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73. Sloane Martin, “FULL SPEECH: Senator Amy Klobuchar Says She’ll ‘Lead from the Heart’ as She Announces Run for President,” WCCO, February 10, 2019, https://wccoradio.radio.com/articles/senator-amy-klobuchars-full-speech-she-announces-her-run-president-20.
74. Improving Medical Device Innovation Act, S. 2737, 114th Cong. (2016), https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/2737/text; FEC data.
75. “Klobuchar Invites CEO of Medtronic to SOTU,” Amy Klobuchar’s Senate page, January 22, 2011, https://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/amy-in-the-news?ID=098108C0-F7D9–4DDE-BA9B-61ED1B7B6211.
76. Opensecrets.org, “Medical Supplies: Recipients,” 2012, n.d., https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?ind=H4100&cycle=2012&recipdetail=S&Mem=Y&sortorder=U.
77. Ashley Balcerzak, “9 Things to Know about Amy Klobuchar,” Minnesota Post, February 10, 2019, https://www.minnpost.com/national/2019/02/9-things-to-know-about-amy-klobuchar/.
78. “Sen. Amy Klobuchar,” Political Party Time, n.d., http://politicalpartytime.org/pol/N00027500/.
79. Brian Schwartz, “Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar will reject corporate PAC money in 2020 bid,” CNBC, February 11, 2019, https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/democratic-sen-amy-klobuchar-will-reject-corporate-pac-money-in-2020-bid—.html.
80. “Senate Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights,” GovTrack.us, n.d., https://www.govtrack.us/congress/committees/SSJU/01.
81. Liz Fedor, “Klobuchar airs concern over airline merger talk,” Star Tribune, January 15, 2008, http://www.startribune.com/klobuchar-airs-concern-over-merger-talk/13783666/.
82. Joseph Simonson, “Klobuchar Slams Corporate Goliaths but Takes Their Money Anyway,” Washington Examiner, March 13, 2019, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/amy-klobuchar-slams-corporate-goliaths-but-takes-their-money-anyway.
83. Ibid.
84. Ibid.
85. Ibid.
86. Kevin Diaz, “Wall Street cash flows to politicians: Minnesotans’ share, though relatively modest, shows how high the stakes are,” Star Tribune, April 27, 2010, http://www.startribune.com/wall-street-cash-flows-to-politicians/92265234/.
87. Amy Klobuchar, “Senator Klobuchar Calls for National Innovation Agenda,” Vote Smart, January 18, 2011, https://votesmart.org/public-statement/579306/senator-klobuchar-calls-for-national-innovation-agenda.
Chapter 9: Eric Garcetti
1. Garcetti For Mayor 2013, “Salma Hayek Endorses Eric Garcetti for Mayor of Los Angeles,” YouTube video, posted on January 26, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0V4jGCpzUk.
2. Ted Johnson, “Local Pols Get the Business,” Variety, February 4-February 1, 2013, https://variety.com/2013/more/news/local-pols-get-the-business-1118065537/.
3. Nathan Taylor Pemberton, “Mr. Mayor, What Are Your Thoughts on Good Charlotte and Charcoal Water?” Interview, June 12, 2019, https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/eric-garcetti-los-angeles-mayor-rorschach-test.
4. Chanan Tigay, “Eric Garcetti Is the Anti-Trump, Pro–Star Wars Man We Need,” GQ, June 12, 2018, https://www.gq.com/story/los-angeles-eric-garcetti-presidential-run; Jake Blumgart, “Philly’s New Mayor: How Many Progressive Changes Can Jim Kenney Bring to an Old-Style City with an Antique Political Culture?” American Prospect, Summer 2016.
5. Dakota Smith, “LA Mayor Eric Garcetti as VP Pick? Odds Are Slim, Political Experts Say,” Los Angeles Daily News, June 16, 2016, https://www.dailynews.com/2016/06/16/la-mayor-eric-garcetti-as-vp-pick-odds-are-slim-political-experts-say/.
6. Gabriel Kahn, “Who Is the Real Eric Garcetti?” Los Angeles Magazine, July 2016, https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/real-eric-garcetti/.
7. Dakota Smith, “Mayor Eric Garcetti Touts LA as Model City in DNC Speech,” Los Angeles Daily News, July 28, 2016, https://www.dailynews.com/2016/07/28/mayor-eric-garcetti-touts-la-as-model-city-in-dnc-speech/.
8. Dakota Smith, David Zahniser, Alene Tchekmedyiian, and Laura J. Nelson, “FBI Raids at DWP, L.A. City Hall Related to Fallout from Billing Debacle,” Los Angeles Times, July 22, 2019, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019–07–22/fbi-searches-dwp-headquarters-in-downtown-l-a.
