Louis Abramson
Louis Abramson (Democratic Party) ran for election to the California State Assembly to represent District 51. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
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Biography
Louis Abramson was born in New York, New York. Abramson's professional experience includes working as an astrophysicist. He earned a bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 2009 and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2015. Abramson is a founding board member of Hollywood4WRD.[1]
Abramson has been affiliated with Central Hollywood Neighborhood Council, SELAH Neighborhood Homeless Coalition, Hollywood 4WRD, and Hollywood Harvest.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: California State Assembly elections, 2022
General election
General election for California State Assembly District 51
Rick Chavez Zbur defeated Louis Abramson in the general election for California State Assembly District 51 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Rick Chavez Zbur (D) | 54.9 | 76,110 |
 | Louis Abramson (D)  | 45.1 | 62,647 | |
| Total votes: 138,757 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 51
Rick Chavez Zbur and Louis Abramson advanced from the primary for California State Assembly District 51 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Rick Chavez Zbur (D) | 61.6 | 53,522 |
| ✔ | | Louis Abramson (D) | 38.4 | 33,300 |
| Total votes: 86,822 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Louis founded the Hollywood Chapter of the SELAH Neighborhood Homeless Coalition and sits on the founding board of Hollywood Harvest and Hollywood4WRD—nonprofits respectively dedicated to ending senior food-insecurity and homelessness in his community. During the pandemic, Louis’s work to deliver free produce to seniors and count homeless Angelenos was featured in the LA Times.
Louis is a renter and lives with his partner Dr. Lindsay Young, a USC health communications professor.- On homelessness, housing affordability, climate change, and mental health California can do better. If we elect people with the right experience for this moment, it will. That means leaders who don’t just want to lower rents, but pay rent. Leaders who don’t just know there’s a homelessness crisis, but have housed people. Leaders who don’t just believe in science, but understand it. If I’m elected, I’ll be the only scientist, the fourth renter, and one of a handful of people in the state legislature that has actually helped someone go from a tent to an apartment. That makes me different from the people who created the status quo. When the status quo isn’t working, different is what we need.
- California should be a place where kids can afford to raise grandkids near grandparents, where you don’t have to drive an hour to get home from work, and where no one falls through the gaps in a broken social safety net and lands outside your front door. We cannot get to that place through the status quo. The injustices standing in our way were built into the bones of our cities by planners for whom the words social, racial, economic, environmental, and criminal justice meant nothing. No one today is responsible for that sin, but unless we take this opportunity to reimagine our built environment, all of CA’s goals—from climate to educational equity—will remain out of reach.
- As an astrophysicist, I worked on the cosmos’s toughest problems. When I looked around me instead of up, I saw that my community’s problems were tougher. 1-in-30 of my neighbors are unhoused; 1-in-3 pay half their income in rent. I’ve fed those neighbors, helped them pay their rent, and helped too many get under any kind of roof whatsoever. These stories have no place in CA, but more will become true unless we change who we sent to Sacramento. AD51 imports 83% of its work force. I’m running for State Assembly because the systems hurting my neighbors are bigger than my neighborhood. We are one people in one place with one purpose: to live up to our values. Only Sacramento can legislate with that recognition. I can help.
Max fought from North Africa through Omaha Beach to the Battle of the Bulge in WWII. As a Jew, a soldier, and an American, he saw it as his duty when he came home to stand up against injustice here, too.
Max protested to racially integrate his housing complex in New York. He took his daughters to march against atomic weapons. His heart was full of love---he was always singing, even at war---and he passed his conviction that dignity, respect, and equal rights belong to everyone to my mother, and to me.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
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