Ysabel Jurado talks about her 'insurgent' L.A. City Council campaign
Tenants rights attorney Ysabel Jurado is a relative political unknown. Even her opponent in the Los Angeles City Council race, the scandal-plagued Kevin de León, claimed to have “never heard of her in my entire life.”
“We ran this campaign as an insurgent campaign and I thought, I wasn't focused on winning,” Jurado told KNX News’ daily political show Countdown 2024. “I was just like, okay, we're going to do the work. We're gonna run this insurgent campaign, run it by our values, and if it works, that's great.”
It certainly worked in the primary: the political newcomer upset a field of established politicians to come in first place. She’s now facing off against the incumbent de León in November.
Jurado, who describes herself as a progressive, said the leaked tapes of de León and his then-colleagues making racist jokes while trying to rig the redistricting process in her favor was the “last straw” that convinced her to run for office.
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