Tony & Friends
Enough of Walter for now (and for good), here is some MEAT for all you ABADV fans out there. Turns out that Tony Villar is looking for a few friends to raise his dough, now that the Hahnista attack dog independent expenditure committees have blown the roof off how much Poopy can spend. In order to raise a little more ammunition for the Villar arsenal out there, Parke Skelton is trying something new. Here is a condensed version of an email Parke sent out. Blog away dums dums.Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:00:43 GMT
From: "Parke Skelton, Villaraigosa for Mayor
campaign"
Subject: Become one of Antonio's Friendraisers today!
Dear Friend,
The caps are off. And so are the gloves.
Due to more than $200,000 in planned "independent
expenditures" by groups supporting Jim Hahn, the
$2.251 million spending cap for each candidate in the
mayor's race has been lifted. That means that our
campaign is going to have to raise even more money.
Antonio can raise enough money to compete. But he's
not going to do it from just a handful of large donors
-- he's going to do it in $10, $25, and $50 donations
from friends and supporters all across Los Angeles.
That's where you come in. Today we're pleased to
announce the launch of our new "Friendraisers" program.
Sign up just 10 new supporters and raise just $200
from your friends & family for Antonio's campaign, and
you'll be invited to a special reception for our
successful Friendraisers.
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 2/17/2005 10:17:00 AM
19 Comments:
Hey Meat why is your boss charging his own community to pay $250 for a booth at his clean up this weekend? Could be to pay for his campaign. Typical sleazy and low class to charge your people when ADV is sitting on over $200,000 and hasn't donated one dime to his community. Meat where has he spent his budget money? I dare you to answer that one.
Don't forget the $1,000+ invoice the LA32 Neighborhood Council is still fighting over for expensive treats purchased when CD14 hosted the City Council session there. Tony V's supporters on that NC board - some of the same that held a big $1,000-a-plate birthday bash for him a few weeks ago - asked for a few hundred in NC funds to buy desserts (only) for the councilmembers and staff that night, then added everything but the kitchen sink to the spread for the visiting CMs and presented the hyper-inflated bill like nothing was wrong. Good thing the NCs will be getting that street repair money!
Can't the CC pay for it's own damn food? (How do 15 CMs and a few staff members consume $1K in tamales and pan dulce, anyway?) Can't Villaraigosa sell one more expensive mayoral campaign birthday plate and pay for his CC buddies' food, rather than ripping off an NC in a working class area? Maybe then he'd have more than one other CM endorsing him.
Again with the "quote marks" around "independent expenditures" -- like this was some (wink) signal that a crime is being committed. You're supposed to read that like is says dirty special interest money. Villaraigosa gets """"""independent expenditure"""""" money, too! What hogwash.
50 fat cats send ADV $1,000 each and its called "grass roots" support. A legit organization/union etc. with thousands of poor and middle class members pools its funds and spends $50,000 idependently to keep Tony out of the big office by supporting another candidate and its suddenly "dirty money."
So the gloves are "off" now. They were ON before -- with reams of unsubstantiated, unproven charges of corruption and graft being spouted by every AV mouthpiece in town?
People, get out of Dodge, ASAP -- this place is going to be hell by mid-March if it's a repeat of the 2001 pairing.
Treats for the special Friendraisers reception no doubt will be paid for by the neighborhood councils in CD14, as tribute.
The press release re: the ads says they're called "Believe." Maybe that should be "PLEASE, Believe."
I BELIEVE I'll have another drink. . .
Hey Sacramento I saw those ads at lunch and ADV doesn't have anything that he's accomplished while being councilman so he puts what he did or should I say took credit for as an assemblyman. I wish the media would research the big lie about those neighborhood watches. All of us know he's lying through his teeth and I wish the media wld do their homework and bust his little butt on that.
The lie about the neighborhood watches is very easy to explain. A neighborhood watch (for a mid-sized community of say 20-30 thousand) will have dozens of block, street, or sector captains). These come together every month or so to meet with the local cops and compare notes, then go back to their areas to "watch."
For any other councilmember just trying to do a good job for the community that would be tallied as: 1 neighborhood watch with 30 block captains. With Tony V. -- needing to show some progress in CD14 in order to jump up the ladder -- that's counted as 30 separate NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH ORGANIZATIONS (even if the "watch" is one old lady on a pension sitting at her window with the phone nearby). Big lie's are easy when you don't plan on sticking around to back them up if anyone asks.
