EDITORIAL CARDENAS VS. GREUEL WINNING OVER THE REMAINING 10 PERCENT.IT'S only fitting that after spending more than three-quarters of a million dollars flinging mud at each other, neither Tony Cardenas Tony Cardenas served in the California State Assembly. In the Assembly, he had the powerful position of chair of the Budget Committee. He is now a Los Angeles City Councilman, representing the 6th district, which includes parts of the San Fernando Valley. nor Wendy Greuel Wendy Greuel is President Pro Tempore of the Los Angeles City Council representing the 2nd District. Greuel was elected in 2002 to fill the remainder of the term of Councilman Joel Wachs. She was elected in her own right in 2003 and reelected in 2007. could win Tuesday's special election to represent the 2nd City Council District. The reason was Jamie Cordaro - an electrical contractor with no political experience and a campaign war chest worth about 2 percent of what his big-money opponents spent on the race. Cordaro was able to win 10 percent of the vote and force a March runoff Runoff The procedure of printing the end-of-day prices for every stock on an exchange onto ticker tape. Notes: If the "tape is late" then it can take a long time to print off all the closing prices. because, as the only pro-secession candidate, many voters surely saw him as the only one who was serious about getting the Valley its fair share in City Hall. Neither Cardenas nor Greuel did much to disabuse dis·a·buse tr.v. dis·a·bused, dis·a·bus·ing, dis·a·bus·es To free from a falsehood or misconception: I must disabuse you of your feelings of grandeur. them of that belief. They spent the bulk of the campaign sniping at each other. The Daily News endorsed Cardenas because he seems to have the clout to get his way in City Hall absent real faith that Greuel can stand up to the lock-step City Council. Now Cardenas and Greuel have three more months to convince the 10 percent who voted for Cordaro - and the rest of the Valley community - that they're serious about shaking up City Hall and making it responsive to the community's interests and respectful of its values. Let's see Let's See was a Canadian television series broadcast on CBC Television between September 6, 1952 to July 4, 1953. The segment, which had a running time of 15 minutes, was a puppet show with a character named Uncle Chichimus (voice of John Conway), which presented each them stop playing with words and get down to articulating what they really stand for and make concrete commitments to the community. |
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