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2013 Los Angeles Mayoral Election
An election was held on March 5, 2013, to elect the Mayor of Los Angeles, mayor of Los Angeles. No candidate received a majority of the primary votes to be elected outright, and the top two finishers, Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel advanced to a runoff vote. On May 21, 2013, Garcetti was elected mayor with a majority of the votes in the runoff. Municipal elections in California are officially non-partisan but candidates receive support and endorsements from their respective parties or affiliated organizations. The Los Angeles County Republican Party endorsed Kevin James (broadcaster), Kevin James, the lone Republican in the field, while the Los Angeles County Democratic Party supported the candidacies of Garcetti, Greuel, Perry and Pleitez without making an endorsement. Incumbent mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was ineligible to run because of term limits. General election Candidates Declared * Yehuda "YJ" Draiman, businessman, member of the Northridge, Los Angeles, Northridge Eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two-round System
The two-round system (TRS or 2RS), sometimes called ballotage, top-two runoff, or two-round plurality, is a single-winner electoral system which aims to elect a member who has support of the majority of voters. The two-round system involves one or two rounds of choose-one voting, where the voter marks a single favorite candidate in each round. If no one has a majority of votes in the first round, the two candidates with the most votes in the first round move on to a second election (a second round of voting). The two-round system is in the family of plurality voting systems that also includes single-round plurality (FPP). Like instant-runoff (ranked-choice) voting and first past the post, it elects one winner. The two-round system first emerged in France and has since become the most common single-winner electoral system worldwide. Despite this, runoff-based rules like the two-round system and RCV have faced criticism from social choice theorists as a result of their suscep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles City Controller
The Los Angeles City Controller is an official in the government of the city of Los Angeles, California. The city controller is the paymaster and chief accounting officer of the city. Along with the Mayor of Los Angeles, mayor and the Los Angeles City Attorney, city attorney, the city controller is chosen by popular vote every four years. The position began in 1878 as the Los Angeles City Auditor. In the early days, the job included secretarial duties for the Los Angeles Common Council. Upon the re-election of John S. Myers in 1925, when the city approved a new charter, the name of the position was changed to City Controller. In 2000, another update to the city charter added the power and responsibility of conducting "performance audits" of departmental effectiveness. List of City Controllers ;City Auditor (1879–1925) ;City Controller (1925–present) References External links Official website of the City Controller {{Los Angeles Government Government of Los Angeles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zev Yaroslavsky
Zev Yaroslavsky (born December 21, 1948) is a politician from Los Angeles County, California. He was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from District 3, an affluent district which includes the San Fernando Valley, the Westside of Los Angeles and coastal areas between Venice and the Ventura County line. He was first elected to the board in 1994. Yaroslavsky served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 to 1994. During his tenure in Los Angeles politics, Yaroslavsky played an influential role in limiting housing construction and development in the city, leading a "slow-growth movement." Yaroslavsky argued in 1987 that Los Angeles had "filled up." He authored Proposition U, a successful 1986 ballot initiative, that the ''Los Angeles Times'' called "the largest one-shot effort to limit development in the city's history." In the 1990s, he blocked expansion of light rail into Santa Monica and authored Proposition A, a successful 1998 ballot initiative which pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California's 20th State Senate District
California's 20th senatorial district is one of 40 California California State Senate, State Senate districts. It is currently represented by of . District profile The district encompasses most of the San Fernando Valley section of northern Los Angeles, including Burbank, California, Burbank, Van Nuys, California, Van Nuys, Reseda, California, Reseda, Canoga Park, Tujunga, Los Angeles, Tujunga, Sun Valley, California, Sun Valley, Shadow Hills, Lake View Terrace, Arleta, California, Arleta, Panorama City, Los Angeles, Panorama City, Pacoima, California, Pacoima, Mission Hills, Los Angeles, Mission Hills, San Fernando, California, San Fernando, and Sylmar, California, Sylmar. Election results from statewide races List of senators representing the district 1851–1861: one seat 1860–1867: two seats 1867–1876: one seat 1876–1878: two seats 1880–present: one seat Election results 2018 2014 2010 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California State Senate
The California State Senate is the upper house of the California State Legislature (the lower house being the California State Assembly). The state senate convenes, along with the state assembly, at the California State Capitol in Sacramento. Neither house has expanded from the sizes set in the 1879 constitution, and each of the 40 state senators represents approximately 931,349 people. This is a higher number than that of any other state legislative house and than that of California's representatives in the United States House of Representatives, and each state senator represents more than the population of each of five U.S. states. In the current legislative session, the Democratic Party holds 30 out of the 40 seats, which constitutes a 75% majority, more than the two-thirds supermajority threshold of 27. History The 1849 constitution of California provided that the "number of Senators shall not be less than one third, nor more than one half of that of the members of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Padilla
