Candidate Interview Series: Dinesh "Danny" Lakhanpal

In today's installment of GigaGranadaHills' candidate interview series, meet Dinesh "Danny" Lakhanpal, the most imaginative of all the candidates I interviewed. Danny's ambitions for CD 12 include building more tourist attractions in the area, getting everyone on electric bikes, and building a monorail along Balboa Boulevard -- "like Disneyland."



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  1. Tom CrowlJanuary 13, 2011 at 9:43 AM

    Congrats on work you do for advancing local interests... and he sounds like a very good candidate!

    P.S. re my endeavor... USPTO review is complete and APPROVED (I understand formal publication and issuance come within a few weeks or so... happy to share documentation on request). I believe Commons-dedicated Account design and capability greatly expand opportunities for local candidacies and better governance!

    Why Politics MUST be Localized
    http://culturalengineer.blogspot.com/2010/10/why-politics-must-be-localized.html

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 14, 2011 at 1:05 PM

    Imaginative isn't exactly the word I'd choose to describe him. We need viable alternative candidates. This guy is just crazy.

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 26, 2011 at 1:14 AM

    You gotta be kidding me. He claims to have lived in CD 12 for the past 30 years, yet he can't speak English.

    Danny is a joke.

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