The One Constant: Change

During the past few weeks, I’ve spent a lot of time listening. I have been particularly interested in the discussions I have had with neighborhood council leaders. I’ve learned that opinions about City Hall are as diverse as our many great neighborhoods. Some want decentralization; others aren’t so sure. Some think neighborhood councils have little power to make real change; others believe the responsibility is sufficient.

The one consistent theme I hear, however, is that no one is satisfied that City Hall is doing everything it could to make LA the great world city it has the potential of being. I hear from neighborhood councils from every part of the city a real desire for action and change. No one is satisfied with mediocre leadership.

I know where I want to lead this city, but I’ve learned something important since I started campaigning: I can’t change LA by myself. The power to change LA rests with YOU. If you truly want change in City Hall, bring real power back to our neighborhoods and transform Los Angeles, you’ll have to take responsibility and action – on election day and beyond.

I’ll keep talking with a lot of you in our great neighborhoods. Please keep sharing with me your great ideas.

Comments

[Crawford Kilian]

In two days I'll be back in LA for the first time in many years, and by coincidence I've just discovered your blog. I wish you well in your campaign, and as a student of online media I'm interested in your use of blogging.

Could I suggest that you add a banner or title of some kind to your blog, and an "About Me" page. You're clearly no stranger to the folks who respond to your posts, but it would help to get some background.

You could also make this site more useful to visitors if it also included links to municipal resources of various kinds--if only to the websites of various LA city departments.

Good luck in your campaign!

Abrazos (naturally),

Crawford

[mack reed]

Bob: one other suggestion - add an email address to your site. If you're worried about spam, try using an image or another way to convey the information - but for a mayoral candidate, you're making yourself pretty hard to contact.

[Craig]

I'm disappointed with Bob Hertzberg.
I was excited when he first started the blog
because I thought, here's a candidate who is
going to communicate directly with voters
on a regular basis.

But here it is mid October and we haven't
had a post since June. If he's not going to
post, he should say so. But it's silly to start
something and then not see it through. That's
a bad trait in a politician. Don't tell me you
are going to run a blog and then just disappear.

Bob has lost my vote.

Craig

[qsudzylidge]

But i have to surrender

[online jobs]

Yes, it is not justified and my expectations too. Such a shame...