Council President Herb J. Wesson, Jr. has been serving the 10th Los Angeles City Council District and the people of Los Angeles for nearly 20 years. He started as the Chief of Staff of long-time 10th District Councilmember Nate Holden, then as Chief of Staff to Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, then as the elected representative of the 47th State Assembly District, and now as a Special Assistant to Supervisor Burke. While serving in the Assembly, he was unanimously elected as the 65th Speaker of the Assembly and served in that capacity from February 2002 until February 2004. He was the second African American to be elected Speaker of the California State Assembly, and one of only five African Americans in the nation to serve as Speaker of a state legislature. In 2003 and 2004 Ebony Magazine named him one of the 100+ Most Influential Black Americans.
Councilman Curren Price, CD 9 was elected to the California State Senate’s 26th Senatorial District to fill the vacancy left when Sen. Mark Ridley-Thomas was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in November 2008. He was first elected to the California State Assembly in 2006 and re-elected by an overwhelming margin to a second term in 2008.
Senator Price has earned a reputation as a thoughtful, principled, and effective leader. He is a strong advocate for investing in our public schools, empowering parents and challenging all students to meet higher academic standards. He seeks to give all Californians, regardless of income, the chance to go to college and develop the skills needed to succeed in today’s highly competitive workplace.
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Councilman Marqueece Harris Dawson, CD 8 was born and raised in South Los Angeles, until the early 1980s when he was uprooted. With the onset of the Crack Cocaine epidemic, his parents moved him and his younger brother out of the neighborhood as gang and police violence skyrocketed. Crestfallen to be torn away from “the village”, Marqueece made it his life’s work to make sure no other family feels it has to move out of South Los Angeles to keep their children safe.
Never forgetting his calling, he returned to South Los Angeles just after Morehouse College to work in the family Real Estate business. Here he acquired a working knowledge of neighborhoods, and the challenges presented by widespread joblessness, poverty, poor public services, and a decaying housing stock.
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