Politics

Afternoon politics notes

Items from the in-box.

  • City Controller Wendy Greuel released a letter from Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen supporting her bid for mayor. Greuel formerly worked for them at DreamWorks.
  • Assemblyman and former State Senator Gil Cedillio announced he will run for the City Council's first district, trying to become another Sacramento pol to make the move to City Hall.
  • Speaker John A. PĂ©rez promoted staffer Greg Campbell to Chief of Staff, succeeding Sara Ramirez Giroux.
  • New artist's renderings of Farmers Field will be released Tuesday at 2 p.m. at L.A. Live.
  • City Maven goes inside the Tom Bradley International Terminal project at LAX.


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