Friday Free for All

Blogged on board Virgin America Flight 944 somewhere over Oxnard.

Eric Garcetti is bugged by potholes.

West Hollywood City Council candidate Mito Aviles likes mannequins.

In other West Hollywood City Council candidate Scott Schmidt is calling for an investigation into the finances of longtime incumbent John Heilman.  Heliman as reported spending $0 for his campaign yet folks are getting mailers and door hangers.

Pathetic! Appointed West Hollywood Council Member Shamefully Invokes Tuscon Shootings

OMG! I'm on the
@council! LOL

Lindsay Horvath is one of those overly ambitious, Gen Y, not yet ready for prime time politicians that was appointed to a West Hollywood City Council seat when the previous member passed away.  Before that she was a major player in local Democratic Party organizations such as NOW as well as blogger for the recently sold to AOL, Huffington Post.

Many within the City opposed Horvath's appointment, urging instead a special election to fill the seat of longtime member Sal Guarriello upon his death.  Horvath, a politically connected Notre Dame grad, has been in the seat since 2009 and now must run for a full term, facing the voters for the first time.


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