He has taken a leadership role in critical areas of gun violence, emergency services, government reform, children's and seniors' issues, the environment, and race relations, among other issues. Mike authored legislation to combat illegal weapons trafficking by limiting handgun purchases to one per month.
Police call it the city's most promising law to attack gun violence.
He also wrote the law requiring that trigger locks be sold with every handgun, limiting high capacity ammunition clips, and requiring background checks of gun store employees. He is organizing similar efforts in cities throughout metropolitan Los Angeles. Believing government should be more inclusive and efficient, Mike created neighborhood councils, and introduced Charter Reform on the City Council floor. To make City Hall friendlier to small businesses and entrepreneurs, Mike played a leading role in business tax reform, where he successfully pushed to include major incentives for start-up business. Mike also has focused on ethics reform, and has won approval for important measures including a prohibition on giving city business to contractors who violate the law.