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May 23, 2013
Eric Garcetti, The Boy Mayor Of Los Angeles
Eric Garcetti, 42, will be the youngest mayor of Los Angeles in 100 years. At 42, he's not quite as fresh-faced as he was when he ran for City Council at the ripe age of 29. But he's still young enough to pop-and-lock and play keyboards with Moby.The "boy mayor" has a long history in urban poli ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
May 22, 2013
Why Laura Chick -- Not Wendy Greuel -- Would Have Beaten Eric Garcetti for Mayor
The wrong city controller ran against Eric Garcetti. As current Los Angeles City Controller Wendy Greuel's run for mayor ended in defeat, one can't help but think that Laura Chick, the hard-charging, plainspoken controller between 2001 and 2009, would have mopped the floor with Garcetti. "There is ... More >>
Blogs
May 22, 2013
Eric Garcetti Wins Mayor's Race By Rebuilding The Villaraigosa Coalition, Plus San Fernando Valley Republicans
Eric Garcetti was elected mayor of Los Angeles in Tuesday, reassembling the coalition of Westsiders and Latinos that carried Antonio Villaraigosa into office eight years ago.But as this L.A. Times map shows, Garcetti also carried the northwest San Fernando Valley, a largely Republican area that Vill ... More >>
Blogs
May 22, 2013
5 Interesting Reasons People at Eric Garcetti's Victory Party Voted For Him
By Kate Stephanus Eric Garcetti's victory party last night at the Hollywood Palladium drew hipsters, activists and campaign pros -- along with a few people who had, shall we say, more unusual reasons for lending their support. Some of these partygoers had a lot to say about the issues they were c ... More >>
Blogs
May 21, 2013
Eric Garcetti Wendy Greuel Early Election Results: Greuel Ahead for L.A. Mayor
Update at 11 p.m.: Eric Garcetti pulls ahead in the count. Details at bottom. Update: Wendy Greuel clings to tiniest of leads at 10:30 pm. Updated at bottom. Updated at bottom to explain that the city election web site's confusing "7.52 percent reporting" is wildly misleading. Far far more vote ... More >>
Blogs
May 21, 2013
Eric Garcetti Leads Wendy Greuel in L.A. Mayoral Election, Exit Poll Predicts Garcetti
With inexorably slow vote-counting underway by Los Angeles city officials, Eric Garcetti has pulled in front of Wendy Greuel and a local college exit polls is predicting a Garcetti win. Garcetti's lead is not huge, but the all-important "trend" of the count tonight has benefited Garcetti with each ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2013
Decrying TV Attacks, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Gives A Boost To Wendy Greuel
So much for staying neutral. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has said that he would not get involved in the campaign to succeed him, saying he wants to maintain good relations with both Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti.But if we know one thing about this guy, it's that he's constitutionally incapable of st ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2013
Wendy Greuel Heads To Hollywood To Challenge Eric Garcetti's Turnaround Claim
Wendy Greuel attacked Eric Garcetti on his home turf today, challenging his jobs figures and blaming him for a recent spike in rapes, which she called the "dirty little secret" of Hollywood."It's one of the most dangerous places for women in the city, something Mr. Garcetti seems to be ignoring," Gr ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2013
Eric Garcetti Up 7 Points In New Mayoral Poll; Mike Feuer Has Commanding Advantage In City Attorney Race
Eric Garcetti has a 7-point lead over Wendy Greuel in the race for L.A. mayor with just four days to go before the runoff election, according to a new USC/L.A. Times poll out this evening. The results:Garcetti 48Greuel 41The margin of error is 4.4%, and 11% remain undecided.The poll also gives Mike ... More >>
Blogs
May 9, 2013
Dead Heat: Wendy Greuel Up By One Point In New Mayoral Poll
A new poll in the L.A. mayor's race shows Wendy Greuel up by one point over Eric Garcetti, a sign that her campaign's decision to spend $1.4 million on an unusually early TV ad blitz may have paid off.The poll, by the Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs at Cal State L.A., was conducted April 29-Ma ... More >>
Blogs
May 7, 2013
Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti Stop Hesitating and Support Parent Trigger
It took a while, but Los Angeles mayoral hopefuls Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel finally met with parents and students on Monday at Los Angeles Unified's chronically failing 24th Street Elementary School, where the district's first "Parent Trigger" took place. The Parent Trigger, which is viewed as ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2013
