LOS ANGELES CAMPAIGN ’89

MAYORAL RACE

Los Angeles City Councilman Nate Holden dismissed public opinion polling results showing him far behind Mayor Tom Bradley. Declaring he can win, Holden told a news conference that Bradley should be blamed for the gang violence and drug trafficking in the city.

CITY COUNCIL RACES

City Councilman Ernani Bernardi proposed a vote of the people on Bradley’s proposal to permit the Community Redevelopment Agency to obtain additional revenues from downtown redevelopment, to be use for housing, after-school care and improvement to downtown streets and other public facilities.

Write-in City Council candidate Jack McGrath, a candidate in the 5th District, says he is going to dance five hours at a dancethon beginning at 5 p.m. today and challenged Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky to do the same. The event is sponsored by radio station KPRW for AIDS Project L.A.

Mayoral candidate Baxter Ward told a news conference that Bradley has “sold out” the city to developers who contributed to his campaign. He also said Bradley and Police Chief Daryl F. Gates had failed to develop a plan for safe neighborhoods.

QUOTABLE

“Los Angeles is no longer the city of angels, it’s Dodge City, it’s the city of death.”

--Mayoral candidate Holden