John Q. Walsh

Termed-out Los Angeles City Councilperson Jan Perry, who finished fourth in the primary election for mayor on March 5, is guaranteed the DWP General Manager’s job at $346 G's in exchange for endorsing Eric Garcetti for Mayor over Wendy Greuel.

An open announcement in front of microphones and cameras, revealing mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti’s secret pledge to...

Note to Bill Boyarsky, a gentleman who once was the top political columnist in Los Angeles, when he was with the L.A. Times: You don't have to be a has-been forever, Mr. Boyarsky. You can emerge from the blogosphere's murky depths with one big scoop – if you have the backbone.

Thank you, Dakota Smith of the Daily News, for excavating important details concerning the adopted daughter of Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti and his wife Amy that I have been trying to dig out for many months! The Los Angeles Times has bowed to Eric's request and never even mentioned the existence of his 16 month-old adopted daughter, Maya. How odd. What are the Garcettis nervous about?

A clearly befuddled Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson on Friday asked something of the members of the public, who were serving as potential eyewitnesses, acting as observers of the City Council cut-ups presented that day on Channel 35 video cameras. The something that Herb asked the public was the ultra-odd query...

The Los Angeles Times succumbs to constant pressure from City Hall bloggers and finally today confronts Mayoral Candidate Garcetti with his more than month-long absence from City Council meetings in order to conduct his personal campaign for Mayor of Los Angeles. Website sends a letter of complaint to Secretary of the Navy Raymond Edwin Mabus, demanding that Naval Lt. Garcetti be ordered, forthwith, to drop his mayoral campaign and report to reserve duty.

Here is the latest cyber broadside from the Anybody but Garcetti for Mayor Committee. Below is what a week of the Clinton endorsement can do for Little Wendy's poll numbers ... read it here, or the stats are available at Tulchin Research.

Editor’s Note: The ruling request is addressed to John Schwada, communications director for the incumbent Los Angeles City Attorney, who is locked in a pressurized battle for re-election seven weeks from tomorrow.

A Public Records document gives Los Angeles City Council member Eric Garcetti official permission to play hooky from Council meetings for the entire month of March – and still collect his regular monthly salary of $18,000.

Dear Candidate Garcetti: President Bill Clinton's ringing endorsement of your rival yesterday marks the turning point in the L.A. Mayor's race. Mr. Garcetti, your goose is cooked.