West Hollywood is a city in Los Angeles County,California,United States. Incorporated in 1984,it is home to the Sunset Strip. As of the 2020 U.S. Census,its population was 35,757.
Scott M. Stringer is an American politician who served as the 44th New York City Comptroller. A Democrat,Stringer also previously served as a New York State Assemblyman,and as the 26th borough president of Manhattan.
Cameron A. Gordon is an American politician who was a Green Party member of the Minneapolis City Council from 2006 to 2022. He was a co-founder of the Green Party of Minnesota and was called "the most prominent Green elected official in the US."
JoséLuis Huizar is a Mexican-American former politician who served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 2005 to 2020.
Jim Rogers is an American politician. He served on the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors in the 1990s,and was a city council member for the city of Richmond,California for three terms. He was first elected to the city council in 2002,and his final term expired in January 2015. He is a Democrat,considered a moderate,and has also been referred to as a progressive. He was called the San Francisco Bay Area's most famous lawyer because of television ads in which he dubbed himself as "The People's Lawyer".
In the United States,the minimum wage is set by U.S. labor law and a range of state and local laws. The first federal minimum wage was instituted in the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933,signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt,but later found to be unconstitutional. In 1938,the Fair Labor Standards Act established it at 25¢an hour. Its purchasing power peaked in 1968,at $1.60. In 2009,Congress increased it to $7.25 per hour with the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007,and has not increased it since.
Thomas Earl Emmer Jr. is an American attorney and politician who has served as majority whip in the United States House of Representatives since 2023. A member of the Republican Party,he has represented Minnesota's 6th congressional district since 2015.
The Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA) is a pro-business pro-Beijing political party in Hong Kong. Chaired by Lo Wai-kwok,the party is currently the second-largest party in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong,holding eight seats. It also has two representatives in the Executive Council and five seats in the District Councils.
Elissa Silverman is an American politician and reporter from Washington,D.C.,the United States capital. She served as an independent at-large member of the Council of the District of Columbia from 2015 to 2023. Before 2015,she was a journalist at The Washington Post and Washington City Paper covering D.C. politics,and a policy analyst at the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute. She was re-elected in November 2018 for a four-year term,but lost her re-election bid in 2022.
The Social Democrats are a social democratic political party in Ireland. Led by Holly Cairns since March 2023,the party was launched on 15 July 2015 by three independent TDs:Catherine Murphy,Róisín Shortall,and Stephen Donnelly. It promotes the Nordic model of political economy and pro-European views.
Sophia D. King is an American politician and former member of Chicago City Council,who served as alderman from the 4th ward,which includes portions of the neighborhoods Bronzeville,Hyde Park,Kenwood,Oakland,and South Loop. King was appointed to the position by mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2016 as a replacement to the retiring William D. Burns. She won a special election in 2017 to serve out the rest term of the Burns' unexpired term,and was re-elected to a full term in 2019. On the council,she was a member and chair of the Progressive Reform Caucus. She forwent reelection to the city council in 2023 in order to make an unsuccessful run for mayor of Chicago in the 2023 Chicago mayoral election.
Jacob Lawrence Frey is an American politician and attorney who has served as the mayor of Minneapolis,Minnesota since 2018. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party,he served on the Minneapolis City Council from 2014 to 2018.
Elizabeth Peterson "Lisa" Bender is an American politician,city planner,and a former member of the Minneapolis City Council from the 10th Ward. In 2018,she was unanimously elected president of the Minneapolis City Council.
Melvin Whitfield Carter III is an American politician who is the mayor of Saint Paul,Minnesota. Elected to his first term in 2017 and reelected in 2021,Carter is the 55th mayor of St. Paul and its first African American mayor. His current term of office ends on January 1,2026. Carter has supported raising the city's minimum wage to $15 per hour. He is one of 11 U.S. mayors who co-founded Mayors Organized for Reparations and Equity,a coalition of municipal leaders dedicated to starting pilot reparations programs in their cities.
Alexander Jacob Lasry is an American businessperson and executive of the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Lasry was a Democratic candidate in the 2022 United States Senate election in Wisconsin,but withdrew before the primary. He is the son of former Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry.
Lisa Ruth Goodman is an American politician who served as a member of the Minneapolis City Council from the 7th ward. First elected in 1997 and continuously re-elected for 26 years,she was the longest-serving member in council history. The 7th ward holds some of Minnesota's wealthiest neighborhoods,including Bryn Mawr,Cedar-Isles-Dean,Downtown West,East Isles,Elliot Park,Kenwood,Loring Park,Lowry Hill,and Stevens Square.
Amen R. Brown is an American politician. He is a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives,representing the 10th District since 2023. Brown previously represented the 190th District from 2021 to 2022 before redistricting moved him to the 10th District.
ABC Vancouver,formerly A Better City,is a municipal political party in Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada. It is led by incumbent mayor Ken Sim.
The 2023 Los Angeles special election was held on April 4,2023 with a runoff occurring on June 27,2023. Voters will elect a candidate in a nonpartisan primary,with runoff elections potentially scheduled. One of the fifteen seats on the Los Angeles City Council was up for election due to the vacancy of one member,councilwoman Nury Martinez of District 6,who resigned in the wake of the 2022 Los Angeles City Council scandal. Sharon Tso was installed as a caretaker to the district,but no formal appointment was made. There was potential for a recall over Kevin de León's statements made during the 2022 Los Angeles City Council scandal as well,though due to the lack of signatures turned in by the deadline on April 1,2023,the petition to recall de León failed. Former City Attorney Mike Feuer also proposed that a special election be held on a referendum to replace the Council's ability to redraw the City Council districts with an independent commission before the 2024 elections.
Lindsey Patrice Horvath is an American politician,advertising executive,and activist. She is currently serving as a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for the 3rd District,which covers the San Fernando Valley,and the Chair of Los Angeles County. She was previously a Councilmember for West Hollywood,California and was twice its mayor.
