LOS ANGELES CAMPAIGN ’89
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MAYORAL RACE
Los Angeles City Councilman Nate Holden dismissed public opinion polling results showing him far behind Mayor Tom Bradley. Declaring he can win, Holden told a news conference that Bradley should be blamed for the gang violence and drug trafficking in the city.
CITY COUNCIL RACES
City Councilman Ernani Bernardi proposed a vote of the people on Bradley’s proposal to permit the Community Redevelopment Agency to obtain additional revenues from downtown redevelopment, to be use for housing, after-school care and improvement to downtown streets and other public facilities.
Write-in City Council candidate Jack McGrath, a candidate in the 5th District, says he is going to dance five hours at a dancethon beginning at 5 p.m. today and challenged Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky to do the same. The event is sponsored by radio station KPRW for AIDS Project L.A.
Mayoral candidate Baxter Ward told a news conference that Bradley has “sold out” the city to developers who contributed to his campaign. He also said Bradley and Police Chief Daryl F. Gates had failed to develop a plan for safe neighborhoods.
QUOTABLE
“Los Angeles is no longer the city of angels, it’s Dodge City, it’s the city of death.”
--Mayoral candidate Holden
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