Who Is Eric Garcetti?

Sean Sullivan
The Fix Blog, The Washington Post

Los Angeles will have a new mayor beginning July 1. His name is Eric Garcetti, the city councilman who won a Tuesday runoff and made some history. He’ll become the city’s first elected Jewish mayor and its youngest in more than a century when he’s sworn in.

So, just who is Garcetti?

In short, an academic-turned politician with ties to President Obama whose youth and power in the nation’s second most populous city will make him a Democrat to watch in the coming years.

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