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May 22, 2013
Eric Garcetti Poised For Victory In L.A. Mayor's Race
After nearly two years of campaigning, Councilman Eric Garcetti is poised for victory in the race for L.A. mayor. Just before midnight Tuesday, Garcetti addressed a cheering crowd of at least 2,000 supporters at the Hollywood Palladium, saying that while the final tally was not yet known, "this is s ... More >>
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May 15, 2013
Tiny Glendale Water & Power Shows L.A. How To Tame DWP Union Boss Brian D'Arcy
Scott Ochoa had never met Brian D'Arcy, the head of the powerful electrical workers' union, when D'Arcy called him up in a rage last year. Ochoa, the Glendale city manager, was trying to work out an agreement on behalf of Glendale Water & Power, the city utility. D'Arcy didn't like how the negot ... More >>
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May 13, 2013
A User's Guide To The L.A. Mayor's Race: 5 Key Differences Between Garcetti And Greuel
The last televised mayoral debate is tonight on KCAL, which means one more opportunity to point out that the candidates agree with each other on everything. That's been one of the recurring themes of the race: Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel are fundamentally the same.The problem with that is not tha ... More >>
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April 19, 2013
Eric Garcetti's 2009 E-mail To Union Boss Brian D'Arcy Shows Cozier Relationship
In his campaign for L.A. mayor, Councilman Eric Garcetti has made a lot of hay out of his opponent's labor allies. Brian D'Arcy, the head of the DWP union, has raised $2.7 million to support Controller Wendy Greuel and run attack ads against Garcetti."This is a record for a mayor's race," Garcetti s ... More >>
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April 9, 2013
Why Wendy Greuel's Campaign Stumbled: Recent Shake-up Reveals Aides' Power Struggle
Wendy Greuel entered the UCLA Faculty Center last week to Alicia Keys' soaring anthem "Girl On Fire." But after two years of campaigning for mayor, and a disappointing second-place finish in the March 5 primary, Greuel was still trying to light a spark. In her speech, she vowed she would break ... More >>
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March 28, 2013
Herb Wesson's Fiscal Commission Stacked With Wendy Greuel Supporters
L.A. Council President Herb Wesson today officially unveiled a new "L.A. 2020" Commission tasked with wading through L.A.'s finances and developing some recommendations to keep the city out of bankruptcy court.Though the commission's chair, Mickey Kantor, has said repeatedly that the commission will ... More >>
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March 22, 2013
Mayoral Contenders Keep The Gloves On At L.A. Political Roast
Councilman Tom LaBonge was the honoree at last night's 16th Annual Los Angeles Political Roast at the Beverly Hilton. And while there were plenty of jokes about his fondness for pumpkin bread, all eyes were on mayoral rivals Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti to see if they would get in any nasty digs a ... More >>
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March 19, 2013
Council President Herb Wesson Taps Mickey Kantor To Study L.A.'s Budget Woes
In the wake of the failure of a half-cent sales tax increase, L.A. City Council President Herb Wesson has recruited Mickey Kantor, the former U.S. Commerce Secretary, to head up a commission to examine L.A.'s troubled finances.Kantor is putting together a group of business and labor leaders to study ... More >>
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March 12, 2013
Mayoral Candidate Wendy Greuel Picks Up Critical Support From L.A. County Labor Federation
Update below, 5:15 p.m. Full rundown of Garcetti and Greuel's remarks behind closed doors at the Fed today. Greuel: "I'm gonna stand with labor, not stand up to labor." Controller Wendy Greuel got a major lift this morning, as the political committee of the L.A. County Federation of Labor voted ... More >>
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March 6, 2013
Los Angeles Mayoral Results: Eric Garcetti And Wendy Greuel Heading To May Runoff
Councilman Eric Garcetti and Controller Wendy Greuel appear headed to a mayoral runoff in May, after taking the top two spots in Tuesday's primary election.With about 42% of precincts reporting, Garcetti had 34% of the vote to Greuel's 29%. The third place contender, Councilwoman Jan Perry, trailed ... More >>
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March 2, 2013
Wendy Greuel Had Dinner With Union Boss; Rival Mayoral Candidate Alleges Illegal Coordination
In the closing weekend of the L.A. mayoral primary, new allegations are surfacing about a dinner that Controller Wendy Greuel shared recently with one of the co-chairs of the independent group supporting her campaign.Independent committees are barred from coordinating their efforts with candidates. ... More >>
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February 14, 2013
Wendy Greuel's Inside Game
The controller's union ties could be her biggest advantage in the race for L.A. mayor — or her biggest liability
