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How Many Wake-up Calls Does Hahn Need?
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 It's morning in Los Angeles, and the Mayor is dozing.
Rough week, huh, Jim? Let's see: Your appointees are bailing on you to back Bob Hertzberg's campaign against you. Bernard Parks - whom you kicked to the curb awhile back (not wrongly, in my opinion) is gunning for your job too.
The council canned your plan to moved the LAPD into the Transamerica Building. And your massively bloated $9-billion plan to expand LAX got hacked off at the knees.
So how did you spend your week in trying to recoup?
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You broke ground for a fire station, to be nicer, honored some volunteers, cohosted a gang conference (I'm sorry, but is any gangbanger in L.A. going to listen to a politician?), lit the Olympic torch and claimed rather questionably that L.A. is the largest manufacturing center in the U.S..
These are all - what - talking points memos and photo ops, right? When was the last time you actively did anything for us that had an effect other than delivering lip service? Pushed for enforcement of the sweatshop laws? Actively intervened with the studios to help stem runaway production? Pushed for the cash to hire more cops, since L.A. has the lowest officer-to-citizen ratio in the nation?
Hell, Antonio Villaraigosa is doing a better job looking mayoral and he's not even running against you - yet.
Yes, it's going to be a long, hard slog to defeat in November, Your Honor. But we think you're up to it. The little feel-good campaigns are definitely doing the trick to solidify your commanding lead in the race to the back of the pack. Keep up the good work.
Oh, and update your web site. It's embarrassing.
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| Posted by: mack_reed on Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 10:23 AM
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