Slam An Elected: "Wacko Jacko" Weiss
This begins a new regular feature here on the Sister City, "Slam An Elected." This gives you, our reader the opportunity to take a shot at any local elected. We'll post them pretty much verbatim as long as they are not slanderous or too over the top. Send your items to mayorsam@aol.com.Our first victim finds one of our readers slamming Councilman Jack Weiss for not staying on top of who's who among the LAPD brass:
Will someone please tell idiot Jack Weiss that SHARON PAPA OF LAPD IS A Assistant CHIEF. That moron kept referring to her in council today as a deputy chief. Shit, he's Chair of Public Safety and doesn't even know the rank of the top brass of LAPD. No wonder people posted here what a moron he was.Jack, did you make a note?
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 8/10/2005 03:17:00 PM
33 Comments:
Said it before, said it again, Weiss is a doo-doo brain.
Heaven help the rank and file with Weiss as chair of public safety committee. For being a former prosecutor you would think he had some intelligence. Time and time again in council he embarrasses himself with the dumbest comments and stupid questions.
Hey, whoever posted slamming Jimmy Blackman for appointment Antonio must have read it.
ITEM NO. (1) - Motion Required
05-1400 CD 2 COMMUNICATION FROM
THE MAYOR relative to the
appointment of Mr. Jimmy
Blackman to the Board of Fire and Police Pension Commissioners.
Recommendation for Council action:
DISAPPROVE the appointment of Mr. Jimmy Blackman to the Board of Fire and Police Pension Commissioners inas much as M. Blackman has submitted a letter declaring his withdrawal from the appointment.
This pic is hilarious, he looks like the guy from the "Gong Show." This program is from the late 70's (please correct me if I stated wrong decade).
I think Jack Weiss is an idiot. He does nothing more than kiss Antonio's ass. He thinks he is the guru when it comes to Homeland Security but in fact does not know shit. He is my least favorite of the City Council members. God help us everytime he opens that fat trap to hell that he calls a mouth.
jack is great in my opinion. smart guy.
- Sh. Oaks
Some of you may not like this Weiss elected official, but is he a good politician?
Oh Come on now Chief...you've written a ream about Pacheco.
I think we can have fun with the electeds once in a while for their goofs. If they can't handle it, they shouldn't be in the business.
Back in our day, they even talked about our mothers!
Jack is bright, capable and does a great job working on behalf of his CD5 constituents. He's got my vote for City Attorney.
City Attorney. Ha! Unfortunately all that ass kissing has earned him ZERO name ID. Everyone at City Hall thinks he's a jerk. He's going back to private practice.
I appreciate your comments and don't mind a little networking, but lets please watch overly promoting your business on here. I don't want spam showing up and I don't want my readers to have to wade through spam posts. Thanks.
Thanks Mayor Sam,
I was wondering why those posters had posted all the mortgage stuff. We have enough of that business at every corner and the media commercials.
No Spam please, Mayor Sam, is there anyway to block that advertisement?
OK, here's my take, for what it is worth, Pilgrims:
Jack Weiss did Los Angeles a great service by beating Tom Hayden for the 5th District Council seat.
I cannot imagine the damage that Hayden could have done to LA and to our credibility in the world. For that act, I cut him a lot of slack.
Jack is a stubborn guy. I have had issues with him, and he has refused to negotiate in the face of clear defeat. However, to his credit, he comes afterward with an outstreached hand and a willingness to move on to other issues.
He is not stupid, to the contrary, he is very smart.
He has a good home life and family, and aspires to be City Attorney. Between him and Hertzberg, I'll take Jack every time.
Jack has a close relationship with the Mayor, and he has earned that trust. No one gave it to him.
He has chits coming; what is important to watch is how he uses them. No one can go to the well all the time, and if he is judicious, he will be City Attorney, maybe even more.
Don't get in his way unless you've got the goods. But, if you do, and you win, he'll end up respecting you. Good quality.
He will not carry a grudge like a certain Councilwoman who's brother just changed jobs recently.
On balance, I'll take him over many others on the Council who simply lack the gray matter.
Papa was absolutely worthless at the make-believe MTA Police Department before she was anointed an LAPD Officer and escalated for purely political reasons. Yes MayorSam, I said worthless. Maybe someday the Sheriffs Department will take over LAPD and fire the whole group of louses that head the LAPD. The same cowards that ran with their tails between their legs when the Rodney King riots hit LA.
Actually, Jack was not incorrect. There is no rank of assistant chief of police in Los Angeles. They are all deputy chiefs. Assistant chief is a position, not a rank. See: http://www.lacity.org/per/perspecs/2262.pdf
Per the LAPD
Regardless of the symantecs, for a wanna be city atorney of his stature he should call them by the title they recognize her as, and if he's as smart as you all say then he should already know this!
Maybe we should have a councilman that can work with LAPD at their events instead of Weiss. It is apparent that he might be budding heads with LAPD representatives. The mix up if any, should not be a big deal, but if he is not liked, it will always be a big deal.
