Wednesday, May 16, 2012
See Los Angeles City Council member and mayoral candidate Jan Perry in conversation before a live audience at Cal-State Northridge.
(If video window doesn't appear, refresh the page.) Los Angeles City Council member Jan Perry cruised through a list of issues at Cal State Northridge Tuesday in the second of the "Talking About Los Angeles" series of interviews with mayoral candidates. Moderator Christine Essel, the CEO for the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency, started off the event by saying that she had known Perry for 20 years. Questioned by Essel, Perry touched on redevelopment, jobs, housing, transit, education, pensions and the city's budget deficit. Patch is a co-sponsor of the series, which was organized by the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, a Latino voter participation organization; and Cerrell Associates, a Los Angeles political …
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The city councilwoman will be the second mayoral candidate interviewed in the Talking About Los Angeles series. Questions from Patch readers will be presented to Perry.
A series of conversations with Los Angeles mayoral candidates continues Tuesday evening with an interview of Councilwoman Jan Perry that will be shown via a live video stream you can watch on this Patch site. The interview, the second in the "Talking About Los Angeles" series, begins at 5:30 p.m. before an audience in The Grand Salon of California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff St. (See attached PDF map.) If you would like to attend the event, you can register on the Talking About Los Angeles website. The moderator for the event will be Christine Essel, the CEO for Los Angeles’ Community Redevelopment Agency. She’s a former senior vice president of government and community affairs for Paramount Pictures and had been an …
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Austin Beutner in an email to supporters says the responsibilities of being a husband and father is at odds with the demands of a campaign.
Austin Beutner, the 2013 mayoral candidate who formerly served as a deputy mayor and general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, announced Tuesday that he is dropping out of the race. Beutner in an email sent to his supporters said he was leaving the race "to be engaged with my family in a way which is at odds with the demands of a campaign." Beutner, 52, thanked his supporters and said all campaign contributions will be returned to donors. He said the nation's second-largest city will only reach its potential if city leaders rise to its challenges and make the right choices. "We need to fix our schools because good public education is a civil right and the foundation of our future. We need to create solutions to the …
Thursday, May 3, 2012
What would you like Patch to ask the candidates running for the 62nd Assembly District seat, which includes parts of Mar Vista as well as Venice, Marina del Rey and Playa del Rey.
Patch will be querying the candidates vying for the 62nd Assembly District as the June 5 primary election campaigns shift into high gear. The candidates and their official ballot designation are: Assemblyman Bradford is the incumbent in the 62nd Assembly District. We'll be gathering biographical information and presenting the candidates with a questionnaire to help voters understand where they stand on the issues. As of Apr. 6, 2012, there were 222,378 registered voters in the 62nd Assembly District with 61 percent registered as Democrats and 15 percent registered as Republicans. We're asking for your help. What questions do you want us to ask the candidates?
Monday, April 30, 2012
The forum is from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday in Santa Monica. It is free and open to the public.
Residents of the 50th Assembly District, including the communities of Santa Monica, Malibu, Brentwood, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Pacific Palisades, Hollywood and Agoura Hills, are invited to a forum Saturday to learn more about the candidates' positions on education and other issues. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to noon at Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board Room, at 1651 16th St. in Santa Monica. Each of the June 5 primary candidates are scheduled to participate: Richard Bloom, Democrat; Betsy Butler, Democrat; Torie Osborn, Democrat; and Bradly S. Torgan, Republican. The focus of the discussion will be on quality public education from the early years through high school graduation. Candidates will also …
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Saturday, April 28, 2012
What would you like Patch to ask the candidates running for the 33rd Congressional District seat, which includes Santa Monica, Venice, the Beach Cities, Beverly Hills, Palos Verdes, Brentwood, Westwood and the Pacific Palisades.
Patch will be querying the candidates vying for the 33rd Congressional District as the June 5 primary election campaigns shift into high gear. Rep. Henry Waxman, a staunchly Democratic candidate who has served in Congress since 1975, is the front-runner and earlier this month reported having more than six times as much cash to spend then his next opponent ahead of the primary. We'll be gathering biographical information and presenting the candidates with a questionnaire to help voters understand where they stand on the issues. The 33rd Congressional District was redrawn to reflect population changes reported in the 2010 U.S. Census and now includes Beverly Hills, cuts east to Malibu and then stretches south down the coast and includes …
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Current Assemblywoman Betsy Butler has the most cash on hand, followed closely by Torie Osborn in the election for the 50th Assembly District.
With sizable donations from unions and colleagues at the state Capital, first-term state legislator Betsy Butler is boasting the biggest campaign war chest in the race for the 50th Assembly District. Butler reported having $463,687 on hand in the most recent filings with the Secretary of Sate ahead of the June 5 primary. While firefighter and labor unions, lawmakers and political action committees cut Butler big checks, she wasn’t the only candidate to rake in more than a quarter of a million dollars from January to mid-March. And, she wasn’t spending the most, either. Torie Osborn—the grassroots organizer who snagged endorsements this winter from most of the area’s local Democratic clubs—reported $429,450 and outspent Butler by $28,679 …
Monday, April 16, 2012
Rep. Henry Waxman reported having more than six times as much cash on hand as his next opponent in the election for the 33rd Congressional District.
Rep. Henry Waxman, a staunchly Democratic candidate who has served in Congress since 1975, has more than six times as much cash to spend then his next opponent ahead of the June 5 primary election for the 33rd Congressional District, according to figures released Monday by the Federal Election Commission. Waxman reported having $985,577 cash on hand at the end of the April 15 quarterly filing period, which dwarfed that of the second-leading fundraiser Steve Collett, a Libertarian, who reported cash on hand of $147,229. The reporting period covered contributions made from Jan. 1 through March 31. A total of eight candidates were certified to compete in the June primary election, but only four candidates filed their April quarterly report. …
Saturday, March 31, 2012
The Del Rey Residents Association holds a biennial election at its spring general meeting.
Members of the Del Rey Residents Association reelected four directors and added a new board member at the group's quarterly general meeting Thursday. Wendy Averill, Sharon Blunk, Don Dombrowski and Chris Nevil each will serve an additional two-year term. Real estate professional Cory Watkins-Suzuki is a new addition to the association's board of directors and now holds the seat formerly occupied by Karen Guthrie. "As somebody who's born and raised in Del Rey, it's just a good feeling to give back to the community," Watkins-Suzuki said. "I would like to see the community develop and foster other successful children and other people that come from Del Rey and really make Del Rey an even better part of Los Angeles." The association's 11-…
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Friday, March 30, 2012
In the first "Talking About Los Angeles" discussion, the former Los Angeles City Council president and mayoral candidate pledged to facilitate entrepreneurship and business growth.
Business, neighborhoods and the future of the city were all topics on the table Thursday at the first "Talking About Los Angeles" discussion, featuring former Los Angeles City Council president and mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti. The first hour-long discussion in the series was moderated by Anthony Salcito of Microsoft's World Wide Public Sector organization and was held in an auditorium at Los Angeles Trade Technical College. Business was truly a hot topic for Garcetti, who told the audience city officials are currently incentivized by "fees and fines." He said he would like to, instead, see them judged on growth "metrics," like the number of new businesses they helped facilitate. "We have been one of the most unfriendly cities for …
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12:52 pm on Wednesday, May 16, 2012
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