As the young, progressive set watched the returns roll in, it became obvious that the second-largest city in America was taking a hard left turn.
Despite a significant fundraising advantage, Koretz, 67, trailed Mejia, 32, by more than 20 points early Wednesday.
Community activist Eunisses Hernandez unseated L.A. City Councilmember Gil Cedillo in June, but won’t take office until December. Soto-Martinez has been involved with DSA-LA since around 2018; the organization endorsed him in his bid for the City Council.to represent Council District 13 in which the two offered different views on police spending, the city’s response to homelessness and other issues.
“If we do buy rum, it has to be Bacardi because it’s [United Auto Workers] made, it’s union made,” Yoni Hirshberg, with the UAW, chimed in. Seeing his boss’ house at his first job and how little he himself was being paid — making “subminimum wage” — “catalyzed something in me,” he said. Suárez-Sikes is 26 and joined DSA-LA around three years ago.
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