Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti Engage in Acrimonious Debate

Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti blasted one another with a torrent of allegations Wednesday night in the most acrimonious debate of the Los Angeles mayor's race, with each charging the other could not be trusted to oversee the city's Department of Water and Power.

Garcetti, a city councilman, opened the rhetorical brawl at Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks by calling Greuel the "handpicked candidate of the DWP union," citing the more than $2 million in campaign money spent on her behalf by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

"That is pure hypocrisy," Greuel shot back. Greuel, the city controller, said her rival had accepted campaign money from the same union, took a "world-class trip" abroad at DWP expense, supported higher salaries for DWP employees, backed a water and power rate hike and agreed to spend $175,000 on a DWP Rose Bowl parade float. (Read more here.) 

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4-18-13