Word: councilwoman
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While Republican efforts to blame Quayle's problems on the press found some public resonance, there was notably little enthusiasm for the man. "He would not have been my first choice, or my choice at all," said Los Angeles Councilwoman Joan Milke Flores, a Republican. "If we could change the nominee . . . well, I regret it all." The same polls that showed Bush pulling even with, or slightly ahead of, Michael Dukakis also indicated skepticism about Quayle. An NBC/Wall Street Journal survey last week found that, by 2 to 1, voters preferred Lloyd Bentsen over Quayle as President...
Perhaps. But it can prevent the assembly from making any decision. California's most pressing issues -- $1,800 car-insurance premiums, traffic gridlock, school funding -- are increasingly debated not in the legislature but in a swarm of ballot initiatives. Los Angeles Councilwoman Gloria Molina, a former assemblywoman and staff deputy to Brown, observes that "Willie is so obsessed with raising money to defend his Democratic majority that he forgets all about the Democratic agenda...
Sponsored by the K-School's Institute of Politics and the Journal of Hispanic Policy, the speakers included Mayor Xavier Suarez of Miami; Maria A. Berriozabal, a city councilwoman from San Antonio, Texas; Dr. Harry Pachon, executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials; and Willie Velasquez, executive director of the Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project...
...councilwoman said she was primarilyconcerned with the importance of women,particularly Hispanic women, as leaders...
Black leaders do not expect to see many extra police patrolling the beat in their districts. The L.A.P.D. has refused to make public how its forces are allotted. Councilwoman Gloria Molina claims that the department assigns police equally, whether the crime is the theft of a BMW in West Los Angeles or the killing of a black youngster in Watts. She has attached an amendment to the city budget to force Police Chief Daryl Gates to reveal his formula for deploying his forces...