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UPDATE: What It Takes to Be Mayor — Wendy for “All of L.A.”

Posted on January 29, 2013 by

UPDATE: Pit bull journalists Brian Hews and Randy Economy at the Los Cerritos Community Newspaper who broke the Assessor John Noguez story a year ago now have sunk their teeth into Wendy Greuel’s political consultant John Shallman. They have called … Continue reading →

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Did Controller Wendy Greuel Break the Law Campaigning for Mayor for Three Years Instead of Doing Her Job?

Posted on January 7, 2013 by

The little paper that can — and did expose criminality in the L.A. County Assessor John Noguez’s office — has published an article based 640 pages of documents accusing L.A. City Controller Wendy Greuel of spending ” an overwhelming majority … Continue reading →

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Don’t Forget Who Caused the Children’s Museum Fiasco: Make It the Museum to Public Accountability

Posted on December 20, 2012 by

Forgotten in the uproar over the latest lousy twist in the in the L.A. Children’s Museum tragedy is how it came to be built at Hansen Dam in the farthest north corner of the city instead of at the North … Continue reading →

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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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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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Happy Labor Day: Celebrate Working Men and Women Even the Eighty-Eight Percent Excluded from Unions

Posted on September 3, 2012 by

It was pretty clear during the Republican Convention that the Romney-Ryan ticket has trouble keeping its facts straight or perhaps we’ve gotten to the point that none of us really cares about what is true and what isn’t true. Labor … 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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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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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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