Election Central: California votes
May 17, 2009
THE WEEK
Schwarzenegger's doomsday message may be too late
Arnold Schwarzenegger unleashed Armageddon last week. No, not the sequel to the movie where the giant asteroid threatens Earth, but rather his proposed budget, which seemed to menace California.
May 10, 2009
THE WEEK
Schwarzenegger needs a boost, but his chances recede with the economy
As he stood before the cameras in Santa Barbara last week, the freewheeling showman that Arnold Schwarzenegger used to be was evident only in his attire.
May 7, 2009
California voters likely to revisit gay marriage
The recent run of states legalizing gay marriage -- punctuated Wednesday by Maine becoming the fifth state to do so -- has increased the likelihood that California voters will face another ballot measure on the issue as early as next year, according to strategists on both sides.
March 27, 2009
LOS ANGELES ELECTIONS
Q & A: Paul Koretz and David T. Vahedi
As the May 19 runoff election nears, Times editors posed these questions to the two remaining candidates for the Los Angeles City Council's 5th District seat.
March 20, 2009
LOS ANGELES ELECTIONS
Solar energy proposal goes down to defeat
The solar energy ballot measure known as Measure B went down to defeat Thursday as Los Angeles election officials finished their count of the remaining 49,000 mail-in, provisional and damaged ballots.
8:44 AM PST, March 4, 2009
Two union candidates win L.A. school board races
Candidates backed by the teachers union won Tuesday's contested races for the Los Angeles Board of Education, but they will answer to not only the union but other powerful political forces, including the city's mayor and backers of charter schools.
March 5, 2009
Did Villaraigosa's margin of victory hurt gubernatorial ambitions?
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa handily won his reelection bid. Whether he secured the type of bounce needed to catapult him into a 2010 race for governor is another matter entirely.
6:43 PM PST, March 4, 2009
Steve Lopez: Villaraigosa's win might not be a victory
Is it possible to win an election and still come off as a loser?
March 3, 2009
HECTOR TOBAR
Hector Tobar: Villaraigosa cruises to his coronation
Jim Hubbard was one of the legions of people who followed the 2008 presidential campaign obsessively. Primaries, polls: He took it all in, from Iowa to election day.
March 3, 2009
LOS ANGELES ELECTIONS
L.A. election to decide mayor, council races
The countdown to today's city election in Los Angeles was marked by a flurry of last-minute spending and a fusillade of charges in the races for city attorney and controller as union representatives made a final push to get out the vote for a $3-billion solar energy initiative backed by the mayor.
March 2, 2009
Long-shot L.A. municipal candidates depend on Internet
As recently as two months ago, David R. Hernandez said, he didn't even know what Facebook was. Today, he uses the popular Internet social-networking site to help spread the word about his steeply uphill campaign for Los Angeles mayor in Tuesday's municipal primary.
8:22 PM PST, February 27, 2009
Race for L.A. city controller gets ugly
The campaign for Los Angeles city controller has shifted into ugly mode today, with candidates Wendy Greuel and Nick Patsaouras trading charges and putting up last-minute ads attacking each other in the run-up to Tuesday's election.
February 28, 2009
LOS ANGELES ELECTIONS
Weiss' style an issue in race for city attorney
When four of the candidates running for Los Angeles city attorney recently debated on the home turf of their chief opponent, City Councilman Jack Weiss, there was no question about whom they were targeting -- or the level of animosity that simmers among some of Weiss' Westside constituents.
February 27, 2009
LOS ANGELES ELECTIONS
L.A. mayoral hopeful is poised to make a splash
It's Tuesday night and Walter Moore, candidate for Los Angeles mayor, is on the air and taking calls.
February 27, 2009
Police question L.A. mayoral candidate on alleged death threat
Police questioned a Los Angeles mayoral candidate Thursday on whether he made a death threat against another candidate.
February 26, 2009
Main rivals for L.A. city controller have contrasting styles
Los Angeles City Councilwoman Wendy Greuel and electrical engineer Nick Patsaouras look similar on paper: They live in the San Fernando Valley, take a deep interest in public transit and run in the same circle of political climbers.
February 26, 2009
LOS ANGELES ELECTIONS
Trutanich sticks to a simple theme
In the flashy television ad that has served as his calling card to voters, Los Angeles city attorney candidate Carmen "Nuch" Trutanich compressed his 30-year legal career into a narrow sliver: the time he spent prosecuting serious gang crimes.
