Democrats: Jimmy for Mayor

Congressman Jimmy Roosevelt wants to be mayor of Los Angeles—and in his campaign for election in the municipal primary on April 6, he is giving almost as good as he gets from Incumbent Sam Yorty, one of the least rascible men in U.S. political life. A sample Roosevelt-Yorty exchange last week:

Roosevelt: I have charged the present administration with government by tantrum because, among other reasons, its actions and decisions, affecting every citizen of our city, often seem to be arrived at on the spur of the moment and with the taint of political expediency. It is as if the...