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Ron Galperin Dennis Zine Election Results: Galperin Holds Onto Lead

See updates at the bottom of the post. First posted at 9 p.m. Ron Galperin has taken an early lead in the race for City Controller tonight, with early results showing him ahead of City Hall veteran Dennis Zine, 52 to 47.9 percent. These results are an extremely small percentage of the total ballot ... More >>

Ron Galperin Beats Dennis Zine to Become L.A. City Controller -- Final Election Results

The final tally is in: By 3:16 a.m., with 100 percent of precincts reporting, newcomer Ron Galperin had decisively beaten City Hall veteran Dennis Zine, getting elected L.A.'s new controller with 56.2 percent of the vote. Galperin's victory is arguably the biggest upset of this city's municipal ele ... More >>

Los Angeles Voter Guide May 21, 2013: Mayor, Weed Measures, City Council, City Attorney, LAUSD Board and The Works

Here's a quick guide to the key races and issues on the May 21, 2013 ballot in the city of Los Angeles. Los Angeles Mayoral Race: Read this fascinating dissection of the five main behavioral and philosophical differences between 2013 Los Angeles mayoral candidates Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti, ... More >>

Dennis Zine vs. Ron Galperin: What You Need to Know About the L.A. City Controller's Race

If you're not sure whether Dennis Zine or Ron Galperin should get your vote for L.A. city controller, you're not alone: A recent USC/L.A. Times poll found that a whopping 41 percent of voters are still undecided on that very question. So who should you vote for? The two men who made it out of the ... More >>

Two New Polls Show Dead Heat In Mayor's Race; But Are They Believable?

Today we have two new polls in the L.A. mayor's race, and both show Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel in a statistical dead heat.The Garcetti campaign dismissed the numbers, while the Greuel campaign embraced them as a sign that she has "momentum" following her second-place finish in the March 5 primar ... More >>

Los Angeles City Controller Primary Results: Ron Galperin and Dennis Zine to Face Each Other in May Runoff

In the Los Angeles City Controller race, Dennis Zine and Ron Galperin are heading to a May 21 runoff. Zine raised more money -- $811,000 to Galperin's $362,000 -- but Galperin got a Los Angeles Times endorsement and kept things close. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, neither Zine nor Galper ... More >>

Los Angeles City Controller Primary: Absentee Ballot Results Show Dennis Zine Ahead of Ron Galperin

In the Los Angeles City Controller race, frontrunners Dennis Zine, Cary Brazeman, and Ron Galperin are duking it out. Zine raised more money than his two rivals -- $811,000 to Galperin's $362,000 and Brazeman's $215,000 -- but Galperin got a Los Angeles Times endorsement. As of now, Zine leads with ... More >>

Los Angeles City Controller Primary Results: Ron Galperin and Dennis Zine Spar in Close Contest

In the Los Angeles City Controller race, frontrunners Dennis Zine and Ron Galperin are duking it out. Zine raised more money -- $811,000 to Galperin's $362,000 -- but Galperin got a Los Angeles Times endorsement and is keeping things close. A May runoff looks likely. With 30 percent of precincts re ... More >>

L.A. Sidewalk Repair War: Dennis Zine's Own Block got Fixed, Now City Controller Candidates Cary Brazeman, Ron Galperin, Cry Foul

L.A. City Councilman Dennis Zine may wish sidewalks had gotten fixed anywhere other than his own street a few years ago -- after all, there are 5,000 miles of broken sidewalks in Los Angeles from which to choose. Instead, Zine yesterday handed his rival City Controller candidates Cary Brazeman and R ... More >>

Laura Chick Throws Her Support Behind Ron Galperin For L.A. Controller, Passing Over Dennis Zine

If you judge strictly by fundraising, you'd have to say that Councilman Dennis Zine is the man to beat in the race to be the next L.A. city controller.But Ron Galperin, an attorney and onetime council candidate, is mounting a serious challenge. Though he has less than half the money that Zine does, ... More >>

Justin Bieber's Paparazzi Chase Should Have Got Him Arrested - L.A. Councilman Dennis Zine

Updated at the bottom: Zine tells us what happened. First posted at 12:44 p.m. L.A. City Councilman Dennis Zine opened a can of verbal whoop ass on Justin Bieber after he spotted the pop star speeding in Sherman Oaks this morning. Biebs got a speeding ticket for driving in excess of 65 miles an ho ... More >>

The 5 Best Jokes From The L.A. Political Roast of Councilman Herb Wesson

​If redistricting humor is your cup of tea, then the L.A. Political Roast was the place to be last night. About 900 lobbyists, elected officials, and assorted City Hall hacks gathered at the Beverly Hilton to raise money for diabetes research and roast Council President Herb Wesson.At most, there ... More >>