February 24, 2009
LOS ANGELES ELECTIONS
Building on the Westside: Q & A with L.A. 5th District City Council candidates
Growth and development issues on Los Angeles' crowded Westside often leave residents roiling over how best to keep it vibrant without eroding neighborhood life.
February 22, 2009
NEWS ANALYSIS
A confident Villaraigosa still thinking big for L.A.
Antonio Villaraigosa has reigned over Los Angeles for four years with the same guile and keen political instincts he used to dethrone the sitting mayor in 2005.
10:19 PM PST, February 21, 2009
LOS ANGELES ELECTIONS
L.A. politicians push for perks for businesses
To lure a Lowe's home improvement store to Pico Boulevard, the city of Los Angeles agreed to spend $14.3 million.
February 20, 2009
The case of the Los Angeles council-race sign stealer
Who is the mystery sign stealer in the District 5 Los Angeles City Council race?
February 20, 2009
Q & A
Los Angeles mayoral candidates weigh in on the proposed Subway to the Sea
When Los Angeles County voters passed a half-cent sales tax to raise $40 billion for transportation last fall, about $4.1 billion was set aside for the first phase of a subway extension west from downtown Los Angeles.
February 18, 2009
Trutanich ad for L.A. city attorney draws criticism
In the midst of a bruising final few weeks of the Los Angeles city attorney's race, two groups are calling on candidate Carmen "Nuch" Trutanich to stop running a television commercial that they say unfairly depicts Latino men as gang members.
February 16, 2009
LOCAL ELECTIONS
5th Council District fight is enmeshed with billboard battle
To find ground zero of L.A's outdoor advertising wars, a good place to start is the Los Angeles City Council's 5th District -- or more specifically, a two-mile stretch of Westwood Boulevard.
4:46 PM PST, February 12, 2009
Solar energy: Q & A with L.A. mayoral candidates
Should the City of Los Angeles become a national leader in the generation of renewable solar energy, as a March 3 ballot measure proposes?
8:32 AM PST, February 12, 2009
Sharp words in race for L.A. city attorney
With the March 3 election less than three weeks away, the race for Los Angeles city attorney is taking a considerably sharper tone.
February 11, 2009
L.A. council colleagues unhappy over Weiss campaign mailer
A new campaign mailer from City Councilman Jack Weiss, a city attorney candidate, sparked unusually heated criticism from several of his council colleagues Tuesday with the election just three weeks away.
February 8, 2009
Villaraigosa kicks off reelection campaign, shuns debate
An Eastside street corner was alive with mariachis, folklórico dancers and a pumped-up Antonio Villaraigosa on Saturday afternoon as the Los Angeles mayor kicked off his reelection campaign -- and skipped an invitation to face off with a group of his mostly unknown challengers across town.
February 4, 2009
Steve Lopez: 97% in poll want Villaraigosa to debate, but he still refuses
The question I put to readers last week was clear and direct:
January 29, 2009
Editorial
Measure B: L.A.'s secret solar plan
The City Council was unfazed in November when no one from the Department of Water and Power or other City Hall offices could answer some of the most basic questions about a proposed solar power measure the council was about to put on the ballot. How much will it cost ratepayers? Is it financially feasible? How much money will it take to recruit and train new workers?
January 28, 2009
Steve Lopez: Mayoral race is worth a debate
If I could have had it my way, Rick Caruso would be running for mayor of Los Angeles. I don't know if he would have won, and I don't know if I would have voted for him. But I love a good fight, and Caruso is rich enough to have raised the small hairs on the back of Antonio Villaraigosa's neck.
January 23, 2009
Candidate Trutanich vows to cut spending as city attorney
Less than six weeks before the election, Los Angeles city attorney candidate Carmen "Nuch" Trutanich on Thursday outlined his agenda for the office, promising to slash spending on outside counsel, improve training of deputy city attorneys, increase transparency and hire a team of investigators to aid the city attorney's office.
January 14, 2009
Six candidates for Weiss' seat run in a close pack
The March 3 race to replace Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss is shaping up as a close contest, with six candidates almost evenly matched in their fundraising, according to campaign finance reports turned in this week.
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