2026 CANDIDATE SURVEY
Nelson Cheng
Candidate for Los Angeles City Mayor
To help foster greater discussion about reforming City Hall, we asked City of LA candidates to participate in a six question survey. Half of the questions seek general feedback, and the rest are issue specific.
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Survey Info:
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Answers: Respondents were told that questions could be answered in 1-2 sentences, and that while additional context was welcome, the form had a 1,250 character limit for each question (approximately 200 words).
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Resource Document: Additional background information was provided via a resource document.
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Participation: Surveys were sent to all City of LA candidates qualified to appear on the ballot. This is a very busy time for candidates, so we appreciate everyone who made time to respond. Please avoid reading too much into a candidate’s lack of participation. We respect the limited bandwidth campaigns have, and it's possible that our request(s) may have been lost in their inbox.
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Background: The City of Los Angeles is undergoing the first comprehensive review of our city’s governance structure in 27 years. The Charter Reform Commission recently transmitted a report containing over 60 recommendations to the City Council, who will soon be deciding what will be sent to the November ballot for potential approval by voters.
I support the LA City Council expansion from 15 to 25 seats, ranked-choice voting, and stripping appointment powers of the Ethnic Commission away from the LA Mayor and City Council.
I am concerned about the proposal to split the LA City Attorney’s Office into a civil branch and an elected criminal prosecutor, changes to mayoral power that can lead to corruption, and separation of the LA City Controller’s responsibilities that the corrupted elected officials have been trying to prevent Kenneth Mejia so they can hide funds from us and put our taxpayers’ money into their own corrupted pockets!
I think potential charter reforms that should be included in the Commission are to require the elected officials and members of LA City government to ensure real transparency and accountability just like Kenneth Mejia, and must align and work with the people instead of pretending to resolve the issues or ignoring the issues.
Yes, I support the recommendation of the expansion of the LA City Council, so we would be able to hear different perspectives from many different LA City Councilmembers. We should have more than just 15 LA Citu Councilmembers since LA is one of the largest cities across the U.S.
No, I do not support this recommendation because we need to identify the top two candidates from the primary who will advance to the general election to decide which one of the top two candidates should be elected as LA Mayor, especially when we have multiple candidates running all at once just to split the votes, which may be inaccurate since many people favor some specific candidates, then they will decide whether to favor a runoff candidate or not just to make sure if they are satisfied or not.
Yes, I support this recommendation for expanding voting rights to 16 to 17 year olds, especially when they are in high school or college. Those who are 16 to 17 year old should also vote for our local municipal elections, especially most of my fans are from high school who are interested in voting since voting is usual in schools and different from gambling or alcohol.