Eric Garcetti for Mayor?
Many third floor spinners spill a lot of digital ink claiming how Mayor Villaraiogsa will run unopposed (apparently they're pretending Walter Moore doesn't exist) and coast to victory, despite the prevailing view that the Mayor has produced little in three years and following Mirthala, Hillary and a litany of scandals and missteps that he is damaged goods. Regardless of the spinners' boasts, the list of those seeking to or reported to be seeking to oppose the Mayor's re-election seems to be growing.Among those noted so far:
Walter Moore
Zev Yaroslavsky
Rick Caruso
Zuma Dogg
Magic Johnson
And now the latest - and with a website seeking to draft him to boost - is Council President Eric Garcetti.
While there's no word yet that Garcetti is running he would make an interesting choice. As President of the City Council he's been tested as Acting Mayor during Mayor Villaraigosa's many absences from the City, is considered to be quite intelligent, articulate and likable and speaks Spanish better than the Mayor. Whether than translates to Garcetti being able to roll up the support for a successful run remains to be seen. One thing for sure is that were the Council President to be elected Mayor he could claim to be the first Latino/Italian/Jewish person to do so in LA history.
RELATED STORY: Zuma Dogg reports discussion is heating up within Magic Johnson's inner circle as to whether the basketball legend and successful businessman plans to run for Mayor or not.
Labels: eric garcetti, hillary clinton, magic johnson, mayor antonio villaraigosa, Mirthala Salinas, rick caruso, walter moore, zev yaroslavsky, zuma dogg
Posted by Michael Higby @ 6/09/2008 04:00:00 AM
47 Comments:
Thanks for my morning laugh. The is the most asinine, ignorant speculation I've seen on any of the local blogs in a long time.
Walter Moore exists to get the minority vote, of maybe 6%. There will always be someone who thinks they can do something more, better or different. But do they have the following of the establishment or just plainly a following?
Give Tony Villar credit. At least he did it on his own. Eric is just like the Hahn brats, using daddy's last name to go places.
I would vote for Garcetti, he seems to have an even keel and a nice gentleman. He is smart and his Spanish is excellent.
A latino.
Yea, and to top it off Villaraigosa didn't even use his own name!
I bet Eric Garcetti put his buddy Higby up to this.
(apparently they're pretending Walter Moore doesn't exist)
I'm not a "third-floor spinner", not matter how much you care to spin back. I didn't even know what the "third floor" stood for until I started reading this blog during the last mayor's race. But, considering Wacko Walter's miserable showing last time (remember, it was THIS blog than very aptly nicknamed him "Wacko"), even as the only "known" Republican in a town that still has 25-30 percent GOP registration, I think the "pretenders" are anyone who is pretending that he DOES exist in the grand scheme of L.A. politics.
I'm also a registered Republican myself, but I don't believe in throwin my vote down a rathole because someone's wearing the same label.
OH, and please dear God don't let Walter tell me again about how much less each damn vote cost him last time. I can buy double cheeseburgers for less at McDonalds than I can get healthy food - that doesn't mean I'm living well.
Follow that loon into oblivion if you like, folks but personally, I'm looking for the most accomplished, competetent candidate of any party who can actually actually steer a big ship, not capsize a dinghy for fewer dollars.
He/she/it hasn't materialized yet, but there's time.
On that scale, Wacko rates even lower than Antonio, by ANY measure.
If you want to know for sure what won't happen in L.A. look for those stories that begin:
"Zuma Dogg reports"
What a joke! The lunatic can't even stay on topic for 2 minutes of public comment on a given item. Do you actually believe you can conduct an interview of someone, make them understand his questions, and then have him understand their answers enough to report back anything a sane person could understand.
Up the meds, or go cold turkey - either way is bound to help.
MEAT, I mean 916, you always claim you don't something that you do know such as who is on the third floor or you say you're a Republican or your white or your a woman to throw us off your (smelly) scent.
Tell your buddy Hertzberg that Walter Moore didn't make a difference in the race. I don't pretend he will win but watch out he's raising dough faster than Stuart Waldman at the donut shop.
We here support Eric! You go!
Los Angeles needs a New Mayor
who is NOT an
Ethnocentric Race Warrior, who
is fighting for"his people ,who
are here illegally and for benefits for the illegal aliens
not so secret weapon..their welfare children the Anchor
Baby Fifth Column!
numbersusa\saveourstate
Of course, ANYONE who disagrees with the manic Mayor Sam's blog core group here is a "city government plant" blogging on "taxpayer's time", no matter what they say otherwise.
