Candidate for Los Angeles County 5th District Supervisor Embarks on Planned 300 Mile Walk

It’s a beautiful day for a walk.  On this day, one man, with friends walking side-by-side, will walk at least 10 miles.  Not for exercise.  Not to necessarily get somewhere.  Not to find his metaphorical center.  This man will walk in order to meet people.  This man will walk to understand.  This man will walk to learn.  This man is Billy Malone, candidate for Supervisor of the 5^th District in Los Angeles County, and he says he wants to walk 300 miles in your shoes.

Malone is taking a different approach to the normal political game.  Not just donning a suit, repeating the same thing over and over again, changing the rhetoric to suit the audience, he says the people in his district “aren’t game pieces…they have stories to tell, concerns to share and needs to be filled.”

Malone’s plan is to meet those people face-to-face, to literally walk where they walk by walking through each city in the district.  At least 10 miles a day for 30 days … 300 miles.

“This isn’t your usual precinct walk, knocking on doors of a targeted dense population or affluent neighborhoods,“ explains Malone.  “I’m walking through multiple precincts, it’s organic rather than based on voter demographics.  It’s a continuous walk, a true on-the-ground campaign to connect me with the every day 5^th District voter.”

Beginning in La Verne at the popular donut shop Miss Donuts, reaching as far north as Antelope Valley and as far east as Porter Ranch and ending in his hometown Altadena, Malone began his walk on April 12 and says he plans to complete it about May 12.

He hopes to walk through roughly four cities a day, stopping into local businesses and chatting with residents along the way.

Malone has already garnered attention and reactions from people he’s met on his first few days of walking.

“I’m meeting all kinds of people from every walk of life.  People are eager to discuss the issues that are on their mind and I’m eager to hear their concerns and take the people’s voices with me to county,” says Malone.

You can follow Billy Malone’s progress, including his mapped walks, on Instagram Billymalone2016 or on his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/billymaloneforsupervisor.