Curren De Mille Price Jr.
2013 - Present
2026
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Curren De Mille Price Jr. is a member of the Los Angeles City Council in California, representing District 9. He assumed office in 2013. His current term ends on December 14, 2026.
Price won re-election to the Los Angeles City Council to represent District 9 in California outright in the primary on June 7, 2022, after the general election was canceled.
Before becoming a member of city council, Price was a Democratic member of the California State Senate, representing District 26 from 2009 to 2013. He had been a member of the California State Assembly from 2006 to 2009, prior to winning the Senate seat.[1]
Biography
Price earned a B.A. in political science from Stanford University in 1972 and a J.D. from the University of Santa Clara in 1976.
His professional experience includes working as the executive producer of Political Empowerment: The Black Vote & Implications for the Future, as the deputy of the Los Angeles City Council, as a consultant to the Small Business Development Center, and as a member on both the Los Angeles County Commission on Insurance and South Bay Governance Council, Metropolitan Transit Authority.[2]
Elections
2022
See also: City elections in Los Angeles, California (2022)
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Los Angeles City Council District 9
Incumbent Curren De Mille Price Jr. won election outright against Dulce Vasquez in the primary for Los Angeles City Council District 9 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Curren De Mille Price Jr. (Nonpartisan) | 66.1 | 8,286 | |
| Dulce Vasquez (Nonpartisan) | 33.9 | 4,242 | ||
| Total votes: 12,528 | ||||
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2017
The city of Los Angeles, California, held primary elections for mayor, eight city council seats, city attorney, and city controller on March 7, 2017. Three community college board of trustees seats were also up for general election on that date.
Most races where no candidate earned a majority (50% plus one) of the primary votes cast advanced to a general election on May 16, 2017. This rule did not apply to the community college board races, which were determined by a plurality winner in the March election.[3]
This election was the second impacted by Charter Amendment 1. Passed in March 2015, the amendment shifted city elections to even-numbered years beginning in 2020. As a result, officials elected in 2017 won special five-and-a-half year terms ending in 2022. Incumbent Curren De Mille Price Jr. defeated Jorge Nuno and Adriana Cabrera in the primary election for the District 9 seat on the Los Angeles City Council.[4]
| Los Angeles City Council, District 9 Primary Election, 2017 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Curren De Mille Price Jr. Incumbent |
62.96% | 6,565 |
| Jorge Nuno | 23.02% | 2,400 |
| Adriana Cabrera | 14.02% | 1,462 |
| Total Votes | 10,427 | |
| Source: Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "March 7, 2017, Election Results: Statement of Votes Cast," accessed May 22, 2017 | ||
2010
- See also: California State Senate elections, 2010
De Mille Price won re-election to the 26th District seat in 2010. He had no primary opposition. He defeated Republican Nachum Shifren, Libertarian Bob Weber, and Peace and Freedom Party's Cindy Varela Henderson in the November 2 general election.[5]
| California State Senate, District 26 General Election (2010) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidates | Votes | |||
|
Curren De Mille Price (D) |
151,733 | |||
| Nachum Shifren (R) | 25,728 | |||
| Bob Weber (L) | 4,882 | |||
| Cindy Varela Henderson (Peace and Freedom) | 4,293 | |||
2009
Price was a member of the California Assembly who ran in a special election for the position of California State Senate, District 26 in 2009. The term he was elected to expired in 2010.
