LOS ANGELES : Wachs Officially Declares Candidacy for Mayor
Los Angeles City Councilman Joel Wachs, 53, officially declared Monday that he will run for mayor, promising that if elected, he would set up 100 grass-roots neighborhood councils to help him run the city.
Wachs is the second person to declare for the April, 1993, mayoral election, following Councilman Michael Woo. Mayor Tom Bradley has announced that he will not seek a sixth term. Wachs declined to say how much money he has raised for the race.
Wachs said his neighborhood council program would give citizens, who now feel estranged, a way to participate in government. Wachs’ news conference was held at the Van Nuys General Motors plant. The closed facility symbolizes the city’s employment problem, which Wachs said he would help cure by ensuring that some of the area’s billions of dollars in rapid transit spending goes to create jobs.
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