Word: agran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LAWRENCE A. AGRAN, born in 1945 inChicago, moved to Los Angeles with his familybefore he reached the age of one. He lived thereuntil he went to college at the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley--where his interest inpolitics first began...
...Agran moved to Irvine in 1973, and by 1978 hehad won a seat on the city council--where heserved until 1990, six of those years as mayor...
Many find it hard to believe that Agran, aliberal, succeeded politically for so long in "themost conservative bastion of America," says HowardAdler, chair of the Orange County Democratic Partyand Agran's long-time friend...
...Agran, who is Jewish, even accused DNC ChairRon Brown of being an anti Semite...
...wrote a letter to Ron Brown a few weeks agosaying that many of my supporters suspected myexclusion from debates might have someanti-Semitic basis," Agran says...