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Hahn bobbles an easy play
Mayor Hahn missed the deadline to appoint or replace 20 city comissioners, which under the city charter means council president Alex Padilla now gets to make the choices, the Times' Patrick McGreevy reports.
"We are in discussion with the mayor's office about what the next step would be," said David Gershwin, a spokesman for Padilla. "We have not committed to making the [mayor's] nominations."
Heh heh. Looks like Padilla and his new chief of staff Felipe Fuentes may be getting some nice free goodies for the district. Street lights anyone?
Speaking of mayors and their aides, Richard Riordan's former chief of staff, William Ouchi, will read from his new book at the Central Library next Monday at 7 p.m. He is a professor in the Anderson School at UCLA and his title is a mouthful: Making Schools Work: A Revolutionary Plan to Get Your Children the Education They Need.
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Alex caught a lucky break, and for one, I think he deserves it. He's been a first-class council president and also demonstrated real courage in his valiant losing battle against the burglar alarm lobby led by Janice Hahn. Something tells me his choices for those commission seats and help counter the plutocratic influence of Mayor Hahn's billionaire pals.
Posted by: Joe Shea at September 20, 2003 10:02 AM