Why You Should Run For L.A.'s City Council -- And How You Can Win

Why You Should Run For L.A.'s City Council -- And How You Can Win By Walter Moore, Candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles, WalterMooreForMayor.com August 2, 2008 You say you want a revolution? Me, too. That's why I'm running for Mayor of L.A. I could do a lot of good for our city as its Mayor. But I could do even more if seven of you reading this newsletter get elected to the odd-numbered City Council District seats that are up for grabs in the March 9, 2009 election -- the same election as the Mayor's race. Running for City Council may seem like a daunting task to you. But look at the numbers before you throw in the towel. I think you'll be shocked by how few votes you would need to unseat the people who, along with Villaraigosa, are ruining our city. If the same number of voters show up next time as showed up last time, here is how few votes you would need to defeat the incumbents in the odd-numbered districts without a runoff: District 1: Reyes - 7,136 District 3: Zine - 16,738 District 5: Weiss - 19,827 (he's running for City Attorney, by the way, so you don't even have to run against him) District 7: Alarcon - 4,771 District 9: Perry - 7,385 District 11: Rosendahl - 20,481 District 13: Garcetti - 7,350 (he ran unopposed) Did you realize how few votes it takes to become one of the 16 people running America's second-largest city? Surprising, isn't it? I mean, the City has four million inhabitants -- many of them here legally -- and an annual budget of $7 billion, and the "President" of the City Council could have been someone else with just 7,350 votes. What does it mean? It means the thing that is killing our city -- voter apathy -- is the same thing that can save it. We don't have to convince millions of people to vote. We need only get the same 239,513 people who voted "no" on Prop S to show up on March 3, 2009. So how about it? How about YOU becoming one of the "Magnificent Seven" who, along with me as Mayor, will turn this city around? What's the worst that could happen? We could lose. But even if we lose, we'll know we did everything we could to save America's second-biggest city. And if you don't run, well, just remember: "For all the sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been.'"