Pay-off at It's Finest
Before you Hahn defenders come racing to his rescue and scream that we are jaded towards Poopy, let me steal from a few other sites and post their reactions.
La Observed stated "you have to admire the chutzpah of the strategic brains behind Mayor Hahn's reelection campaign. Just hours before tonight's first televised debate in front of the Citywide Alliance of Neighborhood Councils, Hahn announced that he is tripling the budget of every neighborhood council with an additional $100,000."
LA Voice stated "the spectacle of our lackluster mayor strutting in a hardhat around after a major storm filling potholes should have been a clue as to how much he's willing to insult your intelligence. But just to hammer the point home, Jim Hahn announced today he's tripling every neighborhood council's budget - just hours before he's to debate his top four opponents before the Alliance of Neighborhood Councils."
LA Observed posts again: Ace Smith, the campaign manager for Villaraigosa, gets off the best zinger: "If there was a crime on the books for offensive pandering, the guy would be cited."
I don't even need to post the LA Times, Daily News, or Daily Breeze stories for you to get the drift.
I knew he was desperate, but this is getting ridiculous. I'd hate to see his schedule and see which group he panders to next, because before long we will have funded everything from toilet paper manufacturers to Twinkie lovers. I love the fact that the neighborhood councils are getting more money and power, but don't treat them like two-bit hookers you picked up on the corner of your "safest city in America."
The good news is, he rarely delivers on these promises. They are all hot air of a desperate man...
Posted by Anonymous @ 2/08/2005 08:33:00 AM
7 Comments:
You gotta admit that sure was smart of Jimmy. You know damn well if the other candidates had a chance to do the same they would. Excuse me but who is sending all these dumb press releases to you Mayor Sam to post. ADV!! Neighborhood Councils have been asking for more money since last year. Good one for Hahn in giving it to them and allowing them to work within their own communities to fix the problems. The other candidates are just jealous that they didn't think of something like that first.
What previous poster wrote....The Mayor is pandering to the Neighborhood Councils, AND I LOVE IT.
It would be nice if all these guys pandered a little more to the community.
Can there be too much pandering? Not if it's a group I belong to.
Antonio should start spending some of that state money (estimated to be around $250,000.00) and some of that CLARTS amenities fund money (estimated around $400,000.00) in his district and that will shut up all the nay-sayers.
Nothing wins over community members more than funding their local pet projects.
Really, shouldn't politicians pander more to their constituents, than less?
What previous poster wrote....The Mayor is pandering to the Neighborhood Councils, AND I LOVE IT.
It would be nice if all these guys pandered a little more to the community.
Can there be too much pandering? Not if it's a group I belong to.
Antonio should start spending some of that state money (estimated to be around $250,000.00) and some of that CLARTS amenities fund money (estimated around $400,000.00) in his district and that will shut up all the nay-sayers.
Nothing wins over community members more than funding their local pet projects.
Really, shouldn't politicians pander more to their constituents, than less?
If this IS a raw, naked attempt to pander for votes then it's one of the most useless ones in recent city history and shows (if true) that the Mayor is blindly buying DONE GM Greg Nelson's puffery about how critical these councils are becoming. As (I think) someone correctly stated on Mayor Sam's some days back, these neighborhood councils are made up of a handful of volunteers (an average of 15-20) in each neighborhood who run in poorly publicized local elections where typically a few hundred vote - in areas that average 35-40 thousand residents (1-2 percent voting for .01 percent). In most of these areas, less than 5 percent of the population even knows what they're doing of how they're spending the original $50K. So if $100K more is to buy votes in next month's election, it's at a cost of about thousands of dollars a vote, aimed at activists who in most cases are already hardcore for one candidate or another (these are not the 30+ percent undecideds in last weekend's poll, and they have little outreach to that group).
The several hundred NC leaders in the audience last night comprise a large percentage of the total group that news will reach and affect, and some councils had trouble giving away the half-dozen debate seats they were each alloted (for lack of interest). The next NC debate is still undersold.
On the "pandering" scale, this would be like tipping the parking valet a quarter to get the best table inside the expensive restaurant. WAY off base. If the mayor is an "Ace" (pun intended) at pandering, his people need to research the panderees better before going out on a limb like this. Or maybe, it's a case of no GOOD deed goes unpunished by the opposition during an election cycle (and Hahn's timing is real crappy).
"toilet paper manufacturers"
Do you have Poopy on your mind?
His ass must be runnning like Hahn's mouth
CONFIDENTIAL
----"Hahn for Mayor 2005 Campaign Strategy"----
***********30 Day Countdown**************
by Julie B.C.H. Wongmeister
Operation Pay-To-Play
In a marked reversal of our usual "Pay-to-play" operation, it will be Jimmy that will be paying (for votes) so that Jimmy and all of us "The Mayor's Men" may play again (another 4 years of screwing the dumb Angelenos).
What follows are proposed Pay Projects that our campaign may use (without it costing us anything) by billing, bilking, shafting and screwing the tax payers.
1. All 88 Neighborhood Councils "Leaders" will receive an autographed photo of Jimmy filling a pothole of their choosing.
2. These same "Leaders" will receive another $100,000 per NC for their annual mountain retreat which will feature training courses, such as:
A) Shafting the L.A. Taxpayer - "The Hahn Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Screwing"
B) 101 Ways to Fleece L.A.'s Sheep (The Taxpayer)
C) My Life as Mayor - Jimmy Hahn's personal reflections on his one-term as mayor. This course is rated MA (Mature Audiences Only). Conversation will include tales of greed, corruption, sex and the shocker - how boring it all was.
D) The Art of the Yawn - Using the Jimmy Hahn proven system
3. Padded Cash envelopes (using the Mayor's special fund- City of LA Account #72739-52 (Check your phone keys and unscramble) will be personally handed to "special" people utilizing and via our dedicated Maintenance Yard personnel (on city time) which will be delivered with the lawn signs that are currently stored in the following City properties:
a)All DWP facilities in the door marked "DANGER- DO NOT ENTER-YOU WILL DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH"
b) All union controlled city properties in the door marked "PELIGRO contribuyente - ser mal perdedor – Do Not Enter"
c) Saturday ONLY! At the city printing press in Piper Tech there will be a special secret run of exclusive Jimmy for Mayor stuff
4. A special buffet reception for all Jimmy Hahn supporters starring the “Nation of Islam Race-Baiters” and other surprise guests.
This is all very exciting for us as we move into new territory. We should all be proud that we, collectively, have raised the art form of screwing the tax payers to higher levels than ever done in this sick city.
Remember the Jimmy chant:
“Who do we screw?
The Taxpayer ! The Taxpayer! The Taxpayer
Yeaaaaaae…The Taxpayer..!
Jimmy’s Greatest Joke:
How many Angelenos does it take to screw in a light bulb?
1. Angelenos don't screw in light bulbs, they get screwed by the Mayor!
2. Five. Fleischmann Hillard to PR the issue, Antonio Villa to take credit for the issue, Parks to complain about the 3 day work week by the bulb installers, Alarcon to hand it over to the NC’s for resolution, Hertzberg to breakup the lightbulb and me, Jimmy, to financially rape you (the taxpayer) out of all your life savings.
Okay, Hanhsters let’s get back to screwing the city.
Your friend, Julie
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