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National leaders visit Los Angeles high schools
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March 22, 2005
San Fernando High School
San Fernando, CA
Air Time: March 22 at 7pm PT, 10pm ET on C-SPAN2 and C-SPAN Radio
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From The City of Los Angeles:
Former Speaker of the California Assembly and National Co-Chairman of the John Kerry Presidential Campaign, Antonio Villaraigosa made local history on March 4, 2003 by becoming the first modern candidate for office to defeat an incumbent in a primary election for Los Angeles City Council. But that was hardly his first accomplishment. Antonio has devoted his entire life to building community through civic action. A native of Los Angeles and the oldest of four children raised by a single mother, Antonio briefly dropped out of high school before turning his life around and graduating from Roosevelt High School, UCLA and the People's College of Law.
Antonio has held various leadership positions in the public sector and the labor movement. He served on the boards of the Southern California Rapid Transit District and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). He was elected to the California State Assembly in 1994 representing the 45th District in the heart of Los Angeles. His tenure in the legislature has been described as "meteoric." As a freshman he was elected Assembly Democratic Whip and two years later Majority Leader. In 1998, he was elected Speaker of the Assembly. As Speaker, the first from Los Angeles in 25 years, Antonio was widely credited with re-establishing the stature of the State Assembly, restoring civility to that body and fostering an unprecedented era of bipartisanship.
A consummate coalition-builder, Villaraigosa spearheaded a $9.1 billion initiative to rebuild and modernize California schools, a $2.1 billion initiative to provide parks and open space throughout the state, and a state health insurance program, "Healthy Families," serving 600,000 children of the working poor. He also brought more than $87 million to Southern California to spur development of parks along the Los Angeles River and funded an extensive expansion of water quality enforcement by the state.
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