Cary Brazeman, L.A. Density Watchdog, Runs For City Controller Against Dennis Zine

Cary Brazeman: Vote for this 'fro, bro.​And now the student becomes the teacher. Maybe. Neighborhood development watchdog Cary Brazeman, a real pain in the ass for City Hall, tells us he filed to run for City Controller. That doesn't mean he won't still be a thorn in the side of the City Cou ... More >>

Dennis Zine, L.A. City Councilman And Bon Vivant, Can't Seem to Find Mike Hunt

Dennis Zine is the L.A. City Councilman who seems to have a way with women (particularly with women who lobby City Hall), but in this case his lack of knowledge about female anatomy left him looking somewhat like a virgin on prom night. That's right, senor Zine fell for the old Mike Hunt trick at a ... More >>

Buy Spray Paint in L.A., Give Your Address And ID For a Possible Police File Under Councilman Dennis Zine's Anti-Graffiti Proposal

Krylon​Updated at the bottom with reaction from the ACLU, which says this might not survive a constitutional challenge (what with freedom of speech and all). First posted at 2:35 p.m. Dennis Zine is the L.A. City Councilman who successfully got Aaron Brothers to back off its graffiti-themed b ... More >>

Dennis Zine, L.A. City Councilman From The West Valley, Aims For City Controller's Job

Stop! Or I'll audit.​We always thought that Dennis Zine had control issues. Not just because he's a former cop who continues to work as a reservist, or for his alleged, lobbyist-in-a-skirt-chasing ways. No, he's a self-styled deficit hawk on the L.A. City Council. And today he made his issue ... More >>

L.A. City Councilman Dennis Zine, in Final Moments Before Budget Passage: What About Cutting $150 Million in City-Worker Bonuses?

WikipediaExcuse the councilman's Dr. Evilness; he's got your money in mind.​City Councilman Dennis Zine got 99 problems, but a blind eye to L.A.'s extravagant set of city-worker privileges ain't one. His op-ed in the LA Daily News this morning calls out his fellow politicians for gutting cruci ... More >>

Here Are Some Jokes About Dennis Zine Having Sex With Lobbyists

Dennis Zine was the honoree at Thursday's L.A. Political Roast​In its 14th year, the L.A. Political Roast went meta. Each year, City Hall lobbyists and politicians consort over dinner and drinks while a political figure is ritually humiliated.Last night, the victim was Councilman Dennis Zine, and ... More >>

Traveling Billboards Impounded In San Fernando Valley (City Councilman Dennis Zine Triumphant)

banbillboardblight.orgBan them all! (Except this one).​Those mobile billboard advertising strip clubs, DUI attorneys and other high-end cultural fare are dead meat if the park in the city of L.A. In fact, starting Jan. 1, they've been outlawed along curbs statewide. To that end, L.A. city Cou ... More >>

Dennis Zine's Fling With Lobbyist Forces Recusal On LAX Contract

Dennis Zine​Councilman Dennis Zine has decided to recuse himself from the debate over a $271 million contract for a utility plant at LAX, after it was reported that he is dating the lobbyist for a losing bidder.In a statement issued today, Zine said he had consulted with the city attorney's office ... More >>

How Does L.A. Councilman Dennis Zine Attract So Many Women?

Mysterious and spooky, he's Dennis Zine.​LA Weekly received some really thoughtful comments after staff writer Gene Maddaus confirmed that a lobbyist for a firm that's protesting its loss of a $271-million contract with city-controlled LAX is going out with a man who has a lot of say over the ... More >>

Dennis Zine Dating Lobbyist For Losing LAX Bidder [Updated]

Dennis Zine​Councilman Dennis Zine is dating a lobbyist for a firm that is protesting a $271 million contract before the City Council.In an interview, Veronica Becerra confirmed that she is working for Tutor-Perini, which is seeking to build a new utility plant at Los Angeles International Airport ... More >>

L.A. City Council Wary Of Library Tax

​Since the L.A. City Council balanced the budget by taking an ax to the Library Department, supporters have been pushing for a new tax that would keep branches open six days a week.But at a hearing today, the council seemed extremely reluctant to ask the voters to approve a proposed $39 annual par ... More >>

Rent-Control Advocates File Claims Agaist City After Clash With Police At L.A. City Hall

Eric Leonard​Six rent-control advocates filed claims against the city Wednesday, saying they suffered from physical and emotional injury after city law enforcement officers clashed with them during a raucous City Council meeting last month. The half-dozen activists filed claims worth $100,000 ... More >>

