Betts is Back
Hello Sammy and fellow bloggers. Just in case you thought that whole "till death do us part," meant the marriage was over - well - you were just plain wrong. Yup Sammy, I'm back. It's me Betts Yorty, here from the afterlife to reconnect with my ex-hubby and discuss the shenanigans at city hall.
Sure Sammy left dirty dishes in the sink, wet towels on the bed and ran around Los Angeles with city hall hussies - but he was once my man and the apple of my eye. Women just love him. Even that spongy Tofu Girl was trying to dig her claws into him – strange for a vegetarian to behave like such a carnivore.
Anyway, in between crocheting and botox injections, I'll do my best to contribute. If you want to reach me e-mail me at mrsbettsyorty@yahoo.com
Sure Sammy left dirty dishes in the sink, wet towels on the bed and ran around Los Angeles with city hall hussies - but he was once my man and the apple of my eye. Women just love him. Even that spongy Tofu Girl was trying to dig her claws into him – strange for a vegetarian to behave like such a carnivore.
Anyway, in between crocheting and botox injections, I'll do my best to contribute. If you want to reach me e-mail me at mrsbettsyorty@yahoo.com
Posted by Anonymous @ 6/15/2005 03:52:00 PM
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Can we get back to discussing politics now?
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Sam Yorty Dead At 88
By Jennifer Auther/CNN
LOS ANGELES (June 5) -- Former Los Angeles mayor Sam Yorty has died. He was 88.
Yorty had been hospitalized at UCLA Medical Center and was transferred to Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center May 24 after suffering a stroke, according to a statement released by Dr. Julius Woythaler, his physician.
On Wednesday Yorty was sent home on terminal care after treatments failed to improve his condition. He died at his home at 7:45 a.m. PDT. Friday of pneumonia, Woythaler said.
Known for being anti-communist, anti-Equal Rights Amendment and anti-busing, Yorty was a gravely-voiced maverick who lost more campaigns than he won, and he ran in about 20 different political races over 45 years.
His biggest splash came in 1961, when he became mayor of Los Angeles. Political consultant Joe Cerrell described him as "the last of the big city conservative Democrats."
Celes King III, a civil rights activist, said, "Even if it was something that he violently disagreed with you on, he would listen to you carefully, and in the end, sometimes he would not make a change, or he would make a change. It was not always predictable."
KTLA anchorman Hal Fishman said, "He was a man of which there were many pros and cons. He was certainly not a passive individual. He was, on the plus side, responsible for many of the good things in Los Angeles."
Yorty supported the Los Angeles freeway system. It has been said that in Yorty's 12 years as mayor, Los Angeles grew into a metropolis.
But there was another side too. "He knew how to play the unity that represented Los Angles, and also the divisiveness that existed in Los Angeles, and let me be very blunt, I'm talking about cultural and racial differences that existed at that time, in such events as the Watts riots in 1965," Fishman said.
It was under Yorty's reign that racial tension caused Los Angeles' Watts area to erupt in flames.
In 1969, Yorty would use race to win his re-election against Tom Bradley. Los Angeles Times reporter and columnist Kenneth Reich said, "It was almost as if Yorty had mugged the city ... The only way he felt that he would win, would be to exacerbate tensions and claim that Bradley was going to be elected by a 'black block vote,' which was silly because the black population in Los Angeles back then, was only about 18 percent."
It backfired in 1973. Voters made Bradley the city's first African-American mayor, toppling Yorty.
But Yorty continued to speak out. In later years, he became a Republican, ending a lifelong affiliation with Democrats. "I think Sam would have said that he didn't leave the party, the party left him," Cerrell said.
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Yes we all know that Mayor Sam is dead.
mayor sam, i love the blog, but this is just stupid.
Shit.
Sammy's are bad, little boys.
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Mayor Sam,
This is a boring topic, and boring bloggers. Please change topics.
I'd like to talk about who will be appointed to the only full- time, paid, commissioner position - Board of Public Works. Who will be the first person to fill the position vacated by Ellen Stein? I heard that Maxine Waters' son will get a position. Who is he and what does he normally do for a living? I heard that Cynthia Ruiz will return. Are there other names being thrown into this pool?
EVER NOTICE HOW AS SOON AS A COMMENT IS POSTED (OR FIVE OR TEN) TRASHING A CANDIDATE THIS PARKE SKELTON PROPAGANDA MACHINE - ER, BLOG - SUPPORTS (E.G. SLEAZY HUIZY JOSE HUIZAR), MAYOR SAM MOVES THE COMMENTS DOWN THE PAGE WITH SOME DRIVEL LIKE THIS?
Mayor Sam this is the reason you have lost so many bloggers. You are really getting ridiculous with your postings and hate to tell you by LAoserved.com is getting the people who use to come here.
Cynthia Ruiz was on Antonio's campaign team. Didn't Antonio say he wasn't going to put HIS FRIENDS or special interest people in city hall?
Mayor Sam only lost the JKH cutters and pasters. The noise is mostly gone and they're discussing what's going on. The problem is the minute they mention anything remotely tied to AV, the CD14 crew goes into hyperdrive and makes it worse for everyone.
Is there a adv watch? good or bad?
Yea there are some guys who watch ADV while crying in their beer, go to any bar in the 14th district and tell them "Eliseo sent me."
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