Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas declares victory in 10th District
4 years, 1 month ago

Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas declares victory in 10th District

LA Times  

Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas declared victory over attorney Grace Yoo in his race to represent a Koreatown-to-Crenshaw district on the Los Angeles City Council, setting the stage for a return to City Hall after an 18-year absence. In L.A.’s Silver Lake-to-Sherman Oaks district, urban planner Nithya Raman maintained a smaller but significant lead over City Councilman David Ryu, in a contest that has drawn nationwide attention from progressives looking to pull City Hall further to the left, according to the partial results. “Both of those were issues near to my heart.” L.A. City Council candidate Grace Yoo talks with resident Michael Turner on election day. Her campaign manager called Ryu’s focus on Raman’s supporters “cheap” and “distasteful” and said it was an attempt to distract voters from Raman’s deep grassroots support.

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Endorsement: Ysabel Jurado for Los Angeles City Council District 14
3 months, 1 week ago

Endorsement: Ysabel Jurado for Los Angeles City Council District 14

LA Times  

Voters in City Council District 14, which includes downtown, Boyle Heights, Eagle Rock and other communities on L.A.’s eastern flank, have a stark choice on Nov. 5. Jurado’s strong performance over better-known and better-funded politicians speaks to both her strength as a grassroots organizer and the community’s desire for a council representative who can restore trust and address an array …

Nithya Raman, Eunisses Hernandez and Hugo Soto-Martínez: Incumbent-busters
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Nithya Raman, Eunisses Hernandez and Hugo Soto-Martínez: Incumbent-busters

LA Times  

From left, L.A. City Councilmembers Eunisses Hernandez, Nithya Raman and Hugo Soto-Martínez, photographed at City Hall in downtown Los Angeles on Oct. 12. Nithya Raman — the first person to unseat an incumbent in 17 years — also won with more votes than any City Council candidate, ever. The answer became resoundingly clear in 2022, when Eunisses Hernandez and Hugo …

Editorial: Councilmember Nithya Raman’s reelection is a win for a more affordable, humane Los Angeles
9 months, 1 week ago

Editorial: Councilmember Nithya Raman’s reelection is a win for a more affordable, humane Los Angeles

LA Times  

After a bruising primary battle, Councilmember Nithya Raman has won outright her bid for a second term in Council District 4, an unwieldy stretch of the city from Silver Lake to the western San Fernando Valley. Her win is a reassuring sign of support for the progressive ideas about solving the homelessness and housing crises that Raman has championed and …

L.A. City Councilmember Nithya Raman wins reelection as Ethan Weaver concedes
9 months, 1 week ago

L.A. City Councilmember Nithya Raman wins reelection as Ethan Weaver concedes

LA Times  

Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman has won her bid for a second term, securing the majority vote needed to avoid a runoff in a district that straddles the Hollywood Hills. Raman thanked her supporters, her campaign volunteers and the district’s residents on Thursday, saying her conversations with voters during the campaign showed that the city is “full of hope …

De León, Raman pull ahead; other L.A. City Council incumbents take big leads
9 months, 2 weeks ago

De León, Raman pull ahead; other L.A. City Council incumbents take big leads

LA Times  

Two years ago, voters made clear they were exasperated with Los Angeles City Hall, unseating two incumbent council members and rejecting attempts by several others to win higher office. “This is just the beginning.” Fernando Guerra, director of the Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University, said he was surprised to see as many as three …

Your guide to the L.A. City Council District 12 race: Northwest San Fernando Valley
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Your guide to the L.A. City Council District 12 race: Northwest San Fernando Valley

LA Times  

Councilmember John Lee Lee’s central campaign message is that voters know him and like his moderate views. A onetime Republican who was first elected in 2019, Lee is now registered as “no party preference.” He regularly backs city policies that support businesses and policing. He was one of only two council members to vote against cutting the Los Angeles Police …

Endorsement: Reelect Nithya Raman to the Los Angeles City Council
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Endorsement: Reelect Nithya Raman to the Los Angeles City Council

LA Times  

Nithya Raman was a relative newcomer to Los Angeles city politics when she was elected to the City Council as a progressive in November 2020 — unseating a council incumbent for the first time in 17 years. She has been resourceful at obtaining city and state funds as well as using her own council discretionary funds to help house hundreds …

Imelda Padilla installed as temporary City Council member
1 year, 5 months ago

Imelda Padilla installed as temporary City Council member

LA Times  

Imelda Padilla, the assumed winner of the City Council District 6 race, right, is congratulated by council president and councilmember of District 2 Paul Krekorian during a council meeting Wednesday in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to install community advocate Imelda Padilla as a temporary voting member of the council following her win last week in …

Ridley-Thomas’ felony convictions dictate his removal from L.A. City Council
1 year, 8 months ago

Ridley-Thomas’ felony convictions dictate his removal from L.A. City Council

LA Times  

The City Charter calls for the removal of suspended L.A. City Councilmember Mark Ridley-Thomas after he was convicted of several felony counts. Veteran Los Angeles politician Mark Ridley-Thomas’ felony convictions bring new shock waves to a City Hall that had been settling into relative normalcy after months of upheaval. But after five days of deliberation, jurors found Ridley-Thomas guilty of …

