Perry receives endorsement for mayor
Field of candidates already includes three city officials
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Former Los Angeles City Councilman Greig Smith today endorsed Council President Pro Tempore Jan Perry for mayor in 2013.
Smith, who left office in July and was replaced by Councilman Mitchell Englander in the 12th District, said Perry was well suited for the job.
"I am endorsing Jan for mayor because she is tough enough to make Los Angeles work again,'' he said. ``She has a solid record of fighting to reform the Department of Water and Power, for fiscal sanity at City Hall, and for always putting residents first.''
The race is more than 1 1/2 years away, but the field of candidates already includes three city officials -- Perry, City Controller Wendy Greuel and Council President Eric Garcetti -- and one recent deputy mayor, Austin Beutner.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky and mall developer Rick Caruso have both said they are considering running for mayor, but have not made a decision yet.
Endorsements have been few and far between this early in the race. Beutner received the endorsement of former Mayor Richard Riordan just after announcing his campaign in April.
Perry said she was thankful for Smith's endorsement, which ``sends an important message that my track record resonates with community leaders from across the great city of Los Angeles.''
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Former Los Angeles City Councilman Greig Smith today endorsed Council President Pro Tempore Jan Perry for mayor in 2013.
Smith, who left office in July and was replaced by Councilman Mitchell Englander in the 12th District, said Perry was well suited for the job.
This has been a tough political year for the city of Inglewood.
In January, three-term Mayor Roosevelt Dorn, who had been in office since 1997, resigned amid charges by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office of conflict of interest and misappropriation of public funds.
Two months later City Administrator Tim Wanamaker abruptly resigned, after only two years on the job. Then a month later, Jeff Muir, Inglewood’s chief financial officer (CFO) gave his resignation.
Lancaster, CA - Voters lined up at the poles Tuesday and decided who the mayor will be. Unofficially, Mayor R. Rex Parris remains the leader of the City of Lancaster. A total of 12,589 voters turned out for the election, while there are 62,000 registered voters in the city. As of Wednesday, unofficially without provisional and drop in ballots counted, Parris received 7,117 votes while Rodio, the runner-up for the position of mayor received 4,504 votes. In the last election, Rodio lost the race by only 351 votes.
The relationship between the Los Angeles City Council’s three African American members—Bernard C. Parks and Jan Perry on the one side and Herb J. Wesson on the other—shows signs of combusting into an inferno that could deplete much of what political capital the city’s African American community has left.
The latest debacle is over the way Parks and Perry’s districts have been redrawn, but other sectors of the city also have a beef with the Los Angeles Redistricting Commission.
Now that the Los Angeles City Redistricting Commission has submitted its final renditions of proposed new L.A. City Council district maps to that body’s Rules, Elections, and Intergovernment Relations Committee, a series of hearings will begin tomorrow to allow the public to once more voice their opinions and thoughts of the maps.
This first hearing will be held at 8:30 a.m. at Los Angeles City Hall in the Council chambers, 200 N. Spring St., Los Angeles.