That explains why the blog writers here have been on the very, very weak minority vote side of EVERY race in the city the last three years, bar none -- primaries, props, council members, assembly, mayor, ALL.
Yeah, yeah -- you're the REAL majority, everyone who disagrees is just one of the couple hundred people chained to a city cubicle. Well, they must all be casting 500 votes a piece in municipal elections - you better complain to the City Clerk about that, ASAP.
Yup, Wacko Walter, Higby, Red Spot, Zuma, you're the "REAL" L.A.
(More like the road show cast of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest").
Just because one of the anonymous posters here can complete a sentence doesn't mean they're MEAT. It's hard to tell from this blog, but there are a few other people in L.A. that are functionally literate, and don't type in ALL CAPS, or short bursts of letters that sometimes end with periods.
PLEASE tell me Mike Trujillo has better things to do.
10:49
Well you had me going there for a minute.
I got as far as "Ethnocentric Race Warrior" and I was just sure you were also talking about Wacko Walter, who on THIS very blog told the story of the election where he saw a busload of illegals brought in to vote.
Somehow, from a second story window, above the parking lot, Wacko just knew that the group of brown-skinned people who got off the bus holding pieces of paper with voter suggestions were all illegal and that voter fraud was going on.
They couldn't be brown-skinned "citizens" (are there any of those?), perhaps transported legally from work, or elsewhere, GOTV, maybe by a union or other organization - like happens in every other major city in the U.S.
Plus, we all know that illegals are the people who use buses. All real citizens drive their own cars to the polls (or vote by mail, right?)
That many Latinos heading into the polls together, must be wrong, right?
Like I said when he first posted it here then, draw some of that thin, in-bred blood from Wacko's vein and study it at MIT. If you can find out what gave him that superpower to be able to detect citizenship by sight, from 20 feet away, looking down on people's heads, without ever needed to see their "papers" - then you can perfect a race of super-powered board patrol agents and end the immigration snafu with half as many men.
But, then the rest of the post threw me.
Huh?? Okay, I guess you weren't talking about "mayoral candidate" (snort) Wacko Walter Moore, who was originally listed for years as a "gadfly" on this blog's links.
Gawd, if he's the "Great White Hope" this time around, I'm going to have to go to court and have my racial designation officially changed to "other" somehow.
If you're talking about my anti-Wacko Walter posts that is HUGELY funny and too ironic to even explain.
Because when MEAT/Trujillo was a regular here, I was one of the main thorns in his side, nailing his boy Tony V. at every turn.
Villaraigosa is an absolute train wreck as a mayor, and will never get better.
Wacko as mayor would be a trainwreck, during an earthquake, followed by wildfires, that were eventually be put out by Tsunami tidal waves, probably followed close on the heels by swarms of locusts, and acid rain.
It really could get worse.
The reason nobody like Garcetti will run is because of LA's wacky campaign finance laws. Unless you are already famous or someone is going to spend money on a huge IE, there is no way to compete with the PR machine that operates out of City Hall. Instead, they wait for an opening with a primary and runoff, hoping they can sneak into the second round in a multi-candidate race and with extra time to get their message out win. The finance rules are why no serious person ran against an incumbent for City Council even though polling showed they were the most unpopular group of elected officials in the area and most had horrible reelect numbers.
11:34
If that was true, Villaraigosa wouldn't be mayor right now. That's exactly what he did, and he was perhaps most famous in L.A. for losing to Hahn the first time - not something that really makes you a good bet to run against someone as an incumbent.
Garcetti is at least as well known and well liked in L.A. as Villaraigosa was before the embarrassing loss, and has far less negative baggage.
Bad theory!
Garcetti proved with that hotel worker living wage debacle he isn't fit to serve as dog catcher.
Has Garcetti worked a day in his life?
Uh no.
The mis-typed, bad grammar pro-Villar posts are Trujillo.
The coherent semi-funny ones are Jack Hoff.
Both of them hold the record for comments on Mayor Sam.
Yes they do not have anything better to do.
Bloggers booted from Mayor Sam
MEAT
Zuma Dogg
Joe Meathead
Joe Home Depot
Jack Hoff
All have an axe to grind.
It would serve Villar-babosa right to be traveling in Israel and get arrested by Mossad for suspicion of international terrorism.
There would then be a whole litany of candidates jockeying for the Mayoral position.
Michael Finnegan
CD-5
What does the personnel matters of this blog have to do with Eric Garcetti?
The question is:
Well he run?