L.A. on the Record: A new leader for LAHSA
1 year, 10 months ago

L.A. on the Record: A new leader for LAHSA

LA Times  

Good morning and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our City Hall newsletter. Public officials and services providers — even harsh critics of LAHSA — indicated broad excitement over the appointment, stemming mostly from Adams Kellum’s work in various communities on street homelessness. Mike Feuer, who dropped out of the L.A. mayor’s race last year after failing to gain …

L.A. city voters sent conflicting messages, giving wins to both the left and the center
2 years, 1 month ago

L.A. city voters sent conflicting messages, giving wins to both the left and the center

LA Times  

Los Angeles City Councilmember-elect Hugo Soto-Martinez is heading to City Hall with what he says is a clear mandate to enact bold, progressive policies on housing, homelessness, transportation and other issues. Political science professor Fernando Guerra, who heads the Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University, said two other down-ballot contests — city controller and city …

McOsker, Yaroslavsky, Soto-Martinez claim victory in their L.A. City Council races
2 years, 1 month ago

McOsker, Yaroslavsky, Soto-Martinez claim victory in their L.A. City Council races

LA Times  

Three candidates for Los Angeles City Council declared victory in their races on Tuesday, part of the biggest shakeup of the 15-member council in nearly a decade. Attorney Tim McOsker, a onetime aide to Mayor James Hahn, will return to City Hall after a 17-year absence, having prevailed in his race to succeed Los Angeles City Councilmember Joe Buscaino in …

L.A. voters poised to select new city attorney, controller
2 years, 1 month ago

L.A. voters poised to select new city attorney, controller

LA Times  

Top from left, L.A. city controller candidates Kenneth Mejia and Paul Koretz, and bottom from left, city attorney candidates Faisal Gill and Hydee Feldstein Soto. In the race for city attorney, finance law attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto was leading civil rights attorney Faisal Gill. Feldstein Soto also said tamping down corruption would be a priority if she was elected to …

LA Council faces uncertainty amid furor over racist remarks
2 years, 2 months ago

LA Council faces uncertainty amid furor over racist remarks

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Where does the Los Angeles City Council go from here? Martinez said in the recorded conversation that white Councilmember Mike Bonin handled his young Black son as if he were an “accessory” and said of his son “Parece changuito,” or “he’s like a monkey,” the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. She also referred to Bonin as a …

Endorsement: Danielle Sandoval for Los Angeles City Council
2 years, 3 months ago

Endorsement: Danielle Sandoval for Los Angeles City Council

LA Times  

Of the two candidates running to replace Councilman Joe Buscaino, Danielle Sandoval, a community activist and entrepreneur from Harbor City, is best positioned to advocate for all Angelenos and deliver real change on pressing issues from housing and homelessness to public safety and pollution. Update: In light of unresolved wage claims against Danielle Sandoval, the Times has changed its endorsement …

L.A. council fails to pick a replacement for Ridley-Thomas, exposing a divide at City Hall
2 years, 3 months ago

L.A. council fails to pick a replacement for Ridley-Thomas, exposing a divide at City Hall

LA Times  

Five L.A. City Council members blocked a vote on a proposal to name Heather Hutt, above, as the interim representative of the 10th District, sending it to a committee for review. Councilwoman-elect Eunisses Hernandez, who defeated Councilman Gil Cedillo in June but won’t be seated until December, also weighed in, saying the choice of an interim council member should not …

Column: How the fight over a City Council seat is tearing apart Black Los Angeles
2 years, 5 months ago

Column: How the fight over a City Council seat is tearing apart Black Los Angeles

LA Times  

Mark Ridley-Thomas, who is suspended from his position on the Los Angeles City Council, speaks to the press in 2020. For months, he and others with the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment have been trying to get help for hundreds of Black and Latino tenants living in slum-like conditions at the Chesapeake Apartments, a sprawling complex in the heart …

The Times Editorial Board's endorsements for June 7
2 years, 6 months ago

The Times Editorial Board's endorsements for June 7

LA Times  

Rep. Karen Bass, a candidate for L.A. mayor, attends an event with supporters at Elysian Park on May 27. LOS ANGELES CITY Mayor Karen Bass for Los Angeles mayor Bass is an extraordinarily qualified, battle-tested, mission-driven leader, and should be L.A.’s next mayor. Los Angeles City Council Eunisses Hernandez for City Council District 1 Policy advocate and community organizer Hernandez …

Endorsement: Danielle Sandoval for Los Angeles City Council District 15
2 years, 7 months ago

Endorsement: Danielle Sandoval for Los Angeles City Council District 15

LA Times  

City Council District 15 spans a disjointed collection of Los Angeles’ southernmost neighborhoods, from a slice of South L.A. that includes Watts to the slender Harbor Gateway down to Harbor City, Wilmington and San Pedro near the port. The candidate that is best poised to advocate for the entire district and against the status quo is Danielle Sandoval, a community …

