{"id":113248,"date":"2026-05-01T10:20:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/la-city-council-district-3-voter-guide-gaspar-vs-girvan-vs-celona\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:21:15","slug":"la-city-council-district-3-voter-guide-gaspar-vs-girvan-vs-celona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/la-city-council-district-3-voter-guide-gaspar-vs-girvan-vs-celona\/","title":{"rendered":"LA City Council District 3 Voter Guide: Gaspar vs. Girvan vs. Celona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-element=\"story-stack-story-body\" rich-text-module\")_=\"\" wp_automatic_readability=\"76.065872459706\">p):text-cms-story-body-color-text-clearfix&#8221;> <\/p>\n<p>The candidates are largely alike on public safety issues. All three support Mayor Karen Bass&#8217; long-term goal of reinstating 9,500 officers to the Los Angeles Police Department. (Last month, it was 8,640.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Gaspar,<\/b> 44, thinks the goal doesn&#8217;t go far enough. He wants the department to have 10,000 officers, which it last had in 2020. He points to his experience a few years ago when his family&#8217;s home was burgled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I called 911, this is no exaggeration, I was on hold for 30 minutes before I got a person. A whole thirty minutes,&#8221; he said. \u201cThis is something that points to the city being broken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Worth Girvan,<\/b> 42, said she also wants the LAPD to have 10,000 officers back, a goal first accomplished in 2013 by former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who was her boss for many years.<\/p>\n<p><b>Celona,<\/b> 46, was less specific about the number of officers needed but voiced general support for the mayor&#8217;s hiring goal.<\/p>\n<p>All three also spoke in favor of pay increases Bass negotiated with the city&#8217;s police union, which critics said were too expensive. Supporters say the pay increase will keep officers, especially new hires, from being lured away to other law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve met a lot of LAPD officers and they keep telling me they train here, but then we lose them,&#8221; Worth Girvan said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[27450,1315,189,6251,27448,27449,856,2436],"class_list":{"0":"post-113248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-verse","8":"tag-celona","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-council","11":"tag-district","12":"tag-gaspar","13":"tag-girvan","14":"tag-guide","15":"tag-voter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113252,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113248\/revisions\/113252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}