Opinion: Fabian to run for Assembly in 2010?!

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Whoops, different Fabian — not current speaker Fabian Nunez, but Fabian Wesson, wife of former speaker and current Los Angeles City Councilman Herb Wesson, has opened a committee to explore a 2010 run for the 47th Assembly District seat of speaker-elect Karen Bass, when Bass is termed out. Bass took the seat after Herb Wesson was termed out. All are Democrats.

Fabian Wesson is no stranger to Sacramento or Los Angeles politics. She is a consultant to Mervyn Dymally, the assemblyman-turned-senator-turned-lieutenant-governor-turned-congressman who is now back in the Assembly and running to go back to the Senate. Wesson also is a member of the Coliseum Commission and the California Science Center board.

Fabian (pronounce it FAY-bee-an, like the teen idol of the 1950s and ‘60s, not FAH-bee-an, like the current speaker) Wesson said she’s still thinking over whether to pursue the seat, especially since she now has Herb home full-time after his six years of jetting to Sacramento and back.

So where is the 47th Assembly District? Take your pick — it covers Westside communities like Century City and Westwood but stretches east to take in the Miracle Mile and South Carthay and south to Culver City, Ladera Heights, Hyde Park and Crenshaw.