Hydee Feldstein Soto claims victory in L.A. city attorney’s race
In Los Angeles City Attorney Janice Hahn, veteran journalist Laura Flanders looked for the difference between the two sides in the campaign for City Atty. Steve Cooley’s office.
Hahn was a candidate with the highest name recognition, with her husband, the late William Bennett, on her campaign coffers.
At the same time, many candidates from the top of the ticket to the bottom were trying to position themselves in the race.
Then there was this: Hahn, a top candidate for the Los Angeles City Atty. position, was a well-known candidate with the name recognition of a TV talk show host.
Former councilwoman Janice Hahn is a top candidate for Los Angeles City Attorney, winning the race last night by a margin of more than 11,000 votes.
The defeat of Janice Hahn, running for City Atty., the top job in Los Angeles, should end a long, bitter campaign marked by a lot of backbiting and accusations of cheating from some candidates and promises made to others.
It should bring to an end a bitter campaign marked by accusations of cheating from some candidates and promises made to others.
It should bring to an end a bitter campaign marked by accusations of cheating from some candidates and promises made to others.
“The campaign was one of the most difficult,” Hahn said. “It was almost like a dog-eat-dog world, with all the campaigns, trying to get the most of what they could out of the media, out at events.”
She said that the media coverage of the election “in and of itself, it wasn’t necessarily news. It was a lot of opinion, it was a lot of hearsay, a lot of rumors.”
She also said she was not afraid of people who were just in it for themselves.
“All of those things, that I’ve had people come up to me and say, you know, I just want to have access to city officials and city officials know me,” she
