{"id":3930,"date":"2017-03-11T21:02:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T20:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moked.it\/international\/?p=3930"},"modified":"2017-03-11T21:02:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T20:02:23","slug":"italics-l-a-s-mexican-italian-jewish-mayor-wins-re-election-in-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moked.it\/international\/2017\/03\/11\/italics-l-a-s-mexican-italian-jewish-mayor-wins-re-election-in-landslide\/","title":{"rendered":"Italics – L.A.\u2019s Mexican-Italian-Jewish Mayor Wins Re-Election in Landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"italics\"<\/a>By Jonathan Zalman*<\/strong><\/p>\n

In part, the re-election Wednesday of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, whom Hillary Clinton once considered as a vice presidential running mate, could be interpreted as a sign of consolidation within the Democratic Party. When half the ballots had been counted, The Los Angeles Times reported that Garcetti, the city\u2019s first Jewish mayor, had locked in a second term by winning 80 percent of the vote against 10 challengers, a landslide result that was largely expected.<\/p>\n

And yet, who really knows what this actually means or augers for the Democratic party during Trump\u2019s presidency\u2014whether this consolidation will help or hurt the Democratic Party outside its areas of core strength remains to be seen. What we can take away from Garcetti\u2019s run as L.A.\u2019s mayor is that his multicultural success story\u2014his familial lineage is Mexican, Italian, and Jewsh\u2014has spoken volumes to two large and powerful majority coalitions who share a broad set of values. Los Angeles is home to 600,000 Jews, the second-highest population in the U.S. (next to New York); Latinos make up nearly half of the population in L.A.<\/p>\n

At 46, Garcetti is L.A.\u2019s youngest mayor and only the second Mexican-American in the last century to serve in that role. (Garcetti\u2019s Democratic predecessor, Antonio Villaraigosa, is currently running for governor.) \u201cI have an Italian last name, and I\u2019m half Mexican and half Jewish,\u201d Garcetti said during his first mayoral bid in 2013, when he was a Councilman. At an event with rabbis at City Hall that year, Garcetti wore a yarmulke and sang Hanukkah songs in multiple languages. \u201cToda la familia,\u201d he said during a photo op.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a bit about Garcetti\u2019s background, from The Los Angeles Times:
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\nGarcetti has Mexican roots through his father, former Dist. Atty. Gil Garcetti. Eric\u2019s grandfather, Salvador Garcetti, was born in Mexico and grew up in Boyle Heights. Salvador was brought to the United States as a baby after his father, Massimo Garcetti, a judge who had emigrated from Italy, was hanged during the Mexican Revolution that began in 1910, Garcetti says. Eric\u2019s grandmother, Juanita Iberri, one of 19 children in a family that migrated from Sonora, Mexico, was born in Arizona.<\/p>\n

On his mother\u2019s side, Garcetti is a descendant of Jewish immigrants from Russia, Poland and the Ukraine. They too settled in Boyle Heights in the early 20th century. Garcetti\u2019s maternal grandfather, Harry Roth, turned the family\u2019s Los Angeles clothing business, Louis Roth & Co., into a major national brand of high-end suits for men.<\/p>\n

Eric Garcetti and seven relatives now oversee the Roth Family Foundation. On its website, it has reported giving $5.9 million in grants since 2000 to hundreds of organizations, among them the PUENTE Learning Center, Planned Parenthood LA and the Silverlake Conservatory of Music.<\/em><\/p>\n

*This article was published in the Tablet on March 8, 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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