Let‘s see, last time we had us a real mayor’s election in Los Angeles it was 1993. Indeed, the eventual winner didn‘t enter the race, officially, until the fall of 1992.Certainly, you could not say the last mayor’s race began in 1991. By then, we‘d just started wondering whether the great Tom Bradley would ever announce — after a just-made-it showing in his fifth and last run for office — that he was ready to relinquish his grip on the Mayor’s Office and the Getty Mansion. But even in the last months of 1991, if people thought “mayor‘s race,” they remembered that of 1989, when Bradley’s allure proved so faded that he was nearly driven into a runoff by maverick city councilman Nate Holden. Had he only faced a stronger opponent then, Tom Bradley might have been a four-term mayor. But the weak win was also a general storm warning: Bradley‘s Los Angeles was sailing into troubled waters, both economically and socially. The economy had begun to skid, and we were just months away from the Rodney King riots.