There will be a celebration of life at 11 a.m. Thursday at West Angeles Church of God in South Los Angeles for Nate Holden, who represented the 10th District on the City Council for 16 years.
Holden died May 7 at age 95, his family told Supervisor Janice Hahn.
“Nate Holden leaves behind a legacy of service and strength,” Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement ordering flags in Los Angeles to fly at half-staff May 8 in memory of Holden.
“Throughout his life, he put the South Los Angeles community front and center. As an organizer, I learned from the way he served — always working to ensure vital services were delivered directly to the residents he represented. For decades, he was a trusted advisor.”
Born June 19, 1929, in Macon, Georgia, Holden moved with his mother and brothers to Elizabeth, New Jersey, when he was 10 after his parents separated. He quit high school at age 16, when he enlisted in the Army in 1946, despite being underage. He was deployed to Germany where he served as a military policeman.
Following his military service, Holden sought to become a draftsman. Holden told the Los Angeles Times one of his teachers purposely gave him a bad grade to discourage him, telling him such a job was out of reach for a Black man.
When he applied for a training program for veterans, he was again denied and told he was wasting his time, that it would never lead to a job.
“I served God and country, I’m gonna get into that training program,” Holden said he told them. “If I don’t get it, I’m gonna go to Washington and knock on that president’s door.”
Holden was finally admitted and studied design and engineering at night while finishing high school. He eventually worked for several aerospace companies, which led him to California.
Holden made his first foray into politics as a member of the left-leaning California Democratic Council. Holden made his first run for office in 1968, challenging then-Rep. Tom Rees, D-Beverly Hills, in a Democratic primary and losing by a more than 3-1 margin.
Holden a member of the staff of Supervisor Kenneth Hahn, was elected to the state Senate in 1974. Holden authored and co-authored more than 70 bills that became law in his four years in the Senate, according to his website, nateholden.com.
Holden authored the bill establishing the Rev. Martin Luther King Junior’s birthday as a state holiday, along with bills outlawing redlining on home mortgages, the Credit Denial Disclosure Act of 1976, increased funding for inner city schools, the creation of Baldwin Hills Regional Park, proliferation and control of liquor stores and property tax relief for senior citizens.
Holden ran for the Democratic nomination to succeed then-Rep. Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, D-Los Angeles, who gave up the 28th Congressional District seat to unsuccessfully run for attorney general in 1978. Holden lost to then-Assemblyman Julian Dixon, D-Culver City, who would go on to hold the seat until his death in 2000.
Holden was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1987, serving until 2003, when he was barred from seeking reelection because of term limits.
Holden’s accomplishments as a councilman included a gun buyback program requiring all children’s toy guns be brightly colored so as to not be confused with actual weapons.
“You always knew where Nate stood,” said frequent council foe Hal Bernson said on June 25, 2003, two days before his final council session in office, as fellow council members paid tribute to Holden . “He always kept his word. … The city is going to be better for his having served.”
Then-Council President, now Sen. Alex Padilla, observed that when “they made Nate Holden, they broke the mold. When he gives his word, you can take it to the bank … I am a better leader because of some of the hoops (Holden) put me through.”
Then-Mayor Jim Hahn used words like “great partner” and “big brother” in describing Holden.
Whether it was intentional or unintentional, Holden often made headlines.
He was sued — unsuccessfully — for alleged sexual harassment of three female staffers, criticized for being entertained by a stripper during a city mission to Korea and fined for exceeding campaign-contribution limits.
He outraged many of his Koreatown constituents in the 10th District when he defended his socializing with scantily clad dancers during the 1991 trip to Seoul by saying: “That’s the way you do official business there.”
He later apologized for the remark.
Holden also made headlines last year when Donald Trump appeared to confuse him with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.
“I call Willie Brown. `Donald Trump has problems. He is saying you were in the helicopter ride that required an emergency landing.’ Willie said, `No, no.’ So, then he must be talking about me then,” Holden told City News Service.
Holden told CNS that he met Trump at Trump Tower for a trip to Atlantic City, where they were going to tour the Taj Mahal casino.
Holden had been in communication with Trump and his staff regarding a proposal to build the world’s tallest building on the site of the Ambassador Hotel, which was in his district.
He said the pilot reassured everyone on the flight, which included Trump’s late brother, Robert, attorney Harvey Freedman and Barbara Res, Trump’s former executive vice president of construction and development. He also recalled the helicopter shaking and some mechanical issues.
Once it safely landed at an airport in New Jersey, the flight crew began repairing the aircraft. Holden told CNS that they should have used another helicopter, and he felt upset that his life was in jeopardy.
