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[Editor’s Note: Downtown City Hall correspondent John Walsh, our “Walsh and Wear” essayist, forwarded popular Betty Pleasant’s heavily followed “Soulvine” column that, he said, her home base, Wave Newspapers, declined to publish this week. “Why won’t the Wave run this?” asks Mr. Walsh. “Who is the behind-the-scenes censor? Maybe Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas whispered in the ear of the Wave publisher? Vote George McKenna for LAUSD School Board on Aug. 12.” Mr. Walsh also is posting Soulvine @ jwalshconfidential.wordpress.com. His Twitter account @hollywooddems]

[Editor’s Note: Ms. Pleasant, whose essay was posted this morning at the Wave Newspapers site, is perhaps the community’s most vivid, most precise commentator on the state of politics. Community activist Najee Ali deserves a bow for bringing this confrontational issue to our attention.]

Unlike other candidates on the municipal primary election ballot on Tuesday, Mr. Price, the senator for the 26th District and former assemblyman for the 51st District, is not "termed out" of his present post, is not unemployed and is not in need of a job. "I'm running for the 9th District,” he said, “because..