La Opinion, Los Angeles's leading Spanish-language newspaper, endorsed Silver Lake resident Eric Garcetti for mayor Thursday.
The paper's endorsement cited Garcetti's experience in municipal government and job creation as capable of bringing economic growth to all Angelenos.
It also called City Controller Wendy Greuel "a solid candidate," making the decision a tough one.
The Los Angeles City Councilman, whose grandfather was Mexican, has worked diligently to reach out to Los Angeles' Spanish-speaking community.
Earlier this week his campaign released a Spanish-language message. Actress Salma Hayek also recently appeared in a video supporting Garcetti in Spanish.
Garcetti also was quick to push for a $50,000 reward to find the killer of a Guatemalan immigrant killed by taggers outside a church in Historic Filipinotown.
Garcetti, Greuel and six other candidates are on the ballot for the March 5 primary. If no candidate wins a majority, the top two vote-getters will face off in the May 21 election.
Garcetti has promoted this lie that he is Mexican, and I really wish the media would stop regurgitating it. He is not. Gee, for one thing, he doesn't even say anything about his grandmother -- because she wasn't Mexican. In fact, he is Jewish -- and should not be so ashamed of saying so and being honest. His mother is Jewish (making him a minimum of 50% Jewish, and if his grandmother was Jewish, then 62% Jewish) and he was raised Jewish. Even if his grandfather had been born in Mexico rather than merely lived there, Garcetti still would be a most only 25% Mexican, but frankly, I suspect his father was born in Italy, and was just part of the huge outflow of Italians to the Western Hemisphere at that time -- Garcetti has made a point of keeping that detail secret -- because that's what liars do.
But La Opinion did not endorse Garcetti because of his heritage, they "cited Garcetti's experience in municipal government and job creation as capable of bringing economic growth to all Angelenos."
I would like to know, "What has Garcetti done for La Raza?"
Now - "What has Garcetti done for Angelenos?"