L.A. Now Live: Greuel and Garcetti boast new endorsements

Los Angeles mayoral candidates Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti touted separate endorsements from black community leaders Thursday, with Greuel receiving the backing of basketball legend Magic Johnson and Garcetti earning the nod from Councilwoman Jan Perry.

Join us at 9 a.m. as we discuss the latest developments in the race for mayor with Times reporter Seema Mehta.

Greuel thanked Johnson for his endorsement, pointing to the former Lakers point guard and part-owner of the Dodgers’ credentials in the community.

“It is so important to me to be endorsed by Magic Johnson, who has been giving back to this community all his life,” she said. “We know a lot of celebrities come and go. This celebrity, this leader has been a person who has stayed in this community and given back.”

Garcetti said he was “so very proud” to receive Perry’s nod, saying that the councilwoman brought a strong independent voice to the mayoral primary and the two shared a passion for revitalizing communities block by block.

“There’s a clear difference in this race. While others are running on rhetoric, we’re a campaign of results. Voters can see the results themselves,” Garcetti said.

“No matter how many attacks people made against Jan or me, just walk the streets of our districts, just see the jobs on the streets, the cranes downtown, the cranes in Hollywood…. That’s what Jan Perry and I are going to do together when I am mayor … in South Los Angeles and citywide.”

The runoff election is May 21.

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