[But Alex Padilla, incoming league president and prominent Los Angeles Democrat, said] the governor is way off. … won’t know where the blue pencil will hit the hardest.

This will not be known as the Times Square of the West, … Times Square will be known as the l.a. live of the East.

We will welcome any manufacturer of the vaccine to manufacture here,

If I was the governor, I wouldn’t be jumping up and down for joy here,

The governor personally came here, assigned a dozen staff members to work the hall like it was a political convention and it squeaked by with 11 votes. Unless they’re going to assign a dozen staff...

We want great schools for our kids, safe neighborhoods and the very best in emergency services, … Proposition 76 would make it harder for us to provide those services.

We are aware that how critical the problem is,

But we haven’t come up with any measures to deal with the matter. The wage hike is impractical because we just don’t have room for it in our budget.

He was a man of the people, a true populist.

When he hit me that first time it made me realize what I was actually out there doing.

I find it weird that he lost. He has been mayor for a while.