West Los Angeles College achieved a milestone last year when it became one of the first community colleges in California to create a bachelor’s degree program in dental hygiene.
Now it can also boast hosting a campaign event for the first female presumptive nominee for president of a major political party.
Surrounded by elected officials, celebrities and supporters, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stopped by the college on June 3, four days ahead of the California primary. She was declared the Democratic presumptive presidential nominee two days after her campaign stop in Culver City, where she went after her general election opponent Republican businessman Donald Trump for “lowering the bar” in the campaign.
“We have worked too hard for too long. We have come too far to let anybody turn us back now and we are going to stand our ground while we seek common ground to solve the problems that face our country, to bring people to together across all the lines that divide us,” Clinton told the crowd at the “Women for Hillary” event.
Clinton’s appearance in Culver City was the first in a succession of campaign stops last week on her way to clinching the nomination. She joined her husband, former president Bill Clinton in Westchester last month for her nephew’s graduation from Loyola Marymount University.
Last January, West Los Angeles hosted Vice President Joe Biden to highlight the Obama administration’s proposal to make the first two years of community college free.
Clinton is not the first presidential candidate to visit Culver City in recent years. Former Democratic Sen. John Edwards (D- North Carolina) came through the “Heart of Screenland) on a campaign stop at the Culver City Senior Center in 2004.
