Campaigning at LAUSD
Jose Huizar has these banners at all of his LAUSD schools. The funny part is that he is the only Board member to have them up at schools in their district.Also, he mainly has them at schools only within CD14 boundaries.
You tell me, is this campaigning at LAUSD and the student's expenense?
If nothing else, at least they provide something to clean up on those graffiti clean-ups.
Posted by Anonymous @ 10/17/2005 09:08:00 AM
87 Comments:
It's ethically questionable, but not illegal.
We were at a community meeting and a resident asked Jose when he came to speak who was paying for the signs and was it legal to post on the schools. Jose replied, "LAUSD pays for them and NO its not illegal. There has to be some type of ethic violation I would think.
Skirting "legalities" -- Hmmm, what recent ex-mayor does THAT remind you of?
"Dis-Jonest Jose" strikes again. Ask for fair play, and you get a "legal opinion."
CD14 deserves better, finally.
I recognize that school. They had a 63 percent drop out rate, as I recall.
Check the calendars -- I'd bet a maximum individual donation that LAUSD schools have seen MORE of Jose Huizar's face in the last FOUR MONTHS, than they did in the previous FOUR YEARS!
GAR-ON-TEED!
OOPS, missed that grafiiti during the clean-up?
Must have been out-of-range of the media cameras.
This is just like the schools putting up pro-bond measure banners.
Mayor Frank, it's about as illegal or questionable as the Mayor of LA and City Councilmembers having those blue signs up throughout their respective districts at parks, libraries or construction projects.
Stop stretchin' for a story.
The only thing is 10:22, that every councilmember has these blue signs. Only one school board member has these banners up and right in time for his election out of the school district. What's that quote about rat's leaving the sinking ship first?
No it is not illegal. It is about as legal as Huizar;s $300,000 bathroom. What it is is shameless self promotion. I bet the 5K to 10K that went to pay for this Huizar commercial would have gone far in making the bathrooms at this school site bearable.
Why would the lead fundraiser in this years elections need to dip iunto the school fund to promote himself? What's more, this is the same guy who spent $350,000 just last year - against no opponent!
Just goes to show you, this Huizar guy is without a clue. You really know how to pick them Parke.
Parke don't pick 'em; they pick Parke. The one's who don't mind sliming opponents to make up for lack of accomplishments and/or name recognition are attracted to his style of character assassination like dogs to vomit.
This needs to be picked up by the LA Times or Daily News.
Low life
What school is this, is it in Beverly Hills, mt. washington?
What happens if Huizar loses, does he still stay on the school board, or did he resign?
Spell check, please!
"student's expenense"
10:22 a.m.
Good point. Let's stop the mayor and city council from doing PR for their re-election with those expensive blue signs (that just end up getting tagged anyway).
Other than outside their field offices, the ONLY reason to post those is for the publicity and to know "who to thank" (i.e. re-elect).
12:06
He might as well have resigned.
Board members are only PT anyway. Guess what happens when they start running for another office (in Huizar's case, even before being sworn in for the 2nd term he wanted SO BADLY). Answer: NOTHING happens, at the old job from that point on.
HA!
Never mind Mayor Frank's typo. The SPANISH translation for the sign on the school fence is incorrect and missing at least one article!
Double-HA -- LAUSD fails them in TWO languages!
The signs have been negative for Jose, just like his being picked by AV for the 14th. Jose is being used. People talk about the signs all the time, they resent that LAUSD paid for THAT part of his campaigning. He has lost a great deal of credibility in the 14th.
12:32 - That should actually be "students' expense" if we're talking about more than 1 student.
12:44 Excellent grammar!
OK Huizar came from Mexico illegally. Who's place did he take from by using up an LAUSD seat?
Who's place did he take from in college (s)? Should have stayed in Zacatecas milking COWS...
Those chances in education and politics needed to stay with an American born, not a mojado.
Ich bin ein Berliner?
Sind Sie ein Berliner? Warum haben Sie uns diese Informationen erzählt? Bloggen Sie von Berlin, oder leben Sie in Kalifornien und mit Berlin Nationalität?
Ist das einzige, das ich weiß, dass das Deutsch spricht, Parke Skelton. ..is dieses Sie?
Goede Namiddag is mijn naam Parke Skelton en die ik hou van Ijslandse saga's te lezen.
What language is that shit? Anyways a blogger wrote this on Clinton thread
funny shit
oh yea, I like politics
one of my RHS teachers gave me an F because we had to write on the Mayor and I said he was a little fag who drug dealed in my neighborhood.
The "berliner" reference was, I believe, a play on the Kennedy mistranslation story from the early 60s... like LAUSD printing the school sign in poor Spanish.
Update: Downtown Hotel Deal Reached
By HOWARD FINE
Los Angeles Business Journal Staff
L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Monday announced a deal between the city and the Bonaventure Hotel that removes a major obstacle to the development of a $400 million, 1,100-room convention center hotel.