Eric Garcetti's Solyndra: As CODA Declares Bankruptcy, Little Hope Seen Of Recouping L.A.'s Investment
CODA Automotive filed for bankruptcy this week, reigniting a controversy over whether the City of Los Angeles should have pledged $1 million to lure the electric car-maker from Santa Monica.Councilman Eric Garcetti, a candidate for mayor, spearheaded the relocation in 2011, saying it would bring 500 ... More >>
Blogs
April 30, 2013
Eric Garcetti Has One-Point Lead in Mayor's Race, According To DWP Union's New Poll
Eric Garcetti has a one-point lead in the race for L.A. mayor, according to a new poll issued by Working Californians, the DWP union-backed campaign supporting Wendy Greuel.The poll found Garcetti leading 39% to Greuel's 38%, with 23% still undecided. The margin of error is 3.7%.The Greuel campaign ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2013
Sexism in L.A. Mayor's Race? EMILY's List Accused of Demeaning Women
When Wendy Greuel launched her bid to become the first female mayor of Los Angeles, it was probably inevitable that charges of sexism would arise during the campaign. What would have been harder to predict is that those allegations would come from Greuel's opponent. But in the last week, allies of ... More >>
Blogs
April 24, 2013
Eric Garcetti, Wonky Idealist, Vows To Get "Back To Basics" In New TV Ad
One of the continuing wonders of the L.A. mayor's race is watching Eric Garcetti -- the silicon-coated, Donald Shoup-reading, fair-trade-smartphone-toting utopian -- recasting himself as the "back to basics" candidate. What's even more amazing is that Wendy Greuel -- who built a career on potho ... More >>
Blogs
April 23, 2013
A Mayor Spying for the Military? Why Eric Garcetti Should Not Reenlist in the Navy
Updated at the bottom: A government ethics expert has tough questions about how Lieutenant Mayor Eric Garcetti could wear two hats. What is Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti thinking? Garcetti says that if elected mayor of the country's second largest city -- which is broke, has crumblin ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
April 19, 2013
Wendy Greuel TV Ad Attacks Eric Garcetti's Support For Digital Billboards, Which She Also Voted For
Wendy Greuel launched a TV attack ad this morning, faulting her rival in the race for L.A. mayor for his support for a controversial settlement allowing hundreds of digital billboards.However, Greuel also voted for the 2006 settlement with Clear Channel Outdoor and CBS Outdoor when the issue came be ... More >>
Blogs
April 13, 2013
Traffic Experts Crap All Over Eric Garcetti's Million-Dollar Gridlock Prize
At Thursday's mayoral debate, Councilman Eric Garcetti suggested offering a $1 million prize to whoever can solve L.A.'s traffic problems.You might think that traffic experts would be excited about that. But you would be wrong."The solution to L.A.'s traffic problem is a political issue," said Marti ... More >>
Blogs
April 12, 2013
Wendy Greuel And Eric Garcetti Debate, But Expected Fight On Education Fizzles
Mayoral candidates Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti met on Thursday night for their first one-on-one debate. But on the hot topic of the week -- education reform -- an expected confrontation fizzled.Greuel did challenge Garcetti on the issue, but she passed up an opportunity to put Garcetti on the def ... More >>
Blogs
April 9, 2013
24th Street Elementary Pulling Parent Trigger, Despite Eric Garcetti's Condescending Attitude
The Parent Trigger at 24th Street Elementary School in West Adams keeps chugging along -- despite what L.A. mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti thinks about it. Today, Latino and African American parents at 24th Street Elementary will vote to ratify who will operate their kids' school next year. They h ... More >>
Blogs
April 9, 2013
Street Artist Bubblehead Says L.A. Mayoral Election Matters, Makes Art to Inspire Voting
About one in five of you typically votes in a city election like the one coming May 21. It's kind of not a big deal, at least to y'all. One street artist, Bubblehead, is hoping to change your minds about that with a series of pieces put up around town this month:
Blogs
April 5, 2013
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 >>
Blogs
April 4, 2013
New Eric Garcetti Super PAC May Not Be So Super: Committee Has Modest Fundraising Goals
A new super PAC has formed to support Eric Garcetti in the May 21 mayoral runoff. The Committee for a Safer Los Angeles filed paperwork this week to start raising money.The committee is being organized by Brian Van Riper, the consultant who ran Joe Buscaino's San Pedro-area City Council campaign. So ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
March 19, 2013
