Jose Ugarte

Um, but yeah, I guess they see, and you're not here has actually stayed out of that race.

Um, but yeah, there's such a, like a battle royale happening in CD nine now with like the amount of money from not just Airbnb, but hotel owners, um, and the police union, like, and all the usual, you know, uh, the corporate landlords are all showing up for Jose Ugarte and, Of course, you know, maybe he doesn't even live there, but I feel like

we get one of those per election cycle where he doesn't.

There is a complaint that he doesn't actually live there.

Anyway, so this is really sort of like a GSA insurgent outsider versus establishment race.

You have Jose Ugarte, who was a longtime staffer for Curran Price, the current council person who has dealt with both Price and Ugarte have dealt with...

some ethics issues and really backed by establishment interests, Ugarte.

And then you have Esuardo Mazariegos running, who is a community organizer with ACE, a very progressive community group that is pretty active in South LA.

But today, well, hour one, first half is me, you, maybe Miles will grace the mic, and the Talking Points.

Second half of the hour, we'll be speaking with Jose Ugarte, who would like to be the council member for CD9 here in LA.

And of course, you heard from his opponent, Estuardo Mazariegos, last week.

So you'll be able to compare and contrast.

I'll let him tell you that.

He was an aide to Councilmember Curran Price, who is the current holder of that seat, and worked for the L.A. Federation of Labor.

Jose Ugarte, welcome.

Good morning, Dominique.

You might remember these two candidates from our interview series last week.

LA City Council District 9 candidates Estuardo Mazagilleros and Jose Ugarte faced off Saturday alongside mayoral frontrunners Nithya Raman and Karen Bass.

The forum was hosted by a nonprofit for South LA youth development named A Place Called Home.

They broke on key issues of homelessness, policing, and plans for the 2028 Olympics.

Mazariegos, um, is-

And José Ugarte.

Yeah, yep.

So there you have it.

It's going down to two.

There is, there is no Black candidate in the, in the, in, that even ran in Council District 9, so we will have, uh, either Eduardo Mazariegos or Jose Ugarte, uh, taking that seat.

So p- for people in, in the Black community who are very concerned about, you know, a diminishing of power, I, I think a lot of the, the, the talk about betrayal is...

A- although it's said that Rahman betrayed Bass, what I think that is sort of a, a, a substitute for an avatar for is people saying that, uh, progressives are betraying the Black community-