Local News in Brief : Assembly Candidate Files
Inglewood Councilman Daniel Tabor filed papers Wednesday to run for the 50th District seat of seven-term Assemblyman Curtis Tucker (D-Inglewood), the powerful Assembly Health Committee chairman who has consistently won reelection by huge margins.
Tabor, 32, a two-term city councilman, cast himself as a young candidate willing to offer a grass-roots leadership and said that Tucker has lost touch with his constituents.
Tucker, 69, has been referred to as “the elder statesman” and “the godfather” of the district, which includes Westchester, Inglewood, El Segundo and parts of South Los Angeles. He has been Health Committee chairman since 1983. When notified of Tabor’s candidacy, he said, “He is committing political suicide.”
Tabor, Inglewood’s first black councilman, works as the director of the United Way’s Crenshaw Corridor Underserved Communities Project.
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