Image conscious. (L.A. Stories).Billboard icon Angelyne Angelyne is a model and occasional actress who has become an icon of Hollywood and Los Angeles best known for purchasing billboards advertising herself.[1] She is also known for her pink Corvette which bears the shortened "ANGLYNE" on its license plate, as well as a pink may have prompted a few laughs when she filed papers to run for the city council of the proposed city of Hollywood Hollywood. 1 Community within the city of Los Angeles, S Calif., on the slopes of the Santa Monica Mts.; inc. 1903, consolidated with Los Angeles 1910. on Nov. 5. With Angelyne now in the race, Hollywood residents could very well see a billboard campaign reminiscent of the one launched on behalf of successful L.A. City Attorney candidate Rocky Delgadillo Rockard John "Rocky" Delgadillo (born July 15 1960) is the current City Attorney of Los Angeles, California. Career
But one group may not be laughing: billboard opponents who support the city of L.A.'s recently-passed ban on new billboards and attempts to crack down on existing illegal billboards. Asked whether she would support keeping the ban on billboards in a separate Hollywood city, Angelyne said, "Absolutely not. The more billboards the merrier!" That doesn't sit well with one billboard industry critic, L.A. City Councilman Jack Weiss Jack Weiss, is a member of the Los Angeles City Council representing the 5th district. Weiss was elected in 2001 and reelected in 2005. The 5th district includes parts of the Westside and the San Fernando Valley. . "I'm surprised the billboard industry didn't think about (having Angelyne run for office) a long time ago," Weiss said. "Can you think of what an effective lobbyist and perhaps even legislator LEGISLATOR. One who makes laws. 2. In order to make good laws, it is necessary to understand those which are in force; the legislator ought therefore, to be thoroughly imbued with a knowledge of the laws of his country, their advantages and defects; to Angelyne would make on their behalf?" |
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