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Re-Elect Councilman Nestor Valencia for Bell City Council

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Re-Elect Councilman Nestor Valencia for Bell City Council

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12/30/2023

02/01/2022

Join me this evening as founder of the Bell Resident Club. I will present to LAUSD parents on Civic Engagement at 6:20pm.

You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: Jan 31, 2022 05:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Legislative Learning Group

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12/24/2020

Mayor Saleh led and voted to displace families in the City of Bell, siding with callers saying that mobile homes were trashy. He is in the real estate business. Yet in this recent interview he says Metro should not be in business of demolishing homes and displacing residents. Last night that's what he did. He will say anything to get elected. Stand with us for Good Government and transparency. He was never transparent and doesn't share the gavel with council. That makes him like Trumpo.

12/22/2020

Yes. People do this. Criminals.

Bruce Bartman pretended to be his dead mom to cast a ballot for President Donald Trump, who lost the state anyway, prosecutors said.

03/05/2020

Dear friends and family,

What a campaign! Because of your support we got our message out to 4200 households, reasons to vote for qualified candidates, and we had our opponents working harder than ever. They did not expect that the election became "integrity vs underhandedness". They resorted to giving empty promises and deal-cutting that you should never make when running for public office. They violated public trust. They bullied older citizens inside the voting centers. They got caught on camera taking down our hard earned signs. On council business, they got caught holding damning public records until the day before elections. This is why I am concerned for our local government, and ran.

I received a call earlier today lamenting that my letter to the community as part of my campaign was received on Monday, and a little too late. They thought the mail service was being hijacked. But, I told them "no". I just did not have the funds to begin with. Yet, those who contributed were so generous. Many things are down to timing, and funds.

I did the best I could and made tough decisions to get the word out. Still, I now incurred a substantial campaign debt because it was just that important to me, planning that at least people would hold them accountable no matter the voting results. In doing so, the tree of truth was planted like all the trees we planted for "Chuck Standing" on Bell Avenue.

I am down 52 votes at the time I write to you. There are no regrets just lessons in finding and touching 53 more doors. Last night after the polls closed, I thanked many supporters. I especially thanked my eldest daughter Sarah in attendance. She has been with me fighting for good government and tansparency since she was four. Thank you very much to all of you. We keep looking forward and we don't end our commitment to the Bell Resident Club's mission and promise; Community First!

Yours very truly,
Nestor Enrique Valencia
City of Bell, Councilmember, Mayor (ret.)

03/03/2020

Election day! Help me watch over our taxes in Bell, and prioritize parks and community services. Love this community!

02/20/2020

The City of Bell has taken strides to become more transparent after its tumultuous corruption scandal of 2010 which led to the recall and removal of all five of

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About Me:

Council Member Nestor Enrique Valencia was born in Cihuatlán, Jalisco, Mexico. Through hard work and perseverance, his parents were able to bring their children to live with them, first to the City of Compton, then deciding to raise their family in the fine City of Bell. His father worked in the same factory until his retirement, and his mother worked at home raising five children. They instilled the foundation for education, hard work, honesty, a spiritual life, and above all, public community service.

Raised in Bell, Council Member, and former Mayor, Valencia has attended all the local public schools in the area and graduated from Bell Senior High School. He attended San Jose State University and earned a Baccalaureate of Science in Health Science with an emphasis in Health Care Management which has afforded him the opportunity to become an industry leader. He is currently employed with a large hospital operator in the City of Los Angeles. Mr. Valencia has owned his own consulting services business for several years specializing in managed care, administration, government affairs, communications, regulatory compliance, corporate and legislative communications, and contracting. Through his constant need to improve himself, he has attended various post graduate courses. These courses include the Harvard-Kennedy School of Executive Leadership, a course in Leadership, Action and Organizing, the University of Southern California, School of Public Policy, and a Municipal Management course from State of Utah University.

In March of 2011, Council Member Valencia was elected to the City of Bell Council after a very difficult period for the City. He was selected Mayor by his fellow council members in 2014, and then re-elected in 2015. He sat and served on various appointed regional government committees, Boards and districts:

· The Los Angeles Trust for Children’s Health (Supports the academic success of the 647,000 students of Los Angeles Unified School District by improving their Health.)

· Los Angeles County Sanitation District

· 710- Local Advisory Committee

· California Contract Cities Association

· Independent Cities Association

· League of California Cities

· Southern California Association of Governments (S**G)

His roots and love for the City of Bell, instilled a spirit of volunteerism in the public school site council and committees at all levels, including being elected as the Vice President of the Los Angeles Unified School District Advisory Committee. Other community engagements include:

· Past Board of Director to a local health care clinic providing family medicine.

· Past Treasurer for large local faith-based organization, raising funds to build a new church building.

· Co-Founding member and past director of finances of two national civic organizations.

· Co-Founder of an environmental and health care quality initiative group.

· Founder the Bell Resident Club (BRC), a grassroots community group, which was active before the Bell Scandal and through his executive and organizing skills, enabling the Los Angeles Times to write the initial “Bell Scandal” article, winning the Journalism Pulitzer Award.

· Soccer coach and other sports in the City of Bell’s recreational services program.

Because of this mother’s relentless drive to keep the family together, he, and his brothers and sister, entered the country undocumented to be with their father. He believes in “America the Beautiful”, and demonstrated to the country his compassion for immigrant children when he became the first Mayor in the country to welcome the immigrant children to a proposed shelter in the City of Bell. Also, he, along with county leaders, championed the cause for the homelessness, and lead the council and city to build permanent housing in the City of Bell.

As the Bell activist working for over four years, against the odds, to bring good government and transparency to the City of Bell, through his initiative, and his friends in the legislator, the Bell residents were returned taxes due to AB 900, introduced by now Senate President Pro-Tem Kevin De Leon. With much tenacity and passionate, he led Bell residents to understand what was happening to their city, and the importance of voting and civic engagement. He is proud that others took interest in his community work, and assisted him in the work. Before the scandal, he built a good following of interested parties, and executed strategies that exposed the Bell Scandal, including moonlighting as an amateur journalist under a pen name.

The Bell Resident Club continues to be the premier, independent grass roots civic society group in the City of Bell. As a co-leader to the BRC, he initiated and founded the annual and now academically prestigious “Master Teacher of the Year Award” for 15 schools serving the City of Bell students.

He is raising two beautiful and intelligent daughters who are attending local public schools. In his spare time, he plays on a competitive ice hockey team, although his real passion is surfing waves!