Jan Perry
Jan Perry was a member of the Los Angeles City Council in California, representing District 9. Perry assumed office in 2001. Perry left office in 2013.
Perry (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 37th Congressional District. Perry lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Biography
Jan Perry's career experience includes working as the executive director of the Infrastructure Funding Alliance and the general manager of the Economic and Workforce Development Department (EWDD).[1][2]
Elections
2022
See also: California's 37th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 37
Sydney Kamlager-Dove defeated Jan Perry in the general election for U.S. House California District 37 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D) | 64.0 | 84,338 | |
| Jan Perry (D) | 36.0 | 47,542 | ||
| Total votes: 131,880 | ||||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 37
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House California District 37 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D) | 43.7 | 42,628 | |
| ✔ | Jan Perry (D) | 18.5 | 17,993 | |
| Daniel Lee (D) | 17.9 | 17,414 | ||
| Sandra Mendoza (D) | 8.2 | 8,017 | ||
| Chris Champion (R) | 5.6 | 5,469 | ||
| Baltazar Fedalizo (R) | 3.6 | 3,520 | ||
| Michael Shure (D) | 2.5 | 2,469 | ||
| Total votes: 97,510 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jamaal Gulledge (D)
2020
See also: Municipal elections in Los Angeles County, California (2020)
General election
General election for Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors District 2
Holly Mitchell defeated Herb Wesson Jr. in the general election for Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors District 2 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Holly Mitchell (Nonpartisan) | 60.6 | 387,930 | |
| Herb Wesson Jr. (Nonpartisan) | 39.4 | 252,545 | ||
| Total votes: 640,475 | ||||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors District 2
The following candidates ran in the primary for Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors District 2 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Herb Wesson Jr. (Nonpartisan) | 29.9 | 90,597 | |
| ✔ | Holly Mitchell (Nonpartisan) | 29.0 | 87,914 | |
| Jan Perry (Nonpartisan) | 11.9 | 36,099 | ||
| Albert Robles (Nonpartisan) | 10.7 | 32,305 | ||
| Jorge Nuno (Nonpartisan) | 6.6 | 19,850 | ||
| Jake Jeong (Nonpartisan) | 6.4 | 19,511 | ||
| Rene Rigard (Nonpartisan) | 5.4 | 16,452 | ||
| Total votes: 302,728 | ||||
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2013
- See also: Los Angeles mayoral election, 2013
| Mayor of Los Angeles, Primary Election, 2013 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan |  Eric Garcetti |
33.1% | 121,930 | |
| Nonpartisan | Wendy Greuel |
29% | 106,748 | |
| Nonpartisan | Kevin James | 16.3% | 60,154 | |
| Nonpartisan | Jan Perry | 15.9% | 58,472 | |
| Nonpartisan | Emanuel Pleitez | 4.1% | 15,263 | |
| Nonpartisan | Norton Sandler | 0.5% | 2,002 | |
| Nonpartisan | Addie M. Miller | 0.5% | 1,810 | |
| Nonpartisan | Yehuda "Yj" Draiman | 0.4% | 1,543 | |
| Total Votes | 367,922 | |||
Issues
Pension reform:
At a campaign forum held in Koreatown on November 14, Perry opposed a City of Los Angeles Pension Reform Initiative. The pension reform measure, which did not ultimately make the ballot, was sponsored by former mayor Richard Riordan.[3] Garcetti and Greuel also opposed the Riordan plan, while Kevin James supported it.[4]
With respect to Riordan's plan, Perry said, "I think converting from pensions to a 401(k) is a highly risky proposition that could back money out of the general fund."[4]
Sales tax:
Perry opposed the City of Los Angeles Sales Tax Increase that was on the March 5, 2013, ballot.
If approved, the sales tax would have increased by half-a-cent on the purchase of goods and services made within the city.[5]
Perry said that she planned to focus on her opposition to the sales tax as "one of her speaking points" during her campaign.[6]
Redistricting:
Perry was opposed to the way that the boundaries of the Los Angeles City Council districts were changed after the 2010 census, saying, "It was transactional politics at its worst."[6]
Campaign fundraising
Through December 31, 2012, Perry had raised slightly over $2.2 million for her campaign, including matching funds. This put her in a distant third in the campaign's fundraising horserace, coming in behind Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel, who had each raised about $4 million by the end of 2012.[7][8]
This chart shows fundraising totals for the mayoral election's "Big 5" candidates through February 27, 2013:
| Candidate | Contributions rec'd | Expenses | Cash on hand | Matching funds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eric Garcetti | $4,341,755 | $4,958,067 | $249,988 | $667,000 |
| Wendy Greuel | $4,400,365 | $4,935,141 | $327,245 | $667,000 |
| Jan Perry | $1,591,529 | $2,142,366 | $101,898 | $667,000 |
| Kevin James | $444,328 | $732,843 | $33,878 | $266,986 |
| Emanuel Pleitez | $252,618 | $554,128 | $64,118 | $299,265 |
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jan Perry did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign website
Perry's campaign website stated the following:
| “ |
Affordable Housing Our current housing crisis has been decades in the making, and responding to it has been my top priority. I have aggressively worked with non profit housing developers to build housing and to develop policies to expedite construction. If you’re serious about helping people and achieving true social justice we have to meet people’s basic needs. We’re way behind on production of housing for people starting out with their lives – for millennials who are facing the prospect of not doing as well as their parents or for a population that is living longer and might need more housing with support services on site. From my perspective as an executive director for a small nonprofit that engages in infrastructure and economic development projects, we should be bundling economic development incentives to streamline everything from a state perspective. That way, you not only reform their process for incentivizing people to come in and build housing, but you also do it in a way that mobilizes a very effective economic development strategy that doesn’t take away local control. It’s not about needing to be the alpha dog in the situation, but to get housing built.
