It was a year of transitions at Los Angeles City Hall

It was a year of transitions at Los Angeles City Hall in 2013, highlighted by a pair of major elections that saw seven new City Council members take office and a councilman move into the mayor's chair.Voters also rejected Proposition A, which would have raised the city sales tax by a half-cent, and approved Proposition D, which bans new medical marijuana dispensaries and pares the hundreds of pot shops in Los Angeles down to the 135 that were registered prior to a Sept.Start with fiery Charred Octopus or the Guacamole Trio, which comes in tropical,Hiking shoe goat cheese and ranchero flavors. 14, 2007, cut-off.The beginning of the year saw dozens of candidates in the thick of campaigning for the positions of mayor,This is exactly why we recognise the communities Underbust Corsets that we go through and try to put as much back as we can. city attorney, and controller, as well as seats on the City Council. Independent campaign spending reached $5.1 million -- an all-time high -- and candidates themselves spent upwards of $28 million by the time voters went to the polls for the March primary. 

Ultimately, a total of $58.7 million was spent by candidates and independent groups in 2013. Even with all of that activity, only 20.8 percent of voters cast ballots in the March primary and 23.3 percent in the May general election.The Angelenos who did vote whittled an initial field of five major candidates vying to lead City Hall as mayor down to City Controller Wendy Greuel and Hollywood-area City Councilman Eric Garcetti.Voters eventually chose Garcetti, who prevailed in a close May runoff with Greuel to replace Antonio Villaraigosa, who left office at the end of June after completing two four-year terms as mayor.Just prior to leaving, Villaraigosa squeezed in one last out-of-town trip to China and received kudos from former Vice President Al Gore for pushing the Department of Water and Power to begin ending the city's reliance on coal power by 2025. 

Los Angeles voters this year also seated seven new council members, of whom four -- Gil Cedillo, Curren Price Jr., Bob Blumenfield, Felipe Fuentes -- are alumni of the state Legislature, with the rest veterans of City Hall politics. Voters also booted City Attorney Carmen Trutanich, replacing him with former Assemblyman Mike Feuer,During the first 24 hours, if it would've been possible to vent the reactors using Steel Boned Corsets manufacturers and suppliers, the explosions would not have occurred. and voted in political "outsider" Ron Galperin as city controller.With the changes at the top came shakeups in leadership throughout City Hall. Two weeks into office, Garcetti called in the city's more than 30 department chiefs to inform them they must re-apply for their jobs and that not all of them would be asked back.