Politics

Analyzing Hahn

By Kevin Roderick | March 11, 2004 11:32 AM | 1 Comment

The lede in today's piece on Mayor Jim Hahn in CityBeat by Charles Rappleye:

There’s no question Mayor Jim Hahn is a strange political bird. Laconic and dewy-eyed, timorous and soft-spoken, Hahn seems to lack the presence and gumption it takes to run the second-largest city in the nation. And yet his first term has been marked by dramatic, defining gestures that beg the question: Who is this guy, and what is he really all about?

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