Yaroslavsky on Passing of L.A. Political Fixture Roz Wyman
KPCC’s “AirTalk” spoke to Zev Yaroslavsky, director of the Los Angeles Initiative at UCLA Luskin, about the death of former L.A. City Council member Roz Wyman at age 92. Seven decades earlier, a 22-year-old Wyman became the youngest person ever elected to the council as well as its first Jewish woman. She led efforts to bring the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles, was a patron of the arts and served as a powerbroker in California politics throughout her life. Yaroslavsky, who narrowly beat Wyman to join the City Council in 1975, became a close ally and friend of the fellow civic leader. He said one of his prized possessions is a baseball that Wyman autographed as they enjoyed a game in her prime seats behind the Dodger dugout. “Her fingerprints are all over Los Angeles and will be for generations to come,” Yaroslavsky said.
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