VAN NUYS : Wachs Declares Mayoral Candidacy
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 announced 11 days ago that he will not seek a sixth term. Wachs, who filed the papers to raise money for mayor on Aug. 12, declined Monday to say how much he has raised.
Wachs said his neighborhood council program would give average citizens who now feel estranged from government a way to participate in it. His news conference was held with the Van Nuys General Motors plant as a backdrop.
A Wachs aide said the plant was chosen to symbolize the city’s employment problem, which Wachs said he would help solve by ensuring that some of the area’s billions of dollars in rapid-transit spending go to create local jobs.
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