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Thursday, May 05, 2005

More Poop From The Toilet

Poopy just keeps pooping but because the Hahnistas complain, we will post.  However, this time I will include commentary because this is my blog, dammit.

May 5, 2005

To:     Interested Parties (No one)

From:   Julie (Can you say Monster.Com?) Wong

Re:     Top 10 Times Antonio Villaraigosa Said "Yes" to His Campaign
Contributors (as opposed to the thousands of times Jim Hahn said yes)

      At a press conference yesterday, City Councilman Antonio
Villaraigosa experienced a David Letterman-like moment of comedy, saying,
"I'm from the Jesse Unruh school of politics.  If you can't tell your
friends 'no' then you shouldn't be in public service.  I've got to be able
to tell my friends 'no', I've got to be able to look you in the eye and tell
you 'no', to the biggest contributor or the poorest person."

      Unlike the real thing, there's nothing funny about the "Top 10 Times
Antonio Villaraigosa said 'yes' to his campaign contributors'"..

(And unlike real people who work Juile Wong has been sucking at the public teat for years)

      10. Yes to Cadiz: Villaraigosa raised hundreds of thousands of
dollars from Cadiz, Inc., and CEO Keith Brackpool at the same time it was
building a controversial underground water storage facility in the Mojave
desert. During the 2001 mayor's race, he refused to say whether he would
oppose the Mojave project. Cadiz was developing the project to sell to the
Metropolitan Water District, which the mayor of Los Angeles appoints members
to. Since then, Villaraigosa has maintained close ties to Cadiz, and was on
the company's payroll in 2001-02. During the 2005 campaign, Villaraigosa
defended Cadiz's Mojave plan, saying it was an idea "whose time may be
sometime in the future."

If you're going to build a giant water tank, why the hell not in Mojave? They got lots of space - where does Julie want it, Sherman Oaks?

     9. Yes on racial profiling report: While he was Speaker of the
Assembly in 1999, according to an LA Weekly report, Villaraigosa reportedly
tried to bury a report on racial profiling that was going to be critical of
the California Highway Patrol after he raised thousands of dollars in
campaign contributions from the patrol officers' union. When it did release
the report, Villaraigosa's office issued a letter that "disavowed the study
as not completely factual," according to the LA Times.

Racial profiling is necessary.  How the hell else are you going to fight crime?

     8. Yes to horse racing tracks: In 1995, Villaraigosa raised over
$8,750 from horse racing interests in California. He then voted for the
1996-97 budget which included $230 million in corporate tax cuts and cut
taxes for banks and for horse racing tracks, saving them millions of
dollars. Villaraigosa in fact signed a letter by Democratic lawmakers
supporting a larger, $10 million cut for horse tracks, though the final
agreement settled on a $5 million cut. In 1998, Villaraigosa's campaign
committees were rewarded with over $90,000 in campaign contributions from
horse racing interests.

If people want to gamble on horses, its their god damn right.  This is why I hate liberals - they want to tell you how to live your life.

     7. Yes to International Gaming Technology: Villaraigosa raised
$75,000 from International Game Technology in 1998 while supporting efforts
to legalize and expand slot machine gaming in California. IGT is the
nation's largest manufacturer of slot machines and has made a small fortune
since 1998 on California gaming. In April 2001, the Las Vegas Review-Journal
wrote that "[California's] demand for new machines has helped push the
stocks of slot manufacturers International Game Technology, Alliance Gaming
Corp. and Anchor Gaming to 52-week highs."

See number 8

     6. Yes to Las Vegas gaming interests: In 1998, Villaraigosa raised
over $500,000 from Las Vegas gaming interests who were fighting to pass Pete
Wilson's tribal gaming compacts because they limited the number and size of
casinos California tribes could build. Villaraigosa voted for the tribal
gaming compacts when they passed the Legislature in August 1998 and were put
on the ballot for voter approval.

See number 8

     5. Yes to Big Tobacco: Antonio Villaraigosa also raised money from
the tobacco industry while he was in Sacramento. Villaraigosa's only
contributions from the tobacco industry followed his vote, in August 1996,
to extend the exemption from workplace smoking laws for bars and taverns
until January 1998. He also chose not to vote against extending the
exemption in January 1998. The Assembly passed the measure but it was killed
by the Senate.