Holden’s survivors include sons Reginald Holden, a former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy, and Chris Holden, a former member of the Assembly and former Pasadena mayor.
“Nate Holden was a legend here in Los Angeles,” Supervisor Janice Hahn said in a statement. “He was a lion in the state Senate and a force to be reckoned with on the Los Angeles City Council.
“I learned a lot sitting next to him in the chambers as a new councilmember. He was a valued member of my father’s staff for years and my dad relied on his unique brand of wisdom. I always referred to him as Uncle Nate because to me he was part of the Hahn family.”
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Hate, Greed, Corruption, Lust, Death, Lies, Discrimination!
100% Government Mutiny!
1000% Cyberfraud & Treason!
You do have to understand that this is for every Department across the United States of America.
Whether that be the police department the Sheriff’s Department fire department or the ambulance services of the State of California as well As The United States of America!!!!
$30 Million A Day $1500.00 Hour
10.4 trillion dollars Each department of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Times 109 Cities =
$1,133,600,000,000.00
1100 E-Trillion Dollars A Year!
Then the captain of the Police Department pulls in $507,000.00 Times 109 Cities = $55,232,000.00
And this has been going on since 1995 now you can see why the world is so fucking broke.
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And you pay your security outfit in the state of California $900 a day to follow my dick around the fucking state right. After you’re making $300 an hour and 50 grand every 72-hour shift how you pull in three quarters of a million dollars just on a monthly basis and you want to tell me I’m the criminal because I have an education in law
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But to find one of the uneducated law enforcement in the United States of America with a non-commissioned license that’s not broke it’s very rare because each and every one of them was 50 million dollars in the Bank, Broken and looking for the next paycheck.
Whenever the Attorney General has reasonable cause to believe that a violation has occurred, the Attorney General, for or in the name of the United States, may in a civil action obtain appropriate equitable and declaratory relief to eliminate the pattern or practice.
Types of misconduct covered include, among other things: Excessive Force, Discriminatory Harassment, False Arrest, Coercive Sexual Conduct, Unlawful Stops, Searches, or Arrests. And only if he feels that there’s a violation. “IF” is the Word.
Now you can understand why them cocaine head are sitting in the captain chair, Snorting 60 million worth of cocaine. How is probably the first time he’s had any kind of money in his pocket since he came across the border.
Hell I was told that’s the only place that will not educate a human being across the border.
What they didn’t find in the train derailment on the 25 and 2020 out there in between Palm Springs and Blythe they all died in the boat explosion in Cancun Sea. 2020
And here’s another family member.
Firefighters also located one victim of the blaze, an elderly man, inside the home. Neighbors identified him as Will Rothschild, hailing from the wealthy Rothschild family. Law enforcement is yet to confirm his identity, reported ABC7 News.
There’s 55 LAPD Locations & 54 Los Angeles Sheriff Department’s Times 109 Cities in the County! For a 96 billion dollars budget for each department. Equals
10.424 Trillion Dollars A Year Times 109 Department’s
Equals out to. 1133 Trillion Dollars A Year just for Law Enforcement in Los Angeles County!
1133 times 3,143 Counties in the United States of America for a total for an idiot is $3.561019E14
The United States has a total of 3,143 counties and county equivalents, serving as crucial units of local government. The number of counties varies across states due to factors like historical settlement patterns, geographical size, and population distribution
We don’t have the ability to make $21 an hour .
I make 30 cents a day.
They make $300.00 Hour / $550 Hour OT
Who the Drug Dealers????
E- Trillions Yearly. Since 1995
Bone Island of Skid Row!
Catalina Island, CA.
Always a new guest with every boat Full
And now Cher’s Whole Family has been confirmed!
Dead by Boat Sanking in Cancun in 2020
As Well as Every Celebrity in the World Are Dead.
They Said that Cher was Eaten in Half in Acapulco 2020 with Rest of the Family were All Eaten in Half because somebody Sliced them Before Entering Sea Of Cancun!
At some point you have to understand you’ve been brainwashed for this this long up to this point because of the fact that the world has to destroy the nation long before it can do anything in the world because this used to be the United States of America the land of the brave and the home of the free. And 1855, the British sacked the White House and burnt it to the fucking ground and America was lost at that point because it became the Land of the Dead in the home of the corruption. Where I feel that we can all learn from my mistakes to set the better path forward as the global Federation of many nations of many galaxies. Where we learn from our past mistakes so we don’t have to get burnt for them