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For mayor of Los Angeles, that is. Writes Harold, no Hahn man to begin with, in today's LA Weekly:
Against all odds, L.A. is going to have itself a bang-up mayoral election next year.It’s not supposed to be this way. Once the city enacted term limits, restricting mayors to two four-year terms in office, the accepted wisdom was that there would be donnybrooks every eight years when the office came open, but that the incumbent, bolstered by an incumbent-sized bankroll, would get a free pass for his or her second term...
More fundamentally, Hahn has given Angelenos small reason to support him. Since taking office, he has been without energy or agenda. Meanwhile, investigations proceed on a number of his commissioners, who’ve been alleged to have awarded city contracts in exchange for campaign contributions.
Not surprisingly, challengers have emerged.
Sounds as if Meyerson would like to see Villaraigosa go again and face off with his one-time Sacramento roommate (they are now estranged) Bob Hertzberg. Also in LA Weekly: Nikki Finke likes David Letterman's turn to Bush bashing, and a piece written in 1999 for the paper's literary supplement by Hubert Selby Jr.
of LA Observed
I'm no backer of the mayor, but it seems to me the only people who think he's vulnerable are journos at the Times and the Weekly and his foes.
Ask the experts on all sides of the spectrum and they'll tell you that although Hahn might have a fight in the Valley with Hertzberg and in South L.A. with Parks, neither of those, and you can throw Villaraigosa in there too, can knock him out citywide.
Their only caveat is that Hahn can be hurt citywide if this ethics investigation gets serious and allegations stick.
Just my opinion.
Posted by: Dennis Romero at April 29, 2004 02:58 PM