Now that Los Angeles has selected its first German-American mayor of the millennium and the postmortem reports are all in, can we perhaps finally move beyond this recent election to something else? You’d think so, but not so fast there.
It’s tempting, for instance, to speculate about what awaits us in the inside stickball game that is the first contended City Council presidency contest in 14 years. Will it be Council Member Ruth Galanter, Cindy Miscikowski or Nick Pacheco, in that order of plausibility? Or might one of the five (six, if you include Ed Reyes, who won a majority in the primary) newcomers pull off a wild-card coup? Well, stay tuned, we’ll get around to it, but no one knows just yet.