9. Tom Tugend, “I’m a Kosher Burrito, Says Mixed-Race LA Mayor,” Jewish Chronicle, May 30, 2013, https://www.thejc.com/news/world/i-m-a-kosher-burrito-says-new-mixed-race-la-mayor-1.45411.
10. Kahn, “Who Is the Real Eric Garcetti?”
11. Tigay, “Eric Garcetti Is the Anti-Trump, Pro–Star Wars Man We Need.”
12. Gabriel Kahn, “Who Is the Real Eric Garcetti?”
13. Tigay, “Eric Garcetti Is the Anti-Trump, Pro–Star Wars Man We Need.”
14. Michael Finnegan and James Rainey, “The Mayor-Elect’s Partner in Life,” Los Angeles Times, May 25 2013, https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2013-may-25-la-me-amy-wakeland-20130526-story.html.
15. Kahn, “Who Is the Real Eric Garcetti?”
16. Tigay, “Eric Garcetti Is the Anti-Trump, Pro–Star Wars Man We Need”; Daniel Guss, “Garcetti’s Malignant Corruption and Dishonesty,” CityWatch, June 17, 2019, https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/2016–01–01–13–17–00/los-angeles/17871-garcetti-s-malignant-corruption-and-dishonesty.
17. Kahn “Who Is the Real Eric Garcetti?”; Dakota Smith and Ben Poston, “When Developers Want to Build More Than Zoning Allows, L.A. Planning Commissioners Almost Always Say Yes, Times Analysis Finds,” Los Angeles Times, February 10, 2017, https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-planning-commission-zoning-changes-20170210-story.html.
18. Matt Welch, “ ‘Like Undermining Motherhood and Apple Pie’: Why Are California Dems in Local Government Embracing Eminent Domain Abuse?” Reason, November 2005, .
19. Tigay, “Eric Garcetti Is the Anti-Trump, Pro–Star Wars Man We Need.”
20. Daniel B. Wood, “In Los Angeles Mayor’s Race, a Big Win for Eric Garcetti,” Christian Science Monitor, May 22, 2013, https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/2013/0522/In-Los-Angeles-mayor-s-race-a-big-win-for-Eric-Garcetti.
21. Sarah Rothbard, “Experts Probe Political Apathy Among Angelenos,” UCLA Newsroom, December 6, 2013, http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/experts-probe-political-apathy-249635.
22. Tom Manzo, “Eric Garcetti Is Mayor of Los Angeles, Not the President—He Should Act Like It,” Pasadena Star-News, October 21, 2017, https://www.dailynews.com/2017/10/20/eric-garcetti-is-mayor-of-los-angeles-not-the-president-he-should-act-like-it/.
23. Smith and Poston, “When Developers Want to Build More Than Zoning Allows.”
24. “Editorial: Don’t Bend California’s Environmental Rules for Billionaire Sports Owners or the Olympics,” Los Angeles Times, September 8, 2017, https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-clippers-ceqa-20170908-story.html.
25. Michael Finnegan, “Garcetti Names Top Fundraiser as a Senior Advisor,” Los Angeles Times, August 6, 2013, https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-xpm-2013-aug-06-la-me-ln-garcetti-jacobs-advisor-20130806-story.html.
26. “Board of Directors,” Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles, accessed September 6, 2019, https://mayorsfundla.org/about-us/board-of-directors/; “Occidental Petroleum Corporation,” Funding Universe, accessed July 20, 2019, http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/occidental-petroleum-corporation-history/.
27. Bill Boyarsky, “A Virtual Spy: Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer. by Edward J. Epstein,” Los Angeles Times, October 27, 1996, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996–10–27-bk-58288-story.html.
28. “Board of Directors,” Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles; Gene Maddaus, “Garcetti Aide Gives Himself Grandiose New Title,” LA Weekly, January 14, 2016, https://www.laweekly.com/garcetti-aide-gives-himself-grandiose-new-title/.
29. “Leadership,” Accelerator for America, n.d., http://www.acceleratorforamerica.com/leadership; David Zahniser and Michael Finnegan, “L.A. Mayor Garcetti Sets Up a Nonprofit to Aide City Initiatives,” Los Angeles Times, June 27, 2014, https://www.latimes.com/loc
al/cityhall/la-me-mayor-nonprofit-20140628-story.html; Peter Jamison, Doug Smith, and David Zahniser, “Eric Garcetti’s Mayor’s Fund Lets Companies Give Big,” Los Angeles Times, March 3, 2015, https://www.latimes.com/local/cityhall/la-me-0303-garcetti-fund-20150303-story.html; “Statement: Mayor Garcetti on Deputy Chief of Staff Taking Leave of Absence,” Mayor Eric Garcetti’s website, July 20, 2016, https://www.lamayor.org/statement-mayor-garcetti-deputy-chief-staff-taking-leave-absence; “Transportation,” Mayor Eric Garcetti’s website, accessed September 7, 2019, https://www.lamayor.org/transportation.
