'Say My Name: LaBonge'
With an online guide for names like "Villaraigosa", we thought it's time to help educate Angelenos on other elected officials whose names often get mis-pronounced. Now,we don't have an handy audio files like the Mayor has for his name, but we've done our best to help you pronounce their last names phonetically.
- Councilman Tom LaBonge: luh-BONJ
- County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky: yaar-o-SLAV-skee
- Councilman Jose Huizar: WEE-sar
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