Tony Villar's Spin Cycle
This time they take Mayor Poopy to task for not showing up to a debate. But interesting they don't slam Hugs-a-berg for being a no-show as well.
Are you being inconsistent Tony? Also, see if you can catch the errors in the release, copied below:
Hahn Skips King / Drew Mayoral Forum
Spokesman Cites “Time Constraints” For Missing First South LA Debate
Los Angeles – The first candidate forum held in South Los Angeles last Saturday was missing the City’s top elected official: Mayor Jim Hahn.
A spokesman for Hahn cited “time constraints” for missing the event sponsored by Charles R. Drew University and the Drew Center for AIDS Research, Education and Services and held at the First AME Church.
Councilmember Antonio Villaraigosa, Councilmember Bernard Parks, and Senator Richard Alarcon attended.
Commenting on the significance Hahn’s absence, Villaraigosa campaign manager Ace Smith said, “This shows just how much Jim Hahn takes his support in the African American community and South Los Angeles for granted. Unless there is a TV camera rolling, he’s a no show.”
A new poll released Sunday by the Los Angeles Times found that Hahn’s support among African American voters has collapsed. While Hahn received about 70% of the black vote in the 2001 primary, today only 25% of African American voters pick him as their first choice.
“Voters want more than a last name. At some point, Jim Hahn will learn that the reservoir of good will for his father that he has tapped for 25 years has run dry,” Smith said.
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 2/07/2005 04:21:00 PM
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After the beating the last release took here, the biggest "error" was in sending Mayor Sam another one.
Tony V. spends more time outside his council district than in it during 2004 and he's blasting the mayor for missing another one of the 100+ debates this season?
Villaraigosa's "spin cycle" has now offically spun dry.
Neither ADV nor Mayor Poopy want to go up against the big big man Hertzberg. Their trick is to weaken the other enough for a runoff slaughter, but not enough that the voters say enough and vote for Happy Huggy.
Happy Huggy? The one who worked for Fleishman Hillard AND wrote a letter for Vignali? Mr. Clean?
Careful, two-thirds of the political flacks in town have worked at F-H at one time or another. Don't brush too broadly before checking out the CVs of those around you in Spin City, regardless of whose campaign. It is the biggest shop in town, probably on the West Coast.
Antonio's people need to rifle-shot those releases to friendly camps only, L.A. Times, et al., skip this shotgun approach.
Antonio is really getting desperate here. He wants to make political point out of missing a debate and yet is missing in his own district.
But, what does it all really matter. He doesn't care that he's not in his own district and the Mayor doesn't care if he misses another boring debate.
Is Jessica Garrison the laziest journalist on the LAT, or is she infatuated with Antonio Villaraigosa? She bought his line about setting up 80 neighborhood watches in his relatively short time as councilember. (What is that? Just over one a week?) And nobody, not even the LAPD can confirm anywhere near that number. No mention of his "tenuous" support in the northeast. No mention of the recall. All is well in CD14 for Antonio, according to Ms. Garrison. And she lets us know, the man who failed his law exams time and again is really a nerd and an academic. Don't the newspaper readers of Los Angeles deserve something better than this?
Jessica Garison's piece on ADV in today's LAT is laughable. A Total grouipie. You wld think ADV was running again for Assembly. She mentions 2 things he's done in CD14. Forget about the gang problem that he's totally ignored. Residents sweeping is more important. ADV's performance at The Citywide Alliance debate last night was a joke. ADV sat there and lied through his teeth. Good for Hahn nailing him on the Red line to the Westside issue and his good buddy Waxman blocking it. AVD's constituents were in the audience and let all those neighborhood councils know the truth about his lack of attention to his own district. Good for them!! Parks talking about honesty and integrity is a joke. Hugs Bear unfortunately, was laughed at repeatedly at the ridiculous things he said. Alarcon came off pretty good. Too bad he's in the single digits. We're spreading the word on ADV. I don't know of any constituents that asked him to run for Mayor. Another big lie that will soon catch up with him.
This shot at the LA Times from a person who is a groupie for a mayor who goes to a debate and says "what corruption?"
Well, you may be right about the "groupie" comment, but still, wouldn't it be nice if a paper as "important" as the L.A. Times had someone covering government in the nation's second largest city, covering the race for the city's top stop, one the beat for some time, that knew the difference between a PRIMARY and the frickin' GENERAL ELECTION!
Makes me wonder, and I ain't no Hahn groupie by a mile.
The only problem with your argument is that I don't support the mayor. Alarcon is head and shoulders above them all.
Alarcon has the passion and wants the Mayor position bad enough. However, you have to ask yourself if he was so great how come only 3% of people citywide know who the hell he is? I would think those numbers should be with ADV
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