With strike deal, Garcetti looks again toward 2020 run

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mayor Eric Garcetti is pointing to the settlement of a teachers strike as an example of how government is solving problems in Los Angeles, while Washington remains mired in a lengthy shutdown.
The Democratic mayor who is considering a 2020 White House run tells The Associated Press the teachers pact is a national model that shows “what we can get when we pull together.”
By contrast, the mayor said Wednesday that politics across the country is often defined by