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Los Angeles, CA<\/strong>— This afternoon, friends, colleagues, and loved ones of the late Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge gathered at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for a ceremony unveiling a plaque dedicated to LaBonge at the Coliseum\u2019s Court of Honor.<\/p>\n \u201cTom was a cheerleader for Los Angeles,\u201d said Supervisor Janice Hahn, who served alongside LaBonge on the LA City Council and nominated him to the Court of Honor. \u201cHe loved everything about this city. It is fitting that generations to come will walk around the legends of the Court of Honor, see this plaque, and learn about the one and only Mr. Los Angeles.\u201d<\/p>\n Councilman Tom LaBonge, who passed away in January 2021, was a longtime supporter of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. He attended Coliseum Commission meetings long after he retired from the City Council and raised funds for other Court of Honor honorees. He even worked as an NFL sideline photographer at several games at the Coliseum.<\/p>\n The ceremony featured Supervisor Janice Hahn, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission President George Pla, former Raiders players Mike Haynes and Shelby Jordan, and LaBonge\u2019s wife Brigid LaBonge.<\/p>\n In her closing remarks, Brigid LaBonge told the crowd, \u201cI ask you to go forward in joy and happiness and go do something Tom would do \u2013 whatever it is you think Tom would do.\u201d<\/p>\n Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission President George Pla<\/p>\n Former Raiders players Mike Haynes<\/p>\n Former Raiders players Shelby Jordan<\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Los Angeles, CA— This afternoon, friends,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47273,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47253\/revisions\/47273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/lapost.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DSC05577.jpg\")
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