Ron Galperin

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Ron Galperin
Image of Ron Galperin
Prior offices
Los Angeles City Controller
Successor: Kenneth Mejia

Elections and appointments
Last election

June 7, 2022

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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
Image of Malia Cohen
Malia Cohen (D) Candidate Connection
 
55.3
 
5,936,856
Image of Lanhee Chen
Lanhee Chen (R) Candidate Connection
 
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
Image of Lanhee Chen
Lanhee Chen (R) Candidate Connection
 
37.2
 
2,533,305
Image of Malia Cohen
Malia Cohen (D) Candidate Connection
 
22.7
 
1,542,397
Image of Yvonne Yiu
Yvonne Yiu (D) Candidate Connection
 
15.1
 
1,024,707
Image of Steve Glazer
Steve Glazer (D)
 
11.1
 
756,518
Image of Ron Galperin
Ron Galperin (D) Candidate Connection
 
10.1
 
690,484
Image of Laura Wells
Laura Wells (G) Candidate Connection
 
3.8
 
258,053

Total votes: 6,805,464
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Campaign finance

Endorsements

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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.[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
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.png 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

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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 son of immigrants and of a Holocaust survivor, Ron is L.A.’s first Citywide-elected LGBTQ+ official. As Controller, Ron has worked to ensure public dollars are spent transparently, efficiently, and equitably.

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.
As the Chief Financial Officer and elected watchdog of the nation’s second biggest city, I have been on the forefront of bringing unprecedented transparency, innovation and accountability to how public dollars are spent - putting every city expenditure and salary online - and I have a proven track record of government reform and challenging the status quo. These are to the benefit of all people.

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]

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Footnotes

Political offices
Preceded by
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Los Angeles City Controller
2013-2022
Succeeded by
Kenneth Mejia