Two council seats are up in Yorba Linda and one of them is an easy call.<\/p>\n
Elected to the council in 2018, Carlos Rodriguez has been a reliable conservative leader in the city.<\/p>\n
\u201cYorba Linda is one of the most financially stable cities in Orange County,\u201d he told us, explaining the city is doing well enough that it doesn\u2019t even need to contemplate new taxes. \u201cWe do not need new taxes. Future economic growth by focusing on small businesses in our community will help grow our local economy and sales tax revenue.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reflective of this is California Policy Center\u2019s Local Fiscal Health Dashboard<\/a>, which has graded Yorba Linda a \u201cB\u201d in every fiscal year from 2022 to 2025, with \u201cA\u201d grades for its debt burden, liquidity and pension debts. By comparison, nearby cities like Anaheim, Brea and Placentia have received \u201cC\u201d grades, while Fullerton and Orange have received \u201cD\u201d grades in the last year available.<\/p>\n Fortunately, Rodriguez also wasn\u2019t thrilled about Assembly Bill 1383 which sought to allow cities to boost police and firefighter pensions. He said it wasn\u2019t necessary.<\/p>\n As someone who in his professional life works with the Building Industry Association of Southern California, Rodriguez rightly opposes rent control. His views on housing policy are more of a mixed bag, though, given his staunch defense<\/a> of \u201clocal control,\u201d which is often the mantra of local elected officials who want to limit housing production. He said in one ad that he supports \u201cresponsible housing that reflects our local values.\u201d Such rhetoric reeks a bit of NIMBYism, but he has to his credit voted<\/a> to move the city\u2019s housing element into compliance with state law<\/a>.<\/p>\n Where Rodriguez has perhaps been most helpful is on the board of the South Coast Air Quality Management District. Working with Supervisor Janet Nguyen, he has scored some wins<\/a> for Orange County, including securing long-delayed landfill permits while tackling an old backlog, and negotiating a regulatory rule change that saved the county $5 million. And, concerned about the high cost of regulatory compliance, he provided a critical vote last year against proposed AQMD rules<\/a> aimed at phasing out gas-powered heaters and furnaces.<\/p>\n Backed by the Orange County Taxpayers Association and the Orange County Business Council, Carlos Rodriguez has been a practical voice for taxpayers. While we don\u2019t agree with Rodriguez on everything, he merits re-election.<\/p>\n Vote for Carlos Rodriguez in Yorba Linda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two council seats are up in Yorba Linda and one of them is an easy call. Elected to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[125097,163,165,164,1965,9198,975],"class_list":["post-484350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-2026-local-endorsements","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-editorials","tag-endorsements","tag-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}