Mel Levine

Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners

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President of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Board of Commissioners and practicing attorney at the Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn and Crutcher; former Congressman (D-CA); former board-member of AIPAC, the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee; advisor to Barack Obama

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LA's Department of Water and Power is the biggest utility of its kind in the country, but it's had five managers in the past seven years.

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