[Texas Eagle]

Let this editorial serve as a reminder to any Republican who thinks Liberals can be appeased.

Somebody ping John McCain.

[ambrose]

I thought I'd post this since some Freepers are acting like this election is the end of the world. Hahn was no walk in the park... Antonio can't be any worse.

I say give the knucklehead a chance to screw things up even worse, before passing judgment on him.

He could turn out to be a pleasant surprise, who marks his term by a "Nixon Goes to China" - taking on the unions, and entrenched interests at City Hall.

Then again, he'll likely just be more of the same.. we shall see soon enough.

[Amerigomag]

It boggels the mind that any publisher could attempt to normalize what's going on in Los Angeles.

To the average American, and they are a distinctly small minority in the basin, this was a contest between a consummate liberal and a immigrant/labor ideologue.

This election was a poster child for the rot that is at the core of the new face of California. One camp wanting to return the wealth of the city to it's poor and the other wanting to return the area to the control of a cultural icon that is larger in the mind of its practioners than history supports.

And the winner? Not really important considering he has no mandate. The new mayor was elected by 16% of the registered voters in the city.

[calcowgirl]

Well, just look at some of the key Republicans and moderate Democrats backing his campaign: former Mayor Richard Riordan, Assemblyman Keith Richman, Sheriff Lee Baca, Councilman Bernard Parks, former Assembly Speaker Bob Hertzberg, Councilman Dennis Zine, and Valley independence leaders Richard Katz, David Fleming and Richard Close.

Ah, yes. Distinguished (R)s Dick Riordan and Keith Richman. Richman, another "New Majority" wonder-boy.

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