ES politics – Brann bows out
“I’m looking forward to no longer having my smart phone tell me, ‘Turn left on SU PUL VEEDA,’” Councilan Don Brann said at El Segundo’s renaming of Sepulveda Boulevard to Pacific Coast Highway in Sept. 2018. Photo For the first time that Councilman Don Brann could remember in 40 years of the El Segundo Holiday Parade, clouds opened up over the stream of cars carrying dignitaries, and entertainers marching down El Segundo’s Main Street. And the city’s first rainy-day parade — even if the rain was more a block-by-block splash than a deluge — just so happened to take place on what will likely be the last parade of Brann’s second, and likely final, term on El Segundo’s City Council. “I don’t think I’ll come back for another turn,” Brann said. At 74, he’s the oldest person to have served on El Segundo’s council. Brann is stepping away, in part, because of a personal promise — he decided long ago that he would not run for a second term in elected office, preferring to get in, get his work done, and get out. But he’s leaving early, in January, owing to a California state law that is soon to take effect. Senate Bill 126, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, is billed as a charter school…
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