I have no idea who any of the mayoral candidates are other than Hahn, Villairagosa, and Parks. So this is an uninformed guide to voting based on the one minute video clips KCAL 9 News is doing each evening for those candidates who cannot afford a TV ad and on first impressions from the very brief description given of them in the voter guides put out by the city.
First up is Wendy Lyons. She's a meatpacker and is registered with the Socialist Workers Party. That should be enough information to make a very informed "no" decision. The gist of what she said in her one minute TV clip was that she will work hard to make the streets safer for criminals and illegal aliens and do everything she can to jail cops. She wants to make LA a city of crime and protest. Oh, and she wants to bring back the troops from Iraq. So not only is she wiggedty wiggedty whacked on local policy, her larger agenda is irrelevant to LA politics. YEAH! She didn't exude much authority or presence of mind when she couldn't manage to memorize a one minute speech. She kept looking at her notes and "umming" her way from one bullet point to the next. Her ideas (if you can call them that) were not complex so the fact she couldn't remember them doesn't bode well for a future Mayor. Also, if she couldn't persuade any of the many millionaires in Los Angeles to give money to her campaign for an actual TV ad, how is she going to persuade key players to cooperate with her "agenda" for the city? Is she just trying to gain street creds to run for a foreman (forewoman?) position at the local meatpacking plant? Lyons promises, if elected, to create "a massive federally funded public works program to put millions to work at union wages building housing, schools, mass transit, hospitals." To sum up, Wendy Lyons is a joke.
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