30. Receipt Committee Campaign Statement, California 2001/02 Form 460, Committee Name: Yes on Measure M—a Coalition of Mayor Eric Garcetti, concerned citizens, labor organizations, businesses and non-profits, September 24, 2016, https://apps1.lavote.net/Camp/Schedules/4298.pdf; Laura J. Nelson, “Campaigns Supporting Metro’s Transportation Tax Bring in More Than $4.5 Million,” Los Angeles Times, October 6, 2016, https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-metro-sales-tax-fundraising-20161006-snap-story.html; Homepage, HNTB, n.d., http://www.hntb.com/; “How to Pass a Mega Transportation Measure: LA County’s Measure M Lessons Learned,” Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, May 24, 2018, 44, http://libraryarchives.metro.net/DPGTL/MeasureM/20180524-how-pass-mega-transportation-measure-lacounty-measure-m-lessons-learned.pdf; HNTB, “Optimizing Infrastructure,” Think, Infrastructure Solutions, no. 15, 2016, p. 13, http://hntb.com/HNTB/media/HNTBMediaLibrary/Project/RelatedContent/HNTB_THINK_OptimizingInfrastructure.pdf.
31. Laura Bliss, “Los Angeles Passed a Historic Transit Tax. Why Isn’t It Working?,” CityLab, January 17, 2019, https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/01/los-angeles-public-transportation-tax-measure-m-metro/580609/.
32. Edward-Isaac Dovere, “Garcetti, Possible 2020 Hopeful, Launches Innovation Group,” Politico, October 30, 2017, https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/30/garcetti-possible-2020-hopeful-launches-innovation-group-244242.
33. Aaron Mendelson, “Garcetti’s PAC Raises $120,000 in First Few Weeks,” scpr.org, February 2, 2018, https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/02/02/80386/garcetti-s-pac-raises-120–000-in-first-few-weeks/; Opensecrets.org, “Democratic Midterm Victory Fund: Summary,” 2018, n.d., https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?cycle=2018&strID=C00660985; Opensecrets.org, “Democratic Midterm Victory Fund: Expenditures,” 2018, n.d., https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/expenditures.php?cycle=2018&cmte=C00660985.
34. Tasia Wells, “Oppose That Schools Tax and You’ll Be Sorry? Garcetti Aide Says That’s Not What Happened,” Los Angeles Times, April 12, 2019, https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-garcetti-rick-jacobs-threat-accusation-20190412-story.html.
35. Aaron Mendelson and Mary Plummer, “ ‘A Tricky Area of Philanthropy’: LA Mayor Solicits Millions for His Favored Causes,” scpr.org, August 23, 2017, https://www.scpr.org/news/2017/08/23/74917/la-mayor-garcetti-behested-payments/.
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid.
41. “CBS2 Investigates L.A. Mayor’s Campaign Donations Tied to Landscaping Company,” CBS Los Angeles, November 9, 2015, https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/11/09/only-on-2-cbs2-investigates-l-a-mayors-campaign-donations-tied-to-landscaping-company/.
42. Ibid.
43. Mendelson and Plummer, “ ‘A Tricky Area of Philanthropy.’ “
44. Ibid.
45. Ibid.
46. Ibid.
47. David Zahniser and Emily Alpert Reyes, “A $72-Million Apartment Project. Top Politicans. Unlikely Donors,” Los Angeles Times, October 30, 2016, https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-seabreeze/.
48. Ibid.; Susan Shelley, “As the City of Angels begins to look like the City of Capone,” Los Angeles Daily News, January 15, 2019, https://www.dailynews.com/2019/01/15/as-the-city-of-angels-begins-to-look-like-city-of-capone/.
49. Zahniser and Reyes, “A $72-Million Apartment Project. Top Politicans. Unlikely Donors”; “Dana Boldt,” LinkedIn profile, accessed September 7, 2019, https://www.linkedin.com/in/danagarcettiboldt.
50. Emily Alpert Reyes and David Zahniser, “L.A. Developer Pleads Not Guilty in Campaign Money Laundering Case,” Los Angeles Times, June 4, 2018, https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-leung-hearing-20180604-story.html; Alene Tchekmedyian, “Former Congressional Aide Convicted in Shakedown of Compton Marijuana Dispensary,” Los Angeles Times, March 1, 2018, https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-compton-conviction-20180301-story.html.
