Anyone have the skinny on the Gruel/Garcetti L.A. Mayoral race?

[busterbrown]

I get so tired of the ads and bullshit. I just need to know who’s the nearest thing to a true progressive.

[ellisonz]

1. I don't live in LA City proper...

...but if I did my vote would go to Garcetti. He's not perfect and Wendy Gruel has done her damnedest to make that clear, but I think he has a progressive heart, even if the suit gets in the way occasionally, and Wendy Gruel rubs me the wrong way. She's not a bad person, but she strikes me as more of a centrist.

[busterbrown]

2. Thats exactly what I’m hearing out here...

We as progressives have got to start pushing the real deal all over the country and it starts at the local level..Its so hard to distinguish when relying on the ads and mailers...Sometimes I feel to just go with who the Unions push for...But thats not always a safe bet..

[ellisonz]

3. The unions are split - Garcetti has the teachers, Gruel DWP.

Frankly, I favor the teachers union. For what it's worth - Garcetti has the endorsement of the LA Times and of all 3 other former candidates.

[JI7]

4. Bill Clinton endorsed Greuel

[Chan790]

5. That alone makes me favor Garcetti.

I mean I like the Big Dog but I cannot recall him endorsing the more-progressive candidate in a Democratic primary where the more-conservative candidate was not an obvious Trojan Horse Republican or simply a buffoon. Ever.

He's a solid barometer of Democratic party centrism and corporatism. I favor a liberalization of the Democratic party.

[JI7]

6. i think Greuel did use to be a republican for some years

i haven't been paying attention even though i'm in the area. but i believe she was a republican at one time. but don't know how long ago. that alone wouldn't mean much since elizabeth warren use to be one also . but i'm not sure if she has the record warren has .