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If there is indeed currently a three-way race for mayor of Los Angeles, there will be a run-off. Assuming Parks and Alarcon are out of the running, and making the somewhat dubious assumption that Walter Moore is in the running, here are the six possibilities: Villaraigosa - Hertzberg: Villaraigosa might lose Villaraigosa - Hahn: Villaraigosa might lose Villaraigosa - Moore: Villaraigosa would probably win Hertzberg - Hahn: Hertzberg would probably win Hertzberg - Moore: Hertzberg would probably win Hahn - Moore: Hahn would probably win If Parks withdraws and throws his support to Villaraigosa, that would create a major problem....

Moore also differs sharply from the five major candidates in his stance on illegal immigration. He thinks the city should take an active role in pursuing and deporting illegal immigrants. "Am I just mean?" he asked. "Am I racist? No. Illegal immigration is bankrupting us." In a video spot on his website, he bluntly states: "I don't speak Spanish, and I don't intend to learn." When Moore began talking about immigration on a radio debate last week, he accomplished something unusual: He forced Hahn and some of his challengers to admit that they agree with one another.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mayor James K. Hahn announced the resignations of the three top aides, including a deputy mayor at the center of a so-called pay-to-play controversy. Hahn said Thursday that Deputy Mayors Troy Edwards, Sarah Dusseault and Joy Chen quit their jobs. Edwards, a key fund-raiser for Hahn's 2001 election campaign and his airports and harbor departments liaison, will leave April 9. He was subpoenaed to testify by a county grand jury investigating corruption in city contracting practices, the Daily News reported Friday. "Troy has been a longtime key adviser to me," Hahn said in a statement that...