City Council member Herb Wesson has received the backing of the L.A. County Democratic Party in his campaign to win a hotly contested seat on the Board of Supervisors. “Our job is to keep the party transparent, accountable and operating,” party Chair Mark Gonzalez said in a statement. “The only thing better than winning the endorsement of the Democratic Party once is to win it again,” the campaign said in a statement. The Perry campaign, however, refused to back down and maintained that Wesson had received the endorsement improperly. “The Democratic endorsement is the major indicator of where the race is,” said Dermot Givens, a local political consultant who has been following the race closely.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 06, 2020 21:11 UTC