Jan Perry On The Offensive

If you're running against Wendy Greuel, the one simple but powerful message to get voters to your side surrounds rapidly increasing DWP bills.

One the one hand, the public owned utility has been involved in multi-million dollar boondoggles such as the controversial LA River and San Fernando Valley Children's Museum projects. More importantly, rising salaries - creating pay levels higher than any other comparable utility in the nation - have led to water and power charges that are through the roof for ratepayers.

Much of this can easily be laid at the feet of Wendy Greuel, who as a Councilmember and as City Controller has been the recipient of much DWP union largesse and has actively sought to increase salaries and costs.

A recent LA Weekly piece by Gene Maddaus details this perfectly.

All of the candidates for Mayor have pointed this out during the debates and other appearances. But now Jan Perry is taking it to the voters - with a powerful and dramatic new piece "I Sold You Out." Sure, it's got all the usual campaign mailer devices intend to shock and awe, but it's a simple message - and true.  That message is one of the most potent weapons Greuel's opponents can toss out there - easy for voters to understand and free of the wonkishness of the many other fine messes Greuel has gotten herself into over the years.

"LA Weekly of Record's" LA County Redistricting 2.0 without Maps ** But photoshopping and pie graphs are OK

LA Weekly Gene Maddaus does a great public service with his piece on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisor's redistricting drama. Discarding the multiple maps that outline the various redistricting proposals, Maddaus steps back and simplifies the process by incorporating photoshopping and the reliable pie charts. The end result is a model that the average citizen and maybe half of LAUSD's twelve-grade government students could comprehend on the first read. ** Evening Update: LA Times is devoted major column inches to story on Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky's "risky gambit" regarding redistricting and its possible "mayoral ramifications" in the Latino Community---Scott Johnson. 

Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas plan would of gone "bam-bam" on Supervisor Don Knabe's district to create a second Latino District.. 

Supervisor Gloria Molina's plan would of put some weight behind her "bam-bam" of Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky to create a second Latino District 

These multi-color pie charts show that three gabachos represent a county with nearly 50% of Latinos. But does that mean that Latinos will never vote for a Gabacho like Don Knabe or Zev Yaroslavsky, considering that whites (myself included) voted for Mayor Antonio Villar in 2005? (** call that a bloggin confessional)

Your thoughts..............

Scott Johnson in CD 14