Politics

Eating with Hertzberg

Times columnist Steve Lopez tries to keep up after meeting Bob Hertzberg for breakfast at 7 a.m. We learn that the candidate hangs out at the Donut Factory as well as Art's Deli, some scenes in his new TV commercial took 100 takes, he gives driving directions by saying "chalk left" and "chalk right," and his wife has advised him that some people don't enjoy his bear hugs: "If I get any feeling of resistance," he says, "I don't do it." On the question of his ex-wife's legal action (now settled) to block Hertzberg from giving up his $1 million-a-year income to run for mayor—because of the reduction in child support—he says the children are well provided for and that you can raise a family fine on the mayor's close to $200,000-a-year salary. The line of the piece:

I have no idea how Hertzberg could have eaten anything, because he never stops talking.

Also: Hahn's plan to end all dropped cell phone calls turns out to be a plan to let service providers put antennas and repeaters on city poles for a fee. They could also create more wi-fi hot spots, the Daily News story says.

And: The Daily News has a story on SEIU local 347 workers improperly storing pro-Hahn campaign signs at a municipal yard on San Fernando Road.


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