The Little Tokyo Community Council brings together a broad range of Little Tokyo stakeholders to speak with one voice to protect, preserve, and promote our historic community.
2024 Council District 14 Election
It’s election year! The seat representing Little Tokyo in the 14th District of the Los Angeles City Council is once again on the ballot, with incumbent Councilmember Kevin De León facing 7 challengers. The primary is on Tuesday, March 5th, and ballots have been mailed out.
The Little Tokyo Community Council and The Rafu Shimpo invited the following candidates running for Council District 14 to answer questions on issues impacting Little Tokyo: Councilmember Kevin de León (incumbent), Wendy Carrillo, Ysabel Jurado, and Miguel Santiago. We received responses from three of those candidates (Councilmember Kevin de León (incumbent), Wendy Carrillo, Ysabel Jurado). A fourth candidate participated after the initial outreach to the aforementioned candidates, and the Rafu generously printed a separate article focusing on that candidate’s answers (Nadine Momoyo Diaz). Also running are Genny Guerrero, Teresa Y. Hillery, and Eduardo “Lalo” Vargas.
LTCC also once again put together our Little Tokyo Community Platform, outlining our priorities, issues, and concerns for the neighborhood, and the Candidates Questionnaire asked candidates to respond to this platform.
About The Rafu Shimpo
The Rafu Shimpo has been the nation's leading Japanese American newspaper since its original publication. They are proud to have served the Japanese American community from their Little Tokyo office in Downtown Los Angeles since 1903.
Little Tokyo Community Platform
Together with LTCC members and other stakeholders from the Little Tokyo community, LTCC created the Little Tokyo community platform for this upcoming election. This platform names our priorities and concerns for the future of Little Tokyo, and how our next Councilmember can support these efforts.
The Rafu Shimpo CD 14 Candidates Articles
LTCC partnered with the Rafu Shimpo to publish the answers from the candidate survey. Check out the article, based on the answers submitted to the 2024 Council District 14 Candidates Questionnaire for the Little Tokyo Community!
BONUS ARTICLE! CD 14 Candidate Nadine Momoyo Diaz completed the questionnaire after the original article was printed, and The Rafu Shimpo was generous enough to print a separate article to share out her answers as well.
The Rafu previously wrote an article about Nadine Diaz in September 2023.
Meet the Candidates
Read the full answers submitted by the candidates to the LTCC x Rafu Shimpo CD 14 Candidates Questionnaire
Kevin de León
De León has been District 14’s council member since 2020. He served in the California State Senate from 2010 to 2018, eventually becoming the leader of the senate. He served in the Assembly from 2006 to 2010, and before that was a labor organizer with the California Teachers Association.
Wendy Carrillo
Carrillo is a Democratic member of the State Assembly. She represents the 52nd District, which stretches from East L.A. to Glendale and includes Echo Park, Silver Lake, Highland Park, and Eagle Rock. She was first elected in 2017. She is the first Salvadoran immigrant and first undocumented immigrant to be elected to the State Assembly, according to her campaign website.
Ysabel Jurado
Jurado is a tenants rights attorney and affordable housing activist. She describes herself as a single mom and daughter of undocumented Filipino immigrants. She is a graduate of the UCLA School of Law, where she specialized in critical race studies and public interest law and policy.
Nadine Momoyo Diaz
Diaz is a geriatric social worker at USC’s Memory and Aging Center and a board member of the Council on Aging for the L.A. City Department of Aging. Diaz, who holds a doctorate in social work, is also a part-time instructor in the Department of Social Work at Cal State Dominguez Hills. She ran for the same council seat in 2015, finishing third with 4.4% of the vote.