I hate smoking, but last I looked tobacco is legal.  We should legalize pot too.


     4. Yes to Florida airport concessions: Villaraigosa raised over
$45,000 from Florida corporate interests. He then turned around and did a
special favor for those same corporate interests by leading the effort on
the City Council to take jurisdiction over lucrative concession contracts
from the Airport Commission, to give his Florida corporate donors a chance
to get the contracts.

We already detailed Jim Hahn's Florida shenanigans.  So what if Tony Villar wanted to get a taco stand in there, that's nothing compared to Hahn's $11 billion LAX boondoggle gift to the unions and special interests.

     3. Yes to payday lenders: Villaraigosa raised over $17,000 from
payday loan companies after voting to legalize the industry in 1996. Then,
as Speaker he helped kill legislation authored by consumer groups to reform
the industry, which charges interest rates of up to 911 percent, and voted
for a sham reform bill written by the loan sharks which would have actually
increased the amount of money low-income consumers can borrow from them.

A legal business.  If you don't want to pay high rates, don't foul up your credit and pay cash.

     2. Yes to Enron: Villaraigosa raised $18,000 from Enron and over
$240,000 from other power companies while voting to deregulate the state's
electric market. Those companies, in turn, used the deregulated market to
gouge California consumers for billions of dollars in inflated energy costs
and caused the state's 2000-01 energy crisis, which wrecked California's
economy and ushered in record budget deficits.

Jim Hahn took money from Enron too.


     1. Yes to Vignali: Villaraigosa raised thousands from Horacio
Vignali, then successfully led the effort to deceive the federal government
to get Vignali's son, a convicted drug dealer, freed from prison.
Villaraigosa wrote the first in a series of letters from Los Angeles
politicians to the White House claiming Vignali was innocent and "falsely
linked" to the drug ring.

This one gets really old.  Now we're going to get more Larry King and William Bennett cutting and pasting.  You know Julie, your buddy William Bennett would not be happy you want to shut down the pony tracks and casinos!

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27 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said:

TOO bad... Vignali's JUST as new to a lot of voters as the "Charles Fitzgerald" crap you keep posting.

What's more SCARY to real people. White collar crime where the millionaire runs off and hide, or a violent dope peddler who's killed kids with poison right here.

ADV loses. Vignali is STIll scarier and more relevant to L.A. that what island whats-his-name is living on now.

If you want to demonize Hahn more than ADV, you better find a deadly criminal in our midst that he begged to get off scott free.

May 05, 2005 4:29 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

OH YEAH, I forgot... Hahn let WIFE BEATERS plea bargain down.

I'm shaking in my boots -- Vignali's a pussy compared to John Doe next dolor who's a mean drunk and whose wife probably refused to testify anyway, because (just like the rabid ADV-lovers here), they LIKE being abused and neglected!

Makes you all feel "special."

May 05, 2005 4:31 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

im curious to know where the nickname "mayor poopy" came from...anyone?

May 05, 2005 4:33 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

More "poop" -- but unlike ADV's used up "corruption" whining, this "poop" is sticking to Antonio like GLUE!

Shhh, listen hard, and you can hear ADV's think skin cracking under the weight, and his lead slipping away...

May 05, 2005 4:34 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Mayor Poopy's been told before. When he was a baby, he pooped when he and his dad were with some famous pol.

THAT's how far back these retards have to go to find REAL dirt on Hahn. When he was in DIAPERS!

HA!

ANYONE HERE didn't poop in their diapers as babies?

Guess who's shitting their pants right now, though? The ADV staffers who let the Florida money come through without questioning it.

They're DEAD MEAT -- ADV's punishing them -- gonna send them BACK to serve the poor souls in CD14, with the other dreck in his field offices.

May 05, 2005 4:37 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

This is GREAT. Hahn's people are on the attack, and ADV's hacks are in defense mode HARDCORE, but they have nothing offensive to strike back with. Used in ALL up in the primary.

This is the LAST thing ADv wanted, stranded the final weeks trying to return vollies from a better trained, more creative campaign staff than he'll EVER have, regardless of money raised.

