Choose Your Mayor: Up Close and in Your Face
The LA Weekly makes it's run at the Mayoral contenders running in-depth stories on each of the big five. These are a lot more fun than the crap profiles the Villaraigosa Times has been giving us.
HAHN SOLO: Jimmy doesn’t like to be called dull. It makes him angry. BY ROBERT GREENE
THE SECOND COMING: Hyper Villaraigosa takes another shot. BY JEFFREY ANDERSON
HUGGY HERTZBERG: The Valley guy who wants to touch every voter in L.A. BY MARC COOPER
THE DEFIBRILLATOR: Richard Alarcón’s jolting campaign about saving the middle class. BY ROBERT GREENE
THIS TIME IT’S NOT PERSONAL — OR IS IT? Bernard Parks says he’s not out to rain on Hahn’s parade. BY ERIN AUBRY KAPLAN
Posted by Anonymous @ 2/09/2005 10:02:00 PM
20 Comments:
ISN'T IT AMAZING. THE CBS/NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL DEBATE BEGINS WITH A QUESTION TO VILLARAIGOSA ABOUT HIS BROKEN PROMISE TO NOT RUN FOR MAYOR - BUT NO MENTION OF THE RECALL. JEFFERY ANDERSON BEGINS HIS PIECE ON VILLARAIGOSA WITH A LONG DIATRIBE ABOUT VILLARAIGOSA BREAKING HIS PROMISE TO NOT STAY AS CD14 COUNCILMAN - BUT DOESN'T MENTION THE RECALL. JESSICA GARRISON WROTES ABOUT THE BROKEN PROMISE IN HER ARTICLE ON VILLARAIGOSA - BUT NO MENTION OF THE RECALL. IF THERE WAS NO RECALL THIS QUESTION WOULDBN'T BE ASKED - AND YET NOT ONE OF THEM CREDITS THE RECALL. WHAT A BUNCH OF COWARDS THEY ARE.
FROM MEAT:
Maybe because they are all smart enough to realize that they won't give any credence to a FAKE recall that is supported by sleazy bar owners who can't get the recall up and running - dum-dums.
What i found interesting about this LA Weekly article was... Padilla complains. “People expected more dialogue, more interaction. There was significant disappointment. I felt that the office was not open-minded at all.”
Padilla, a strong Hahn backer last time, has withheld an endorsement this time out.
Dennis Zine is just one of several council members unhappy that Hahn has taken his new charter authority over city general managers too literally. He endorsed Hahn but is now considering a dual endorsement with Villaraigosa. “Shall we say I’m getting weak-kneed?” Zine jokes....
Hmmm i do recall there being some critiscm of Antonio's non-council endorsements -- perhaps there is some tea-leaves you dum-dums should begin to look into.
I mean the Alex-Tony alliance was broken today for the first time in history -- Alex did not vote the way his old boss Cardenas and his old boss Acevedo wanted him too -- way to show some leadership and smarts Alex, you may actually grow into a leader one day.
Writing is on the wall, Antonio V Hahn -- done deal, i am just wondering if anyone else on here is literate enough to read it.
blog away dum-dums
4 MEAT: Council endorsements from Hahn's site:
Los Angeles City Councilmember Eric Garcetti
Los Angeles City Councilmember Janice Hahn (whew!)
Los Angeles City Councilmember Tom LaBonge
Los Angeles City Councilmember Cindy Miscikowski
Los Angeles City Councilmember Jan Perry
Los Angeles City Councilmember Ed Reyes
Los Angeles City Councilmember Greig Smith
Council endorsements from Villaraigosa's site:
(Can't even FIND a list of endorsements?)
(Why are Tony V.'s closest neighbors in the east and central - Reyes and Garcetti -- both endorsing Hahn? Answer: Because they have the best view of what's really getting done in CD14 since 2003 (NOTHING!).
Plus some other prominent pol names in Hahn's site:
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Congresswoman Grace Napolitano
State Senator Gil Cedillo (NEXT target?)
State Senator Jack Scott
State Assemblymember Betty Karnette
State Assemblymember Rudy Bermudez
Mike Lansing, L.A. Board of Education
Jon Lauritzen, L.A. Board of Education
Eric C. Bauman, Chair, L.A. County Democratic Party
I'm sure Mayor Spam (sorry, SAM), will soon post Tony Villar's latest crowning achievement -- the endorsement of one of the local SIERRA CLUB's (quick, add 37 more local coffee-clubbers -- make that tea-drinkers -- to the list. . .) The momentum is, um, building?
Is that group still around, or is he just reorganizing defunct entities to use up pre-printed flack paper? (Better be recycled!)
SPEAKING of recycled, LA Weakly uses this headline for Villaraigosa's profile: "HYPER AND CHARISMATIC. . ."
This is obviously NOT a new article -- they just pulled the old one out from 2001 and changed the dateline. I know you folks at LAW like to pretend watching TV is beneath you (it's SO banal, dahling!), but got to K-Mart and take a gander at 10 minutes of the next televised debate. The only hyper left in this Gray Davis-era dinosaur is in the hype his flacks spew and under his itchy feet. The charismatic's gone auto-matic. It's 2005, guys, update your database.
