Dirty Campiagn Tactics Already? Hackers Attack Website

The upcoming race for city hall is not this next November, but in the winter of 2009. The only truly contested city district is Council District 5, currently represented by Jack Weiss who is now running for City Attorney. The district covers West Los Angeles to Sherman Oaks/Encino. Six people are currently running for the seat. At the top is Attorney/News Columnist/Community Activist Ron Galperin business executive Robyn Ritter Simon and former Assemblymember and West Hollywood member/mayor Paul Koretz.

Last week Sunday, Koretz' website was destroyed in hacker attack, according to the WeHoNews. However, he may have not been the intended target: “There was ancillary damage done to other politician’s web sites, and since several of those are also Jewish, we thought that anti-Semitism might have played a part,” the webmaster said. Today, the website is still down, save for a basic splash page.