Nearly four months after it first appeared, a highly publicized report critical of Mayor Richard Riordan’s efforts to bolster the city economy was attacked in turn by the mayor’s own business team this week.The original report, largely compiled under grant aid by the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) with UCLA’s Center for Labor Research and Education, had found fault with the focus of the mayor’s 5-year-old Los Angeles Business Team. It suggested that the team had exaggerated its accomplishments and focused its primary efforts on low-paying jobs. But the report’s “underpinnings” were quite seriously flawed, said that team’s captain, Deputy Mayor Rocky Delgadillo.”Simply, [the report’s] methodology was at best questionable and mostly incorrect,” Delgadillo declared in a meeting of the City Council’s Economic Development Committee on Monday. He also claimed that one of the report’s initial backers had withdrawn his support from the project on the basis of its alleged flaws.
Source: Down, Boy | L.A. Weekly