Garcetti edges toward presidential run with trip to Iowa

[DonViejo]

By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE 03/21/2018 12:26 PM EDT

Eric Garcetti is stopping just short of announcing he’s running for president.

The Los Angeles mayor and expected 2020 candidate is making a two-day swing through Iowa April 13-14, with stops in Des Moines, Altoona, Davenport and Waterloo, hitting a union event, a political fundraiser and local tours along the way.

The trip will make Garcetti the first prospective presidential candidate to visit all four of the first nominating states this cycle: he campaigned for Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig in New Hampshire in August, attended the Democratic National Committee’s meeting in Las Vegas in October and traveled to Columbia, South Carolina to promote his “Accelerator for America“ nonprofit last month.

Elesha Gayman, a former Iowa state legislator and secretary of the Scott County Democrats, said that Garcetti’s outspokenness on immigration and sanctuary cities helped put him on the radar of her group. It invited him to speak at its annual Red, White and Blue Dinner at the Davenport Radisson.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/21/eric-garcetti-iowa-477573?lo=ap_a1

[SoCalNative]

1. Please

not Garcetti

[Brother Buzz]

2. Hailing from California is all but a nonstarter in this political climate