Jan Perry reiterates that she's running for mayor

The 9th district City Council member walked in to the office of Jewish Journal editor Rob Eshman and made it clear that she's running in the 2013 race for mayor. Eshman blogs about it:

In her district, she campaigned on a platform of “money, funding, community.” Perry handed me a blue folder with a couple of Xeroxed sheets listing her accomplishments. Among them: two wetland parks in highly urbanized South LA, a new $15 million multi-use City Hall there, a giant Fresh ‘n Easy grocery store, the LA Live complex of housing and retail across from the Staples Center.

So why did Perry come to see me?

For one, she’s Jewish. Perry, who is also African-American, converted to Judaism more than 20 years ago under the teaching of Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller at UCLA Hillel.

No releases from Rick Caruso for a couple of weeks now. Though he did host his fundraiser for Jerry Brown on Tuesday night, and a few council members were there in the Brentwood backyard.