Party is over for Delgadillo, firm

Re “Delgadillo fete raises hackles,” March 7

So City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo is having a lavish party thrown for him by a City Hall lobbyist who represented Clear Channel in a billboard fight that ended in the company’s favor.

Clear Channel was one of several entities that spent $425,000 to promote Delgadillo’s candidacy on billboards. When this was discovered, the Los Angeles Ethics Commission fined Clear Channel $30,000 for failing to promptly disclose its role in backing Delgadillo and a council member. But Delgadillo insists he didn’t do anything wrong.

Delgadillo has been the subject of other controversies. It is beyond me how the people of Los Angeles have not started a recall petition to remove him from office and elect someone who holds him or herself to the highest standards.

Allen P. Wilkinson

Whittier

If Abraham Lincoln were alive in Los Angeles today, he would have to change his Gettysburg Address to now read, “government of Clear Channel, by Clear Channel and for Clear Channel.” The absolute greed and indifference to quality of life in our city as expressed by Clear Channel and its expansion of digital signage are simply a tragedy.

That Delgadillo would attend any event associated with the billboard lobby is a slap in the face to all Angelenos, and another indication that no one in government seems to care that our streets are slowly being remade into the Las Vegas Strip.

Rex Altman

Los Angeles