One thing that pleases Harmatz about being the grand marshal is riding in a convertible. In fact, last year when it rained on the parade, someone suggested they put up the top, but Harmatz wanted it left down.
Proposition 77, the redistricting measure on next week\’s special elections ballot, is likely to shift considerably more Latino voters into Berman\’s district — and perhaps give rise to a viable Latino challenger.
The course is funded by the Middle East Teacher Resource Project, an arm of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). The Quaker organization has a long, honorable history of pacifism and aiding refugees (including this reporter\’s parents), but is considered by many in the Jewish community as leaning consistently toward a pro-Palestinian perspective.
The gap between Westside and Valley Jewish voters goes back at least to the busing controversy of the late 1970s.
Jews are attentive, high-propensity voters. Nearly one in five Los Angeles voters are Jewish (with only 6 percent of the population). If past history is a guide, however, the Jewish vote will play a more important role in the expected runoff between the two top candidates than in the multicandidate primary.
Just shy of 3 percent of California\’s population, Jews represent an estimated 5 percent of the state\’s registered voters. In a race that analysts predict will hinge on a minority of votes, a minority\’s voting bloc will be crucial.
He awoke from the nightmare with a scream, as he had every night for almost 40 years. His heart
raced, his body drenched in sweat, his mind filled with vivid images of fiery destruction. He saw rivulets of blood flowing through the streets of Jerusalem, the Holy Temple ground into ashes, the lifeless bodies of the priests scattered about the Temple Mount.
For years, a photograph of Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) was pinned to a wall in a basement office of the Capitol Police.
\”Face time\” finally got to Carol Cohen.
The 24-year-old business systems analyst is tired of corporate politics that value appearances over quality work. \”Some guys come in at 7 a.m. and think that makes them star employees,\” she says, \”They\’ll stay until 7 p.m., but still do not manage to complete two hours of work.\”
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