Talk:Gil Cedillo
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[edit] Tagged as need of clean up
This article needs more information beyond illegal immigrant driver's licenses. It needs more information about the Senator and the rest of his career. The information that is presented should be restructured with some headings.
[edit] Incorrect Characterization of the Strike at LAX
The strike at the hotel near LAX was not for "illegal immigrant employees". It was to try and unionize hotels in a proposed zone that would have a modified living wage rule. The status of workers was not the issue. As a starting point, see http://www.hotelworkersrising.org/ , which is the site for the organizing effort.
Many of the workers are "illegal immigrants", but many are not. The organizing effort covers a wide area, and numerous Hilton hotels, and involves everyone from maids to bartenders. Supporters included a large number of politicians, as well as police. The overall effort was to secure higher wages in an area where hotel rates are high.
The language in the article makes it sound like Cedillo was supporting an entirely different kind of protest. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.245.192.89 (talk) 10:09, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Fair Share Zoning
In my opinion, his Fair Share Zoning bill is his greatest contribution to California, the one for which he will be remembered. Not being in California, I only know of it second hand. Any Californians with local newspapers want to write that section? 99.241.128.44 (talk) 14:41, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
- Here's some material from the L.A. Daily News:
- A law that takes effect Jan. 1 requires that cities and counties zone specific sites for permanent year-round shelters where public or private agencies could build. ... The goal of the new law, the Fair Share Zoning Bill, is to take the pressure off places like Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles, where there's a disproportionate homeless population, said state Sen. Gil Cedillo, the Los Angeles Democrat who authored the legislation, signed into law last month by the governor. ... "All of us have some responsibility, some duty to take care of people in our communities," Cedillo said. "All of the homeless in downtown L.A. were not born and raised there. They have come from everywhere in the state." If every community offered shelter year-round, it would make the issue of homelessness more manageable and help to alleviate it, said Cedillo, whose district encompasses the many missions and shelters of Skid Row. ...Requiring special zoning for homeless shelters will block communities from exercising not-in-my-backyard protests to thwart efforts to establish shelters, said Mike Arnold, chief operations officer of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, an umbrella agency that helps fund shelters countywide.
- "HOMELESS LAW MAY HAVE AREA IMPACT CHANGE: SANTA CLARITA MIGHT BE FORCED TO END PRACTICE OF ROTATING ITS WINTER SHELTERS." Patricia Farrell Aidem. Daily News. Los Angeles, Calif.: Nov 13, 2007. pg. A.3
- A law that takes effect Jan. 1 requires that cities and counties zone specific sites for permanent year-round shelters where public or private agencies could build. ... The goal of the new law, the Fair Share Zoning Bill, is to take the pressure off places like Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles, where there's a disproportionate homeless population, said state Sen. Gil Cedillo, the Los Angeles Democrat who authored the legislation, signed into law last month by the governor. ... "All of us have some responsibility, some duty to take care of people in our communities," Cedillo said. "All of the homeless in downtown L.A. were not born and raised there. They have come from everywhere in the state." If every community offered shelter year-round, it would make the issue of homelessness more manageable and help to alleviate it, said Cedillo, whose district encompasses the many missions and shelters of Skid Row. ...Requiring special zoning for homeless shelters will block communities from exercising not-in-my-backyard protests to thwart efforts to establish shelters, said Mike Arnold, chief operations officer of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, an umbrella agency that helps fund shelters countywide.
- Feel free to summarize it and put it in the article. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 00:35, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
