WINNING: Torrance City Council Votes Down Kalani's "Pride" Resolution for 2025

 

Well, well, well!

Good work to all Torrance residents for speaking out against that disgusting resolution last year.

Your voice made the difference, and it scared some of the city councilmembers straight (pun intended?).

At the May 20th, 2025, city council meeting, Councilwoman Sharon Kalani, wanting to fit in with the liberal in-crowd in the city, once again asked for a motion of concurrence to bring forward a "Pride" resolution for the city of Torrance to recognize June as "Pride month."

Councilwoman Kalani is not thinking about the best interests of the community.

She is pushing a narrow, DEI-based agenda to please key sponsors or donors in the city, I imagine. She announced that she was thinking about running for mayor a few months ago. She says that she wants the city to get "back to business."

Since when is celebrating sexual perversion, exploitation, and dysfunction part of the business of Torrance? Since when is taking up city council business for a perverse resolution "getting back to business"?

Here's her attempt to push this agenda yet again at the May 20th, 2025 Torrance City Council meeting (from 1:47:40 to 1:49:40)

Councilman Kaji also felt the heat and saw the light. He should be ashamed of himself for supporting the resolution last year. I am aware that many people in the Japanese-American community criticized him for supporting the resolution. Finally, he got the message.

It was a pleasant surprise to see Councilman Sheikh abstain on the matter entirely. Last year, I contacted his peers at the Islamic Institute of Torrance, and I urged them to write to the city council and urge him to reject this resolution. That effort scared him off from going along with this destructive nonsense. Even Kalani-booster Jean Adelsman noticed this effort! (And she has started attacking Councilman Sheikh, too. Trouble in Torrance Democratic Paradise?)

For the record, I think it's particularly disturbing that Kalani talked about "rooting out all prejudice" in her bid for this resolution. Does she intend to exterminate all mankind? Whether some liberals want to accept it or not, prejudice is a sad fact of life in the human condition. Human beings bear grudges, lose their temper, have fits of rage, get angry without cause. We need to focus on curbing and preventing invidious discrimination, i.e. bad behavior, not bad thoughts. You don't invidious discrimination with resolutions, and some behaviors and ideologies should be discriminated against. Kalani says that she wants Torrance to be "inclusive for everyone." Does that include terrorists, sex offenders, and other miscreants, too?

Her desperation to get elected mayor has led to her pandering to more minute, limited interests in the city. She should consider the fate of Leilani Kimmel-Dagostino in Torrance elections 2014 and 2016, when she lobbied every interest group in the city, only to lose both times in her bid for city council. We dodged a bullet then, and let's hope the city dodges another "DEI" bullet in 2026 in the mayor's race, too.

Trouble in (Liberal) Torrance Paradise: Adelsman Turning on Asam Sheikh?

Is Take Back Torrance plotting to oust Councilman Sheikh?

Jean Adelsman is big mad because Torrance City Councilman Asam Sheikh put kids first and voted against the "pride" resolution earlier this year.

It sounds like she and other unrepentant liberals in town have their knives out for Asam in 2026!

She writes in her latest "Take Back Torrance" post:

Four offices will be on the ballot [in 2026]: Chen and Kaji have filed for re-election in 2026 and have identified candidates to run for District 5’s open seat (Mattucci will term out) and for District 3’s Asam Sheikh’s seat. That will be a repeat of 2024 when Chen and Kaji attempted to oust Lewis and also gain the open seat.

Lewis had been appointed and so had less than two years under her belt when she ran, but she was rewarded with re-election.

Sheikh may have a tougher time against a Chen-Kaji-backed opponent. He disappointed many – gay and straight – by his aligning with Chen on opposing Pride Month.

He disappointed many -- gay and straighht -- by his aligning with Chen on opposing Pride Month.

First of all, Councilwoman Kalani and the other three members who voted for the pride resolution should have aligned with Torrance voters, especially those in the audience, and rejected it.

Second, Councilman Sheikh clearly feared the outrage of his Muslim peers, many of whom attended the city council meeting to oppose the resolution. I am so grateful for their attendance.

Third, Sheikh sounds like his own man, even if he voted with Mayor Chen. He is not merely aligning himself with the mayor, although we know that Adelsman has as much of a targeted rancor against the mayor as anyone who opposes "Pride Month." The fixation on Mayor Chen is also disturbing, and her need to tie every "bad" vote to the mayor is unfair. Does she really think that Sheikh is a puppet of Chen?

Of course, the larger obsession that Torrance liberals have with pushing sexual perversion is disturbing. Why is there this obsession with normalizing a destructive behavior and false identities? And aren't there more pressing issues for the city to face, like ensuring that the budget and withstand the next economic downturn, or improving public safety?

Since when did "woke" ever benefit a city? Toyota, which was headquartered in Torrance, just backed out of all the Pride-Woke-DEI nonsense this week, and pledged to stay out of Pride parades. One would think that local governments would start getting the message, too.

I do think it's interesting that liberal outrage is lingering against Councilman Sheikh for doing the right thing (even if he had to be pressured to do it) in voting against the pride resolution. It will be interesting what happens in 2026, when Sheikh asks the voters for another term. Will he?