Runoff Election 5/19/2015
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Herb J. Wesson, Jr.
8,889 votes
63.3%
- Occupation: Los Angeles City Councilmember
- Lincoln University, BA
- Councilmember's Chief/Staff
- Supervisor's Chief/Staff
- California State Assembly 1998-2004 (Assembly Speaker 2002-2004)
- Los Angeles City Council 2005-Present (Council President 2012-Present)
- johnshallman@gmail.com
Priorities:
- Raising the Minimum Wage to fight poverty and stimulate our local economy
- Election Reform to boost citizen participation in our local elections
- Mass Transit/Economic Development and Jobs near the Exposition Light Rail Line and Crenshaw/LAX Light Rail Line
Grace Yoo
4,174 votes
29.7%
- Occupation: Community Organizer/Attorney
- Executive Director, Korean American Coalition
- Executive Director, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
- Vice President, Los Angeles Dept. of Transportation
- Attorney for Children in the Dependency Court
- J.D., Seton Hall University School of Law
- John Marshall High / UC Riverside - Political Science
- info@graceyoocd10.com
Priorities:
- To allocate the necessary funds to improve basic infrastructure, such as roads, sidewalks, and street lamps.
- To foster a business friendly environment with expedited city services.
- To improve the quality of life of the district residents; for example providing transparency to the West Adams drilling site
Delaney "Doc" Smith, M.D.
985 votes
7.0%
- Occupation: Physician/Lecturer/Theologian
- M.D. Degree Loyola Univ. Chicago
- Residency Trained Emergency Medicine
- Civil Surgeon For U.S. Governnment
- Opened First Urgent Care in LA 1983
- Former Cedars Sinai E.R. Staff Physician
- B.S. Xavier Pharm.D. USC Pharmacy Schools
- doc4la@gmail.com
Priorities:
- Decrease City Business Taxes as incentive for wage increases
- Stop Toilet to Tap system now used as drinking water in South LA and block expansion without voter appoval
- Stop Weed Shop proliferation [now over 400 in LA] and decriminalize drug use
Melvin R. Snell
(write-in)
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