Having built and defined a path for many communities I know that listening to and interpreting the needs of people creates opportunities for residents and positive outcomes for neighborhoods. The foundation of improving and empowering a community is to recognize this with understanding and sensitivity to history and legacy. Planning is a fluid concept that never stops – planning ahead to take care of people who are aging, young people who need a start in life and everything in between. As communities expanded and contracted people were able to establish themselves and move forward with their families. If you tear up the very fabric and very basis of a community – single family homes where people have built up equity and created a path to intergenerational wealth -you begin to destroy the community. Then, land speculators come in, acquire property, and flip it. In order to create a level playing field and pursue a true agenda of social justice you have to have the ability to meet people where they are. That is to empower them to use the equity built up in the properties their parents acquired after WWII and to make sure that equity remains in the community and is not lost to speculators or predators.
For nearly two decades, from inside and outside the system, I’ve continued to push for more housing. I’ve been the voice that said we’ve got to build more, we need to move faster to get people off the street and into emergency, transitional and permanent housing. As councilwoman, I built 5670 units with great urgency. I have the knowledge to continue to respond in the midst of a crisis that is still ongoing. I can do much more. I have always seen the homeless challenge as multifaceted. It is a public health, mental health service, human resource, housing, and a basic human rights challenge both for the homeless and those coping with the issue. Most importantly it is a countrywide issue. For us to impact the homeless population it is going to take a huge effort that must include full government engagement in the issue. As one of the greatest examples of expedited construction, The Star Apartments, was built on top of an existing county building. Site control was made quicker. Through means of traditional and non traditional construction techniques the building was constructed and ready for occupancy in record time. Portions of the building were constructed offsite in a modular fashion and then brought to the location at 6th and Wall and put in place.
Residents of the 37th District need affordable health and mental health care to become a priority again in Washington. They need health resources to be there when they need them. With over 30 years experience in the public sector, I know what it takes to serve communities with disparate interests. From 2001 to 2013, I served as a City Councilwoman in Los Angeles. My record still stands as someone who delivered for my constituents. Those 12 years were scandal-free with the focus on growth and services for my council district, along with the significant rebirth of downtown Los Angeles.
The creation of good public policy is a foundation and a place to begin. Nothing gets done in a vacuum. The only way to be relevant is to listen to what people say, understand what they need and make an all out effort to fulfill their dreams. I have the lived experience to bring dreams into reality based on a background of action in planning and land use, legislative development, community organizing, finance and a deep well of understanding of social issues. The development of good public policy is a constant evolving process that should be fueled by the passion to always do better. As an example I coauthored Proposition O, a clean water bond, which was designed not only to protect the environment and our water source but to rebuild our infrastructure. It enabled me to create a multi use facility that brought 2 wetlands that I developed in South Los Angeles where previously there was blight now sits two wetlands at Slauson and Compton and the other at for the benefit of communities in those areas.
In our country conversations that we needed to have are finally taking place. There have been many times that I felt as if I was howling in the wind and that no one was listening. This is our time of reckoning and our chance to get it right. In a county where Blacks are less than 10% of the population but over 50% of the homeless clearly there is more work to be done. In a country where Black people are being shot at an alarming rate the roadmap for public safety needs to be rewritten. In a country where income inequality, wage disparity, no safety net for healthcare it’s clear our work is unfinished. While the Black experience may be the litmus test for how this country treats its people we are not alone in facing those challenges. If we truly stand for social justice all we need do is grab the very issues that are right in front of us every single day and turn them in a new direction.[9] |
” |
| —Jan Perry's campaign website (2022)[10] | ||
2020
Jan Perry did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
See also
2022 Elections
External links
References
- ↑ Jan Perry, "About," accessed June 9, 2022
- ↑ Office of the Los Angeles Mayor, "Mayor Garcetti announces that Jan Perry, General Manager of the Economic and Workforce Development Department, is stepping down," accessed June 9, 2022
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, "Riordan agrees to debates over city retirement benefits plan," November 15, 2012
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Los Angeles Times, "L.A. mayoral candidates debate Riordan pension overhaul plan," November 15, 2012
- ↑ Los Angeles Daily News, "Los Angeles City Council votes to put sales tax hike on March ballot," November 13, 2012
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Los Angeles Daily News, "Los Angeles mayoral candidates unite against proposed sales tax hike," November 14, 2012
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, "Greuel, Garcetti campaigns for L.A. mayor are ahead in fundraising," January 10, 2013
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, "Eric Garcetti edges Wendy Greuel in L.A. mayoral race fundraising," October 11, 2012
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Jan Perry, “Issues,” accessed May 24, 2022
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