True words above about Reyes and Garcetti -- they share neighborhood council boundaries with Tony V. in several areas, and when something needs to get done in a "split" council, the elected advisory council members don't even have to flip a coin to get guidance and assistance. They go directly to the other two guys, rather than being put on "hold" with AV's people. It helps that Reyes' and Garcetti's staffs are always represented at NC meetings; AV's are off stuffing campaign envelopes and phone-banking (on their "own" time, of course). Not suggesting ANYthing "ethically" wrong, but you make the comparison of priorities.
MEAT, what's this bar owner thing with you. Were your parents alcoholics or something? You haven't got a clue about the recall and your new buddy, halogirlfromcity, I'm sure Alex will be taking advice from her. What a pair of DUM-DUMS. From 3rd floor AL
Cardenas showed REAL leadership going with the majority of the council vote and against his pal Padilla. Padilla needs to get some of those chinese silver balls and put between his legs like ADV. Latinos on the Eastside are furious with ADV for not saying a word and voting NO yesterday. Another good reason to RECALL his butt for not representing his constituents. Zine wld be a fool to side with ADV. All these followers and no real leaders on council is embarrassing. Even the media played all night the fact that Attention Deficit Villaraigosa and Parks just sat like weak men not saying a word. Padilla has proven he is too young to be president and shows absolutely no leadership with the council.
ANTONIO VILLARAIGARRISON? HILARIOUS!
Padilla is the John Kerry of the LA City Council. While the Hahn's went way-too-far in their comments, at least they don't have to deal with Padilla's predicament: "I voted for the proposal before I voted against it." Can't wait for Greuel to take him on about that one. Padilla made it seem like it was really tough to get this on the ballot, as if he wasn't a direct participant in this one. Not sure what leadership that shows. Though he was right in his final vote as this is a stupid tax measure. Council should find another way.
Padilla showed he had no balls. What a stupid idiotic thing to say, "well the council is divided on this one." What he is saying is I"m such a poor leader that if everyone doesn't agree I can't lead. Lame ass. A true leader moves forward with diversity but then Lil Alex has no clue. Who was the one who posted he needed to play with his game boy?
Here you go Meat from the LA Weekly story......Sources say Villaraigosa took credit for the statewide Healthy Families program developed by State Senator Martha Escutia. When he was termed out of the Assembly in 2000, sources say, he retained the largest staff in Sacramento history for an outgoing member and held on to his seat until after his term was supposed to expire.
COMING YOUR WAY SOON -- Los Angeles, the next mayoral staff. . .
FROM MEAT:
The notion that Antonio stole Healthy Families from Martha Escutia is an allegation that was floated by Antonio's opponents in 2001. It ignores the fact that Antonio authored unsuccessful universal health care legislation two years before and remained engaged on the issue the whole time until Healthy Families finally was approved. As Assembly Majority Leader at the time, Antonio was in a position to play a leadership role to get a bill passed when Escutia couldn't, and that's what he did. To allege that this represents theft is to misunderstand and misrepresent how legislation happens in Sacramento.
And here's my personal take on martha escutia -- she's a fat, tired old hack who shakes down candidates and their causes to hire her husband leo briones as their political consultant. She's a shady politician who can't ever be trusted and wants to get rich on the public dime. She's crying wolf right now mainly because she just finished eating one.
At the end of this paragraph about legislation, the LA Weekly completely mangles what happened at the end of Antonio's Speakership by calling it the end of his term. He implies that Antonio held onto his Assembly seat and a large staff "until after his term was set to expire." Obviously that's not true. This did not occur regarding his Assembly seat. In the next paragraph, talking about Hertzberg, Anderson appears to get it right, but there's no excuse for the sloppiness of the prior reference.
So blog away dum-dums and if you are going to attack Antonio be smart with it and give true accurate facts. Nevermind, can't be expected, you are all tainted by alcohol peddlers looking to reopen their bars.
blog away dum-dums.
meat explains with typical "logic" -- "...Antonio authored unsuccessful universal health care legislation two years before and remained engaged on the issue the whole time..."
This is how my job works, yours? I can't do something, somebody else can and does (but I cheer them on after failing and tell some others to support them), and so I get the credit.
Isn't it the speaker's job to help move his party's legislation along -- does that mean that EVERY dum-Dem bill during that period was a Villaraigosa bill? Must be. . .
FROM MEAT:
Hey buddy thanks for making my point about escutia.
you said, "I can't do something,(escutia's bill) somebody else can and does (Antonio's bill) and so he (Antonio) gets the credit".
But just for good measure this was and is an Antonio originated bill. Martha literally resubmitted Antonio's first bill, she couldn't get it past the twinkie committee since she was distracted with the sweets and Antonio used his leadership to get another bill passed during a different session.
dum-dums.
FAT jokes, how the meaty have fallen. . . what's next, cripples and retards?
So much for the "big tent!"
Hey Meat why didn't your boss have the balls to say something in council yesterday. Don't know of one single time that has ever happened before. The entire city is watching and that lame ass loser sits silent. Loved the media for picking up on and it good for Jimmy telling his constituents to recall his butt. Now the recall people have more support for him not representing them.
Meat has gone with his tail between his legs as will Antonio and the Mayor.
Go Parks!
MEAT I want to hear your explanation why your lame ass boss ADV didn't say a word in council on the tax issue. He showed poor leadership and his district is furious with him for not saying a word. C'mon MEAT why didn't he say ANYTHING????????
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