Wednesday, May 16, 2012
See Los Angeles City Council member and mayoral candidate Jan Perry in conversation before a live audience at Cal-State Northridge.
(If video window doesn't appear, refresh the page.) Los Angeles City Council member Jan Perry cruised through a list of issues at Cal State Northridge Tuesday in the second of the "Talking About Los Angeles" series of interviews with mayoral candidates. Moderator Christine Essel, the CEO for the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency, started off the event by saying that she had known Perry for 20 years. Questioned by Essel, Perry touched on redevelopment, jobs, housing, transit, education, pensions and the city's budget deficit. Patch is a co-sponsor of the series, which was organized by the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, a Latino voter participation organization; and Cerrell Associates, a Los Angeles political …
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The city councilwoman will be the second mayoral candidate interviewed in the Talking About Los Angeles series. Questions from Patch readers will be presented to Perry.
A series of conversations with Los Angeles mayoral candidates continues Tuesday evening with an interview of Councilwoman Jan Perry that will be shown via a live video stream you can watch on this Patch site. The interview, the second in the "Talking About Los Angeles" series, begins at 5:30 p.m. before an audience in The Grand Salon of California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff St. (See attached PDF map.) If you would like to attend the event, you can register on the Talking About Los Angeles website. The moderator for the event will be Christine Essel, the CEO for Los Angeles’ Community Redevelopment Agency. She’s a former senior vice president of government and community affairs for Paramount Pictures and had been an …
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
The openly gay aspirant to the California Assembly says the president has officially shown his ‘full support for the full humanity’ of thousands of LGBT people in the 51st Assembly District.
President Obama’s historic endorsement Wednesday of gay marriage—a first by any U.S. president—has been hailed as a courageous “American value” by Luis Lopez, one of the four frontrunners in the race for California’s 51st Assembly District elections. Lopez, who is openly gay and lives in Eagle Rock, participated in an April 25 ‘'Meet the Candidates” forum at the Center for the Arts. He e-mailed Patch the following message in response to Obama’s support for same-sex couples: “I am immensely proud of our President today for making official his support for marriage equality. Casting aside fear and standing clearly on principle, President Obama has stated his full support for the full humanity of me and thousands of LGBT people in my district…
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
The wealthy investment banker is opting to spend more time with his family, according to the L.A. Times.
Monday, April 30, 2012
The fundraiser will be held at the club's Northeast 6027 York Blvd. headquarters on Saturday, May 12.
The following letter was submitted by Northeast Democratic Club member Venita Strange. The Northeast Democratic Club will host an art auction and sale to raise funds for the Obama/Biden 2012 re-election fund on Saturday, May 12. Admission to the 50's themed fundraiser is $20 and ticket holders will save 10% on purchases over $100. It will be held at the club's headquarters on 6027 York Blvd. from 4-8 p.m. The headquarters in 2008 were so successful that they decided to do it again. D.J. Dan Medina will provide lively music of the period. The beautiful design of the graphics advertising the event was designed by local artist Terri Lloyd. There will be old time sodas and candies donated by John Neese, owner of Galco's Soda Pop Shop. He has…
Shawn Richardson
12:52 pm on Wednesday, May 16, 2012
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