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Ron Galperin
Ron Galperin (Democratic Party) was the Los Angeles City Controller in California. He assumed office in 2013. He left office on December 12, 2022.
Galperin (Democratic Party) ran for election for California Controller. He lost in the primary on June 7, 2022.
Galperin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2022
See also: California Controller election, 2022
General election
General election for California Controller
Malia Cohen defeated Lanhee Chen in the general election for California Controller on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Malia Cohen (D)  | 55.3 | 5,936,856 |
 | Lanhee Chen (R) | 44.7 | 4,789,345 | |
| Total votes: 10,726,201 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for California Controller
The following candidates ran in the primary for California Controller on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lanhee Chen (R) | 37.2 | 2,533,305 |
| ✔ | | Malia Cohen (D) | 22.7 | 1,542,397 |
 | Yvonne Yiu (D) | 15.1 | 1,024,707 | |
 | Steve Glazer (D) | 11.1 | 756,518 | |
 | Ron Galperin (D) | 10.1 | 690,484 | |
 | Laura Wells (G) | 3.8 | 258,053 | |
| Total votes: 6,805,464 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
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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.[1]
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 Ron Galperin ran unopposed in the primary election for city controller of Los Angeles.[2]
| Los Angeles City Controller, Primary Election, 2017 | ||
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Ron Galperin Incumbent (unopposed) |
100.00% | 291,321 |
| Total Votes | 291,321 | |
| Source: Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "March 7, 2017, Election Results: Statement of Votes Cast," accessed May 22, 2017 | ||
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Ron Galperin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Galperin's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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As the Los Angeles Controller, Ron serves as the people’s elected watchdog, overseeing and rooting out waste of the city’s $11.2 billion dollar budget and supervising payroll for 40,000 city employees.
Ron built a reputation as a leading voice for government reform and as a small business owner. Ron saw firsthand how transparency can spur government reform and change public policy.
Voters first elected Ron in 2013, where despite being outspent 2-1, he beat an entrenched City Hall politician. Ron immediately got to work transforming the office with data and technology, to hold politicians accountable, and to get results from government.
Over the last eight years, Ron has issued hard-hitting audits and demanded reforms to tackle the most critical issues we face. From exposing billions in ineffective homelessness spending to dramatically increased the amount of money L.A. used for street repairs in neighborhoods throughout the city. Ron has, as the L.A. Times described, “an accountant’s eye for detail and a reformer’s creativity.”
- 1) Transparency and Accountability: As City Controller, I have served as the watchdog for Los Angeles, making sure public dollars are spent efficiently and effectively. I will do the same for all of California.
- 2) Addressing Homelessness and Housing: As L.A. Controller, I’ve taken decisive action related to homelessness and housing, issuing more than half a dozen reports with strong recommendations that compelled policymakers to address the issue more directly, transparently and with greater accountability. My audits and reports have been adopted by policymakers throughout the state. But we still have so much more work to do. As State Controller, I will audit our homelessness and housing programs, ensuring resources are being directed in a way that helps house our unhoused - coupled with essential services - and provides more opportunities for affordable and workforce housing.
- 3) Promoting Equity and Opportunity: We have a long way to go to ensure economic and racial justice for people of color in California. As City Controller, I produced the LA Equity Index, a first-of-its-kind online mapping tool to illustrate the level of equity and opportunity in each neighborhood of Los Angeles so that City leaders and all residents have a data-driven understanding of community needs throughout Los Angeles. I’ve also examined inequities that exist in City government. As State Controller, I want to use the power of this office to break down racial injustice and systemic discrimination that exists throughout California and to build a more equitable future for all our residents.
I’ve transformed the role of the Controller in Los Angeles, launching independent, hard-hitting audits - rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse; exposing misspent funds to address homelessness. My reports have called for reforms on infrastructure, housing, homeless spending, climate change policy and more. And, my office and I have been recognized internationally for introducing open data, dashboards, metrics, mapping and other tools to make government more accountable. Audits and reports by my office have helped, among many things, to improve street services, expose flaws in our City’s response to homelessness and affordable housing, help residents and business find resources in response to the COVID-19 crisis, tackle illegal dumping, fund the arts, address police staffing and public safety, and a multitude of other issues that affect our lives.
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Campaign finance
2017
Galperin had received $453,813.88 in contributions and had made $168,617.73 in expenditures, leaving the campaign with $291,241.27 on hand as of reports available from the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission on February 27, 2017.[3]
See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Los Angeles Daily News, "A dozen hopefuls step up to the starting line for Los Angeles mayoral race," November 11, 2016
- ↑ City of Los Angeles City Clerk, "2017 Primary Nominating Election Candidates," December 16, 2016
- ↑ Los Angeles City Ethics Commission, "2017 City and LAUSD Elections," accessed February 27, 2017
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Los Angeles City Controller 2013-2022 |
Succeeded by Kenneth Mejia |
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