Alejandro Padilla (born March 22, 1973) is an American politician serving as the Seniority in the United States Senate, senior United States Senate, United States senator from California, a seat he has held since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, Padilla served as the 30th Secretary of State of California, secretary of state of California from 2015 to 2021 and was a member of the California State Senate and the Los Angeles City Council. Governor of California, Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Padilla to the United States Senate after then-Senator Kamala Harris was elected Vice President of the United States, vice president of the United States; Harris, as the newly elected vice president and president of the Senate, swore Padilla in on January 20, 2021. In dual 2022 United States Senate elections in California, November 2022 elections, Padilla won a special election to complete Harris's term as well as election to a full Senate term, defeat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick J
Rick may refer to: People *Rick (given name), a list of people with the given name *Alan Rick (born 1976), Brazilian politician, journalist, pastor and television personality *Johannes Rick (1869–1946), Austrian-born Brazilian priest and mycologist; also his botanical author abbreviation *Marvin Rick (1901–1999), American middle-distance runner Units of measure *Rick, a quantity of firewood, related to a cord, in some parts of the US *Rick, a stack or pile of hay, grain or straw Other uses *Tropical Storm Rick (other) * ''Rick'' (film), a 2003 film starring Bill Pullman *RICK, stock ticker symbol for Rick's Cabaret International, Inc. See also *Richard (other) *Ricks (other) *Ricky (other) Ricky may refer to: Places * Říčky, a municipality and village in the Czech Republic *Říčky, a village and part of Orlické Podhůří in the Czech Republic * Říčky v Orlických horách, a municipality and village in the Czech Republic . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin Beutner
Austin Michael Beutner (born April 8, 1960) is an American businessman who served as Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent from May 1, 2018 to June 30, 2021. He previously served as the first deputy mayor of Los Angeles from 2010 through 2013, and briefly ran in the 2013 Los Angeles mayoral election. Prior to entering politics, Beutner was an investment banker and would later become the publisher and CEO of the ''Los Angeles Times'' and '' The San Diego Union-Tribune''. Life Early life and education Beutner was born in New York and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of German immigrants who came to the United States in the 1920s for economic opportunity. His mother was a schoolteacher and his father was a manufacturing engineer. His mother was Jewish and his father was Roman Catholic, although he did not find out that his father's family was Christian until he was an adult. He is a graduate of East Grand Rapids High School, and graduated from Dartmouth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialist Workers Party (United States)
The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a communist party in the United States. The SWP began as a group which, because it supported Leon Trotsky over Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, was expelled from the Communist Party USA. Since the 1930s, it has published '' The Militant'' as a weekly newspaper. It also maintains Pathfinder Press. Until the collapse of the Soviet Union, the SWP was the largest Trotskyist organization in the United States. During the 1960s and 1970s, the SWP and its youth wing, the Young Socialist Alliance, were the third-largest socialist organizations, after the Communist Party USA and Students for a Democratic Society. The SWP suffered many splits and its membership declined. The modern SWP is smaller than its progeny, such as the Trotskyist Socialist Alternative and the Marxist-Leninist Party for Socialism and Liberation. The SWP places a priority on "solidarity work" to aid strikes and is strongly supportive of Cuba. During the 2020s, the SWP has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spokeo
Spokeo is a people search website that aggregates data from online and offline sources. History Spokeo was founded in 2006 as a social media aggregator by four graduates from Stanford University — Mike Daly, Harrison Tang, Ray Chen, and Eric Liang. The four created the site in Tang's parents' basement. On November 5, 2006, the site officially launched, after attracting an initial round of angel investment in the "low hundreds of thousands" according to co-founder Ray Chen. With the growing dominance of Facebook, there was little demand for social media aggregators, so Spokeo adjusted its offerings to provide people's contact information as well. The site nearly failed during the 2008 financial crisis, forcing Tang and the other founders to get loans from their parents. Spokeo later evolved to become an information-gathering website that offers various options for finding information about people, including income, religion, spouse's name, credit status, the number of people in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emanuel Pleitez
Emanuel Alberto Pleitez (born December 15, 1982) is an American politician and investor, best known for his candidacy in the 2013 Los Angeles mayoral election."Emanuel Pleitez makes a long shot run for mayor" Merl, Jean (February 12, 2013). www.latimes.com"Emanuel Pleitez sprints to the finish in long-shot run for Los Angeles mayor" Slater, Grant (March 1, 2013). www.scpr.org Born and raised in South and East |
Los Angeles City Council District 9
Los Angeles's 9th City Council district is one of the fifteen districts in the Los Angeles City Council. It is currently represented by Democratic Party (United States), Democrat Curren Price since 2013 after winning an election to succeed Jan Perry, who ran for 2013 Los Angeles mayoral election, Mayor of Los Angeles that year. The district was created in 1925 after a new city charter was passed, which replaced the former "Plurality-at-large voting, at large" voting system for a nine-member council with a Single member constituency, district system with a 15-member council. The district has occupied the same general area since it was formed in 1925. With the city's changes in population, its western boundary has moved farther west to include much of Downtown. Geography The 9th formerly covered the entire core of Downtown Los Angeles, before redistricting divided it between the 9th and the Los Angeles's 14th City Council district, 14th District. The district's boundary continues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
