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Hertz-Blog Makes Nicey-Nice with Villaraigosa - Where's the Blood?
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 Bob Hertzberg has extended a decidedly noncombatant welcome to Antonio Villaraigosa, who officially entered the mayoral race last night.
The candidate offers tonight in the Hertz-blog: Today, Antonio Villaraigosa announced that he's entering the race for mayor. I have tremendous respect for Antonio. We roomed together while in the Legislature and I think he brings a lot to this race. His entry will increase the exposure the race is already enjoying in the media. He then offers a brief, ineffectual paragraph, hoping aloud that more attention brought by Hahn's old nemesis means more attention for all: "My message is resonating with people across the region because of my proven record as a problem-solver throughout the city." And then he ends the post.
No call to action. No "Yo, Antonio, what do you stand for?" No call of "may the best man beat Jim Hahn." No fire of any kind. Maybe it's cautious, early-race temperance, maybe it's just a shortage of cojones.
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The best political blogs don't have to worry about consensus-building - they roll up their sleeves, strap on their bleeding hearts with barbed wire, and wade in, bare knucks flying. They provoke, irritate, stimulate and invite comment and debate.
But politicians' blogs - at least in the case of L.A. mayoral candidates to date - are a lukewarm case of anemia, at best, because they can't afford to alienate anyone. The very nature of blogging - raw, unvarnished opinions from extreme egotists - would seem to play to politicians' baser natures, but so far the L.A. mayoral bloggers are uninspiring specimens.
To his credit, Hertzberg's trying to keep it busy, while the AlaBLOG has been an empty promise for the entire week since Alarcon first posted something there, and Villaraigosa's own blog is just plain empty.
The real LA mayoral candidate-blogger will show some guts and start listing the ways that Jim Hahn sucks - flat-out, here are the reasons - asserting that he is the best choice - and here's why - and that anyone who disagrees is welcome to step into the comments area and duke it out.
In fact, I'd invite any of the candidates to do so right here, on neutral (well, but for this site's disdain for the incumbent) turf, and debate each other online.
And no, I'm not holding my breath.
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| Posted by: mack_reed on Tuesday, August 03, 2004 - 11:33 PM
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