Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan has died at age 92
FILE - Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan picks up a tip from a customer at his restaurant"The Pantry," Friday, June 29, 2001 in downtown Los Angeles. Riordan, the moderate Republican multimillionaire who won two terms as mayor in Democrat-friendly Los Angeles and ran unsuccessfully for governor, died Wednesday, April 19, 2023. He was 92.
He ran on a promise that he was"Tough Enough to Turn L.A. Around." He spent $6 million of his own money on the campaign, beating City Councilman Michael Woo in the nonpartisan election to replace retiring Mayor Tom Bradley. Riordan turned back a challenge by state Sen. Tom Hayden, the former student radical and ex-husband of Jane Fonda, to win a second term in 1997.
To residents of sprawling Los Angeles, though, it was Riordan's charming, sometimes bumbling personality that was most memorable. He cracked corny jokes, flubbed lines to prepared speeches and kept important business people waiting while he palled around with schoolchildren. He was also faulted for poor relations with the City Council, where his scorn for bureaucracy was not well received.
Republican faithful seized on Riordan's history of donating money to Democrats and the Democratic activism of his then-wife, Nancy Daly Riordan.
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