May 8, 2008 - 9:45am
Mike Feuer for L.A. City Attorney?
By Wally S. EdgeLos Angeles City Hall is buzzing with word that lobbyists throughout the City have received calls from Assemblyman and former 5th District Councilman Mike Feuer that he is seriously considering another run for City Attorney.
For those with short memories, Feuer lost the City Attorney’s race to unknown Rocky Delgadillo. Some blame the loss on Feuer’s arrogance (you can always tell a Harvard man – you just can’t tell him anything) while others blame the failure of his consultant to strike a deal with powerful Congresswoman Maxine Waters’ to appear on her slate card. Whatever the reason, Rocky won and became the worst City attorney since…(Wally’s memory isn’t what it used to be and can’t remember a worse CA).
Mayoral ally and Feuer successor to the 5th District seat, Jack Weiss, is the acknowledged frontrunner in the race. Weiss spends most of his time in Mayor AV’s shadow and Antonio is Chair of Jack’s campaign. Jack has many critics in City Hall and extremely few friends, but he is the frontrunner and we don’t hear Mike getting much encouragement for the race. But…who knows?
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A month later, Feuer is still telling cityBeat he's thinking about running and has "lots of encouragement," but won't say from whom. Sure there are disgruntled groups who wish the district could halt all development, but that's something Feuer promised to do and couldn't, either, plus he was considered too critical to form any alliances in City Hall. Weiss has his critics like anyone who has a real vision, and he's shown what he can do with the beautiful, "green," and truly mass-transit friendly "smart" mixed-use developments at Century City that his local critics were so up in arms about, preferring the place to stay literally bankrupt and empty rather than generate any traffic.
But now his planning is shown to have been ahead of its time by years, and is emulated around the country -- like his working with other law enforcement depts. on anti-terrorism, gang crime in the city, etc.
Feuer isn't strong enough to combat the bad guys as City Attorney, and doesn't have the endorsement of the Mayor and Police Chief that it would take to be effective. Maybe Weiss isn't a back-slapping kind of pol, but that's not what we need in a City ATtorney.
Speaking of overly congenial, Hertzberg "the Hug" hosted a lunch to tell 35 of his closest friends that he wasn't running for anything, The other guy running, a Republican from Harbor City, had better not give up his day job, is totally unqualified to be City Attorney of metro L A. as well as the surrounding areas.
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Mike Feuer for City Attorney. You have got to be kidding. He was a bad city councilman and failed at all his other offices. If you want to make sure convictions do not stick in the City of Los Angeles then here's your man.
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