Opinion: Oh, Wendy.

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The Times endorsed Wendy Greuel for controller in the March 3 Los Angeles city election, although our enthusiasm was not unbridled (see the editorial here). We believed, and believe still, that she is the best of the candidates for the job.

But we really didn’t like her campaign TV commercial (watch the original version of the ad at Greuel’s web site) that tried to generate voter outrage over a city Housing Department program. For one thing, she voted in the City Council to approve the program, as the Times’ David Zahniser reported. For another, the department’s management-building exercise was exposed not by Greuel but by the Times. And finally, the Housing Department is one of the better-run city agencies.

So after our endorsement ran, Greuel changed the commercial with which we took issue. The change? The addition, at the end, of the words, ‘Endorsed by the Los Angeles Times.’ Oh, Wendy. Oh, the irony.

*Photo: Annie Wells / Los Angeles Times