Fundraiser for Hugo Soto-Martínez and Lola Smallwood-Cuevas
Join us and support two transformational candidates: Hugo Soto-Martinez (CD-13) and Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (Senate District -28). If both of them win their run-offs on November 8, LA will have a truly progressive power base in City Hall for the first time ever.
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Homies for Hugo and Lola
About Lola
Raised by a single mother who worked as a home care worker, CNA, and registered nurse, Lola has lived experience of being from a working family. After graduating from California State at Hayward, Lola started a career in journalism. Lola moved on to serve as a researcher and political/community organizer with SEIU Local 1877. Lola worked to change the tangible conditions of working families for both the SEIU membership and her South Los Angeles Community. Currently, Lola serves as an Employment Equity Commissioner for the City of Los Angeles along with a variety of other duties in which she aids in improving and serving our community.
About Hugo
Hugo was born and raised in South Central, Los Angeles to immigrant street vendors. After his dad become disabled, he started working at a non-union hotel to help out his family. Right before graduating college, Hugo was approached by a co-worker to form a union. He said "yes," and at 23-years-old took on a major corporation and helped win wage increases, healthcare, and respect on the job for his fellow workers. Today, Hugo is a lead organizer with UNITE HERE Local 11 where he has worked for the last 15 years. He knows what it takes to win material gains for workers, immigrants, the unhoused, people of color, young people, all of us who have been neglected by our city officials and the bosses they serve.
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