Thread: Update: Villaraigosa Defeats Hahn (Bad day for LA)

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Update: Villaraigosa Defeats Hahn

By HOWARD FINE

Los Angeles Business Journal Staff

Los Angeles City Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa soundly defeated incumbent Mayor James Hahn in Tuesday's runoff election, to become L.A.'s first Latino mayor since the early 1870s.

With 82 percent of precincts counted, Villaraigosa held a 58.7 percent to 41.3 percent lead over Hahn in a rematch of the 2001 mayoral election. In defeat, Hahn became the first incumbent mayor to lose his job in 32 years.

Villaraigosa said Tuesday that among his first actions as mayor would be banning all lobbyists from serving on city commissions and requiring all commissioners and general managers to sign ethics pledges.

Hahn, campaigning on Tuesday, acknowledged that he didn’t do a good job in getting the message out about the accomplishments of his administration.

The mayoral campaign took on an increasingly hostile tone during the final week as Hahn tried to make up ground on the front-running Villaraigosa. Each side unleashed attack ads on television and radio, with Hahn trying to portray Villaraigosa as soft on crime and Villaraigosa trying to paint Hahn as a politician presiding over a corrupt administration.

Amid the negative campaigning, turnout was low, perhaps the lowest in modern L.A. history for a runoff mayoral election.

Meanwhile, former cable television talk show host Bill Rosendahl led community activist Flora Gil Krisiloff, 55.8 percent to 44.2 percent, in the race to replace termed-out City Councilwoman Cindy Miscikowski for a Westside council seat.

Charter Amendment A, which sought to merge the Los Angeles International Airport police with the Los Angeles Police Department, appeared headed for defeat, losing by a 64 to 36 percent margin.

Charter Amendment B, which clarifies recall voting procedures, was leading 52.7 percent to 47.9 percent.

In Redondo Beach, former Councilman Mike Gin appeared headed for victory in a runoff for an open mayoral post. Gin held a 60.8 percent to 39.2 percent lead over Councilman Gerard Bisignano with a majority of precincts reporting

There goes CALIFORNICATION. 1 down, 49 to go!!!

Oh that's a real shocker. NOT!

I guess LA is now a Mexican city afterall.

Maybe this is a good thing in disguise. Why? Because now having this reconquista in office will make things so bad in LA that maybe enough good hearted people will wake up. Or not and the remaining good hearted people will just run away like everyone else, leaving LA to the Mexican onslaught.