jonathanhatami

Child Abuse Prosecutor⚖️💙 Dedicated Child Victim Advocate. Survivor. Husband. Dad x2❤️ #AdoptDontShop 🐾🐾. Army Infantry Veteran🇺🇸

[jonathanhatami @jonathanhatami]

When I announced my campaign 7 weeks ago, I was so excited to finally share my plan for a safer & better LA with all of you.

From being the first DDA to speak out about George Gascón’s dangerous “day 1” directives & standing up to his failed leadership, it’s been quite a journey for my family & me. I’ve been all over the county from San Dimas to Lancaster, listening & meeting so many of you. And all of you have been right there with me.

I thought now would be a good time to share with those of you who might be new to Team Hatami a little more about my story & what led me to step up and make this run for District Attorney. So much about what I stand for – what I believe in –where I came from, is all in this video.

The support I’ve received in these weeks since kicking off my campaign has been humbling & inspiring. Thank you!

I need you in this fight with me. Together, we’ll make Los Angeles safer for all of us.

Visit https://t.co/PkxpU7Yg69 to donate TODAY! it will go a long way toward helping my campaign have the resources we’ll need to beat Gascón & his special interest donors.

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LAUSD spent $34 million in taxpayer dollars to build a campus that’s been empty since 2021.

The vacant school gets frequently vandalized so LAUSD has to spend $20,000 per month of taxpayer dollars to keep the empty campus secure. Over $200,000 a year just for securing a vacant campus.

Zero children are helped by this. LA City is a complete mess with just no leadership whatsoever.

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

LAUSD began constructing a new charter campus in 2012 when enrollment had already been declining for a decade. That site has now sat empty for five years. https://t.co/F5iNeNhdbQ

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I do not know one person, one family member, one member of the public, law enforcement, or our AV & LA community who feels the torturer and murderers of little Gabriel should have their sentence commuted or reduced. No one.

When it comes to the prolonged torture and murder of an innocent little child, when the evidence is clearly there, and a jury makes the decision, and a judge does the sentencing, that person or persons who committed the crimes should receive the ultimate punishment. In CA, that is capital punishment. It’s been voted on by the people many times.

The process must be respected. Justice must be served. Gabriel deserves that. All children do. No one person, especially someone who supported & endorsed Gascon, has the individual right to change that.

[Schubert Strategies @schubertstrat]

Meet Gabriel Fernandez. He was just 8 years old.

For months, his mother and her boyfriend tortured him. A fractured skull. Twelve broken ribs. Burns. Forced to eat cat feces. Bound and gagged inside a small cabinet.

His mother received life without parole. A jury convicted Isauro Aguirre of murder by torture. He was sentenced to death.

Governor Newsom: Before you consider wiping away that sentence through blanket commutation, look at Gabriel’s face. Confront what his killer did. Hear his family.

Gabriel deserved protection. His life deserves to matter in your decision.

Do not commute his killer’s death sentence.
@CAgovernor @CJLF_Sacramento @CrimeVictimsCa

[jonathanhatami @jonathanhatami]

Three matters I want to address on a Friday. And, this isn’t meant to tell people who to vote for. It’s really just how I feel. 

(1) This NBA & WNBA issue with the National Anthem. 

People can disagree with politicians. They come & go. Most are horrible. I really don’t like many of them. They stay way too long. They are selfish & addicted to power. Also, people can disagree with national policies implemented by those politicians. I do all the time. But, disrespecting our country, our flag, our troops, our anthem … it’s just something I could never do. Not after all I’ve seen & all I’ve been through. 

I’m Persian, Italian and Puerto Rican. But, I’m through & through an American. You can dislike politicians but still love & respect our country. 

(2) This Ohio campaign commercial issue 

Child abuse survivors can carry their trauma with them their whole life. I’m 56. I still do. In politics, yes, everything is open game. It’s the nature of things. But, to me, whatever you do in your campaign is a direct reflection of you. Of how you will govern. Of how you will treat people. Of how you really feel about child abuse & domestic violence. Of your morals, your ethics, your beliefs and your ideals. Winning at all costs without integrity isn’t the winning I want to be a part of. 

