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Mayoral Rematch - NOT 2001 All Over Again******
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 Antonio Villaraigosa got his wish - a second crack at beating Jim Hahn to run Los Angeles. Unless Bob Hertzberg demands a recount that swings the squeaker second-place race with Mayor Jim Hahn in his favor, Hertzberg conceded , opening the door for what promises to be a gruesome, no-holds-barred cage match.
With 99.14% of the precincts reporting plus 104,959 absentee ballots (fully 25% of all votes cast!) Antonio Villaraigosa pulled in one third of the city's votes, while Hahn and Hertzberg strung along behind with 23.68 and 22.15% of the vote - 5,769 votes apart.
Bloggers and chin-pulling L.A. Times pundits will probably wring themselves dry today trying to handicap the May 17 runoff - what if Richard Alarcon's tiny 3.59% contingent spills to Villaraigosa, will Bernie Parks' 13.37% come down hard against the mayor who kicked their man out of the LAPD, etc. etc..
But with Hahn's 24-year undefeated record in city races and the blood in Villaraigosa's eye from 2000's race-baited defeat, about the only prediction I'm willing to make is that - for sheer showmanship and noise - the next two months will make the Warped Tour look like an AA meeting ...
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While waiting for Villaraigosa's campaign to dream up a suitably vitriolic response to the repeat of Hahn's my- opponent- pardons- crack- dealers pitch, let's play another fun game: How could Hertzberg come up short against a mayor so lackluster and questionable?
Did the Joe Trippi machine pull a Howard Dean on a local level? Did Hertzberg's Bobzilla TV spots cost him votes? Does a union-backed homeboy trump a "Sacramento" politician every time? Was it all about the Benjamins?
Post your take in comments below.
Oh, and Walter Moore's not bitter. Really he's not: Thank you all so much for your support!
I had a great time, and we all did our best to fix our city.
Ten thousand three hundred fifty nine people voted for me, which is great. Only 384,489 people voted.
Alas, that works out to 2.75%, so I won't quite be in the run-off.
The good news is, that was just a shade less than the 3.59% (13,515 votes) that one of the so-called "major" candidates, Alarcon got. And it is more than the difference between third place (Hertzberg, with 22.15%) and second place (23.68%). And just imagine what the result would have been if the local newspapers and TV stations had included me in debates or reported my existence, or if the Republican party, instead of stabbing me in the back, had spread the word to my 300,000 fellow registered Republicans! Meanwhile, here's the official count as of 3:56 a.m. today:
Candidate Votes Percent
Mayor
WENDY LYONS 1,788 | 0.47
ANTONIO R. VILLARAIGOSA 124,561 | 33.07
WALTER MOORE 10,359 | 2.75
ADDIE M. MILLER 1,190 | 0.32
RICHARD ALARCON 13,515 | 3.59
MARTIN LUTHER KING AUBREY, SR. 770 | 0.20
BRUCE HARRY DARIAN 471 | 0.13
TED CRISELL 355 | 0.09
BILL WYATT 690 | 0.18
BOB HERTZBERG 83,420 | 22.15
JAMES KENNETH HAHN 89,189 | 23.68
BERNARD C. PARKS 50,341 | 13.37
City Attorney
ROCKY DELGADILLO 265,440 | 100.00
City Controller
MERVIN LEON EVANS 54,413 | 18.29
LAURA N. CHICK 243,062 | 81.71
Council District 1
ED P. REYES 9,897 | 74.89
ERNEST E. SANCHEZ 2,388 | 18.07
STEPHEN SARINANA-LAMPSON 930 | 7.04
Council District 3
DENNIS P. ZINE 21,356 | 68.99
JEFF BORNSTEIN 9,597 | 31.01
Council District 5
DAVID T. VAHEDI 7,807 | 21.56
GREGORY K. MARTAYAN 2,321 | 6.41
JACK WEISS 26,087 | 72.03
Council District 7
ALEX PADILLA 12,459 | 100.00
Council District 9
PETER TORRES 3,001 | 22.57
EDWARD "EDDIE" REYES 1,845 | 13.88
JAN PERRY 8,451 | 63.56
Council District 11
FLORA GIL KRISILOFF 15,549 | 41.49
BILL ROSENDAHL 16,751 | 44.70
ANGELA J. REDDOCK 5,172 | 13.80
Council District 13
ERIC GARCETTI 13,521 | 100.00
Council District 15
JANICE HAHN 17,772 | 100.00
And for what it's worth, the vote is still about two-to-one in favor of folding the Port Police's structure and pension into the LAPD.
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That's it.
A few minutes ago, months of campaigning, proclaiming, declaiming, prevaricating and pontificating come to an end; The polls are closed, and we're awaiting the first tallies from City Hall.
The first votes in - though not necessarily the first counted - are 100,000 absentee ballots cast by mail. Not a bad number for nearly 1.5-million registered voters, though the latter number is pretty thin for a city of four million.
We'll try to keep tabs on the vote tallies for you as they're reported by the City Clerk's office, but you can also watch the counting here.
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| Posted by: mack_reed on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 08:28 PM
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