Gil Garcetti was hard put to make the right choice for his son, Eric. “Do you think this one would be quite right?” he asked a fellow customer at a Westside Trader Joe’s last Sunday. The other allowed that for $2.99 a bottle, that particular chardonnay wasn’t actually bad. “Then it will do for this afternoon’s fund-raiser,” the former district attorney said, gathering up a few jugs.There were just two more weekends left until the June 5 runoff. The elder Garcetti was doing his best to keep up with his 30-year-old in the last stretch of his son’s campaign for the 13th District Los Angeles City Council seat.
Source: Fathers and Sons | L.A. Weekly