51. The People of the State of California v. Samuel Leung, et al., case no. BA465764, http://da.lacounty.gov/sites/default/files/press/022318_Pair_Charged_with_Money_Laundering_Offering_Bribes_to_LA_Elected_Officials.pdf; “Developer Arraigned on Bribery Charges Tied to Sea Breeze Resi Project,” Real Deal, June 4, 2018, https://therealdeal.com/la/2018/06/04/developer-arraigned-on-bribery-charges-tied-to-failed-sea-breeze-project/.
52. Matt Tinoco, “The FBI Is Shaking up LA City Hall. They May Be Looking for Chinese Money,” LAist.com, January 14, 2019, https://laist.com/2019/01/14/fbi_city_hall_corruption_huizar.php.
53. David Zahniser and Adam Elmahrek, “Garcetti Appointee Named in FBI Warrant Quits His Post,” Los Angeles Times, January 18, 2019, https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-fbi-investigation-jacinto-20190118-story.html.
54. Richard Fausset, Monica Davey, and Tim Arango, “ ‘It’s the Human Way’: Corruption Scandals Play Out in Big Cities Across U.S.,” New York Times, February 5, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/us/fbi-corruption-investigations.html.
55. Ileana Wachtel, “Garcetti, Clean Up the Corruption,” Preserve LA, February 3, 2019, https://www.2preservela.org/garcetti-clean-up-corruption/.
56. Elijah Chiland, “Ethics Commission Delays Vote on Banning Developer Contributions to LA Politicians,” Curbed, August 21, 2018, https://la.curbed.com/2018/8/21/17765452/developer-contributions-ban-ethics-commission.
57. Barbara Hernandez, “Chinese Investors Buying Troubled West Coast Hotels, Cheap,” CBS News, March 29, 2010, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinese-investors-buying-troubled-west-coast-hotels-cheap/; Roger Vincent, “Shenzhen New World Group Buys Sheraton Universal Hotel,” Los Angeles Times, January 6, 2011, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2011-jan-06-la-fi-sheraton-20110106-story.html.
58. Tinoco, “The FBI Is Shaking up LA City Hall. They May Be Looking for Chinese Money.”
59. “Hampton Inn & Suites & Courtyard by Marriott Santa Monica,” Zinner Consultants, accessed September 8, 2019, https://www.zinnerconsultants.com/hampton-inn-suites-courtyard-by-marriott-santa-monica; “Our Team,” Zinner Consultants, accessed September 8, 2019, https://www.zinnerconsultants.com/people.
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62. John Zinner, “Mitigation Monitoring in Process,” Zinner Consultants, July 30, 2018, https://www.zinnerconsultants.com/blog/2018/7/30/mitigation-monitoring-in-process.
63. “Inn at Playa Del Ray Joins Four Sisters Inns Collection; Los Angeles Hideaway Borders Ballona Wetlands,” Hotel Business Week, March 22, 2019, https://www.hotelbusinessweekly.com/2019/03/22/inn-at-playa-del-rey-joins-four-sisters-inns-collection-los-angeles-hideaway-borders-ballona-wetlands/; Fair Political Practices Commission, California Form 700, Office of the Mayor, City of Los Angeles, April 4, 2016, http://www.disclosures.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Mayor-Eric-Garcetti-2015–1.pdf; “Ipdr Associatges, Lp,” corporationwiki, n.d., https://www.corporationwiki.com/California/Los-Angeles/ipdr-associates-lp/45805352.aspx; Note: Garcetti’s co-ownership is based upon the shared address of the hotel and his “partnership” in a hotel as shown in his disclosure form.
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65. David Zanhiser, “Political Donations Flow as Rick Caruso Seeks Approval for a 20-Story Tower Near the Beverly Center,” Los Angeles Times, November 15, 2016, https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-caruso-developer-donations-20161115-story.html; David Zanhiser, “Developer Rick Caruso Agrees to Shave Height of Apartment Tower,” Los Angeles Times, July 24, 2019, https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-caruso-apartment-project-20170118-story.html.
66. Daniel Guss, “Garcetti Turns (Remains?) Wimpy on Corruption,” Front Page, October 24, 2016, http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/op-ed/garcetti-turns-remains-wimpy-on-corruption.
67. Ibid.; Dakota Smith, “Union Pressured Mayor Garcetti’s Office to Oust Top Fire Official, Court Records Show,” Los Angeles Times, February 1, 2019, https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-garcetti-deposition-fire-20190201-story.html.
68. Guss, “Garcetti Turns (Remains?) Wimpy on Corruption.”
69. Smith, “Union Pressured Mayor Garcetti’s Office to Oust Top Fire Official, Court Records Show.”
70. Dakota Smith, “L.A. City Council OKs $800,000 settlement in lawsuit over fire marshal’s dismissal,” Los Angeles Times, February 20, 2019, https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-vidovich-settlement-20190220-story.html.