Paul Krekorian for CD2: The Best Hope for Change

by Ron Kaye

They shouldn't have done it, they shouldn't have gotten Paul Krekorian mad, so mad he's started sounding like a guy who will stand up for his constituents instead of a politician running for a new office.

Their big mistake wasn't accusing him of almost single-handedly causing the state budget crisis or of being guilty by association with an unpopular state Legislature, Democrats and Republicans alike. After all, he does deserve his full share of criticism in those regards.

It wasn't calling him a liar or a thief or even raising a million dollars to defeat him or challenging the quarter-century-old law limiting how much dirty money can be poured into a local election.

No, they pushed Paul Krekorian over the edge by sneaking into the Valley Village apartment building where his family lives and snapping pictures to use in their endless stream of false and misleading mailers.

They messed with the guy's family and only fools do that.

Krekorian now has fire in his belly, the passion to tackle the corruption of City Hall and its crazed drive to elect someone who will do what they are told, not what's right.

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