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Assemblywoman Burke resigns, citing desire to spend more time with family amid pandemic By City News Service
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he resignation of Assemblywoman Autumn R. Burke officially became effective on Tuesday. Burke announced her resignation the Monday prior because, "I feel it is of the utmost importance that I have the flexibility and ability to spend more time with my family." In the letter to her 62nd Assembly District constituents announcing her resignation, Burke wrote that the COVID-19 pandemic "has affected the lives and consciousness of everyone and I am no exception." "Serving as your representative has been a true privilege -- one that I have taken seriously," Burke, D-Marina del Rey, wrote. "This has been one of the hardest decisions of my life." Burke wrote that her hope was to finish out her term, which expires in December, "but circumstances have recently changed." The 48-year-old Burke is the mother of a daughter, Isabella, whose signature was
next to her mother's on the letter announcing her resignation. Burke was elected in 2014 and reelected three times. She chaired the Committee on Revenue and Taxation and the Select Committee on Career Technical Education and Building a 21st Century Workforce. Burke is the daughter of former Los Angeles County Supervisor, Assemblywoman and Rep. Yvonne Braithwaite Burke and William Burke, a former chairman of the South Coast Air Quality Management District Governing Board. Autumn Burke's election marked the first time a mother and daughter have both served in the Assembly. Her mother was the first member of Congress to give birth while in office. In her resignation letter, Burke cited the following accomplishments: • the 2016 passage of the Lifting Children and Families Out of Poverty Act, which commits the Legislature to a goal of reducing child poverty by 50% over 20 years, and provides a framework of
Asm. Autumn Burke. | Photo courtesy of Asm. Burke's Office
research-backed solutions to achieve it; • the expansion of California's Earned Income Tax Credit;
• passing one of the state's largest tax credits to help small businesses; • passage of the Transformative Climate
Communities legislation which she wrote "demonstrated that environmental policies can, in many ways, create opportunities for our
urban communities; and • passage of the Reproductive Freedom, See Assemblywoman Page 13
FBI arrests man who allegedly shot BB guns at Pasadena Planned Parenthood By City News Service
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n Altadena man who allegedly fired BB guns at the Planned Parenthood facility in Pasadena on several occasions was arrested on federal
charges of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm for carrying a loaded handgun during one of the attacks on the women's reproductive health clinic. Richard Royden Chamberlin, 53, who also maintains
a residence in Ontario, was arrested by FBI special agents. The arrest was made pursuant to a one-count criminal complaint that charges him with the illegal possession of a .22-caliber handgun, according to the U.S. Attorney's
Office. At his initial appearance in Los Angeles federal court last Friday, Chamberlin was granted release on a $50,000 bond. Arraignment was set for Feb. 17. According to an affidavit
in support of the complaint, on multiple occasions in 2020 and 2021, Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley reported it had been fired upon by the occupant of a moving vehicle. Video surveillance from
several of these attacks showed a Chevrolet Malibu allegedly registered to Chamberlin driving by with its window down when the shots were fired. Planned ParentSee BB guns Page 13