ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Rick Caruso who is running for mayor against Karen Bass said he’d met with former L.A. County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera in the same room where the infamous tape was supposedly recorded.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - A well-regarded Oaxacan public speaker said, “I’m dark brown and I'm short. It’s not only racist, it's colorist. Thank you.”  

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Gil Cedillo said in a text to The LA Times it was ordinarily his instinct “to hold others accountable when they use derogatory or racially divisive language.”  

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - With Democrats on verge of losing their razor-thin majority in Congress, the party is asking former President Barack Obama to perform some late-game heroics.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Thomas Hagen is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather and Francis Ford Coppola's films The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974). He is portrayed by Robert Duvall in the movies. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Among the ‘a little too late’ motions, one member of the public was imagining a Motion for mental health funding, to cover the staff trauma from this entire mess unfolding at City Hall in Los Angeles.