Would he be a good mayor?
Not who I am sleeping with, who was fired, Jack Hoff, Michael Trujillo, etc.
Can you stay on topic?
Oh by the way, I'm not pushing Garcetti for Mayor or advancing the story. LAist broke the story that a site was set up to draft Garcetti. So go play on the freeway dum dums.
what about huizar. He said he wants to be mayor. doesn't he have the qualifications. After all he is a "princeton and cal" graduate. I mean i think i've heard him mention that once or twice before.
Garcetti plays both sides, and is just as bad as the Mexicans when they go on about some purely Mexican thing like Alarcon or Reyes lobbying for some compadre to get a day or a stamp and he loves to show off his Spanish. Never looks annoyed by the way they hog the time, like in Van Nuys a month or two ago when the 4 Mexicans went on and on about one of their own plus Cinco de Mayo, with singers and every one of them giving a speech.
And yes, he was all for the living wage for LAX workers, and tries to be "progressive" on everything.
Eric Garcetti jumped right in there with them -- with a wooden ear for how mad the audience was getting, being made to sit through 2 hours of this. Cardenas lecturing them about how Cinco de Mayo was good for them as Americans, nonsense.
Suppose Eric is better than another radical Mexican, but he won't stand up to what that Eastside Machine, Padilla/ Alarcon/ Nunez/ Cardenas/ Reyes/ their tool Felipe Fuentes, have done and are planning to do with bills like AB212 to push high density "affordable housing" all over the city.
If he's got the guts to stand up to them on that, he'd better show it now, stand with Wendy Gruel and some of the others, before it's too late, and Reyes gets the 8-member majority he's always saying he wants, to say Yes to him putting his slums on the westside, hills and valleys.
Garcetti would never challenge the Mayor though, none of the Mexicans would now, and he's trying to be one of them when it suits him. For that Mexican vote. No big money would bet on Garcetti against the Mayor.
Huizar? He's an affirmative action Latino -- only got into Princeton because the liberals on the admissions board love to bring in those Mexican immigrants from California with stories like "My parents were field laborors and I'm the first one in my family to go to college, and a first generation immigrant, an example to my people." And he messed up the school Board, was no better than they bunch they've got there now. Everyone in his district says the office is an administrative mess.
But I like him more than the other, more manipulative Machine Mexicans, as a person. He doesn't seem to have a racist agenda like Reyes or Alarcon. Maybe if he works on his crossover credentials, some day.
L.A. has a long history of having mayor's who are unqualified to be either dogcatcher, or mayor.
What's your point?
Mayor Sam, I think you should be insulted that every time someone posts a new thought that the rabbel disagree with they try and claim it's on of 5 or 6 old has-beens. It's like they all think that there's never been more than a half-dozen posters here.
You keep trying to say you have 100s and 1,000s of visitors, but each time a new disagreement pops up, someone has to say "Oh, that's usual suspect #2" and "that's #3"
Does that mean no one new ever posts a contrary thought here?
If that's the case, you better stop taking add money from people, because it's a real bad deal for them is all they're reaching is M. Trujillo and J. Hoff, posting 50 times a day.
Lord help you if those two have their pop-ups blocked. Then the advertisers are really getting screwed.
What happened to Avila, I don't see him on weezy's website anymore. Was he another of endless revolving door staff.
Good point, Trujillo was almost never articulate and far from funny, except when he said that Villaragiosa started those:
80 FAKE NEIGHBORHOOD WATCHES
in El Sereno, when he was out of state campaigning for John Kerry(who??) for president.
2:07 said
"...the admissions board love to bring in those Mexican immigrants from California with stories like 'My parents were field laborors and I'm the first one in my family to go to college, and a first generation immigrant, an example to my people.'"
Yeah, I liked it a lot better when people like the poster of that were favored by the board with their stories:
"...I'm a third generation white trash legacy from the valley who's father went here, who got straight Cs at a expensive prep school my parents put me in so I didn't have to got to school with dangerous coloreds and Mexicans, except I'm home today on suspension for breaking into the school nurse's office to get prescription drugs and now I spend my days stoned on mom's sofa playing video games and jerking off the Japanese anime while waiting for the acceptance letter to college. But, I'm entitled to go here. Plus, grandpa was rich and gave the school an endowment."
Huizar's staff page - that's funny. The city employee that has to keep that up-to-date should get paid by the word.
