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Jackie Goldberg and the Los Angeles City Council

Jackie Goldberg and the Los Angeles City Council

This paper will discuss Jackie Goldberg and her views since her successful election campaign for the 13th District seat on the Los Angeles City Council. The paper will briefly discuss her background as an eight-year member of the Los Angeles Board of Education and will describe in more detail her political position and goals during the city council election and since taking office. Goldberg has been cited as a positive influence in the Los Angeles city government because she is the first openly gay individual to be elected to the city government. In addition, she represents traditional liberal values in a city which has just elected its first Republican mayor in two decades.

Jackie Goldberg first became politically active during her senior year of high school, when she picketed a restaurant that had no black employees and protested a housing development which treated whites and minorities differently. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the late 1960s, she was involved in the Free Speech student protest movement; it was this influence which helped shape her liberal political values. After teaching in the Compton Unified School District, she gained notoriety as a member of the Los Angeles Board of Education; she served on the Board for eight years, the last two as its president. In August of 1991 she decided no to run for re-election and returned as to the classroom as a teacher; at the same time, she served as the Children's Deputy in the office of County Supervisor Gloria Molina (Merl, 1991, p. M3). In late 1992, she declared her candidacy for the 13th District City Council seat, being vacated by Mike Woo after he decided to run for mayor of Los Angeles. Goldberg was one of three openly gay individuals who were running for the seat (Rainey, 1993, p. B1). With several candidates running for the 13th District seat, it was apparent from the beginning of ...

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Jackie Goldberg and the Los Angeles City Council. (1969, December 31). In LotsofEssays.com. Retrieved 11:08, March 29, 2024, from https://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1692412.html