Familiar Faces Among Varied List of Clinton, Brown Delegates : Politics: Ed Edelman, Richard Katz are pledged to the Arkansas governor, who took all four Valley districts in the Democratic primary. His rival’s backers come from the party’s more liberal wing.

When Democratic Convention delegates gather in New York City in two weeks to nominate Bill Clinton for President, the San Fernando Valley area will be represented by a diverse array of 37 elected officials, campaign volunteers and party and labor activists.

The Arkansas governor, who carried each of the four Valley-based congressional districts in the June 2 primary, will command the loyalty of 13 delegates and four alternates. Former California Gov. Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown Jr., Clinton’s last remaining opponent, will have 14 Valley delegates and one alternate. Another five delegates are not committed to any candidate.

In general, Clinton’s backers are mainstream Democrats. These include figures such as Assemblyman Richard Katz (D-Sylmar), Los Angeles County Supervisor Ed Edelman and Judith Hirschberg, an Encino activist who is vice president of the National Women’s Political Caucus.

Brown’s supporters, meanwhile, tend to come from the party’s left wing. These include Los Angeles school board member Julie Korenstein, Valley Democratic Party Chairman Ed Burke and North Hills activist Deborah Taylor--all of whom had previously backed the Rev. Jesse Jackson in one or both of his 1984 and 1988 presidential bids.

In addition to the pledged delegates, Valley-area congressional Reps. Anthony C. Beilenson (D-Los Angeles), Howard L. Berman (D-Panorama City) and Henry A. Waxman (D-Los Angeles) will attend the convention at Madison Square Garden as elected and party officials serving as so-called “super delegates.”

Berman and Waxman endorsed Clinton late in the primary campaign; Beilenson recently did so as well.

Mary Ellen Early of Sherman Oaks, a veteran party activist, and Jean O’Leary of North Hollywood, a prominent gay and lesbian advocate, will also be super delegates. Both are members of the Democratic National Committee.

O’Leary has been an enthusiastic Clinton supporter throughout the primary season. In contrast, Early, who had hoped that New York Gov. Mario Cuomo would run, has yet to endorse the presumptive nominee. But once Clinton is nominated, she vowed, “I’ll be there swinging my pompons.”

“I’d like to see the party come together,” said Early, 40, who provides nursing computer support at Valley Presbyterian Hospital. “I’d like to see a good platform that the rest of the country can get behind. . . . I think we’ll have a certain degree of unity. How long it will last is anybody’s guess.”

Statewide, Clinton won 1,342,274 votes, or 47.5% of the total, and Brown, 1,135,721, or 40.2%, according to semiofficial results. Clinton won the four Valley-based districts with 45% to 50% of the vote in each. Brown, in contrast, tallied between 37.5% and 41.5%.

Overall, nine of Clinton’s 17 Valley delegates and alternates are women, as are nine of Brown’s 15. Party rules recommend a representative balance of women, minorities, gays and disabled people statewide.

Nationally, Clinton has more than enough delegates for a first-ballot nomination.

But he remains hobbled by early news accounts focusing on such “character” issues as alleged marital infidelity, his Vietnam War-era draft record and his integrity. Running behind undeclared independent candidate Ross Perot and President Bush in many polls, Clinton hopes for a windfall of favorable publicity from the nominating convention.

Uncertainty remains, however, about whether Brown and former Massachusetts Sen. Paul Tsongas--both of whom have not yet endorsed Clinton--will prompt dissension over the party platform and other issues. Moreover, Clinton’s recent public spat with Jesse Jackson, who figures to be active in New York, adds another element of drama.

“I have apprehensions about what’s going to happen as far as the divisions between Brown and Clinton and Jackson,” said Ellen Bruck of Woodland Hills, an airline maintenance worker, union representative and Clinton delegate. “People have to stifle or repress some personal feelings or ideals for the greater good. We have to look beyond our own noses.”

Among the best known of Clinton’s other Valley delegates are:

* Katz, chairman of the Assembly Transportation Committee and an expected 1993 Los Angeles mayoral candidate. First elected in the northeast Valley in 1980, he is considered a non-ideological moderate.

Katz’s wife, Gini Barrett, vice president for public affairs at the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, is a Clinton alternate.

* Edelman, an 18-year county supervisor who has represented the heart of the Valley since new court-ordered districts were adopted in 1991. Edelman was a delegate for Michael Dukakis in 1988.

* Hirschberg, an aide to Los Angeles City Councilman Marvin Braude and active participant in Democratic politics for three decades. This will be her first convention as a delegate.

Among Brown’s most prominent Valley-area delegates are:

* Korenstein, a former teacher who was first elected to the school board in 1987 with the strong support of the United Teachers-Los Angeles. She unsuccessfully ran to be a Jackson delegate in 1984.

* Burke, a Chatsworth High School government teacher and the Brown campaign’s Los Angeles County caucus coordinator. He was active in Jackson’s campaigns in 1984 and 1988 and served as a delegate in 1984.

* Taylor, a member of the county central committee and head of Brown’s state steering committee. Taylor is a special assistant to Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina and longtime Democratic player. She supported Jackson in 1984.

