Gil Cedillo: Difference between revisions

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Gil Cedillo

|office = Member of the [[Los Angeles City Council]]<br>from the [[Los Angeles City Council District 1|1st]] district

|term_start = July 1, 2013

|predecessor = [[Ed Reyes]]

|state_assembly1 = California

|district1 = [[California's 45th State Assembly district|45th]]

|signature = Gil Cedillo signature.png

}}

 

 

== Early life and education ==

 

== Organized labor ==

 

== California State Assembly and State Senate ==

Cedillo won a special election on January 13, 1998, to the [[California State Assembly]]'s [[California's 46th State Assembly district|46th district]], and served there until 2002.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://rrcc.co.la.ca.us/elect/98011327/rr1327b.html|title=County of Los Angeles Department of Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Official Election Returns January 13, 1998 - 46th State Assembly Special Runoff|website=rrcc.co.la.ca.us|access-date=2017-08-15}}</ref>

 

=== Driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants ===

{{further|Driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants in the United States}}

Cedillo tried nine times, since 1998, to get bills passed in the [[California State Legislature]] that would allow [[illegal immigration to the United States|undocumented immigrants]] in California to obtain [[driver's licenses in the United States|driver's license]]s. In 2001 and 2002 [[Governor of California|Governor]] [[Gray Davis]] vetoed two of Cedillo's bills that would have permitted this.{{Citation needed|date=October 2009}} In the midst of the [[2003 California recall|2003 recall election]], Davis backed and signed SB&nbsp;60 (2003), Cedillo's driver's license bill.<ref>[http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/09/06/MN308713] {{dead link|date=August 2010|bot=RjwilmsiBot}}</ref> {{Citation needed|date=May 2014}} After Davis was recalled and [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] became governor, the state legislature, with Schwarzenegger's support, repealed the new law before it went into effect.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/12/02/california.license/index.html | work=CNN | title=Schwarzenegger scores victory in repeal of license law | date=December 2, 2003 | access-date=May 3, 2010}}</ref> Senator Cedillo agreed to repeal the law he wrote under the agreement with the Governor to work on a bipartisan bill. In 2004, Schwarzenegger vetoed AB&nbsp;2895, an identical bill to Senator Cedillo's SB&nbsp;1160 that stalled in the legislature, saying that it did not meet his security concerns. The governor wanted a "marked license" that was identifiable.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=3ce4dbd6fa989d7d540108f9ac4fcfb2 |title=Pacific News Service > News > on Latino Minds: Schwarzenegger Can Handle Politics |access-date=2007-10-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051230221743/http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=3ce4dbd6fa989d7d540108f9ac4fcfb2 |archive-date=2005-12-30 }}</ref> AB&nbsp;2895 was introduced to the legislature by one of Cedillo's closest allies, Speaker of the Assembly [[Fabian Núñez]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/NUNEZ+RELENTS+ON+LICENSES+SPEAKER+SAYS+HE'D+ALLOW+SPECIAL+DESIGNATION-a0122483002|title=NUNEZ RELENTS ON LICENSES SPEAKER SAYS HE'D ALLOW SPECIAL DESIGNATION. - Free Online Library|website=Thefreelibrary.com}}</ref>

 

In 2010, Cedillo attempted to reverse a pay cut approved by voters in 2009 for all 120 lawmakers (Prop. 25). Cedillo filed a claim in December 2010 with the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board seeking back pay for what he maintains were illegal pay and benefit cuts.<ref>{{cite web|last=Sanders|first=Jim|title=Cedillo's challenge to legislative pay cut is tentatively denied|url=http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/01/cedillo-pay-cut-challenge-suff.html|publisher=The Sacramento Bee|access-date=30 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140531105307/http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/01/cedillo-pay-cut-challenge-suff.html|archive-date=2014-05-31|url-status=dead}}</ref> His complaint stemmed from the 2009 decision by the California Citizens Compensation Commission to slash legislators' pay and benefits by 18 percent. The cut reduced their remuneration from [[US$]]116,208 to $95,291.

 

=== Elections ===

==== 2013 ====

 

==== 2022 ====

 

=== Tenure ===

involved with the construction of the [[Executive Order 13767|U.S.-Mexico border wall]] promised by President [[Donald Trump]] before being able to work with the City of Los Angeles.<ref name="cbsfirmsthatwant">{{cite news|url=http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2017/05/11/los-angeles-city-trump-border-wall-contractors/|title=Councilman: Firms That Want To Help Build Border Wall Should Not Work For City Of L.A.|date=May 11, 2017|work=CBS Los Angeles|access-date=May 12, 2017}}</ref>

 

 

==References==

*[http://www.gilcedillo.com/ Cedillo's Personal Website]

*[http://www.joincalifornia.com/candidate/6051 Join California Gil Cedillo]

 

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[[Category:1954 births]]

[[Category:Activists from California]]

[[Category:American politicians of Mexican descent]]

[[Category:American trade union leaders]]

[[Category:Hispanic and Latino American state legislators in California]]

[[Category:Los Angeles City Council members]]

[[Category:People's College of Law alumni]]

[[Category:University of California, Los Angeles alumni]]