L.A. County Labor Fed Backs Wendy Greuel, Asks Eric Garcetti To Lay Off Anti-Union Remarks
The L.A. County Federation of Labor today officially threw its support behind Controller Wendy Greuel in the race for L.A. mayor. The Fed's endorsement -- a foregone conclusion since last week's political committee vote -- should provide Greuel a strong get-out-the-vote operation, which could b ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2013
Even After Election, Pro-Greuel Group Still Running TV Ad Attacking Eric Garcetti
Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel flooded the TV airwaves in the week leading up to Tuesday's mayoral primary. Since then, both campaigns have gone off the air and gone back on the fundraising circuit.But that doesn't mean TV viewers can put the election out of their minds completely. Working Californi ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
March 6, 2013
Wendy Greuel Adds More Labor Support, As Eric Garcetti Seeks To Exploit Her Union "Baggage" In Mayoral Runoff
The day after mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel secured a spot in the May 21 runoff against Councilman Eric Garcetti, she won endorsements from two more public employee unions.SEIU Local 721, which represents civilian employees at City Hall, and SEIU United Long Term Care Workers, which represents home ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2013
Los Angeles Mayoral Primary Absentee Ballot Results: Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel Neck and Neck
Early results in the Los Angeles mayoral primary, with about 6 percent of ballots counted show Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti neck and neck, with 33,435 for Garcetti and 33,119 for Greuel. Most of them presumed to be absentee ballots. That puts them both at about 31 percent. Jan Perry is well bac ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2013
Los Angeles Mayoral Primary Early Results: Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel in Tight Duel
Eric Garcetti appeared early tonight to be pulling away from Wendy Greuel somewhat as the two began to cement their front-runner spots for the May 21 runoff. At 11 pm Garcetti had 48,507 of the counted votes, or 34.05 percent, while Greuel had 41,832 or 29.36 percent. Garcetti was being helped, ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2013
Eric Garcetti Flip-flops to Support Parent Trigger School Reform After Media Pressure
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti flip-flopped days before the March 5 primary election, embracing Parent Trigger, the dramatic law now spreading nationwide that lets disgusted parents take over bad schools through petition. On February 15, when L.A. Weekly pressed the five top mayoral ca ... More >>
Blogs
March 3, 2013
Eric Garcetti And Wendy Greuel Lead The Pack In Race For Mayor, USC/L.A. Times Survey Finds
Councilman Eric Garcetti and Controller Wendy Greuel appear to be headed to a May 21 runoff election in the race to be the next mayor of L.A., according to a new USC Price / L.A. Times poll.Garcetti has 27% of the vote to Greuel's 25% -- a statistical tie. Former radio host Kevin James trails with 1 ... More >>
Blogs
February 28, 2013
Wendy Greuel's Oil Attack Comes From Strategist John Shallman's Playbook
It's getting into the final days of the primary campaign for L.A. mayor, which means it's time for the campaigns to start slinging whatever mud they can find.Today, Controller Wendy Greuel held a press conference to attack Eric Garcetti for holding a Venoco oil lease in Beverly Hills that pays him $ ... More >>
Blogs
February 27, 2013
Wendy Greuel Attacks Eric Garcetti In New Radio Ad; TV Ads Picking Up In Campaign's Final Week
Update below: Check out Kevin James' latest video, and an Eric Garcetti radio ad.Controller Wendy Greuel launched a new radio ad today in the increasingly contentious race for L.A. mayor, attacking Councilman Eric Garcetti for taking "luxury trips around the world" on the taxpayer's dime.The spot (a ... More >>
Blogs
February 27, 2013
Four Most Notorious Times Rhodes Scholar Eric Garcetti Pleaded Ignorance Or Kept People in the Dark When Facing Controversy
For an Ivy League grad and Rhodes Scholar, Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti has the uncanny habit of not knowing certain details when the shit hits the fan. This happens so often that L.A. Weekly has come up with four of the most notorious times Garcetti pleaded ignorant -- or personal ... More >>
Blogs
February 27, 2013
Eric Garcetti's Solyndra: Mayoral Candidate Pushed $1 Million Deal to Lure Troubled Electric-Car Company
On Nov. 10, 2011, Gov. Jerry Brown came to Los Angeles to help open the new headquarters of CODA Automotive. The company was rolling out its CODA Sedan, which boasted new battery technology that would deliver unprecedented range for an all-electric car. The company claimed it would bring 650 high-te ... More >>
