LOS ANGELES CAMPAIGN ’89

City Clerk Elias Martinez announced that a public drawing will be held today at 9 a.m. in the City Council Chambers of City Hall to determine the order of candidates’names on the April 11 ballot.

MAYOR’S RACE

Mayor Tom Bradley made no campaign appearances Thursday, and his staff announced no plans for today.

Councilman Nate Holden and former county Supervisor Baxter Ward held a debate at Nickerson Gardens housing project in Watts.

Joseph Patrick Shea, a former reporter for the L.A. Weekly and Village Voice, called for dropping parts of the valley from the city limits, providing the homeless with a phone answering service and mail drop for job seeking, and posting specific hours on all curb loading zones. Shea holds press conference today at 10 a.m. on 1st Street steps of City Hall to unveil a 24-point plan to transform Los Angeles.

CITY COUNCIL RACES

Westside Councilman Marvin Braude will be unopposed on the April 11 ballot. His lone opponent, Irwin Kaplan, failed to qualify because of insufficient signatures on his nominating petitions.

Councilwoman Joy Picus, from the West Valley, discusses household hazardous waste on radio station KWHY today at 9 a.m.

CAMPAIGN QUIP

“The rain kind of got in our way.”

--Clifford E. McClain of South Los Angeles, blaming the weather for falling about 100 signatures short of the 500 he needed to qualify as a candidate in the 15th City Council District. McClain is contemplating a write-in campaign.

Compiled by researcher Cecilia Rasmussen