angeles City Council District 2 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Adrin Nazarian (Nonpartisan) | 53.8 | 44,538 |
 | Jillian Burgos (Nonpartisan)  | 46.2 | 38,185 | |
| Total votes: 82,723 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Los Angeles City Council District 2
The following candidates ran in the primary for Los Angeles City Council District 2 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Adrin Nazarian (Nonpartisan) | 37.2 | 14,033 |
| ✔ | | Jillian Burgos (Nonpartisan) | 22.3 | 8,430 |
 | Sam Kbushyan (Nonpartisan) | 14.7 | 5,561 | |
| Manny Gonez (Nonpartisan) | 12.2 | 4,613 | ||
 | Jon-Paul Bird (Nonpartisan) | 7.1 | 2,685 | |
 | Rudy Melendez (Nonpartisan) | 3.7 | 1,406 | |
| Marin Ghandilyan (Nonpartisan) | 2.7 | 1,012 | ||
| Total votes: 37,740 | |||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Burgos in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
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Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jillian Burgos completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Burgos' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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My mother instilled the values of service in me from a young age. For me, family is everything. After becoming my mother’s Power of Attorney because of early onset Alzheimer's, losing multiple family members due to easily preventable causes like healthcare, housing, mental health crises, and poverty I had to act. I found that calling in movements like Bernie Sanders’ campaign; “Not me, Us” spoke to me on a deep level.
I took that energy to the NoHo Neighborhood Council in 2021. Shortly after being elected, I became Treasurer and Chair of Housing and Services. It has been my greatest joy to pass several grants that have fed our unhoused neighbors, given mental health support and mentorship to at-risk youth, and taught renters their rights. I have built relationships with elected officials, their staff, community groups and mutual aid organizations that are already doing the work. I'm running to be a true public servant and be the voice of our community as your next Councilmember.
- The homelessness crisis has gotten out of hand. The only way to solve it is by making housing a human right. We need to crack down on illegal short term rentals and vacancies that are driving up costs and holding up valuable housing. We must ensure that we invest in building truly affordable housing, social housing, and keeping tenants in their homes. Change zoning laws to build infill housing and support the missing middle. This includes ending harmful city ordinance 41.18 which criminalizes homelessness. We are not solving homelessness with sweeps because there is not enough housing to offer and basically wasting taxpayer money. We need a housing first approach with wrap around services like job training/placement and healthcare.
- In 2023, for the first time ever, more people died from traffic violence than homicides. People should feel safe walking in our neighborhoods. We need to work towards implementing our Mobility Plan that was implemented in 2015, but has had no traction. We can start by fixing our broken sidewalks, making them ADA compliant, and encourage other modes of transportation with true protected bike lanes. We need to move from a car centric culture, Los Angeles is behind in public transportation and we must expand service and make it more reliable and enjoyable. I will invest in our communities by implementing a 15 minute city model so all of our neighbors basic needs can be met within walking distance.
- Our communities have become so disenfranchised by all of the obstacles they face when trying to get basic problems addressed and engaging with their local government. We need to change one City Council meeting to either an evening or a weeknight so working class people can address their concerns without having to take off from work. We also need to expand City Council and place a cap on election spending, remove special interest groups and corporations from trying to buy elections.
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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