51st Assembly District Candidates Forum in Echo Park

Sandra Cisneros Learning Academy at Mohawk Bend will host the event May 23. The event is open to the public, but Patch will also have a special question or two. Suggest what we should ask here.

The June 5 primary is upon us. And Echo Park and Silver Lake residents will get a chance to see the candidates for the 51st Assembly District in action. Arturo Chavez, Democrat; Jimmy Gomez, Democrat; Luis Lopez, Democrat; Oscar Gutierrez, Democrat; and Richard Friedberg, Independent will all participate in a candidates' forum at the Sandra Cisneros Learning Academy. It will take place on MaY 23 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Issues of interest to residents of the 51st District--which includes Echo Park, Angeleno Heights, Historic Filipinotown and Silver Lake--will be discussed, including children and education. The public is invited. Come with your own question or suggest one below, and we may ask it that night. This forum is co-sponsored by the …

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Susan R

8:11 am on Friday, May 18, 2012

All 4 Democrats have the same beliefs. Richard Friedberg being the only one that is not a Democrat, what do you believe differently than the others? What would you do differently than the others?   more ›

Jan Perry for L.A. Mayor? See Her Questioned Today on a Live Video

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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Richard Core

3:10 pm on Friday, May 11, 2012

We have reached the end of the period for taking questions. Thank you to all who participated. I'll present selected questions to Councilwoman Perry on Tuesday at Cal-State Northridge.   more ›

New CD13 Candidate Could Be First Asian American on Council in 20 Years

BongHwan Kim, who heads the city agency that oversees neighborhood councils, entered a crowded field on Friday.

A Korean-American could become the first Asian-American on the Los Angeles City Council in 20 years. BongHwan Kim, the general manager of the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (DONE), filed papers Friday to run for the Thirteenth District seat that will open next year when Eric Garcetti terms out. DONE oversees the city's neighborhood councils, including budgeting and elections. Read Kim's bio here. "Government needs to do a better job of making sure that neighborhoods are more empowered," Kim said. "Working with neighborhoods is going to be one of the few ways that government is going to be able to survive these tough economic times, and I'm uniquely qualified to do that." A number of candidates have already entered the race, …

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Susan R

7:34 am on Tuesday, May 15, 2012

The person that will be elected is the ONLY person the public knows, the one that has been hands on, the only one that has worked hard for the district and that is Mitch.   more ›

BREAKING NEWS: Austin Beutner Dropping Out of the Mayor's Race

The L.A. Times quotes Beutner’s friends as saying he’s throwing in the towel.