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West Hollywood Historic Preservation Commission member Brad Torgan sat with WeHo News to talk about his campaign for the newly-created 50th Assembly district. The primary is Tuesday, June 5, 2012 and, unlike in previous Assemby primaries, the top two finishers regardless of party will face off in the November general election.
Brad Torgan sat down with WeHo News to answer questions about his run for the new Assembly seat, AD 50, which encompasses West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Malibu, Los Angeles’ Brentwood, Bel Air, Beverly Hills, Carthay Square, much of Hollywood, Hancock Park, Miracle Mile, as well as Pacific Palisades, Topanga, part of the Santa Monica Mountains and Agoura Hills.
Tuesday’s primary election, in which the two top vote getters will move on to the November general election for the seat, pits this candidate against three others.
WeHo News: What drives you to legislate?
Brad Torgan: Part of it is wanting to give my core principles, [which] are limited government, fiscal restraint and civil liberties.
I’m passionate about those, and want to see those advocated at the state level. I don’t see that from the other candidates.
Frankly, they are ideologically interchangeable; so, that’s what’s motivating me.
WeHo News: Why jump into the legislative branch to do that?
Brad Torgan: Look at where the dysfunction is; it’s in the state legislature.
WeHo News: Please describe for the voters what you see as West Hollywood values and their relationship to your values? How do they match up?
Brad Torgan: I’m looking at it a little more district wide. Even though West Hollywood is the center of my life, it’s only about one-tenth of the district, if that. Certainly when it comes to a large number of social issues, I share the values of a lot of my fellow residents, when it comes to issues like Marriage Equality.
I have no qualms admitting that I am more conservative than the average West Hollywood voter… [but] if you look at my web site, given the little space I have for such things, I make the conservative case for Marriage Equality.
WeHo News: How about those other values you mentioned – how do they fit with West Hollywood ideas?
Brad Torgan: You want government to run efficiently. Government doesn’t run efficiently at the state level. Even in West Hollywood, where people are in agreement on fiscal issues, they still want government, whenever it does something it does it well. It doesn’t do that at the state level.
Take education as an example. The number I keep hearing - we are at 48 nationwide on spending per capita per pupil. Our tax per capita is eleventh highest in the country and our tax burden in California, is the sixth highest in the country and our business tax climate is the third worst in the country. That includes Proposition 13 and if that were not there, we would have the worst business climate in the country.
If we’re paying that much in tax, but our per pupil spending is that low, then our priorities are out of whack. We’re spending the money, but we’re spending it on things we shouldn’t be spending it on – we’re not spending it wisely.
The new 50th State Assembly District. Click to enlarge.
WeHo News: Can you give an example of where we’re spending money we shouldn’t?
Brad Torgan: There are lots of anecdotes, for example, our prison medical costs are three times the national average.
In education, the classroom size reduction mandates cost school districts cost districts upwards of a billion dollars a year.
WeHo News: What programs do you consider sacred?
Brad Torgan: What are our priorities. It’s not a matter of what you say, it’s what you cut. What are most important and you start there. Education, infrastructure and public safety?
WeHo News: What is the biggest lesson you’ve learned in this race?
Brad Torgan: How much fin civic engagement can be. Getting out and talking to people I might otherwise never talk to, talking to groups and organizations I might never get a chance to do.
Getting out a message of civil liberties, fiscal restraint and limited government to people I might never get a chance to.
Most of us, during the course of our daily lives, we’re surrounded by people who think like us and we don’t get out into communities other than our own, and that’s been a really enjoyable experience.
It’s been really exhausting, but really enjoyable.
WeHo News: Which community in the district have you found to be the most different than West Hollywood?
Brad Torgan: Agoura Hills, but I grew up out in Calabasas, so I know the differences well.
Density has a lot to do with it. There are a lot more republicans up there, it’s far less dense; Agoura Hills is an outer suburb, which is different that West Hollywood, which I would call an inner ring suburb.
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