There are some, and they know exactly who they are, who think they can do and say whatever and then after the campaign is over, they are like - “we all good?” Yeah - No. F that. We aren’t. 

What I’m saying isn’t political. It’s real. And it’s me. Anyone who decides to be inhuman just to win an election, you will never have my support. And that will never be something I do. My kids and being a Dad and role model to them and a leader to all the children I fight for everyday is just too important to me.

(3) Taxes, tax increases and government studies

I grew up poor so seeing $460,000 spent on a study to open a corrupt city bank or paying almost $600,000 to the newly created & elected county CEO seems like really a lot of money to me. It is the job of our County & City of Los Angeles to spend our money wisely. It’s also a sacred, moral and legal obligation to its residents. 

The current group of our politicians, pretty much most of them, seem to care less. Spend, spend and more spend. And for all the spending they do, we see little to no real county and city improvements and eventually find out their friends or family members are the ones who benefit monetarily. 

It lacks moral responsibility to the community

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Newsom put out a post today on crime statistics. Stats don’t tell the real story of actual victims, especially child victims.

Don’t ever forget the children we lost. Always remember 🙏🏽

[Schubert Strategies @schubertstrat]

Meet Neal Williams and his two beautiful boys, Devon, 7, and Ian, 3.

Their mother, Manling Williams, put on latex gloves, went to her 3-year-old Ian and smothered him to death. Then she climbed to Devon’s upper bunk and smothered him, too.

After killing her boys, she logged onto social media to check her lover’s profile, then went out with friends. She returned home, selected the heaviest, sharpest sword in the house, and attacked her husband Neal as he slept—stabbing and slashing him more than 90 times with a samurai sword.

The next morning, she called police and claimed she had come home from grocery shopping to find her family dead.

She murdered her family to be with her lover. She was convicted of three first-degree murders and sentenced to death.

@CAgovernor Newsom: Look at their faces. Say their names. Do not commute their killer’s death sentence. Neal, Devon and Ian deserve to be remembered—not buried beneath a blanket act of mercy.@CJLF_Sacramento @CrimeVictimsCa

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@LAbutyeah 💯

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$460,000 in taxpayer money for a … study.

For people who work in the public sector, it could take 3 years salary to make that kind of money. Giving it to a consultant for a study to open a bank run and controlled by the city of Los Angeles. The city doesn’t even know where millions upon millions of our money went that was supposed to help the homeless. Now they want to be in charge of a bank and they want to spend almost a half of million of our money to do a study on it?

1989, as a private, I think my LES said I made about $800 a month. It’s just gross the way our elected “leaders” just throw money away on really ridiculous ideas when we can’t even have operable street lights and most of us can’t afford our water & electric bills.

[Matthew Seedorff @MattSeedorff]

WATCH: LA City Council votes 11-3 to move forward with a $460K study on creating a city-owned public bank.

The vote comes amid a nearly $100M budget gap.

If approved, LA could become the first U.S. city to establish its own public bank.

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@lostintheburbs Measure G

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This is the result of Measure G - something I opposed.

Paying a politician almost $600,000 a year with no term limits is just irresponsible. It’s also a slap in the face to most of us in LA County who work hard and live paycheck to paycheck I truly don’t know one politician in LA County who deserves that kind of money from their taxpayers.

Making government bigger & bigger, allowing politicians in power to create new positions for themselves and paying a person serving the public almost $600,000 a year is obscene.

Thank you Sup Barger for showing leadership & integrity.

[Supervisor Kathryn Barger @kathrynbarger]

The elected County Executive, who will make a salary of roughly $558,000 and not have term limits, will be one of the most powerful and highly paid politicians in the entire state of California. This presents a clear conflict of interest for every member of our @LACountyBOS, which is why I made a pledge not to run for the position. I'm calling on my colleagues to do the same. Read more: https://t.co/7bvtiJDmyF

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@ForRodriguezd28 Supervisor 2028

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Been watching some of my friends who are involved in local political races here in LA County. I have Dem friends, I have Repub friends and I have Independent/NPP friends - go figure.