Blogs
October 11, 2011
Search for L.A. Department of Water and Power 'Ratepayer Advocate' Off to Terrible Start
The DWP needs some oversight for its oversight.Remember that feel-good ballot measure you voted on last spring, having to do with your electricity/water bill and government oversight and transparency and all that jazz? Or didn't vote on, but should have? Well, sort of feel-bad news on that ... More >>
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April 5, 2011
The 42 Most Powerful People in Los Angeles*, According to the Downtown News
AEG CEO Tim Leiweke: He's got downtown Los Angeles in his hands*Well, technically just in downtown Los Angeles, but that's where all the big players make all their big decisions anyway, right? Just ask a pissed-off Daily News outsider in the Valley. Jon Regardie at the LA Downtown News knows ... More >>
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March 17, 2011
Bernard Parks Was Targeted as Union Object Lesson
$1.2 million buys a lot of fear at L.A. City Hall if that's your aim
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February 28, 2011
Councilman Bernard Parks Likens Union Leaders To Slaveholders
Bernard Parks: Not going to take it anymoreUpdate: 4:30 p.m. Parks' opponent, Forescee Hogan-Rowles, calls Parks' slavery analogy "a racist tactic." More below.The gloves are coming off in the 8th Council District. Councilman Bernard Parks unleashed a righteous vent on Twitter on Sunday, apparent ... More >>
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February 24, 2011
Bernard Parks v. Forescee Hogan-Rowles
Incumbent's rival in Los Angeles Council District 8 was forced from an investing board for gift-seeking
Blogs
February 10, 2011
Jan Perry: Union Campaign Against Bernard Parks Is A "Tantrum"
Brian D'ArcyCouncilwoman Jan Perry called out the leader of IBEW Local 18 today, saying that a union-backed campaign against Bernard Parks is nothing more than a "massive, ridiculous tantrum."Two union groups have so far spent $192,000 $207,000* to defeat Parks in the city election on March 8. Th ... More >>
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February 3, 2011
L.A. City Council Bums
Entrenched and ridiculed, they line up for a March 8 "coronation"
Blogs
December 10, 2010
Reform At Corrupt L.A. Department Of Water And Power Takes Another Step Backward, With Help Of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
PHOTO BY TED SOQUIThe mayor is in Chicago today -- a fitting host for his Chicago politicsUpdated after the jump: Will there be enough council strength to override the mayor's veto next Wednesday? Originally posted on Dec. 8 at 12:30 p.m. Given the amount of time and talk devoted to the Los ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
L.A. Has a Jammed 2011 Ballot
Residents will be asked to rein in DWP, save libraries from Villaraigosa's pen
Blogs
November 23, 2010
Rudy Martinez, Reality-TV Star Up For City Council, Bashes Incumbent Jose Huizar For His Watered-Down DWP Vote
A&ERudy Martinez at his day jobExclusive: Fiery response from Camp Huizar after the jump! Originally posted at 11:30 a.m. To be an L.A. City Councilmember last Tuesday, voting on the creation of an Office of Public Accountability for the Department of Water and Power, was a lose-lose situati ... More >>
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November 17, 2010
DWP Oversight Office Watered Down, Barely Moved Toward Ballot After L.A. City Council President Eric Garcetti And Seven Other Councilmembers Crumble To DWP Intimidation
Could that be the DWP in Garcetti's ear?Yes, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is as bad as you've heard. 1) Its overpaid suits proposed unwarranted 28-percent rate hikes on residents last spring while guarding a $73.5 million surplus like territorial dogs. 2) They only show up t ... More >>
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November 16, 2010
L.A. City Council Squeezes Two Public-Accountability Positions For Unruly DWP Into Frantic Last Meeting Before Ballot Deadline; DWP's Brian D'Arcy Still Stands In The Way
Ron Kaye LADWP union head Brian D'Arcy will stop at nothing to keep the public department a royal familyUpdated after the jump with new details on today's debate. Of all the frenzied March ballot decisions going down at City Hall today, before the Wednesday deadline -- outlined in the Weekly's "R ... More >>
News
May 13, 2010
DWP: Reservoir Dogs
Can Austin Beutner negotiate a DWP swamp protected by top belligerent Raman Raj?
News
April 15, 2010
City Hall's 2010 DWP Debacle
How Beutner, Carr, Carson, D'Arcy, Freeman, Greuel, Raj, Santana, Szabo, Villaraigosa & Co. pushed L.A. to the cliff edge
Blogs
April 14, 2010
L.A. Water And Power Union Head Doesn't Care About Angry Ratepayers
KCETVal Zavala.Amid the shameless-but-failed attempt to raise L.A.'s electricity rates by as much as 28 percent, a limping city budget that has caused layoffs, a reduction of police on the streets, and one less day of public library access, most Department of Water and Power employees are enj ... More >>

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