Inside the Ads : L.A. CITY COUNCIL 5TH DISTRICT
Barbara Yaroslavsky, a candidate for the vacant 5th District City Council seat, has issued two campaign mailers to voters, one of which resembles a personal letter from Mayor Richard Riordan, urging voters to support Yaroslavsky. Both include a line in small print at the bottom of the page indicating that the mailers were paid for by Yaroslavsky’s campaign.
THE MAILER
Both mailers describe Yaroslavsky as a 17-year volunteer with the Los Angeles Free Clinic and an advocate for stronger police protection. But both mailers also include the following line: “As a former teacher and founder of her Neighborhood Watch, Yaroslavsky has struggled to keep kids in school and away from a life of crime.”
THE ANALYSIS
Her campaign acknowledges that Yaroslavsky does not have state teaching credentials--required of all public school teachers--and never held a full-time teaching position. (Her last full-time paying job was as an administrative assistant at UCLA in 1977.) But her campaign says she is described as a “former teacher” because she taught Hebrew school one day a week between 1972 and 1975 at the Louis B. Silver School at the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center.
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