Geffen Eyes LA Times
David Geffen - the entertainment industry mogul who helped launch or further the careers of The Eagles, Cher, Shrek and many others is setting his sights on a new medium.A report this morning states that Geffen wants to buy the LA Times.
In the the article by James Rainey, three well-known civic leaders said they heard Geffen talking about how he would like to buy the paper. Geffen - partner with Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg in Dreamworks SKG - is reported by Forbes to be worth nearly $4 billion.
Tribune Company - the parent of the Times - CEO Dennis FitzSimmons confirms a meeting was held with Geffen at his request, but the paper is not for sale.
Stay tuned.
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 9/17/2005 09:32:00 AM
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I don't know whether to be happy (for the possiblity for the Times to return to fair objective journalism) or to puke because Geffen, Spielberg and Katzenberg are three off the biggest media whores in the business.
I think the Times has wandered to close to the "near" Left, for those in Hollywood. They might as well buy it, the Times was starting to get a clue on what the common "non-Hollywood" reader wanted to hear about.
If Dave Geff buys the Left Angeles Times it will be a new version of "Boys Town". Not that there is anything wrong with it.....
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Geff would do right by buying the paper. Good move for him. I dated him back in 97, sweet guy, smart, and risk taker. Good in bed.
Mayor Sam you scooped LA Observed and Roderick is kicking himself from here to Starbucks! Good move!
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This is a different Skelton than Parke Skelton's relatives.
I wanted to read the LA Times story "Mayor Sam' City Hall Blog Unmasked" dated 9/02
I clicked on the search results and the story no longer exists.
Why did the LA Times take out the story...any lawsuits Mayor?
Wait a minute! None of the stories are available, I checked both LA Times and The LA DAILY NEWS. Are these guys bought off by the Mayor?
This plot is getting thicker by each day...you guys are involved in a huge cover up. If this blew up on your faces, the mayor would look like a farce. Con Man.
I hope no one is researching this for your own sake.
Everybody would be better off sending Tribune and half the Times' editors back east where they came from. A Times that could bridge H'wood and D'town would be a breakthrough for LA. AEG is helping to do that with its plan for the Staples area. Using Geffen's H'wood money to reclaim such a major LA institution is a great idea.
Too bad Eli Broad didn't buy the Dodgers a couple of years ago!
The Chief is carrying my golf bags, I'm happy.
Chunk
Guest Editorial Michael Higby
Editor's Note: This guest editorial represents the opinion of the author, and does not necessarily represent the opinion of the Southern California Transit Advocates.
Dear Editor:
I have observed a number of meetings of the Southern California Transit Advocates as well as taking your newsletter for the last year. Overall, I have found the organization and the newsletter to take a fair minded approach to gathering and reporting transit related information. Nonetheless, recent comments concerning the San Fernando Valley in columns written by Mr. Dana Gabbard concern me.
While I agree that at times certain self appointed "leaders" of the San Fernando Valley are overly dramatic in their protests of the Valley "getting the shaft," I do feel that the needs and concerns of the San Fernando Valley are in most cases legitimate and deserving of consideration. Mr. Gabbard easily dismisses the region as "dull" and dominated by "pity politics."
You are right, Mayor Sam and his crew paid off the Times AND The Daily News to take down those stories. Its a huge coverup and it involves Villaraigosa, Larry Flynt, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hilary Clinton, Lou Grant and Little Annie Fannie. Its horrific!
1:51 Stop it spinster, you make me LOL :)
Villaraigosa Skelton Hertzberg are the ones who paid these guys off to take the fall, just those three
I heard Geffen say, "The mayor f'd up!"
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Mr. Mayor, do you deserve to be mayor?
Did Mayor sell us propaganda of his chosen appointees and their special interest connections.
Riordan- Robin Kramer
Laura Chick- Marcus Allen
HIMSELF- The "Yes" man, J. Blackman
... just a few mentioned.
Special interest connections, play in the new government for AV was given.
Mayor Sam,
Since you have been outed, do you know Jimmy Blackman? How well do you know him?
I wish someone paid us. Then I could buy the iPod I want.
Tell me about Trujillo, and I want the real juicy story, not the made up one for journalists.
I'll buy you ten ipods.
Why do you care?
Who is Skelton?
Cher = MILF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Patrick McGreevey in LA TImes does a great job on his story about Antonio's 100 days coming up. What has he done? NOTHING! Has the nerve to makes excues that the LAPD shooting and Katrina interferred. The only accomplishments Antonio can list is making his political commission appointments to friends (isn't this his job?) and making the city residents clean up. AV is going to take credit for having people go to city hall to talk about his budget. Its all for show. Pretty pathetic that AV lacks the leadership everyone thought he had. He should list all the photo ops he's been to. That has to be a record. We are stuck with a do nothing mayor as CD14 was stuck with a do nothing councilman.
Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957), full name Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, was a Mexican painter and muralist, born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, of Jewish Converso heritage.
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Collect funds, will travel
France, Maui, Vegas - legislators hit the road using campaign cash
By Jim Sanders
Bee Capitol Bureau
Published 2:15 am PDT Sunday, September 18, 2005
Story appeared on Page A1 of The Bee
Stern is more disturbed by another kind of lawmakers' trip, bankrolled not by campaign funds but by a nonprofit group, which can legally pick up the tab for any amount or destination.
Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, for example, recently returned from a nine-day trip to Sweden and France to study universal preschools.
Núñez, D-Los Angeles, was a guest of the William C. Velasquez Institute, a nonpartisan group devoted to Latino voter empowerment.
Besides Núñez and three Assembly colleagues, the trip included Antonio Gonzalez, president of the institute, and Catherine Atkin, president of Preschool California, a group advocating voluntary preschool for the state's 4-year-olds.
Assemblyman John Laird, a Santa Cruz Democrat who traveled with Núñez, said the European visit provided an opportunity to see the pros, cons and challenges of universal preschool.
Laird said he did not feel lobbied at any point during the nine-day trip.
But Stern said such trips give a nonprofit group exclusive access to key legislators for extended periods of time, without being subject to spending limits.
"They say the best way to lobby legislators is to be on a private jet with them," Stern said. "Even if they want to leave, they can't. ... Like they say in the MasterCard ad: Priceless."
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STATE LEGISLATIVE TRAVEL LAW
California requires lawmakers to disclose travel-related expenditures from their campaign accounts. Political contributions are private funds, but state law requires them to be used for a public purpose. Disclosures cover specific periods of time, ranging up to six months. They are available at the secretary of state's office or via the Web at www.ss.ca.gov. Abuse or extravagance can be difficult to identify because disclosure forms do not require politicians to:
* List the legislative, political or governmental purpose served by any trip.
* Identify which cities they visit or tie multiple expenditures to a specific date.
* State the flight destination for payments made to an airline.
* Identify whom a legislator met with or for what purpose when large payments are made to a restaurant, resort or other such venue.
Forbes on FOX Guest: Louisiana So Much A Welfare State That France Looks Like the Mecca of Capitalism
When told to narrow her choices to one, Romo picked Victor Landa, a freelance writer whose guest columns appear in the San Antonio Express-News and Conexión.
Landa formerly was the central region director at the Southwest Voter Registration and Educational Project. He now works for the William C. Velasquez Institute, Southwest Voter's sister organization, training people who want to run for public office.
Landa said he'd like to be elections administrator in Bexar County because he sees it as a continuum of his current work.
Yours Truly,
All the way from Texas
It's 501(c)3 previous poster and the Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project under Antonio Gonzalez has nevr acted as a non-profit. Gonzlaez uses this project as his personal pigy bank. The main benefactor of SWVREP is Gloria Molina who has sifted hundreds of thousands from her personal "discretionary" fund to SWVREP. And guess why, because Gonzalez is married to Alma Martinez, Gloria's chief of staff. Gonzalez had first dibs on Alma aftr Tony got through with her, just like Miguel and Maria Elena Durazo. This is why Gonzalez is referred to as THE WHORE by CSUN professor, Dr. Rudy Acuna, the father of Chicano Studies.
SWVREP has tried carnivals, bounties, and expensive billboards, all to no avail. $125,000 to get 12,500 registered voters - $10 per regitration, and 90% of these were probably just change of address - pathetic. If such a project were successful, the number would be up in the hundreds of thousands - 550,000 elligible Latinos will still stay home May 17th.
It is surely unethical given the fact that Gloria Molina's "discretionary fund" which she gets $1,000,000 every year that she can do a she pleases - Gloria has been an ineffective Supervisor for 15 years now, do the math - this is taxpayer dollars. But SWVREP will probably get away with it, just as they did for Tony in 2001 and 2003 - because technically they are supposed to be non-partisan. Although we all know that partisan can mean any given side in a campaign, SWVREP interprets this part of the law as a reference to partisan politics - you know, Republican/Democrats/Green. Since the last three Tony opponents have been Democrats - Hahn 2001, Pacheco 2003, Hahn 2005 and they have all been in non-partisan races, as the L.A. elections are conducted - they think they'll get away with it.
BTW, to launch a District Attorney investigation all that is needed is a written complaint detailing suspected illicit activities -it can even be anonymous! This comes directly from the "how to stymie political opposition" room at Gloria Molina's Office at the Kenneth Hahn County Administration Building. The current caretaker of this room is non other than Gerry Hertzberg, Huggy Bear's special little brother."
Ask Gonzalez why he left Texas under cover of night. SWVEP was left without a penny, and his employees were left without being paid for months.
Willie Velazquez is rolling in his grave.
