Huge Los Angeles delegation in Washington D.C. for advocacy trip

“Today on Capitol Hill, the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and nearly 200 business and community leaders from Southern California joined together to kick off Access Washington, D.C. 2007. This year’s advocacy trip includes the largest-ever bipartisan delegation of Southern California leaders including: Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle, Santa Monica Mayor Richard Bloom, Orange County Supervisor Pat Bates, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Superintendent David L. Brewer III, LAUSD School Board President Marlene Canter, five Los Angeles City Councilmembers and more than 20 Southern California business and trade organizations. ‘As California goes, so goes the nation,” Mayor Villaraigosa said. “Southern California is America’s economic gateway. Without the appropriate federal investments in Southern California’s transportation infrastructure, goods movement, housing and education, Washington, D.C. lawmakers risk derailing vital job creation and destabilizing the nation’s backbone for trade and economic development’.”