Busty Manikins At Tarzana Lingerie Shop Under Watchful Eyes

File photo.​A Tarzana lingerie shop's busty manikins -- big breasts, small waist, skimpy underwear -- are being checked out by city Building and Safety Department and code enforcement officials after Los Angeles city Councilman Dennis Zine received a complaint about the bodacious bodies, accor ... More >>

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

Parking: A Fine Mess

Fines jacked up by L.A. City Council send strapped Angelenos into community service

Cops, City Concerned Over Prisoner Release (Plus, We Got It Wrong)

​Police and city leaders expressed fear and loathing over Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's two-year plan to release 21,000 prisoners, a move designed to relieve overcrowding at state lockups and provide some budget relief. (We got it wrong: We have been reporting that the release was a piece of ... More >>

Councilman To Take Down Taggers In The Valley

Dennis Zine.​Councilman Dennis Zine will put on his Los Angeles Police Department reservist's uniform and participate in a task force targeting graffiti taggers in his own district in the West Valley Tuesday morning. The task force, which will include Gang Intervention Team officers, will che ... More >>

Facts or No Facts, L.A. City Council Still Plows Ahead on Medical Weed Law

Whether they were taking their cues from medical marijuana advocates or still dreadfully ill-informed, several Los Angeles City Council members continued to throw around bad numbers and loose facts as they worked for hours on a medical marijuana dispensary ordinance yesterday.L.A. City Councilman De ... More >>

L.A.'s Medical-Weed Wars

How the potheads outwitted Antonio Villaraigosa and the L.A. City Council

L.A. City Council Members Set To Earn More Pay Than The Governor Of California

​Thats right folks. If the a state pay commission has its way the governor's salary and those of other state elected officials will get an 18 percent reduction starting next month, putting the pay for Los Angeles City councilmembers in a rarified air above that of the governor of 36 million pe ... More >>

Staples Center Owner To Kick In For City's Jackson Memorial Costs

By Tibby Rothman and Dennis Romero Anschutz Entertainment Group, the owner of Staples Center and the organizer behind the controversial Michael Jackson memorial there in July, will pay to defray at least some of the city's costs to police, direct traffic and clean-up during and after the event, acc ... More >>

Bratton and Villaraigosa Stare Down City Council Over LAPD Hiring Freeze

Resembling a farewell tour of your favorite rock band, only this time there won't be any reunion gigs, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bill Bratton and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa are together again for one last stare down of the L.A. City Council, which is mulling over a plan to place a "tempora ... More >>

Andrew Adelman's Building & Safety Mess

Lurid rape claim aside, there's no mystery about his failed oversight

L.A.'s Reefer Revolution

City Hall's yawning loophole for pot dispensaries spawns a Woodstock economy

L.A. City Council Clings to Stunning Perks and Pay

They can't bear to give up those record-high $178,898 salaries

Should L.A. City Council Agree to Slash Its $178,789 Salaries?

15 richly paid politicians are happy to cut their pay — by 2.5 percent

City Council to Boks: Restore Spay-Neuter Pet Vouchers

L.A.'s Animal Services general manager Ed Boks left a City Council committee hearing with his tail between his legs yesterday, after being grilled about his unilateral decision to suspend his agency's spay-neuter voucher program. Last week Boks, claiming his department had to plug a huge budget gap, ... More >>

Torched Dancer and Bikini Club Profiled

Today's L.A. Daily News identifies the exotic dancer who was set ablaze yesterday as a Brazilian-born single mother of two named Roberta Abdue Dos Santos Busby. The 27-year-old Simi Valley woman had recently lost her bill-collector job and returned to dancing at Babes 'n Beer Sports Bar in Tarzana. ... More >>

Ron Kaye Revolts on Bastille Day

Ron Kaye, the former editor of the Los Angeles Daily News, looked happy. It had been only two months or so since he left the San Fernando Valley newspaper, and now he stood on the steps of City Hall in downtown and was surrounded by environmentalists, homeowner association members, and a whole bunch ... More >>

Fury Over Jamiel's Law

Should a movement to protect kids be named after an alleged gangbanger?

Building a Britney Bubble: The Paparazzi No-Spy Zone

Will the City Council decide who is a protected "celebrity"?

DEA's Scarlet Letter

Nervous L.A. landlords and dispensaries get caught in the medical-pot wars

Dog Food Caper

Journalists and City Council cave to iffy lawsuit

First-Day Chatters

José and Herb can’t be bothered by the public on their inaugural day

We Endorse

L.A. Weekly’s choices in next Tuesday’s election

In the Lap of Lobbyists

Monty Python and the Flipping Bird

Gil's Calling. Who?