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Your Taxes
Did you know the Palmdale City Council approved a measure on the ballot that eventually gave our city the highest sales tax of any city in California and the second highest in all of America?
Candidate for Palmdale City Council
Jeremiah Farrell
District 3
Why I'm Running
Palmdale Needs Change
Financial Mismanagement. Unwise Decisions. Not Prioritizing Palmdale. Not Respecting or Understanding Citizens' Rights. Political Grandstanding.
I love Palmdale. This is my home. But loving our city doesn't mean ignoring the problems at City Hall. Our residents deserve to know how decisions are being made, where their money is going, and whether their elected officials are actually putting Palmdale first.
Did You Know?
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Your Vote
Did you know they took away your right to vote for mayor?
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Your Tax Dollars
Did you know they just approved spending millions of your tax dollars, unnecessarily, to a business outside of Palmdale when they could have used a local company?
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City Spending
Did you know the City Council allows the City Manager to approve purchases and contracts up to $125,000 each—potentially allowing millions of your tax dollars to be spent without specific City Council approval or giving citizens an opportunity to weigh in beforehand?
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The $100,000 Logo
Did you know a recent City Manager spent $100,000 on a city logo from an out-of-state company that the city never even used?
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Political Grandstanding
Did you know that many of the past City Council meetings have been used by certain council members to platform themselves instead of doing what is best for Palmdale?
Core Principles
What I Stand For
Faith
Bringing Jesus Christ-centered values back to Palmdale and allowing those values to shape how I serve, lead, and make decisions.
Freedom
Stopping government overreach and standing up for our constitutionally protected rights.
Family
Encouraging and facilitating the traditional family structure and the holistic health of the most important unit in our society.
Fiscal Responsibility
Lowering taxes, cutting waste, and stopping the flow of local dollars to people and businesses in other cities.
About Me
I'm a Palmdale Local
I am a Palmdale local who understands local problems and solutions. I was born at AV Hospital and have lived here for decades.
I work locally as a teacher for various subjects including U.S. and world history, physical education, and archery. I also teach land surveying at the college level and work in the land surveying industry.
My heart is to serve my Lord Jesus, His Kingdom, my family and my community.
God has blessed me with relevant, refining and humbling experiences in areas including:
- Leading and loving my wife and children
- Military service
- Diplomatic protection
- Aid relief
- Missionary work
- Homeless outreach
- Youth ministry
- Teaching youth and adults
- Mapping local properties and infrastructure
My Goals for Palmdale
What I Intend to Do About It
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Become an Honorable and Trustworthy Entity
Become an honorable and trustworthy entity that puts what is best for Palmdale first.
- Bring our morals and Christian virtues back.
- Fight to keep tax dollars local, making local businesses the priority with city spending.
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Stop Wasting Your Money
Stop wasting your money with more unnecessary taxes and unwise spending.
- Audit city spending to reduce wasteful spending and keep the city accountable.
- Look into repealing Measure PD (the measure that gave us the highest sales tax in California).
- Explore options to bring unincorporated land into our city limits to potentially open up new land for development.
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Stop Wasting Your Time
Stop wasting your time by actively working to make the city run more efficiently
- Limit the political self-promotion and grandstanding that can dominate Council meetings.
- Bring in efficiency consultants to help the city do more with less.
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Stop Wasting Your Peace
Stop wasting your peace by making Palmdale a healthier and safer city for residents as well as a friendlier place for businesses.
Election Dates
- Election Day is November 3, but you can vote by mail earlier.
- All active registered voters will be mailed a ballot. County election officials will begin mailing ballots no later than October 5.
- Ballot Drop Boxes open starting October 6, with Vote Centers available beginning October 24 through Election Day, November 3.
District 3 Voter Information
How to Vote
Jeremiah is running in Palmdale City Council District 3. Only voters who live within District 3 may vote in this Council race. Use the official district map to verify your address.
Vote by Mail
Active registered voters are mailed a ballot that can be completed at home and returned by mail.
Ballot Drop Boxes
Completed vote-by-mail ballots may be placed in secure, official ballot drop boxes.
Vote in Person
Voters may cast a ballot in person or return a vote-by-mail ballot at designated voting locations.
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