Mayor Sam Candidate Endorsements: Split Decision for CD8

This is the next in a series of posts where JoeB and I will give our endorsements for candidates for LA City Council and School Board. Where there is agreement we will give the official MayorSam endorsement to the candidate. Next up is CD8. For each post we will give both Joe's endorsement and mine along with our comments. The choices in CD8 are:

MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL, DISTRICT NO. 8

• FORESCEE HOGAN-ROWLES, Community Development CEO
• BERNARD C. PARKS, Los Angeles City Councilmember
• JABARI S. JUMAANE, Los Angeles City Firefighter
• None
• Other:

JoeB: Jabari, simply because he's not Bernard Parks or Forescee Hogan-Rowles.

Michael Higby: Bernard Parks is no doubt an old school political warrior who we once called Bitter Bernie. But Parks over the years has earned our respect with his calls for fiscal restraint and general pro-small business orientation. Still, he makes mistakes like siding with Hamburger Jan Perry on her goofy fast food ban, but he deserves re-election. More importantly his primary opponent is an ethically challenged IBEW stooge. We defeated one of those in CD2; CD8 deserves that too.

Verdict: One for Jabari Jumaane, One for Bernie