Scott Malsin is back.
For gawkers out the window of the Fine Arts Auditorium on the West L.A. College campus just after 1:30 yesterday afternoon, the sure sign was the sight of state Assemblymember Sebastian Ridley-Thomas and Mr. Malsin seated side by side on the back of a motorized cart.
The balky, unsleek contraption was climbing the hill from the parking garage to the main campus.
After a self-imposed hiatus of 25 months, the 1½-term former City Council reappears this month as the just-minted Westside field representative for the youngest member of the state Legislature.
“My primary area of responsibility will be the western portion of the 54th Assembly District,” Mr. Malsin said by telephone (310.342.1070) this morning from Mr. Ridley-Thomas’s Corporate Pointe offices.
“My responsibility is to provide constituent services, accompany the Assembly member when he is attending meetings, attending events or meetings on his behalf when he is unable to go.”
[img]2424|right|Scott Malsin||no_popup[/img]Two years ago Dec. 11, Mr. Malsin resigned from the City Council just before reaching the exact middle of his second four-year term. The move was executed to protest his city pension under rearranged guidelines.
Twenty-five months and two weeks later, Mr. Malsin is holding down a salaried position in the office of a strongly popular Assemblyman whose job was pursued last autumn by another former Councilman, Christopher Armenta.
How did Mr. Malsin land the visible position?
“Sebastian called me in late December. He asked if I would be interested in taking on this job?
“‘Very interested,’ I told him.”
Shortly after, the agreement was closed and Mr. Malsin had returned to politics.
