Mayoral Candidates

Apr 10 2013

Calls out mayoral candidates

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa made “daring to dream” a theme for his final state of the city address, which he also used to challenge the candidates running to succeed him to focus more on education.

The outgoing mayor, whose successor will be sworn in July 1, burnished the achievements of his nearly eight years in office, while also urging the candidates looking to replace him to make education policy a “bigger” and “bolder” part of their campaigns.

Mar 6 2013

May 21

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—City Councilman Eric Garcetti and City Controller Wendy Greuel, who led the field of mayoral candidates in fundraising, were preparing today for a May 21 runoff in the race to become the city’s next chief executive.

The results of Tuesday’s primary election went pretty much as expected, with Garcetti and Greuel jumping to early leads in the eight-candidate race and never relenting, but both falling short of the 50 percent of the vote needed to avoid a runoff.

Mar 5 2013

Zine, Garcetti, Perry, Alarcon, Reyes and Rosendahl are all out

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The Los Angeles City Council will undergo a major facelift beginning today as voters in eight of the panel’s 15 districts choose representatives from candidate fields as small as two and as large as 12.

With council members Dennis Zine, Eric Garcetti, Jan Perry, Richard Alarcon and Ed Reyes termed out, and Bill Rosendahl opting not to seek re-election, the race will usher in an unusually high number of new members—but not all the faces will be completely new.

Feb 27 2013

Emanuel Alberto Pleitez

CANOGA PARK, Calif.—Emanuel Alberto Pleitez will begin the get-out-the-vote efforts of his campaign for mayor today by starting a six-day, 100-mile running and bicycling trip across Los Angeles.

Pleitez will travel the 15.4 miles from the Canoga Park Community Center to Mestizo Restaurant in Mission Hills today in three hours.

Lavenia Stewart  |   OW Contributor
Feb 7 2013

Job training, local hiring, more contracting with women and minorities seen as key

If any job is better than no job, is it equally true that any employer is better than no employer?

To the community organizations and labor union members sponsoring the South L.A. mayoral candidate forum last week at Ward A.M.E. Church near USC, the answer was a resounding “no.”

The discussion, which focused on the candidates’ vision for South Los Angeles also included talks about ways to force banks to take care of their neglected foreclosed properties and ways to break the school-to-prison pipeline.

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.