These races have become very nasty and very personal.

Every city council member should make our community better, safer and stronger. Period. We all want a place where we can purchase a single family home, in a nice neighborhood, with good public schools, where we can raise our children in a safe, affordable and supportive environment. A place we can truly call “home.”

Candidates personally attacking each other because they have beef is childish and lacks any type of leadership quality. It’s what we don’t want in an elected leader no matter the political party. Governance requires maturity. It’s not about power. It’s about giving back.

If you want to represent all of us, you need to represent the best of us. Leaders must lead by example.

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@Ron4California Ad hominems.

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Andrew Luster, an heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune, was convicted in 2003 of 86 counts of drugging and raping three innocent victims.

He was sentenced to 124 years in prison. That was later reduced to 50 years. The State of CA just released him after serving only 20 years.

This is the result of Prop 57 and numerous other ridiculous, unreasonable and unsafe policies supported & passed by Sacramento and CA politicians over the last 15 years. Rapists aren’t victims. Prisons & jails are necessary to make sure we, our children, our families and our communities are safe from dangerous people & repeat offenders.

“Criminal justice reform” shouldn’t mean murderers, thieves and rapists are victims, we just ignore and forget about the real victims, prisons should be abolished, violent criminals should be released early, even rapists should get “good time” credits, 50 yrs old is considered an elder if you are a violent criminal, everyone gets to claim they are entitled to mental health diversion, theft isn’t a crime anymore, we should embrace open air drug markets, LWOP sentences should be reduced, and so many other dangerous and nonsensical policies.

Can one politician who supported this tell us how does releasing a serial rapist into the community of Glendora make children or families in that community any safer or better off?

[jonathanhatami @jonathanhatami]

CA taxpayers spent more than $1 billion dollars allegedly putting clean trucks & buses on the road through a program called Hybrid and Zero Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP). Basically CA provides taxpayer funding for businesses & local governments to buy or lease zero emission vehicles and customers get up to 90% off the vehicles price.

CA officials say it’s a resounding success. Well - that’s a lie.

The LAT discovered that program officials in many cases didn’t know where the state funded vehicles were even located, who was operating them or whether the vehicles had even been assembled at all.

At least 10 state funded vehicles that taxpayers paid for were never built or delivered. Where the money went is unclear. In one case, the state paid $1 million dollars for vehicles that didn’t even exist. A significant amount of truck & buses paid for by taxpayers were barely driven before customers either resold them, scraped them or parked them indefinitely. And, the state paid $50 million to deploy trucks & buses to a company whose founder was indicted for fraud.

And, everyone in our state and my county of LA continues to vote for tax increases.

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

California spent $1 billion on a clean truck voucher program designed to cut pollution and accelerate zero-emission sales.

Now, the program is roiled by accusations of fraud, broken buses and poor oversight. Here’s what our analysis revealed ⬇️ https://t.co/sd0raPYcXl

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The State of CA spent approx $134 billion tax dollars on K-12 schools last year. New test results are out: Proficiency in English 49.3%. Proficiency in Math 38.4%. The majority of our CA students sadly fall short of proficiency in both important subjects.

We have a major deficit in actual leadership here. Basically no one leads by example. No one is proactive. Children are not a priority. Schools should be about learning first. They also should be SAFE. The only ones really suffering from this failure are our children and families. It’s even more dire with our low income students.

We have politicians prioritizing criminals, defining them as victims. Even thieves & murderers are now victims. Some legislators believe people serving LWOP need to be prioritized - those are murderers who also committed a special circumstance. The governor is considering commuting all DP sentences. Mental health diversion, elder parole, Props 47 & 57, and so much more are the priority sadly. How about actually helping children in early education BEFORE they enter a life of crime?

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@EytanWallace If you can’t do an interview with the media and you can’t debate your opponents, you don’t deserve to be an elected official representing all of us. This is really cowardly & unbecoming behavior.

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