The Future of Los Angeles with Gloria Molina, Former LA County Supervisor and CA Assemblymember

Let's Find Common Ground

USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future

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🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Gloria Molina, former LA County Supervisor, CA Assemblymember, and Fall 2021 Fellow at the Center for the Political Future, joins co-directors Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy to discuss the future of Los Angeles. LA County made history last year with an all-women Board of Supervisors elected to lead the largest local legislative body in the nation. Molina was the first Latina elected to the Board of Supervisors (1991) and the first Chicana elected to the California State Assembly (1982). In 1987, she was elected to the Los Angeles City Council. She shares her experiences from her storied career in politics and looks ahead to the future of LA, from the nearly $35 billion budget, mayoral candidates, homeless crisis, and pandemic fallout.

Featuring:
Bob Shrum - Director, Center for the Political Future; Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics, USC Dornsife

Mike Murphy - Co-Director, Center for the Political Future; MSNBC Political Analyst

Gloria Molina - Former LA County Supervisor and CA Assemblymember; Fall 2021 Fellow, Center for the Political Future

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Bully Pulpit from the University of Southern California Center for the Political Future.
0:11.7	Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot button issues where we respect
0:22.0	each other and respected truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:29.5	Welcome. Students are back on campus. The university has come back to life, and this is our first
0:36.0	bully pulpit series of this semester. I'm Bob Schrum,
0:40.7	the director of the Center for the Political Future, the University of Southern California. I'm here
0:44.7	with Mike Murphy, my co-director. And we have a very special guest today, Gloria Molina, who was the
0:52.4	first Latina elected to the California State Assembly, representing
0:56.0	the 56th District in 1982. She was the first Latina to be elected to the Los Angeles
1:02.3	County Board of Supervisors, where she served for more than two decades. We're honored that she's
1:08.0	a fall fellow at the Center for the Political Future, and is teaching a course Tuesdays from 3 p.m. to 520 called holding our leaders accountable, promoting ethics in local government.
1:20.9	Students can apply for that course on our website. Now I'm going to turn this over to Mike. Go ahead, Mike.
1:26.2	Thank you all for joining. I'm coming to you live from the USC Center for the Political Future New Hampshire Outpost, which is just like our LA operation, except there's no state income or sales tax. But I'll be back to where I pay income and sales tax in California on Saturday wrapping up a vacation. So hence my casual attire and silly background.
1:47.1	Well, look, this is a fun one, and we're going to be talking both with our friend Gloria
1:51.8	about the fellowship she's doing at the center, about her impressive career. But our main topic
1:58.5	is the future of Los Angeles. Now, I want to start with just kind of a
2:02.6	clarity topic because this is something I find that people who are not in the political or policy
2:07.6	realm often don't understand. But the job of Los Angeles County supervisor is a job that not,
2:15.0	again, as I said, not many people know about, but it's an incredibly important job.
2:18.4	L.A. County has 10 million people in it. It's almost as big as Ohio. And the five supervisors are
2:24.4	incredibly important to the county. That is the job. And you had it. So I think I'll start with
2:30.6	kind of the obvious big question. What do you see is the opportunities and the challenges
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