THREE UNIONS BACK BLOCK FOR SHERIFF; DEPARTMENT, COUNTY WORKER GROUPS PICK INCUMBENT.Byline: Douglas Haberman Daily News Staff Writer Sheriff Sherman Block won political endorsements Tuesday from two labor groups representing employees of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. . Delegates of the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Federation of Labor, representing about 480,000 workers who are registered voters - and an additional 260,000 workers who are not voters - also endorsed Block at a meeting Monday night, said executive secretary Miguel Contreras Miguel Contreras (September 17, 1952–May 6, 2005) was an American labor leader. He "was known as a king-maker for both local and state politicians."[1] . Block, running for his fifth term as sheriff, is in a Nov. 3 runoff against Lee Baca Leroy David Baca (b. May 27 1942, East Los Angeles, California) is the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California. After graduating from Benjamin Franklin High School (Los Angeles) in 1960, Baca worked his way through East Los Angeles College before starting with the L.A. , a former Sheriff's Department division chief who finished a strong second in the June primary. The two Sheriff's Department employee unions that endorsed Block are the Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, representing deputies and district attorney's investigators, and the Los Angeles County Professional Police Officers Association, which represents sergeants, lieutenants and other sworn and nonsworn personnel. PPOA President Lt. Dennis Slocumb said 55 percent of the members voted, with 62 percent favoring Block. ALADS ALADS Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs President Pete Brodie said the group followed its longstanding policy of endorsing the incumbent when members believe he is doing a good job. Contreras said the federation did the same. Baca was unavailable for comment, but his campaign spokesman Jorge Flores Jorge Flores can refer to:
``I believe what the men and women of the department think, who are in the best position to evaluate my performance, is very significant,'' Block said in a telephone interview. In a May ALADS vote, none of the candidates in the June primary won a majority. Baca received 24 percent and Block got 21 percent, while Sgt. Patrick Gomez took 39 percent of the vote. This time around, the union only polled representatives by telephone, Brodie said. H. Eric Schockman, a political science professor at the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission , said he doesn't see the unions' endorsement as a watershed. ``Do voters pay attention to endorsements? Usually not,'' Schockman said. |
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