They got so tired of having to change a field deputy's name just about every week at one office or another that they just finally decided not to list them anymore. You notice that outside the main office, no one but the head of the field office is listed anymore. Before they had every name for all positions.
http://www.lacity.org/council/cd14/cd14ci.htm
Saves a lot of embarrassment. WHOOP, I just noticed, even at that another one's gone away. There used to be someone named Marcia at the El Sereno office as the head paper shuffler, now she's gone, replaced by one of the junior field deputies who reported to her, Marcella.
Man oh man. I can't keep up.
The hardcopy personnel files are another matter. They have their own room at city hall just for that district.
758, I like Garcetti, too. But he masquerades also as Jewish (his mother is Jewish), and he doesn't deny it when people ask if he's Latino or Italian.
That having been said, he speaks better Spanish than Villarito and is very intelligent. A guy who actually WANTS change here. Others are probably better, but he's a no brainer if there's no other option.
What about Herb Wesson? Didn't he pass on running for the board of supervisors? He has made no secret about his ambition to become the next Mayor of Los Angeles.
I think the way it works is Eric's mom is Jewish. Not sure if half or 100%.
Then Gil, well his father was an Italian who immigrated to Me-hee-co married and impregnated a nice seniorita who popped out Baby Gil.
I guess that makes Eric a Jew who can cook a mean manicotti and speak better Espanol than Alcalde Villar.
2:28: Can't handle the truth, so you have to hate Whitey and call everyone who got in on their merits, "trash?"
Fact is your Chicanos get in with SAT scores so far lower than whites and Asians, it's pathetic -- and then get financial aid thrown at them, while white kids ten times smarter and harder working aren't pitiful enough.
What's the matter, you couldn't make the cut, a 900 SAT, despite a grade-inflated A from some MEChA School (which for white kids has to be closer to 1400 with a REAL 4.0+)?
Gil Garcetti emigrated TO Mexico? From where? Did he get confused, or couldn't get papers to America? And then this Jewish woman just happened to be living there? Sounds strange. And if true, he has no Mexican blood, just speaks the language.
Then this couple came to America, and he became City Attorney? Something doesn't sound coherent here.
I resent that how well someone speaks Spanish should be a key issue in the next Mayoral race. Haven't we had too much of racial politics, not too little?
Hey, let's all run for mayor!
6:46
I can't run for mayor, my GPA was over 2.0.
You are crazy if you think that Eric Garcetti is as well known as Antonio Villaraigosa was when he ran the second time. He had the leftover name recognition he had purchased with millions of dollars in his first race and even with all of that, he wasn't going to run until Bob Hertzberg and Bernard Parks got in and that made it much more likely there would be a runoff. If someone like Zev did get in, then there is a chance more people would run, but not because of an outsider like Caruso or even Magic. But that is even more true when you talk about city council. One year before last years council elections, two polls made there way into the media that showed every single incumbent who was up for reelection had reelect numbers under 50% which is normally the cutoff for being in serious trouble. But in spite of those numbers, not one serious candidate challenged any incumbent's reelection and that is clearly going to happen next year too.
I don't want to be Mayor, and I'm not holding a luncheon for a few dozen of my closest friends to say so. Even though I've been approached by many people who begged me to run. I speak Spanish with a Russian accent and was raised by a Filipina nanny, so I'd be a great choice.
You heard it here first on Mayor Sam, so it must be true.
Eric Garcetti for LA County District Attorney in four years?
Time to get serious.
AV will likely run unopposed. Having Walter Moore in the race is the same as running unopposed. No one has yet laid out a plan through which he could win. How could anyone support a candidate who doesn't have a game plan for winning?
The reason that the others named in the speculative pieces aren't running is that they can't even design a winning plan.
Those handful of gadflys that put their name on the ballot will get the votes of some of those who simply don't like AV. Those will become Moore's votes.
Council offices are notorious for staff changes. That's called a revolving door is some circles?
Garcetti's former staffer is a hired gun at Cerrell.
Hahn's former staffer is the greaser at the airport.
Greuel's former staffer joined a national political camp.
Huizar's former staffer is with the DWP.
Rosendahl's former staffer joined Mayor's office and another a land use firm.
Cardenas'former staffer is with...should I continue?
It's the nature of the beast.
All I ask is..."who cares?!"
Mayor Sam,
I am completely befuddled as to how you can run a blog that is concerned with City Hall fraud, waste and abuse AND think Garcetti would make a good mayor. Something seems VERY SHADY about your Garcetti support. You can't be that informed, Mayor Sam, after all this time running your blog AND support Garcetti. It's like saying you support Jamiel's Law and want to re-elect Mayor Antonio.
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