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In today’s LA Material they write about the advice former LA Mayor Eric Garcetti would give or has given to Mayor-Elect Nithya Raman. You can read it here: lamaterial.com/p/former-mayo… His advice is 100% correct but I’d like to dive into two items he talked about: 1. Don’t be a sore winner. Mayor Garcetti gives this advice because he and his administration absolutely were sore winners. They viewed the people and organizations that backed City Controller Wendy Greuel like petulant children locked in a Twinkie factory never letting anyone else inside. That’s a fun image isn’t it? They purposefully ignored and shut out many unions and business organizations they had relationships with as Council President but decided to “make pay” in the early days of his administration. In fact the term “sore winner” appears in the early day of the Garcetti administration in the Los Angeles Times. 2. Hiring campaign staff. Again the advice Garcetti got from former City Councilman Rudy Svornivich is correct. Also, while I’ve only spoken to the former Councilman a few times reading this article did have me recall, Rudy’s advice has always been 100% correct. If you know the man and need life advice give him a call! Here is the thing about campaign staff, we carry grudges. Not all, but most do and it’s not on purpose. Campaign staff live in real time the backstabbings, the hurt, the taste of victory but they were also with the candidate on the loneliest lows. You want to rectify those feeling for your candidate and it’s understandable. Because you know your candidate has to be magnanimous, but you don’t. Former Mayor Garcetti’s advice likely stems from this LA Times article: latimes.com/california/story… where every single person involved in the “Hate Dolores Huerta” controversy were also aides to his mayoral race. There is some benefit to knowing LA’s political history, primarily so you don’t repeat the mistakes. Our new Mayor-Elect has a coalition and team that is young, this is a good thing, all former Mayor Garcetti is asking and this account is too - have someone read all the dumb shit of the last 75 years in LA, so you don’t repeat it.