Wendy Greuel's Inside Game

If Greuel or Garcetti are elected, lemme spell Los Angeles for you: D-E-T-R-O-I-T.

One does not have to be a rocket scientist to figure the relationship of the IBEW and Wendy Greuel. They have put in over $500,000 for an independent campaign to support Wendy. Of course they expect a pay back in the years ahead.

LA Weekly has done a marvelous job covering this election. This story on D'Arcy is way ahead of anything the LA Times or Daily News has done on the election. I hope voters are going online to follow the campaign in the LA Weekly newspaper.

Funny thing is one a macro scale the right wing war on unions looks wrong but on the micro level of LA government the unions do have way to much power and influence resulting in these absurd double dipping pensions and high salaries etc etc.

But its a democratic show and all the realistic candidates are insiders and won't get elected without union support so how is anything going to change?

Final rant - lets make the fire department's only job fighting fires. Create a new department dedicated to saving little old ladies that fall down so instead of having 15 firefighters show up in 2 big trucks you have 2 guys in an ambulance show up - saving how many billions a year????

You go girlfriend!

@ketchy . DWP rates in the Valley are sky high.  They would be much lower if the City Hall politicians weren't in the back pocket of the union that represents the DWP workers.   The article made it clear that Wendy Greuel is in the back pocket of the DWP union.  She allows their lobbyist to have free access to her and her office. What more do we need to know? 

A tough negotiator would achieve a fair deal for the workers but also the rate payers (voters) who own the DWP.  Wendy is going to give them a huge raise to pay back their investment in her campaign, and that funding will be passed onto the city rate payers (voters).  No thanks. 

The article made it crystal clear.  If you want a higher water and power bill, vote for Wendy.

This is corruption at its peak, it is ridiculous that the DWP bosses make more than the mayor, it is just criminal to hear of something like that. If we elect Wendy Gruel or Garcetti, we will have more of the same, maybe it is time to elect someone that is outside of this dirty politics pool, someone like Kevin James, someone who is going to make fair pension deals that eliminate  special benefits and unnecessary health benefits that are currently increasing our city deficit. If anyone is passionate on restoring LA and interested in volunteering for Kevin James, visit volunteerforkevin.wordpress.com

Great article! Thank you for debunking the Greuel fiscal conservancy myth, and for shedding light on her comfortable relationship with the DWP

A must read piece, esp for anyone that's paid a DWP bill.   Who sez journalism is on the wane?  Good job connecting the dots here, Maddeus.

They're all thieves -- except for Kevin James. And if he wins he'll become one, too.

There's a rumor going around that when Garcetti didn't get the DWP endorsement, he started crying.  Does anyone know if this is true?  If so, please let me know....

Thanks for warning us about this Wendy Greuel.  The last thing we need is another Mayor that's owned by the DWP union.  Our rates out here in the Valley are already high enough.  In fact they're ridiculously high for a utility that's owed by the taxpayers.  Now I see why, so we can pick up that inflated salaries of the union bosses.

I won't be voting for Wendy Greuel or anyone who's owned by these public employee unions.  We've stomped out their propositions in the past and plan on doing it again next month.