So ADV's campaigners are going back to the "little people" again for their nickels and dimes to help his grass roots run for yet another office. How cynical and hypocritcal can you get. This man has pulled $7 MILLION dollars now in donations from his supporters to run for L.A. City offices 3 times and has spent LESS than 2 underwhelming years working for them as a fake City Councilmember. This effort will fail, as well, because a candidate this liberal can't win a major city this side of Washington D.C., or London (and his campaigners know this at some level). But they prop up the dinosaur again, brag about what he did in an equally short period as a state elected official more than 4 years ago, and run him AGAIN. It feeds his ego, it feeds the campaign staffs families, but it won't feed the people of this city, or his faithful supporters dreams of a "better L.A." That bus left, and he wasn't driving it.
Damn I wish the press would read this stuff and print it. It amazes me how ADV has so many people fooled. Any one hear the rumor about the mayoral candidate that has a woman living in Monterey Park pregnant? He could kiss his political goodbye on that one if true. Mayor Sam will probably pull this but I'm not naming names.
Where are those vicious attack ads from Hahn that AV needs to refute. The ones' where he's walking around town (too fast) in the Jimmy Carter sweater talking about reducing crime and keeping L.A. together. They may not be a political art form, but I think Antonio will survive these attacks -- put your check books away "Friendraisers." If AV and Hertzberg bump Hahn out in the first round, Tony will need more new ideas than $5 dollar bills to survive (and you can't PAY his campaign people enough money to get some new ideas -- they ran out years ago).
The press does read this...but journalism 101 teaches you to cite your sources even if they are anonymous. So Hahn, Hertzberg, Villaraigosa staffers and other pundits, wackos, gadflies, and bureaucrats who want to spin the press on this site will have to come from behind the veil of secrecy and reveal themselves or else everything said here means nothing.
And i've never seen Mayor Hahn walk so fast until i saw his campaign commercial. Wow, they are really trying to make him look energetic.
Hey Sac, might be worth taking up a collection on the blog to raise the $200 Parke requires for an audience with his highness at this "Fiendraiser" reception.
I give so much credit to the guy who went to council this week and slammed those idiot staffers of ADV's. Gameboy Padilla tried to repeatedly shut him up and the guy just kept saying how rude and uncooperative Lisa Sarno and Paul Hernandez are. These staffers need their asses kicked by the community. I've heard them yell at seniors. They are arrogant and have the rudest manners of anyone I know. They act as if because they work for the loser ADV they have an up on people. I'm waiting for my day to nail Paul. That four eyed idiot treats residents like crap. Enough people have complained but he's still there.
LEEEsa Sar-NO! Pleasem go wash your mouth out with soap, boy (girl?) No one individual has done more to deflate the legend of "man of the people" Villaraigosa than that one in CD14. She's worth minus 5 points to him in the district, in any campaign. (And some of his most loyal, hilltop supporters have warned him of that - when they can get close enough to whisper in his ear).
No chit, man. She should replace that David Spade guy in the credit card commercials. Can we talk to Tony, NO! Can we get a meeting, NO! But this won't cost anyth... NO! It'll help Tony's repu... NO! I know people in the NE that have waited weeks to get a meeting with staff scheduled, then cancelled it themselves when they found out she was leading it. No, No, No, NO!
Are you for REAL? Then just close down the damn field offices and give everyone a detailed city directory. We'll save a fortune on unnecessary salaries.
The problem in CD14, which you obviously have no concept of, is that 2, 3, 4 years ago, the council office "served" the constituents AND they trained them to work the city system better. They were empowered by the CM to make things happen -- not paid to get in the way and run interference for their celebrity boss like the current crew of inept speedbumps and road blocks. Damn that Pacheco. He spoiled those "crybaby" citizens. Now they expect every councilmember to hire professional public servants who know something about city government.
If all the field offices are for in your world is to act as restaurant hostesses that seat you until the city department comes through to provide the service when it's your turn, then you've JUST single-handedly rescued L.A. from billions in future budget cuts. Fire the whole lot of them -- they're a huge waste of taxpayer money, and we'll be back in the black overnight. Thanks!
That's a great idea. Self service local government. Then at least the people getting those "special favors" now -- the Tony V. campaign contributors -- might have to wait in line with the rest of us scum in the district.
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