Sam Yebri
Sam Yebri ran for election to the Los Angeles City Council to represent District 5 in California. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Yebri completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Sam Yebri was born in Tehran. He earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 2003 and a law degree from USC Law School in 2006. His career experience includes working as a small business owner, lawyer, and clerk for federal judge Hon. A. Howard Matz. Yebri has served with the following organizations:[1]
- Friends of Westwood Library, board member
- ETTA, board member
- Anti-Defamation League, board member
- Bet Tzedek Legal Services, board member
- Bend the Arc, board member
- 30 Years After, co-founder
Elections
2022
See also: City elections in Los Angeles, California (2022)
General election
General election for Los Angeles City Council District 5
Katy Young Yaroslavsky defeated Sam Yebri in the general election for Los Angeles City Council District 5 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Katy Young Yaroslavsky (Nonpartisan) | 59.7 | 50,740 | |
 | Sam Yebri (Nonpartisan)  | 40.3 | 34,248 | |
| Total votes: 84,988 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Los Angeles City Council District 5
Katy Young Yaroslavsky and Sam Yebri defeated Jimmy Biblarz and Scott Epstein in the primary for Los Angeles City Council District 5 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Katy Young Yaroslavsky (Nonpartisan) | 49.0 | 28,039 | |
| ✔ | | Sam Yebri (Nonpartisan) | 29.7 | 16,998 |
 | Jimmy Biblarz (Nonpartisan) | 10.9 | 6,268 | |
| Scott Epstein (Nonpartisan) | 10.4 | 5,954 | ||
| Total votes: 57,259 | |||
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2022
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Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Sam Yebri completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Yebri's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I have since built a successful law firm, advocated for the rights of workers, tenants, and refugees, advised startups and small businesses, served on the LA City Civil Service Commission and on the board of the Westwood Library, helped build affordable housing for special needs adults in the 5th District with special needs provider ETTA, fought bigotry on the board of the Anti-Defamation League, advocated for low-income Angelenos on the boards of Bet Tzedek Legal Services and Bend the Arc, and engaged thousands of immigrants and first-generation Americans in civic life by co-founding the non-profit civic organization 30 Years After.
As my wife Leah and I raise our four children a few blocks from where I was raised, we continue to believe in the promise of LA. This is why I am running for the privilege of serving as Councilmember.
- I am a community & non-profit leader, small business owner, father of 4 young children, & nearly lifelong resident of the 5th District. I have the proven coalition-building leadership & common sense plans needed to bring our community together & get things done.
- We are suffering from a lack of leadership. I’m running for Council because the dream that LA once offered is slipping away. Exploding homelessness & a rising lack of affordable housing have become dire crises, our neighborhoods grow less & less safe each day, our streets & sidewalks are crumbling, city services are being cut, small businesses are shuttering, & economic & racial inequality worsen.
- Throughout this campaign, we have broken fundraising records without accepting a single dime from real estate developers, PACs, corporations or corporate entities, fossil fuel, big pharma, or special interests of any kind.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 23, 2022
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