May 05, 2005 4:40 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

ADV was against gang injunctions. How many innocent lives did this cost? ADV, can you really sleep at night thinking about all those innocent victims that were caused by your persistence in protecting gangs.

May 05, 2005 4:43 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Vignali is not old news. It is also current news, he currently supplies some ADV staffers as we speak, they need more stuff before election day. Vignali poisons our kids, he contributes to the deteriorating society that liberals have protected. Vignali is still Villaraigosa's friend, and I bet ADV would write another letter for the right price.

May 05, 2005 4:46 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

LAObserved quotes Hertzberg from another source...

• Bob Hertzberg, in a Q-and-A with CityBeat's Dean Kuipers, blames his loss on last-minute phone calls aimed at convincing Valley voters to stay home: "There were two separate polls that had me ahead. It was literally in the last 48 hours."

THE LAST 48 HOURS, ADV... timing, timing, timing.


But, HERE's the funny part. Phone-bankers at Hertzberg's campaign offices also got the calls, and THEY blamed ADV for them.

Most of Hertzberg's Eastside support team and volunteers immediately jumped to Hahn's side after the primary, without missing a beat.

They are ANTI-ADV first and foremost, Hertzberg's endorsement of ADV was worthless there -- they just considered it another political deal between losers.

May 05, 2005 4:49 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

DAMN, where ARE those high level indictments to bail out ADV. His people just can't spin fast enough.

OOPS, insiders at F-H say there ARE no more. Dowie's about to get a clean bill of health, and is going on the attack against ex-employers and MAYBE even slimy pols who libeled him without proof of guilt.

Better set aside some of that extra campaign money, ADV. Dowie is NOT a public official, not elected...

Take a slide from F-H's corporate powerpoint on this one, ADV, settle with him, quickly and quietly.

May 05, 2005 4:58 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

CP and Mayor sam have a hard on for freeways. Go ahead it's your blog post what you ate for breakfast, we could care less. What I care about is what the "know" people post. Your post topics are usually irrelevant and are a sign of crying for help. Stop sending your bloggers to the freeway, that topic is sensitive and offensive literally.

May 05, 2005 5:00 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Tell Julie and Kam to look behind them; the whole staff is disappearing before their eyes.

Hahn's people are sending out resumes faster than a speeding bullet. Room 300 is in chaos. No one will take McOsker's calls, except, of course, at the Firefighter's Union. McOsker is wandering around asking people if he has the plague or something.

Payback's a bitch.

Wonder why?

The Staff reads the internal polls first, remember.

It ain't purdy!

May 05, 2005 5:04 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Creating your fictional parody here CP. Oh Yea, its your blog, right, I missed that one. Chaos is the one that ADV is creating amongst his Latino community. I have never seen a community more torn apart.

May 05, 2005 5:10 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

YES FOR SCHOOL VOUCHERS. 20 YEAR OLD LAUSD SYSTEM HAS FAILED, OUR KIDS DESERVE BETTER...

____________
We need to open the education marketplace

"...I have no reason to question either the diligence or sincerity with which Romer is approaching this prodigious problem. Given the constraints he faces, my guess is he's doing the best he can. However, I have little optimism that he will make much of a difference because the constraints he faces are unreasonable.

The frameworks for standards, reform and sanctions defined by No Child Left Behind are important reforms for our public school system. But the problem is our public school system itself. How do you fix a business that has no competition and for which government itself limits the possibilities for reform?

Poor kids are simply trapped in a government school monopoly where the manner in which education is defined and administered and the values that are conveyed are by and large pre-scripted by a politically correct establishment.

When I log onto the website of the National Education Association, the national union of the teachers staffing our public schools, the first thing I see is a headline announcing a study that says "the goals of 'No Child Left Behind' cannot be met without a significant increase in resources." According to the Pacific Research Institute, the L.A. Unified School District spends more than $9,000 per year per student. I am confident that if inner-city parents had $9,000 through a voucher or scholarship to send their child wherever they chose to school, more than one in two would graduate.

Businesses that face competition deliver more and more for less and less. Monopolies deliver less and less for more and more. What else can we expect from the NEA and the government school monopoly than claims that spending is the alleged answer for everything?

