In a first, L.A.'s three citywide elected offices will all be held by Asian Americans
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Set us as preferred Last week’s midterm elections made history across the country, and Los Angeles was no exception: Asian Americans will now hold all three citywide elective offices — mayor, city attorney and controller — for the first time.Mayor-elect Nithya Raman came to the U.S.from India as a child.
City Atty.-elect Marissa Roy’s mother also emigrated from India.And City Controller Kenneth Mejia, who is Filipino, won reelection to a second four-year term in June.“This is a historic moment for the nation and certainly for our city and state, and for [Asian American and Pacific Islander] communities,” said Manjusha P.
Kulkarni, executive director of the AAPI Equity Alliance, which advocates for resources and funding for the coalition of community organizations it represents.“We feel that the work that we’ve done across many decades has come to fruition in seeing progressive Asian American representation in our city.”Kulkarni noted that Asian American voters have trended more progressive over the decades, after years of being pigeonholed as largely conservative.
Raman and Roy were both endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, and Mejia was recommended by the leftist group.Across the country, voters made history at the ballot box: California voted in its first Latino governor, Texas elected its first Latina governor and Georgia will have its first Black female governor.
Michigan elected Abdul El-Sayed, who will become the first Muslim in the U.S.Senate.The two largest U.S.
cities will now be headed by South Asian Americans: New York City’s Zohran Mamdani, born to Indian parents, and Raman, who arrived from India to the U.S.at the age of 6.
Raman became the first Asian American woman and the first South Asian elected to the City Council when she won her seat in 2020.In her first address as ma...