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, sh

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lians (Krikorian, April 14, 1993, p. B1). She also advocated painting more police cars in the black-and-white paint scheme, giving them greater visibility and recognition as law enforcement vehicles (Krikorian, May 26, 1993, p. B1). In addition she advocated that more money and effort be spent on fighting gang crime and ensuring school safety. These positions, it has been argued, were primarily aimed at attracting more conservative voters (Russell, 1993, p. B2). Much of the focus of her campaign was on the issue of education and employment for the young people of the city. She felt that the source of the crime problems in the city could be dealt with if high school students were provided with greater opportunities once they left school. The rising crime rate was the result of limited employment opportunities for these individuals, and the limited employment opportunities were the result of inadequate preparation and training by the schools. In an interview given just before she left the School Board in 1991, she indicated that the employment situation had changed during the 1970s and 1980s and that a traditional high school education no longer prepared an individual for the modern job market. Additional instruction was neede
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