Jack has as much charisma as Adam Schiff.
Why did Huizar get endorsements from the council so quickly after AV endorsed?
Janet, I agree with your observation. It sounds weird of council endorsing so quickly and would it be the same if he was not endorsed by AV in the first place?
Tom Jones
"...Bratton, who has faced criticism for his frequent travels from the city, was out of town Tuesday, so an assistant chief, Sharon Papa, handled media inquiries.Police Administrator Rhonda L. Sims-Lewis told the council that the chief has intended to attend meetings but has been drawn away by other pressing matters."He will attempt in the future to make a meeting if he can," she said.Papa, who has been attending meetings of the panel on behalf of the chief, said she briefs the chief after each meeting and Bratton is fully involved in the process.Not all the council members were concerned. Councilman Jack Weiss said he has confidence that Bratton is kept informed about the bond program.Bratton, Weiss said, "is dragged in 5 million directions on a daily basis, many of which are life-and-death situations for the citizens of the city."There was also some disagreement on the seriousness of the bond program's financial problems..."
Article can be found at LA TIMES
DWP’s Power Surge
Mystery surrounding troubled contract points to mismanagement of L.A.’s giant utility
by JEFFREY ANDERSON
A sweet but stalled deal between the Department of Water and Power and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18 has provoked union threats of a lawsuit or a strike.
ARTICLE:
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/38/news-anderson.php
No Life Without Sunshine
Antonio backs off a campaign promise to close hated Valley dump
by ROBERT GREENE
A man named Sam Yorty once became mayor of Los Angeles by standing on the steps of City Hall and dumping a load of garbage to illustrate how inconvenient it was for the average housewife to recycle. That led to three decades of stuffing our landfills with recyclable glass, metal, plastic and paper. In the 1980s, city leaders planned to burn trash to produce electricity but discovered that the people of South Los Angeles were not excited about having a huge incinerator built in their neighborhood. So dumps in the Northeast San Fernando Valley continued to fill up — until activists like young Alex Padilla worked to close Lopez Canyon. That gave new life to the massive Sunshine Canyon landfill, a few miles to the west.
Now we recycle again, although not enough, and are talking about burning trash to produce energy, but haven’t done anything about it. That brings us to this week.
Begin with the proposition that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa did something pretty smart, and pretty good, when he talked the operators of the massive Sunshine Canyon landfill, at the northern edge of the San Fernando Valley, into tacking another six months onto the city’s contract-renewal deadline. Now no one in City Hall really has to bite the bullet on the huge dump or on the contract with the shady garbage-disposal company until February, when city wonks presumably will have a better idea whether there really are alternative places to fling our 3,600 tons (every day) of junk. Hold in abeyance the question of what good those extra six months will do for us that the last decade of pondering could not. For now, let’s just say the delayed deadline is a good thing.
ARTICLE:
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/38/news-greene.php
L.A.'s blacks, Latinos see answers in alliance
By Daniel B. Wood | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
LOS ANGELES – National activists hope it's the beginning of a new era in black-Latino unity.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0811/p02s01-ussc.html
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Weiss' only issue was airport police and he got his ass kicked on Prop A. Now all he can do is try to share the limelight with anyone he can get in to the picture with.
Weiss is a lightweight but a likable guy. Mediocrity seems to rise to the top in politics so he should have a long career. Whassup with the comparison to Schiff? It doesn't fit.
Pedro
Leave Jack Weiss alone. He is one of the FEW council members with the guts to speak his mind. More should follow his lead ...
Jack Weiss is an idiot. To 8:54 anon Assistant Chief is a rank not a position. Why do you think they get stars??? There are 3 Assistant Chief's on LAPD. Sharon Pappa is a very smart, strong woman. City Council disrespected Bratton. All anyone has to do is check the city agendas and see how many of their committee meetings have been cancelled in the last 2 months. Its their damn job to go to these meetings.
Jack made a complete ass out of himself last year with the STanley Miller shooting. As Bratton was giving an update to council (I'm sure Stanley's atty was listening) Weiss was asking the most sensitive questions knowing the cameras and media were rolling. That shows his lack of intelligence having been a former prosecutor
Jack Weiss is a mediocre self serving Councilmemebr with no grasp of reality. He is all about Jack, all the time.
I will take Hertzberg over Jack in any race, anytime. Jack-off does not stand a chance against him for City Attorney.
I prefer Bob or Jack too but I thought Huggy Bear was running statewide. Can any of you clear this up?
Jack is awesome... unless you're an annoying white tarzana republican. I'd rather have a guy who's willing to get tough when the cops screw up than a guy like Zine who plays dress-up so he can go out on "patrol"
Sam, if you would spit out the loads of Jack Webb and Bill Parker from your mouth, you might realize that it's AN Assistant Chief. Not A Assisistant Chief.
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