RIVALS IN 7TH GO POSTAL.Byline: Yvette Cabrera Daily News Staff Writer Mailboxes are filling up with political hit pieces as voters prepare to go to the polls Tuesday in the northeast San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. Valley's 7th Council District. The latest campaign mail includes some sent by the two candidates with the largest campaign treasuries - Alex Padilla Alex Padilla is a politician in California. He was elected as the State Senator for the 20th District of California in November 2006 and was inaugurated in early December. In order to enter the Senate he had to resign as Councilman for the 7th District on the Los Angeles City and Corinne Sanchez - attacking one another's experience and track record. Six candidates on the ballot, plus two write-in candidates, are vying for the remaining two years in the unexpired term of Richard Alarcon, who left the Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. when he was elected to the state Senate last fall. Sanchez, 52, mailed a ``guide for voters,'' which unfolds to display a list of her accomplishments next to a practically blank space for accomplishments by her chief rival, Padilla, who is half her age. Padilla, meanwhile, reprinted a Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). article critical of the social service agency Sanchez heads, the Arleta-based El Proyecto del Barrio bar·ri·o n. pl. bar·ri·os 1. An urban district or quarter in a Spanish-speaking country. 2. A chiefly Spanish-speaking community or neighborhood in a U.S. city. , which is being reviewed by the city for possibly overcharging rents on an office building. ``It's a gross misrepresentation misrepresentation In law, any false or misleading expression of fact, usually with the intent to deceive or defraud. It most commonly occurs in insurance and real-estate contracts. False advertising may also constitute misrepresentation. of her record,'' complained Steve Gray-Barkan, Sanchez's campaign consultant. ``It implies that the organization is under investigation, but it's not and it's never been.'' Every contract with every nonprofit agency undergoes regular reviews, he said. Padilla campaign consultant Rick Taylor dismissed Sanchez's hit piece against his candidate, saying voters who had discounted Padilla because of his age would not be swayed by the piece. He said it was an unfair comparison because it failed to show Padilla's accomplishments as a youth, such as fighting crime through his Neighborhood Watch group as a 10-year-old and serving as high school president. ``Here's a young man that we should be saluting, rather than tearing him down,'' said Taylor. Candidate Raul Godinez II predicted that the hit pieces would be a benefit to the other four candidates, who so far have managed to stay out of the hailstorm See .NET My Services. of negative mail. |
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