Problems today in the inner cities are complex. Many poor families are broken, single-parent homes. This itself is a major predictor for failure in school. Kids from these homes get sent to public schools where prohibitions on providing any framework for values make it impossible to help them find meaning amidst the chaos in which they live. It doesn't take much imagination to predict where this leads.

We can educate these kids. But we need to open the education marketplace, take it out of the hands of the unions and monopolists, and let people who really want to help these families and their children have a chance with them.


http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43632

May 05, 2005 5:20 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44024

When a campaign issue isn't an issue

LARRY ELDER WROTE:

You're the incumbent mayor, running for re-election.

Polls show you down some 20 points. Your articulate, aggressive opponent accuses you of corruption, citing a 4-year-long probe of allegations about political fund raising and the awarding of city contracts. Your opponent constantly reminds the voters that your deputy mayor – formerly your chief campaign fund-raiser – resigned over allegations that he steered city contracts to your political donors.

You fire back, noting that nine years ago your opponent wrote a letter to President Clinton in which, you say, your opponent wanted leniency for a man who turned out to be a convicted drug dealer. In short, this is one nasty race.
How nasty? Your city's major newspaper editorializes: "[I]nstead of hearing what's best for the city, voters get an earful about who would be worse. Just think what that will do to turnout, a dismal 26 percent in the primary."

"Make no mistake," says your opponent, "this is the most investigated administration in Los Angeles history since the 1930s." You blast your challenger for putting his kids in private schools, while not doing enough, as a politician, to fight for state aid to public schools. "Because you failed that test of leadership," you say, "you took your kids out of the public school system."

But wait. An aide informs you that – as a young man – your opponent took the State Bar Examination to obtain a law license four times. What's more, your opponent, currently a city councilman, to date has never passed the exam. And the failure of inner-city public schools has become a major campaign issue. Question: Do you use against your opponent his failure – after four tries – to pass the California bar?

Is the issue relevant? Does your opponent's failure to pass the bar render him unqualified to run for mayor of a major city? Of course not. But you could, for example, question your opponent's commitment to higher school standards. Given the city's 50 percent inner-city dropout rate, your opponent's position on, for example, requiring high-school students to take exit exams might be worth hearing about.

Also, your opponent attended UCLA and credits his success, in part, to UCLA's "affirmative-action program." What's wrong with expecting that someone who attends UCLA, presumably at least in part at taxpayers' expense, and goes on to law school will, in fact, at some point pass his bar exam?

So, do you use against your opponent the fact that he took and flunked the bar examination four times? A little more information. The players in this nasty race are real. The city is Los Angeles, and the incumbent mayor is a white man named James Hahn. His challenger, a Latino, is a city councilman named Antonio Villaraigosa.

If elected, Villaraigosa would become the first Latino mayor in the city of Los Angeles since the 1870s.

Let's turn it around.

Suppose Antonio Villaraigosa is the incumbent mayor, and he faces a challenge from a successful, white politician. But this successful white politician took and flunked the bar four times, never passing it. Are we supposed to believe that Villaraigosa wouldn't bring this up?

Face it. There's a no-fly zone over challenging Villaraigosa's academic background. Why? Hahn fears being labeled racist if he dares raise this question against his Latino opponent. Sadly, this shows that the mayor does not treat his opponent as an equal. He sees Villaraigosa as a member of a protected class, not as an individual opponent with strengths and weaknesses.

Few critics had a problem calling President George W. Bush "stupid." As a white, male, Southern, Christian Republican, Bush enjoys no hands-off treatment. Though he attended Yale and received an MBA from Harvard, Bush's critics constantly call him "dumb."

On election night, Newsweek wrote about a frustrated candidate John Kerry, who said, "I can't believe I'm losing to this idiot." During the campaign, when Bush suffered a bicycle accident, Kerry said: "What happened? Did his training wheels fall off?" Martin Sheen called the president "a moron." Cartoonist Aaron McGruder pronounced him a "functional illiterate."

Here's another recent example of why politicians tiptoe around minorities lest they get called "racist." California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, in an interview with newspaper publishers, said the borders "should be closed." He discussed, among other things, President Bush's proposal for a guest-worker program. But never mind, the fit hit the shan.

California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, a Democrat, said, "When comments like that are made, racism once again tries to surface its ugly head upon the people of the state of California."

