John Pérez

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John A. Pérez is a union organizer and politician from Los Angeles, California. He is the Democratic nominee in the race to succeed Fabian Núñez as the representative from the 46^th district in the California State Assembly.^[1]

The district includes the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Boyle Heights, Little Tokyo, Westlake, Vernon and part of South Los Angeles. Nuñez is termed out and Pérez faced only a little-known primary challenger in the race to succeed him.^[2] He won convincingly.^[1]

Pérez is the cousin of Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and has spent seven years handling political matters for the United Food and Commercial Workers, a union representing supermarket workers.^[3] He was a member of the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency until 2008, when he resigned from the board in order to run for the assembly.

Pérez – who grew up in El Sereno and Highland Park and attended the University of California, Berkeley – is a member of the Democratic National Committee, making him a superdelegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver.^[4]^[5] He endorsed Barack Obama on 2008-06-03, the day of the final contests in the Democratic presidential nominating calendar.^[6]