Several Black Officials Endorse Feinstein
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dianne Feinstein picked up the endorsements of dozens of Los Angeles-area black elected officials Friday and asserted that the next governor’s challenge will be “upward mobility of the minority communities.”
U.S. Rep. Mervyn M. Dymally (D-Compton), state Sen. Diane Watson (D-Los Angeles), Assemblywoman Gwen Moore (D-Los Angeles) and a smattering of local mayors, supervisors, council members and school board members gathered with Feinstein for a Crenshaw-area press conference.
Watson, in an angry rebuke at the former San Francisco mayor’s competitor, said an initiative sponsored by state Atty. Gen. John K. Van de Kamp to limit the terms of elected officials would sharply diminish the political power of blacks. “I have no illusions or delusions that he will be my governor,” she said.
Already working on Feinstein’s behalf is Assembly Speaker Willie Brown (D-San Francisco).
Two other powerful black elected officials--Mayor Tom Bradley and Assemblywoman Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles)--have declined to endorse a candidate.
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