ECHO PARK RESIDENT COURTS ATWATER VILLAGE VOTERS

Jose Sigala

Meet Jose Sigala: an Echo Park resident, a former aide to indicted City Councilman Richard Alarcon and now a L.A. City Council candidate for the 13^th District.

Atwater residents have recently spotted Sigala in and around the village introducing himself to local voters; many who may not know him at all or as well as their Echo Park counterparts. While not as well known in Atwater some could argue that Sigala has developed a notoriety of sorts in his community of Echo Park. A notoriety closely linked to his leadership style of Echo Park's neighborhood council. 

A popular east-side blog, The Eastsider L.A., notes that "Sigala’s six-year tenure as head of the Greater Echo Park Elysian Neighborhood Council has often been marked by contentious meetings and feuding board members". In one such meeting the Eastsider reports that Sigala was given the unflattering nickname of “Mr. Fat, Bald-Headed, Mussolini” by a fellow board member and former ally. What ensued there after was a "junior high school-like" exchange between Sigala and the board member.

This so-called “junior high school-like” behavior could cause some voters to rethink wither or not Sigala is viable candidate and worth voting for. 

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