Campaign themes
2022
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Legislative career
Committee assignments
2013-2014
At the beginning of the 2013 legislative session, De Mille Price served on the following committees:
| California committee assignments, 2013 |
|---|
| • Budget and Fiscal Review |
| • Business, Professions, and Economic Development, Chair |
| • Insurance |
| • Arts |
2011-2012
In the 2011-2012 legislative session, Price served on these committees:
| California committee assignments, 2011 |
|---|
| • Appropriations |
| • Arts, Chair |
| • Business, Professions, and Economic Development |
| • Education |
| • Insurance |
| • Public Safety |
2009-2010
In the 2009-2010 legislative session, Price served on these committees:
| California committee assignments, 2009 |
|---|
| • Appropriations |
| • Arts |
| • Banking, Finance and Insurance |
| • Budget and Fiscal Review |
| • Governmental Organization |
Legislative scorecard
Capitol Weekly, California's major weekly periodical covering the state legislature, publishes an annual legislative scorecard to pin down the political or ideological leanings of every member of the legislature based on how they voted on an assortment of bills in the most recent legislative session. The 2009 scores were based on votes on 19 bills, but did not include how legislators voted on the Proposition 1A (2009). On the scorecard, "100" is a perfect liberal score and "0" is a perfect conservative score.[6][7]
On the 2009 Capitol Weekly legislative scorecard, Price ranked as an 89.[8]
Noteworthy events
Charged with embezzlement, perjury, and conflict of interest (2023)
On June 13, 2023, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office charged Price with five counts of embezzlement, three counts of perjury, and two counts of conflict of interest.[9] The district attorney's office alleges that between 2019 and 2021, Price voted to approve projects from companies that were clients of his then-wife's consulting firm. It is also alleged that Price received $33,864.02 for medical premiums for his current wife, while still being legally married to his former wife.[10] The same day the charges were filed, Price stepped down from his position as council president pro tem and all of his committee assignments.[11]
Price released a statement responding to the allegations saying, "I am eager to respond both to the misguided charges that have been filed against me, and the unfair aspersions that have been cast upon my wife."[12]
The Rules, Elections, and Intergovernmental Relations Committee of the Los Angeles City Council has introduced a motion to suspend Price from the council.[13]
Campaign finance
2017
De Mille Price had received $422,817.73 in contributions and had made $336,344.08 in expenditures, leaving the campaign with $192,533.84 on hand as of reports available from the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission on February 27, 2017.[14]
2010
In 2010, Price raised $501,570 in contributions.[15]
His four largest contributors were:
| Donor | Amount |
|---|---|
| California State Pipe Trades Council | $15,600 |
| California Association Of Realtors | $15,600 |
| AT&T | $13,800 |
| Electrical Workers Local 18 | $8,000 |
Price raised more than $670,000 in campaign contributions to win the District 26 seat, approximately three times as much as any of his seven opponents. In addition to that amount, independent expenditures totaling $1.1 million were made on behalf of Price's candidacy from an assortment of groups including real estate agents, credit unions, Indian tribes, doctors, energy companies, insurers, tobacco companies, and prison guards.[16]
See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Candidate Los Angeles City Council District 9 |
Officeholder Los Angeles City Council District 9 |
Personal |
Footnotes
- ↑ Examiner.com, "Two California legislators quit," July 1, 2013
- ↑ The New Ninth, "About Councilman Price," accessed February 18, 2015
- ↑ Los Angeles Daily News, "A dozen hopefuls step up to the starting line for Los Angeles mayoral race," November 11, 2016
- ↑ City of Los Angeles City Clerk, "2017 Primary Nominating Election Candidates," December 16, 2016
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Official 2010 General election results," accessed March 13, 2014
- ↑ Capitol Weekly, "Capitol Weekly's Legislative Scorecard," December 17, 2009
- ↑ Fox and Hounds Daily, "Random Thoughts on the Political Scene," December 18, 2009
- ↑ Capitol Weekly, "2009 Capitol Weekly State Legislative Scorecard (Archived)," accessed March 13, 2014
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, "L.A. City Councilmember Curren Price charged with embezzlement and perjury," June 13, 2023
- ↑ Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles, The People of the State of California v. Curren De Mille Price, Jr," archived June 13, 2023
- ↑ ABC7 Eyewitness News, "LA City Councilman Curren Price charged with embezzlement, perjury, conflict of interest," June 14, 2023
- ↑ L.A. Watts Times, "Statement from Councilman Curren Price," June 22, 2023
- ↑ Los Angeles Office of the City Clerk, "Rules, Elections, and Intergovernmental Relations Committee - Jun 23, 2023 01:00 PM," June 23, 2023
- ↑ Los Angeles City Ethics Commission, "2017 City and LAUSD Elections," accessed February 27, 2017
- ↑ Follow the Money, "2010 contributions," accessed December 23, 2013
- ↑ Desert Sun, "State groups getting around donation caps," June 14, 2009 (dead link)
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