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Mayor Eric Garcetti met with the mayor of Shenzhen on the continuing Asia trip. From Garcetti's Facebook page.
Former mayor Richard Riordan talked to the USC student media outlet Neon Tommy about the current mayor of Los Angeles — and he's not impressed, at least so far. From Rick Orlov's Monday Tipoff column in the Daily News:
“I think Mayor Garcetti is brilliant,” Riordan said in an interview on “The Hot Seat with Max Schwartz” podcast on Neon Tommy, the news outlet of USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. “He is very articulate, and I think he will go on to bigger things like senator or maybe president someday. But I don’t think he has been a good mayor — I think he has a lot to learn.”
Riordan, who is out promoting his autobiography “The Mayor,” said Garcetti has “surrounded himself with ... weak people and doesn’t get things done. I’m betting on him in the long run, but he’s weak in the short run.”
Riordan is also critical of the City Council. “I like each of the council members one on one, and some are brilliant,” Riordan said. “But the City Council is controlled by the unions that make it hard to get things done." Here's a link to the podcast.
Orlov also does items on Garcetti being able to feed social media from China, where he is on a trade mission, and on that Vin Scully video tribute to Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky I posted last week.
