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 amk@interport.net (Andy Katz) writes:

>MHigby@Primenet.com (Michael Higby) wrote:

>>Though I will probably vote for Richard Riordan, it doesn't make me happy.  I 
>>am even more aghast at the possibility of Tom Hayden becoming mayor.  LA needs 
>>to grow up and become a real city, like New York, Boston, Chicago or San 
>>Francisco - or it needs to turn off the lights and close down.

>Very nicely put, Michael, a realization the denial of which lies at
>the heart of many of LA's problems.

>Without agreeing or disagreeing, however, I'd like to know why you
>prefer Riordan over Hayden (I've met and like Hayden, but that was
>well before any mayorial run on his part, so I don't what proposals
>he's made, particularly as events occuring west of the Hudson River
>aren't, by law, reported here). Though I only experienced a year or
>Riordan, I'd think of him as catering more to the LA as endless
>suburbia ideal than Hayden ... am I wrong here? 

Riordan has done a lot towards getting neighborhood activists thinking about 
making LA more pedestrian and adopting new urbanism.  I don't think Hayden has 
even give that a thought.  He has that Santa Monica-Westside mindset that as 
long as Starbucks is opened and as long as the kids get to soccer all is okay.

Hayden is probably better off to remain in Sacramento and pursue campaign 
finance reform and to fight the Republicans.  I would have much rather he 
became governor than mayor.

Riordan also realizes that LA has to become more competitive with its neighbor 
cities in retaining and attracting business with high paying jobs.  That's the 
only way depressed areas of the city will come back to life.

>Also, is Hayden following the LA Weekly, progressive party line that
>prefers to trash the Red Line rather than finish it and just put more
>buses into the system?

Yup.
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