L.A. Times electoral endorsements for 2022 June primary
2 years, 7 months ago

L.A. Times electoral endorsements for 2022 June primary

LA Times  

Mayor Karen Bass for Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass is an extraordinarily qualified, battle-tested, mission-driven leader, and should be L.A.’s next mayor. Los Angeles City Council Eunisses Hernandez for City Council District 1 Policy advocate and community organizer Eunisses Hernandez has a record of moving forward big, complicated systemic reforms. Katy Young Yaroslavsky for City Council District 5 Katy Young …

L.A. council president calls for Wesson to temporarily represent Ridley-Thomas’ district
2 years, 10 months ago

L.A. council president calls for Wesson to temporarily represent Ridley-Thomas’ district

LA Times  

Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez on Wednesday called for former Councilman Herb Wesson to return on a temporary basis, representing the South L.A. district that elected Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas a little more than a year ago. “The constituents of Council District 10 need a voting member who understands their community to represent them within council chambers.” The proposal, …

Ridley-Thomas’ district gets a caretaker, but no word on a voting member
3 years, 1 month ago

Ridley-Thomas’ district gets a caretaker, but no word on a voting member

LA Times  

After indicted Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas, above, was stripped of his duties, his chief of staff, Karly Katona, was named caretaker for the 10th District by Council President Nury Martinez. Two weeks after the Los Angeles City Council suspended Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas, it is unclear whether the City Council will appoint a voting member to fill the vacant district seat. Ridley-Thomas’ …

L.A. City Council votes to suspend Mark Ridley-Thomas amid federal charges
3 years, 2 months ago

L.A. City Council votes to suspend Mark Ridley-Thomas amid federal charges

LA Times  

City Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas, shown in 2020, has denied wrongdoing following his indictment on federal bribery and other charges. The council voted 11 to 3 to immediately suspend Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas, a veteran South Los Angeles politician who has been indicted on federal bribery, conspiracy and other charges. And I really don’t want to even have this come up.” Federal …

L.A.’s mayoral election is months away. But some are already unhappy with the choices
3 years, 4 months ago

L.A.’s mayoral election is months away. But some are already unhappy with the choices

LA Times  

Los Angeles City Atty. Meanwhile, on the city’s Eastside, neighborhood volunteer Genny Guerrero said she is disappointed with the lack of top-tier Latino and Latina candidates — and hopes De León will jump into the race. Karl Thurmond, who chairs Feuer’s campaign, said the city attorney “welcomes a spirited debate among a broad and diverse array of candidates.” Thurmond said …

Tim McOsker, former political aide and LAPD union lobbyist, launches bid for City Council
3 years, 9 months ago

Tim McOsker, former political aide and LAPD union lobbyist, launches bid for City Council

LA Times  

Former mayoral aide and police union lobbyist Tim McOsker, shown in November, says he will run for Los Angeles City Council in the district that includes the Port of Los Angeles. More recently, he has worked as an attorney and registered city lobbyist, representing such clients as the hotel industry and the Los Angeles Police Protective League, the union that …

2020 L.A. city council race: Raman vs. Ryu analysis
4 years, 1 month ago

2020 L.A. city council race: Raman vs. Ryu analysis

LA Times  

Urban planner Nithya Raman defeated Los Angeles City Councilman David Ryu last week, making her the first challenger to unseat an incumbent in 17 years. Los Angeles City Council District 4 results Nithya Raman 52.7% 68,575 votes David Ryu 47.3% 61,464 votes A look at preliminary block-by-block results shows how Raman built a winning coalition in Council District 4, an …

Urban planner Nithya Raman unseats Los Angeles City Councilman David Ryu
4 years, 1 month ago

Urban planner Nithya Raman unseats Los Angeles City Councilman David Ryu

LA Times  

Urban planner Nithya Raman, 39, is the first person in 17 years to unseat a member of the L.A. City Council. Los Angeles City Councilman David Ryu conceded defeat in his race for reelection against urban planner Nithya Raman on Friday, becoming the first council member in 17 years to be ousted by an opponent. In his concession statement, Councilman …

Nithya Raman inspires progressives as she holds significant lead in L.A. council race
4 years, 1 month ago

Nithya Raman inspires progressives as she holds significant lead in L.A. council race

LA Times  

When urban planner Nithya Raman launched her bid for Los Angeles City Council last year, she was best known in her neighborhood for helping homeless residents get meals, showers and other aid. “I hope you all paid very close attention to what happened in our city last night,” said Raman supporter Sophie Strauss, speaking during the council’s regular meeting. That …

In L.A. race, is this incumbent a ‘progressive fighter’ or a knockoff?
4 years, 4 months ago

In L.A. race, is this incumbent a ‘progressive fighter’ or a knockoff?

LA Times  

Los Angeles City Council candidates David Ryu and Nithya Raman are running to represent a district that stretches from Sherman Oaks to the Miracle Mile. “The political climate has shifted — I haven’t,” Ryu said, calling himself a “progressive fighter.” But as Ryu fights to keep his seat against Raman, he is clearly running a different campaign than five years …

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