Voting results!

Last night's election brought in a few unexpected results, but for the most part things came out as one would expect. Mayor Villagrosa was reelected, but by a fairly narrow margin when one considers the size of his budget and the fact that he had no serious contenders to defend his title against. In this case, the results might speak volumes more than the final outcome.

The two measure mentioned in this article, E and B, are of a little more interest to me. Measure E would have increased the city council's ability to use money to provide incentives attracting new businesses to Los Angeles. While bringing in more jobs is certainly important, I don't think raising taxes at the expense of current businesses is the correct way to do it.

Measure B was designed to increase funding for increasing the infrastructure for solar power in Los Angeles. The LA Times credits the loss to the fact that the bill would have favored work by utility as opposed to by local businesses.