Brown is thought to be holding out for enhanced impact on the party platform and the chance to make a prime-time television address. The insurgent three-time presidential contender has tended to represent elements of the party’s liberal wing, as well as new voters he has brought into the process, and has been harshly critical of Clinton’s centrist tendencies.

“I really don’t know what Jerry’s going to do,” said Taylor, 35, who vowed to follow his lead, wherever it takes her. “I expect Jerry to endorse the party’s nominee but, then again, I don’t really expect it at the convention.”

Several other Brown delegates from the Valley also played key roles in his volunteer army of supporters.

These include Rose Avila of Glendale, the campaign’s Hispanic outreach coordinator; Ardis (Clayton) Trapp III of Topanga, a volunteer organizer, and Mary (Liz) Newman of Bell Canyon, who handled correspondence. Newman’s husband, Reford (Lee) Newman, an alternate, oversaw issues for the campaign.

Millicent Saffran of Winnetka, regional director of the California Democratic Party, is also a Brown delegate. So is Donna Schoenkopf of Thousand Oaks, a teacher and anti-war activist who was arrested protesting a Bush visit to Ventura County in 1990.

Burke, 55, said that he hasn’t given up hope for Brown’s nomination, however improbable that might be.

He said he expects Brown to endorse Clinton if his bitter rival gains the nomination. But he added that the Clinton forces will need to make compromises in the platform and in Brown’s role at the convention if reluctant Brown delegates are to be drawn into the Clinton fold.

“The obligation really does go with them,” said Burke, who is active in the teachers union and was a Brown delegate in 1976.

“They can be as hard-nosed as they want to be about it. They have got to bring these people aboard. People like me will come on board a little easier than others. Others will need a reason.”

Most of the delegates were chosen based on the candidates’ showing in the four Valley-based congressional districts.

The districts, newly drawn under the once-a-decade reapportionment after the 1990 Census, are the 24th, which includes communities in the southern and western San Fernando Valley, Malibu and most of Thousand Oaks in Ventura County; the 25th, which extends from the north Valley into the Santa Clarita and Antelope valleys; the 26th in the northeast Valley, and the 27th, which extends from Glendale into the San Gabriel Valley.

As a result of his victories in these districts, Clinton gained nine so-called “caucus” delegates apportioned by district and three alternates; Brown won the other seven delegates. Alternates attend the convention but cast ballots only if a delegate is unable to do so.

Three more individuals from the Valley area were selected as “at-large” delegates for Clinton; candidates receive a portion of such delegates based on their statewide vote. Brown has four delegates from the Valley area as well as one at-large alternate.

Finally, each candidate gets to appoint a certain number of party leaders and elected officials. Clinton has two such delegates from the Valley; Brown has three.

Valley Delegate Commitments

Delegates for Bill Clinton

NAME COMMUNITY OCCUPATION Alfred Avila Sylmar Chief of staff for Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alatorre Carol Blad Van Nuys Investigator with the Los Angeles city attorney’s office Ellen Bruck Woodland Airline maintenance worker Hills Eloise Crawford Sherman Homemaker Oaks Ed Edelman Los Angeles Los Angeles County supervisor Kevin Ennis Pasadena Lawyer Ronald Gillis Newhall Union leader Judith Hirschberg Encino Aide to Los Angeles City Councilman Marvin Braude Richard Katz Sylmar State assemblyman Diana Saugus Librarian Lisignoli-Cochran Addie North Retired attorney Ross-Friedman Hollywood Daniel Saborio Woodland Teacher Hills Kim Wardlaw Pasadena Attorney Alternates Gini Barrett Sylmar Public affairs executive Guy Raner Chatsworth Retired government teacher Kenneth Silk Sherman Attorney Oaks Judy Tejeda La Crescenta Teacher

Delegates for Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown Jr.

NAME COMMUNITY OCCUPATION Rose Avila Glendale Unemployed campaign worker Ed Burke Chatsworth Teacher Robert Corn Calabasas Business consultant Julie Korenstein Northridge Los Angeles school board member Chris Kysar Encino Buyer for a chain of natural-food stores Jesse Levine North Retired letter carrier Hollywood Sharon Molander Burbank Teacher Robert Nelson Pasadena Astronomer Mary (Liz) Bell Canyon Retired book editor Newman Lisa Pease North Computer instructor Hollywood Millicent Saffran Winnetka Homemaker and state Democratic Party regional director Donna Thousand Teacher Schoenkopf Oaks Deborah Taylor North Hills Aide to Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina Ardis (Clayton) Topanga Unemployed campaign worker Trapp III Alternate Reford (Lee) Bell Canyon Retired vice-president of a construction Newman firm Super Delegates Anthony C. Los Angeles United States congressman Beilenson Howard L. Panorama United States congressman Berman City Mary Ellen Early Sherman Democratic National Committee member Oaks and computer analyst Jean O’Leary North Democratic National Committee member Hollywood and owner of a computer products firm Henry A. Los Angeles United States congressman Waxman