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[LA Times] New L.A. Councilman Ryu faces test: keeping his many campaign promises

June 24, 2015
David Ryu

David Ryu won a seat on the Los Angeles City Council after pledging not to take campaign money from local developers. (Korea Times file)

[LOS ANGELES TIMES] — David Ryu won a coveted spot on the Los Angeles City Council after pledging not to take campaign money from local developers.

That promise burnished his reputation as a City Hall outsider — and may have helped him beat opponent Carolyn Ramsay, a former council staffer.

But it was just one in a long list of Ryu campaign pledges, many of them demanded by neighborhood and advocacy groups weighing him against Ramsay in the race to represent a sprawling Sherman Oaks-to-Silver Lake council district.

They range from sweeping to the specific: Ryu said he’d reform how the district’s share of discretionary money was spent by forming a community task force to review possible projects. He pledged to sponsor an ordinance to make sure at least half the revenue from Sherman Oaks parking meters went to ease traffic in Sherman Oaks, as its homeowners association pushed for. [READ MORE]