Patrick Range McDonald

Updated below with Eric Garcetti today telling Los Angeles Times he "has no memory" of owning a lease to drill oil under Beverly Hills. Headline has been changed to reflect this breaking news. Updated throughout. For an Ivy League grad and Rhodes Scholar, Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti has......

One of the most troubling endorsements this campaign season came from the Los Angeles Times when the paper recently backed former state Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes, also known as the "Worst Legislator in California." He's running for the L.A. City Council District 7 seat in the northeast San Fernando Valley. Fuentes,......

In a campaign mailer perfectly timed to coincide with the Academy Awards show (it's one of those "only in L.A." political moments), Los Angeles mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel takes off the gloves and proclaims that rival Eric Garcetti has won "Worst Performance by a Politician in a Leading Role" from......

It's always interesting, and, of course, a bit suspicious, when seemingly smart politicians are "surprised" or claim ignorance when something peculiar happens on their watch -- as if that's a valid excuse. Los Angeles mayoral candidate and brainy Rhodes Scholar Eric Garcetti pulled such a maneuver last week when he......

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 voted in 2006 on......

Read L.A. Weekly feature story "Meet Emanuel Pleitez." Los Angeles mayoral candidate Emanuel Pleitez, a 30-year-old Stanford grad and technology executive who grew up on the mean streets of El Sereno, pushed forward a three-point immigration plan yesterday, attempting to further connect with Latino voters. Will that aggressive outreach hurt......

Sprinting from porch to porch in working-class neighborhoods has become routine for Los Angeles mayoral candidate Emanuel Pleitez, although gangbangers and young Latino mothers may be wondering what the hell is going on. In hardscrabble South Central, you don't see many 6-foot-3, 220-pound Latino men in office attire running along......

Will voters finally put term limits on West Hollywood City Council members, who almost never get voted office and only leave until they die or retire? That's the reality of WeHo politicians' strangle-grip on power, and now community activists are pushing forward Measure C -- the term limits initiative that......