SOBOROFF ATTACKS HAHN'S TV ADS.Byline: Rick Orlov Staff Writer Mayoral candidate Steve Soboroff Steve Soboroff (born August 31, 1948) is a real estate developer and president of Playa Vista. Mr. Soboroff is the Chairperson of the Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University. went on the offensive Monday, accusing City Attorney James Hahn For the Iowa politician, see . James Kenneth "Jim" Hahn (born July 3, 1950) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He was the Deputy City Attorney (1975-1979), City Controller (1981-1985), City Attorney (1985-2001) and Mayor of Los Angeles, California of numerous inaccuracies in television commercials broadcast over the weekend. Saying Hahn was using ``overblown o·ver·blown v. Past participle of overblow. adj. 1. a. Done to excess; overdone: overblown decorations. b. rhetoric'' in taking credit for creating a program for children and filing lawsuits against the tobacco and gun industries, Soboroff said Hahn should correct the commercials or pull them off the air. A spokesman said Hahn would do no such thing. ``We stand behind the commercials and will not change them,'' consultant Kam Kuwata said. ``Jim Hahn has a 20-year record as a public official. Steve Soboroff has 20 months of experience as a candidate.'' Soboroff and Hahn are the first of the six leading mayoral candidates to take their campaigns to television for the April 10 election. In the commercials, Soboroff said Hahn took credit for creating a program known as Kid Watch to monitor students on their way to and from schools. Soboroff said it was created by the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. , Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . and USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. .
Soboroff also accused Hahn of stalling a 1990 anti-smoking law until after he had received a $1,000 contribution from the Philip Morris Co. Kuwata disputed that as well. ``Jim Hahn did not stall anything,'' Kuwata said. ``He has long been an advocate for anti-smoking laws.'' |
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