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The Mayor’s Race: Much Ado About Nothing — Or Is It a Chance to Fix L.A.

Posted on December 5, 2012 by

Video streaming by Ustream Here’s my takeaway from moderating the Big Four candidates for L.A. mayor at the CD5 Coalition’s forum last Saturday: If Jan Perry, Kevin James, Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti really meant every they said, every promise … Continue reading →

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Perry, James, Garcetti and Greuel Face Grilling by CD5 Homeowners: Mayoral Forum Live on Ustream Saturday 10 a.m.

Posted on November 30, 2012 by

Video streaming by Ustream Marcia Selz, president of the Council District 5 Home Owners Association, and I will be asking the tough questions of the leading mayoral candidates on Saturday with a live broadcast starting at 10 a.m. at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cd5-hoa-events. This … Continue reading →

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GUEST COLUMN: Blogger John Walsh’s ‘Anybody But Garcetti’ Report on Wednesday Night’s Hollywood Mayoral Debate

Posted on September 19, 2012 by

By JOHN WALSH HollywoodHighlands.org “BLOGGER ASKS MAYORAL CANDIDATE ERIC GARCETTI TO QUICKLY APOLOGIZE FOR SARCASTIC JOKE AIMED AT MODERATOR MS. TRACI SAVAGE’S MOTHER DURING TONIGHT’S OTHERWISE UNEVENTFUL MAYORAL DEBATE!  THIS “ANYBODY BUT GARCETTI FOR MAYOR” BLOGGER ALONG WITH MOST OF … Continue reading →

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LA Is Open for Business Alright — New Business Tax Holiday Extended to 2015 despite $30 Million Loss in Last 3 Years

Posted on September 18, 2012 by

Led by the man who would be mayor, Eric Garcetti, the City Council on Tuesday declared on a 10-2 vote that “LA is open for business” — a double-edged phrase by which they mean they are going to give you … Continue reading →

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DRAFT ZEV: Can Anybody Do a Better Job as Mayor Than the Last Lion of LA Politics?

Posted on August 25, 2012 by

A few days ago I told a friend of Supervisor Yaroslavsky that I thought I would wind up supporting him for Mayor of Los Angeles. At the least, I said sarcastically, “Zev is the lesser of four evils.” On Thursday, … Continue reading →

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Defend, Deny, Deflect — Garcetti Offers No Straight Answers for What Went Wrong or How To Fix LA

Posted on June 18, 2012 by

As an officer and a gentleman, Navy Lt. Eric Garcetti, reserves, cannot tell a lie without dishonor so we have to take everything he says as the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Thus we take as … Continue reading →

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Austin Beutner Learns a Hard Lesson about LA Politics

Posted on May 11, 2012 by

If Austin Beutner can’t do it, nobody can. Here’s a fabulously wealthy guy with a proven track record of success at everything he tried, a man who retired after he broke his neck in a cycling accident and decided at age … Continue reading →

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LA’s Budget: Next Year Is Going to Be Worse and So Is the Year After … and the Year After … and the Year After

Posted on April 17, 2012 by

City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana presented a dark and gloomy picture to the City Council Tuesday of the city’s finances with massive deficits totaling more than $1 billion over the next four years. In this the fourth year since the … Continue reading →

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Benchmarking the Mayor’s Race: Can Any Candidate Light the Fire of Voters’ Passion? Can Any Actually Govern the City?

Posted on April 9, 2012 by

This is not a horse race as much as the media treats elections that way; it is a political campaign that promises to be as rough as any for mayor of Los Angeles since the ugliness of Yorty-Bradley contests. There’s … Continue reading →

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A Man for All Seasons, All Races, All Religions — or Is Eric Garcetti Just Confused About Who He Is?

Posted on March 19, 2012 by

The City Council on Friday — just before savaging the voting rights of African-Americans, Koreans and other Asian-Pacific Islanders along with just about everybody else — celebrated Nowruz, the  Persian New Year, and St. Patrick’s Day. The Nowruz event, strangely was led … Continue reading →

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