Are we suppose to believe Antonio Gonzalez just because he is the president of this bogus organization that he is using as his personal piggy bank? Doesn't Antonio Gonzalez have any shame? Who is he to be asking for a reprimand. Antonio has been sued, by former SVREP employee Rita Moreno, for sexual harrasment. He regularly uses SVREP funds to pay for his trip and ticket to the last ten Super Bowls. He's practically led SVREP into the ground, just look at the Latino voter registration rate in Los Angeles, pathetic. And he wasn't suporting his daughter in San Antonio until he hooked up with Alma Martinez, Gloria Molina's Chief of Staff and he started bilking Molina's discretionary fund. Is it any wonder that he is known as "The Whore" among Latino politcal circles.
Antonio Gonzalez is Villaraigosa's best friend. ADV helped Gonzalez get John Edwards last year for thier big dinner at the Sheraton in the valley. The educated Latinos stay away from this org. cause they know its corrupt. You have Alvin Parra, ADV, Fabian Nunez, Gonzalez, Molina and rest of the idiots running the show soliticing for money and then getting it for themselves. I hope they will be audited. Southwest opened a huge can of worms. That's the arrogance they have just like ADV. I know a lot of people who were approached and YES THEY PRESSURED people telling them if you're a LATINO you should vote for Villaraigosa. He's one of us. BS
"Dime con quien andas y te diré quien eres"
As keynote speaker at Southwest Voter Registration Project's (SVRP) 1997 conference, Villaraigosa told hundreds of guests, "It is not enough to elect Latino leadership. Latino elected officials who don't support drivers' licenses for the undocumented and prenatal care for undocumented mothers don't belong in office."
At another SVREP event Gloria Molina Speaks out, "And our vote is going to be important. But I gotta tell you that a lot of people are saying, 'I'm going to go out there and vote because I want to PAY THEM BACK!'"
"Antonio Villaraigosa knew, when he was endorsed by Los Angeles County Supervisor, Gloria Molina, that she was cozy with Anti-Semite separatist Hector Carreon, the publisher of La Voz de Aztlan, but he thought that no one else knew."
He is the former web master of anti-Semitic "Nation of Aztlan" and presently the publisher of "La Voz de Aztlan," (The Voice of Aztlan), a vicious anti-Semitic on-line publication. He is a Chicano separatist who calls California "Alta California." He admires leaders like Yassar Arafat and Fidel Castro. He considers Israel's defense against terrorism as immoral, and Hamas' suicide bombings that target Israeli civilians, as noble. His editorial, Anthrax Terrorists May Be Zionists was reprinted by the "Syria Times" October, 2001, and portrayed by the Arab world as a credible piece of news. A follow-up article was also posted FBI Closes in on Anthrax Terrorist -- Prime Suspect is a Zionist
His name is Hector Carreon.
According to the L.A. New Times (now defunct), when Carreon began taking an interest in local politics, he held several fund-raisers for candidates in his home. One of those fund-raisers benefited county supervisor Gloria Molina.
Molina returned the favor in 1991 by naming Anti-Semite Carreon to Los Angeles County's Real Estate Management Commission. The panel is made up of five citizens, one appointed by each supervisor, who are charged with reviewing county property leases and making recommendations to the board. "Out of the five commissioners, four were judios. County government is puro judio, did you know that?" Carreon asked a reporter.
"This is the morning magazine on AM 870 KIEV. My name is Larry Marino. In studio is Antonio Villaraigosa. He would like to be L.A.'s next mayor."
Villaraigosa:
I, I, I agree uhhh, that uuhhh ummm, as I said earlier that we have a right to enforce our immigration laws. We have uhhh, that's a federal responsibility. We have enough in the way of uuhhh, uhhh, crime in this city. Uhhhh, that, uuhhhh, our law enforcement officers have their hands full.
Watch out Watch out Mayor Sam will post about 4 negative articles to DISTRACT today.
To the rabid Southwest Voter Registration poster-
If you have all of this information and you know how simple it all is to expose to the D.A. and even anonymously, as you bragged, why the hell are you sitting on it and just posting it here?
For christ's sake, do something about it, you big gossip.
During tonight's Emmy broadcast, Alan Alda was nominated for an award, when he didn't win, the camera had a close up of him tearing up his speech.
Its those "American Patrol"er's at it again. I'm sure they want Nick in CD 14 to bash their favorite target Mayor Villaraigosa.
I want a retraction. I never called Antonio Gonzalez a WHORE. He is a very old and dear friend. Antonio has done outstanding work for the community and like Willie Velasquez is a pioneer. His organization is underfunded and does important educational work although he has to live from small grant to small grant. I want a retraction and don't want the excuse that you quoted some other delusional person. Again, Antonio Gonzalez is an honorable man. He is a friend.
Rudy Acuna
California State University Northridge
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