- Efren Martinez, Democrat, small-business proprietor.
Martinez is a Marine veteran and has served as the chief director of the Florence-Firestone/Walnut Park Chamber of Commerce. He has credited his struggles with poverty rising up in South L.A. as his motivation for neighborhood activism.
If elected, Martinez has vowed to prioritize “neighborhood policing” that focuses on prevention and emphasizes optimistic interactions with regulation enforcement.
In 2020, Martinez ran in opposition to Jones-Sawyer in a good race, accumulating 42% of the vote, through which he loved the help of the California Correctional Peace Officers who opposed the incumbent’s felony justice reform efforts.
On this election, he has been endorsed by U.S. Reps. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank) and Robert Garcia (D-Lengthy Seaside) in addition to Democratic L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn.
- Sade Elhawary, Democrat, educator and neighborhood organizer.
Elhawary helped create the curriculum on the Nelson Mandela College for Social Justice in Brooklyn, N.Y., and has labored for the Group Coalition, a corporation devoted to the racially “exacerbated socioeconomic inequities” in South L.A. that was based by Mayor Karen Bass. She additionally labored on Bass’ mayoral marketing campaign in 2022.
She has named common healthcare, reproductive justice and fairness points comparable to equal pay and paid household depart as priorities if elected.
Along with Bass, her endorsements embrace Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Los Angeles), California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and a listing of influential labor unions together with the California Lecturers Assn.
- Greg Akili, Democrat, nonprofit director.
Akili is a longtime neighborhood organizer and co-founder of a labor union for home employees. He named restorative justice and the growth of “good-paying union jobs” as priorities of his marketing campaign.
He has obtained endorsements from labor chief Dolores Huerta and actor Danny Glover and has vowed to combat for the “working poor” if elected. In 2012, he unsuccessfully ran in opposition to Jones-Sawyer.
- Dulce Vasquez, Democrat, neighborhood council member.
Vasquez is an educator, neighborhood activist and Mexican immigrant. Ending gun violence, making certain reproductive freedom and investing in local weather change coverage are all priorities of her marketing campaign.
She is endorsed by Jones-Sawyer and former L..A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
In 2022, she unsuccessfully ran for the Los Angeles Metropolis Council.
- Tara Perry, Democrat, reparations advocate.
Perry is an activist and neighborhood organizer. She created Black Pact, a corporation devoted to opposing racism and securing reparations for the descendants of enslaved African Individuals.
Her marketing campaign platform features a dedication to “addressing historic injustices.”
In 2020, she unsuccessfully ran for the Los Angeles Metropolis Council.
