Editorial: Voters in Los Angeles and California elected a wave of women (via latimesopinion)
Bass will take the helm of a city in desperate need of leadership. She will need to quickly show residents that she’s in charge and ready to make change.
The lack of women in city elected office is one reason Yaroslavsky decided to run for the 5th City Council district. Only one woman ever represented the district: Roz Wyman, who left office in 1965. Yaroslavsky, a longtime staffer for County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, wasn’t interested in running for office, until one day, sitting in a meeting, she realized she wanted to be at the table making the decisions. Now she’ll be part of a bloc of women on the City Council.
“Having a concentration of women, it’s a real opportunity to change the culture, change the tone and reset the idea of what it means to be effective,” she said. Political organizers have been laying the groundwork for this wave of women for years, with recruitment and training of would-be candidates. There was more opportunity this year, with an
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