Regarding the Clear Channel/CBS settlement with Los Angeles about billboard regulations
Despite this victory [in court], the council was apparently in fear of further appeals from these aggressively litigious companies, and entered into negotiations to settle the suits. Or rather, designated the city attorney to negotiate a settlement. It shouldn’t surprise anyone, therefore, that the settlement gives these multi-billion dollar media conglomerates almost everything they could have wished for, since City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo was the beneficiary of $425,000 worth of free billboard advertising from Clear Channel and other outdoor advertising firms in his tough 2001 election campaign against Mike Feuer, who as a city council member had called for tougher billboard regulations and the cleaning up of visual blight.