Schwarzenegger promptly apologized, calling his remark a "total screw-up," said he meant "secure" the border and, incredibly, blamed the mistake on the fact that English is not his first language.

Moral to the story? Certain minorities are perceived to be too weak, fragile, insecure or unintelligent to be treated as equals. So much for content of character.

May 05, 2005 5:26 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Is there any way to liimit the cutting and pasting?

Are there no original thinkers in all of CD 14?

I guess they are at Eliseo's house, lined up to sign the recall petition.

May 05, 2005 5:41 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

The cutting and pasting was learned from CP and Mayor Sam. They do a good job of it.

May 05, 2005 5:44 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

teachers union-NO
school vouchers-YES

We need competition.

May 05, 2005 5:45 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Are there any original thinkers in CD14? Certainly our councilmember isn't.

May 05, 2005 6:40 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Well, that makes two in a row.

But one of them still has a job, and is about to get a bigger one. He must be doing something right, huh?

And, he is not cutting and pasting blogs on the Internet all day long, either.

May 05, 2005 6:53 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

ADV is good at talking about his record from 4 years ago. What the hell has he done in 2 yrs? NOTHING!!! The media now knows and so does the city. That's why his numbers are going way down and he started the negative ads first. He's been a bully but how dare anyone tell him anything negative cause he loses it.

May 05, 2005 10:45 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Again this website is showing their desperation otherwise why post so much crap! Ace, Parke, MEAT you should coach ADV how to respond to the hard questions...Asked if Anderson was a co-host, Villaraigosa said: "He may have been, yes." Hours later, Villaraigosa spokesman Joe Ramallo corrected that statement, saying Anderson was only a guest.

May 05, 2005 10:54 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

I can't believe "Chief Parker" would consider posting ridiculous stories about Mayor Hahn. Go ahead, go negative. It will backfire.

Who cares what Jim Hahn did in the 70's?

Who would believe you that he A. beat his wife B. turned two women gay?? Jesus, that is hilarious and C. is sleeping with Bob Horner.

You are certainly fascinated with homosexual behavior. I find that humorous.

Is there a reason you kept this all secret last mayoral election, chief?

May 06, 2005 2:14 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

The whispering on the 3rd floor is the fact that the numbers are coming out and ADV has dropped big time. Spin all you want but he's not siting as pretty as he thinks he is. Back in 2001 he lost it because he got over confident and arrogant just like now. Keep it up ADV. We love it.

May 06, 2005 6:39 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Some of us know where Hahn was in the 70s.

Let's just say it was a "protected" environment.

May 06, 2005 10:20 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Halogirlfromcity,

Si comadre, the third floor chisme is that a Villaraigosa insider is a traitor and backstabbing AV and staff, gave information to tercer piso. Es todo lo que se sabe.

May 06, 2005 10:48 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

If I was handling the Hahn campaign I would make the following commercial with these scenes:
Scene 1: Very hardcore looking, multiple tattooed gang members harassing a family in the park. The police show up to try and do something to protect the family only to be stopped by AV who shows up in time to protect the gang members.
Scene 2: A sleazy, unshaven old man is observing some kids playing on the swings in the park. He pulls out a handful of candy and heads over to the kids. Next you see him walking away holding a little girls hand as she licks a candy sucker. A close up of the man's shirt reveals a button that reads "Vote For Antonio V. for mayor".
Scene 3: Group of L.A.P.D. uniformed officers are with Antonio shooting an endorsement commercial. The director yells, cut! That's a wrap! As the officers walk away the camera zooms in on the back of the officers collars to reveal "Acme Costume Rentals" as these are not real L.A.P.D. officers but non-union actors.
Cut to Mayor Hahn shooting his commercial with the real L.A.P.D. officers endorsing him.
These three commercial scenes will have a tremendous impact. The commercials about Antonio taking Miami money are burnt out and nobody cares anymore. The voters know ALL politicians take questionable campaign contributions and only give it back when they are caught like AV just did. I suggest the Hahn campaign concentrate on getting some new
hard hitting commercials that will resonate with the
undecideds otherwise he and all on his staff are going to be looking for work come next Wednesday morning

May 12, 2005 7:08 PM  

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