Los Angeles Politics Hotsheet for Thursday

It's taken 28 years, but there are now 100 free flying wild California Condors in the state. That doesn't sound like many, but in 1982, there were only 22 of these magnificent birds left in the wild. Re-population is an excruciatingly slow and difficult process that is being hindered, in part, by lead poisoning from ammunition and ingestion of trash (plastic bags?) by the birds.

Speaking of endangered ...
$140 Million Up In Smoke?  -according to the FiveThirtyEight forecasting model, gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown is now a 75% favorite to become the next governor of California.

Speaking of waste...
Evidently, Councilman Richard Alarcon and his wife never flushed their toilets or bathed at the Panorama City house that they claimed to live in. A review of their DWP bills indicates less than 8 gallons a day of water usage. They also appear to have had only had a single light bulb and nothing else burning up electricity. Now that's what you call Green living!


Speaking of stinky...
 Why Do Texas Oil Companies Hate California? Valero and Te$oro continue pumping millions into the state to try and kill green jobs and keep the locals oil addicted. Toss in more millions from the Koch Brother$, and now you have a group effort by out of state $pecial interest$ to control California environmental law.
Vote No on Proposition 23 okay?