2026 City Council Election

GOOGLE: nope, nothing to see here

How many elections have we heard Laguna residents say " Accountability, Transparency, Representation, Residents First" and Council candidates echo the same?  Election rhetoric are just words, they do not address issues like Lagna's abysmal traffic safety record.

Laguna's government has structural failures, without city policy enforcement and consequences it matters little who occupies those council seats. So what do these new candidates bring to their position to repair the damage?  

The challengers and their campaign sites are:

Nick Aronoff    nickforlaguna.com 
    
Edward Bayuk   electedwardbayuk.com      

Joy Berry    joy4laguna.com     

Ashley Cintas    ashleyforlaguna.com   

Karen Martin    karenmartin4laguna.com  

What platform are these candidates running on, what do they want to accomplish? Lets look at the 2026 candidacy websites for clues. In 2001 Residents established a list of Vision2030 GOALS for the City to accomplish. These are Keywords from the Vision2030 GOALS for citywide mobility:

citywide transit system OR urban design PCH OR urban design South Coast Highway OR livable communities analysis OR pedestrians OR bicycles OR pedestrian friendly (downtown) OR  effective parking strategy OR encourage bicycle use OR sustainable mobility  OR environmental stewardship OR marine sanctuary OR pacific corridor 

 These are Mobility Keywords from this Blog:

non-compliance OR circulation element OR complete streets OR  AB-1358 OR general plan OR  state mandates OR office of traffic safety OR traffic safety OR collision record OR vision2030 OR mobility modes OR bicycle OR pedestrian friendly OR transit OR laguna streets OR light rail OR parking structures OR tourists OR vision framework OR residents first 

As confirmed by GOOGLE searches these keywords do not appear in the 2026 Candidates websites, this means the topic related to the keyword doesn't appear either. 

Here are results of those keyword searches.

RESULTS

Nick Aronoff
Mobility Keywords- 2
Vision2030 Goals- 0
    
Edward Bayuk 
Mobility Keywords- 0
Vision2030 Goals- 0

Joy Berry
Mobility Keywords- 0
Vision2030 Goals- 0    

Ashley Cintas
Mobility Keywords- 0
Vision2030 Goals- 0

Karen Martin
Mobility Keywords- 0
Vision2030 Goals- 0

Alex Rounaghi 
Mobility Keywords- 0
Vision2030 Goals- 0

The Incumbents are seated Council members and (Rounaghi the exception) do not have a campaign website to search. 

Should these challengers win a seat on City Council, these results make it clear the new council are not prepared to address Laguna's government structural failures, another term shall pass with no corrections. 

Sorry Laguna, no mobility improvement this decade, none the next.

-LS