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Squeaky Wheel - Walter Moore Gets Noticed*
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Republican mayoral candidate Walter Moore has been jumping up and down for some time now, insisting he's just as valid a candidate for mayor as Jim Hahn, Bob Hertzberg, Antonio Villaraigosa and Bernard Parks.
His platform - more of a mix of Hahn-bashing and fuzzy-hearted pet advocacy than a concrete plan for steering L.A.'s social, political, cultural and economic future - has barely caught the notice of the mainstream press in town, and the League of Women Voters refused him a seat at the Dec. 2 debate.
I asked him what the League said when he asked to participate, and he replied via email:
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I spoke to the League and the producer. The woman from the League said that they were merely time-keepers for the event, and that the producer picked the candidates. The producer said he merely produced the event, and that the League decides which candidates appear. In other words, each said the other made the decision. Yet, magically, the Democrats got invitations, and I did not. He griped about it in an email bulletin to supporters and urged them to pressure talk-radio hosts to talk about his exclusion from the debate - and gave their names with bad email links.
Moore then urged supporters to contact League president Jane Goichman directly and
A few complaints later, he sent out another email, saying Like a negligent sausage manufacturer, I gave you people defective links. Please accept my apologies. The following links should let you ask local talk radio hosts to spread the word that the League's so-called mayoral "debate" is merely a Democrat informercial, because it excludes me, Walter Moore, the only Republican candidate for mayor of L.A. Thanks for your patience and support. And remember: I'm only running for mayor, not webmaster. He then re-listed the names with visible addresses, surrounded by bad HTML so the links were still un-clickable for some people.
Hiis HTML skills aside, Moore has won the attention of the Daily News, where an editorial Saturday backed Moore's assertion that for the $11 billion planned for Jim Hahn's LAX expansion, the city could have played KMart and bought the Sears-Roebuck chain.
Terry Anderson invited him to talk on AM 870 about the League's refusal of his debate request. MayorSam's Sister City took up the call to include Moore. And apparently Doug MacIntyre gave Moore a mention at KABC.
Moore ends his latest missive with this boast: Thank you so much, one and all. We can and will win. All we have to do is take action. We will outsmart, not outspend, the career politicians. We will render their million-dollar war chests irrelevant by taking advantage of 21st Century technology. Say what you will about Moore's ability to beat back big-money career politicians. Or the mysterious decision to put respect for dogs down as one of the key planks to his platform.
Or the Hadean popsicle's chance of any Republican ever winning the mayoralty of a Democratic stronghold like Los Angeles.
He's stubborn and earnest. Let him debate. If nothing else, it'd be fun to watch him argue with Jim Hahn.
UPDATE
BoifromTroy disagrees, pointing out that Moore never even got the backing of the L.A. County Republican establishment.
And I have to disagree with Boi, too. The more the merrier. Al Sharpton had about as much a chance of winning the presidency as Moore does the mayoralty. But Sharpton brought some spice and insight to the Democratic primary debate, which otherwise would have been a dry little game of soundbite Pong.
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| Posted by: mack_reed on Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 08:00 PM
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