Blogs
February 26, 2013
LAPD Cops Get $1 Million "DROP" Checks 5 Years Before Retiring but Villaraigosa Claims Poverty and Seeks Sales Tax Proposition A
KCET has a blockbuster report on the bizarre DROP program approved by voters under Mayor Richard Riordan when LAPD morale was so low -- thanks to the Rampart scandal -- that City Hall was at that time desperate to stop a rush of early cop retirements. Now, says a probe by KCET's Judy Muller, the D ... More >>
Blogs
February 25, 2013
Wendy Greuel And Eric Garcetti Headed To Mayoral Runoff, According To New Private Poll
A new private poll shows Controller Wendy Greuel and Councilman Eric Garcetti advancing to a runoff in the race for L.A. mayor, with Greuel taking a slight lead ahead of the March 5 primary vote.The poll was paid for by a Greuel-friendly source who declined to be identified, and conducted by a profe ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2013
Brainiac Mayoral Candidate Eric Garcetti Pleads Ignorance On Clear Channel Vote as Rival Emanuel Pleitez Files Ethics Complaint
Read L.A Weekly feature article about inner-city success story Emanuel Pleitez. Los Angeles mayoral candidate Emanuel Pleitez is now getting into the thick of a brewing scandal involving rival Eric Garcetti, who L.A. Weekly reported owned stock in Clear Channel Communications while at the same time ... More >>
News
February 21, 2013
L.A. City Council District 13 March Election
Hollywood and Tri-Hipster Area Produces Power Players
Blogs
February 18, 2013
Amid Ad Blitz For Wendy Greuel, Eric Garcetti Uses TV Debate To Attack
Amid a TV ad blitz for Wendy Greuel, rival candidate Eric Garcetti went on the attack at Monday night's televised debate, with just two weeks left before the March 5 primary.Garcetti challenged Greuel's numbers and repeatedly cited the $1 million in ad spending she has received from the union that r ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2013
Mayoral Candidate Kevin James and Education Reformers Speak Out About Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel's Silence on Parent Trigger
UPDATE, 5 p.m.: Eric Garcetti breaks silence on Parent Trigger. After the jump. UPDATE, 4 p.m.: Wendy Greuel tells L.A. Weekly she supports the Parent Trigger. Eric Garcetti is now the only mayoral candidate who remains to be silent. After the jump. After Los Angeles Unified School District board ... More >>
Blogs
February 14, 2013
Eric Garcetti, Who Railed For Months Against "Super PACs," Now Has One Of His Own
For the last three months, Eric Garcetti has been railing against the "super PACs" that support his rivals in the race for mayor. In fundraising e-mails, the Garcetti campaign has warned repeatedly about the ills of outside money.Said one such appeal: "A few people with a vested interest in the elec ... More >>
Blogs
February 13, 2013
Los Angeles Unified School District Approves Historic Parent Trigger, L.A. Mayoral Candidates Weigh In Or Stay Mum
Elected board members of the Los Angeles Unified School District -- the second largest public school system in the country -- unanimously approved a Parent Trigger for the 24th Street Elementary School in West Adams. It's a first for L.A. Unified, and Los Angeles mayoral candidates are weighing in o ... More >>
Blogs
February 13, 2013
Eric Garcetti Makes A Play For Growing Latino Vote, But Turnout Is A Challenge
When Antonio Villaraigosa became the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles in modern times, he did it with record-breaking turnout from the Latino community. And since then, Latino voter registration has surged from 22% to about 29% of the city electorate.But without a major Latino candidate on the ball ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2013
Will Mayoral Candidates Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel Take Action to Protect Mothers and Children From Air Pollution?
Another important study about the impacts of air pollution on children was released last week, but don't expect mayoral frontrunners Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel to say or do anything specific about it. In 2010, L.A. Weekly exposed in the cover story "Black Lung Lofts" the dangerous side effects ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2013
Eric Garcetti And Wendy Greuel Duel Over Budget Numbers
Councilman Eric Garcetti kept the focus on Wendy Greuel's plan to hire 2,000 cops and 1,000 firefighters today, arguing that his chief opponent in the campaign for L.A. mayor is making promises she can't keep."Independent analysis shows the numbers simply don't add up," Garcetti said this afternoon. ... More >>
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