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With the 2026 election less than a month out, KHTS Owners Carl and Jeri Seratti-Goldman have put together a list of endorsements of who they are supporting.
Democrats have controlled the California Senate continuously since 1970 and the Assembly for all but two years (1995-96) since then. They’ve held a supermajority since the 2016 election.
There’s been a Democrat as Governor since 2011. That means there’s been absolutely no checks and balances for over a decade.
Any government with no checks and balances can become a disaster, whether Democrat or Republican. Such is the case with the current leadership in Sacramento.
California no longer remains the golden state. In Santa Clarita, despite strong local leadership, our challenges are increasing. Two of Santa Clarita’s largest businesses have announced they’re moving out of state: Princess Cruises and Woodward, Inc. They join well over one million residents who moved out of California during the past two years.
That’s why your vote matters. Sending a message to Sacramento that California’s current course isn’t working. Here are our KHTS endorsements.
US Congressional (District 27) – Jason Gibbs
California State Assembly
Assembly 40th – Rickey Hayes
Assembly 34th – Charles Hughes
Santa Clarita City Council
1. District 2 – Denise Lite
2. District 4 – Laurene Weste
3. District 5 – Bob Khalsa
SCV Water Board
1. Division 1 – Bill Cooper
2. Division 3 – Ken Peterson/Maria Gutzeit (vote for two)
SCV Community College (COC)
Area 1 – Darlene Trevino
Hart District
Area 2 – Bryan Biggers
Area 5 – Joe Messina
Saugus District
Area 1 – Natalie Epstein
Area 2 – Anna Griese
Area 5 – Cindy Hallman
LA County Assessor – Jeffrey Prang
LA County Measure E – No
Prop 1 – No
Prop 2 – No
Prop 3 – No
Prop 4 – No
Prop 5 – No
Prop 37 – No
Prop 38 – No
Prop 39 – Yes
Prop 40 – No
Prop 41 – Yes
Prop 42 – Yes
Prop 43 – Yes
Prop 44 – No
Prop 45 – Yes
Governor – Steve Hilton
Lieutenant Governor – Gloria Romero
Secretary of State – Don Wagner
State Controller – Herb Morgan
Treasurer – Jennifer Hawks
Attorney General – Michael Gates
Insurance Commissioner – No position
Superintendent of Education – Sonja Shaw
State Board of Equalization
District 1 – Shannon Grove
District 2 – No position
District 3 – No position
District 4 – Denis Bilodeau
Sheriff – Alex Villanueva
Los Angeles County Superior Court
Office No. 064: Maria Ghobadi
Office No. 065: No Recommendation
Office No. 066: Ben Forer
Office No. 081: David Walgren
Office No. 087: David Dejute
Office No. 116: Pat Connolly
Office No. 131: Donna Tryfman
Office No. 141: Mariela Torres
Office No. 176: Gloria Marin
Office No. 181: Ryan Dibble
Office No. 196: Candice J. Henry.
KHTS urges you to vote on Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Click here to find your polling location.
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Thanks we agree as well!
Thanks for the Judge’s we always appreciate that!
KHTS news team: genuinely great. Fires, traffic, road closures, the stuff nobody else covers.
KHTS editorial page: sold the historic Newhall Hardware building to a developer, packed up for an office park, then wrote an editorial about how California’s going downhill and everyone’s cashing out and leaving. Takes one to know one.
“No checks and balances is a disaster, whether Democrat or Republican,” says an endorsement slate with zero people from one of those parties. That’s not checks and balances thats a group chat.
I’m one of the million who have left California!
Gasoline in my state is a dollar to have cheaper a gallon. My HOA is a $415 a month. My insurance has dropped. My registration has dropped California straightened up.
Please explain and justify each of your endorsements. For example, Proposition 3 is not a new tax. It is an existing tax that only the wealthiest of us has been paying since 2012. You need to be making over $300,000 annually to be affected by Prop. 3. Over $750,000 for couples filing jointly. This money has been funding ALL public Santa Clarita Valley Schools since 2015. Prop 3 just extends that taxation. If Prop. 3 fails, Saugus Union School District alone will lose over $24 million annually. Hart District. close to $94 million annually. This will mean larger class sizes, less staff and less of what SCV parents expect in their public schools.