CITY GOVERNMENT SANK INTO TROPICAL lassitude during the council’s recent summer recess. But in one critical area, things actually sped up: Would-be council candidates were scurrying to roust signatures for their initial filings for the 2003 election. The new haste is because next year’s city primary comes in March instead of April. So now the candidates have to wrap things up December 4 instead of early next year, which gave them late-summer priorities other than just keeping cool.All of them, that is, except Assemblyman Tony Cardenas, now in his last few moments of legislative office. It may not be accurate to say that the new San Fernando Valley 6th District was created for Cardenas, but it sure is hard to believe that it wasn’t. No credible opponent has appeared in the 6th District race yet. This, despite Cardenas’ plentiful enemies’ desperate efforts to rope someone in. So it looks like Cardenas, despite losing this year’s 2nd District special election, is going to be sitting on the council this time next year. All it will take is a moving van — he doesn’t actually live in the new 6th — and he’s a shoo-in.
Source: Autumn Follies | L.A. Weekly