The deal, which took shape after a week of negotiations between Villaraigosa, Bonaventure owner Peter Zen, Councilwoman Jan Perry and Maria Elena Durazo, president of Hotel and Restaurant Employees Local 11, allows Zen to convert about 30 percent of his hotel’s 1,350 rooms into condominiums
The City Council last month approved an agreement with the proposed convention center hotel developers – led by Apollo Advisors, Wolff Urban Management and assisted by Anschutz Entertainment Group – to forgive up to $289 million in hotel bed taxes for 25 years. Zen had been the leading voice opposing the incentives, saying they subsidized a competitor that would take business away from his hotel.
The convention center hotel is to serve as an anchor for a $1 billion entertainment complex next to the Staples Center called L.A. Live that will include a 7,000-seat theater, ESPN cable television studios, restaurants and shops.
The use of the banner is the same thing as Pacheco putting a painting along the Jogging Path with his name on it. EVERY elected official uses their work to get ahead. It's what plays a role in their efforts to inform the public of what they have done.
They want to make sure that people connect them to items or issues they want to (i.e. - Education = Huizar and Jogging Path = Pacheco). Since we live in a place where term limits is the law of the land, it's important for the stability of any successful politician to do that. Ask any of the candidates and they will agree.
Agree with poster who stated everyone talks about the signs. Jose should take them down. These signs were put up when he started campaigning. Interesting they weren't up last year when he was school board president. It wouldn't be such an issue then. Jose is just as sneaky and coniving as Antonio.
1:48
NOT the same thing at all. Huizar didn't CREATE the school, he's just the board member overseeing it. The parallel would be if Pacheco had hung a banner in front of EVERY city facility and service in his district just when he started to run for re-election ... every park, every hauling station, every community center, every recreation center, every senior center, every swimming pool, every library, every museum, every cultural monument -- anything that the city budget oversees and subsidizes on behalf of the taxpayer. THAT would be a parallel. Some do it when they make an improvement during their term.
What did Huizar improve at the school's where the banners are hung? If that's his message, it should SAY that, not WELCOME back to your crappy school (now I gotta go run for ANOTHER job).
Besides, it doesn't matter if the "candidates" agree -- of COURSE they want the "FREE" publicity (free to them, but WE pay for it out of taxes)... how about we stop ALL of them from doing it, period.
If they want eye traffic on their name when it's time to run again -- then take it out of the campaign war chest. Just because we passed term limits doesn't mean I have to help foot the bill when they get ready to jump to their next job.
If I want to change jobs, I SURE as hell better not be caught running copies of my resume on the Xerox machine next to my boss's office door.
...City Council files closer than I do sends paper from last week showing that Mayor Villaraigosa has withdrawn last month's appointment of architect Mark Rios to the Community Redevelopment Agency board, at Rios' request. He had been nominated for one of the seats that didn't belong to labor. Also: the Rev. Cecil L. "Chip" Murray has finally been appointed to something, the board of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.
Looks like another payback for Antonio.
Point made, 2:42. It's one thing to spend taxpayer money to tell them how your doing you job and another just to make your name more visible.
It's the difference between, "hey, look what I'm doing for you" and "hey, look at me, look at me."
SO BLATENT and in your face, it's arrogant. If the lazy media doesn't pick up this scam by Huizar, then their rags aren't worth the 50 cents to buy them.
Look at the DAMN TAG LINE at the bottom of the TAGGED banners...
"working together to improve our COMMUNITIES"
Not, "improve our SCHOOLS" mind you -- THAT's HUIZAR's job. NO, It says "improve our COMMUNITIES." WHY communities? Because THAT'S the better-paying job Huizar WANTS you to think he's now qualified for now - on city council... WHERE THE HELL IS THE G-D ETHICS COMMISSION on this garbage. It's as plain as grin on his little-boy face.
He thinks we're all too STUPID and enamored with his mayoral nod to even THINK about questioning this unethical behavior. BALLS!
LAUSD just made a large "in kind" contribution to Huizar's CM election campaign in the form of several thousand dollars worth of promotional banners.
He should have to pay for them, pay for the "free" ad space at each school, and be fined a big stiff one.
WAIT A MINUTE, ISN'T LAUSD OUR TAX DOLLARS.
Wow - this is not only unethical but what a blatant misuse of public funds.
When I worked in local government, there was a term for this kind of activity (wrong) and a bureaucratic answer for the schmuck who would request such a thing (no).
Where is the LAUSD leadership on this issue?
Is Roy Romer going to defend this B.S. and tell us how the kids benefit from this kind of expenditure?
You missed this part of the MF post, defenders of Huizar the Sleaze-czar. . .
"Also, he mainly has them at schools only within CD14 boundaries."
Huizar's LAUSD district only overlaps with the southern 1/2 to 23 of CD14. One of his handlers want to try telling me it was a "cost-cutting" move not to place them in schools that overlap with OTHER CM districts, like Reyes' and Perry, etc.?
Riiiiiiight.
Kudos to the genius who suggests that, because term limits make it hard to be a politician, we should make it even harder to be a politician. Anyone who wants to run for office in this era has to have a "war chest" to remain politically pure to you?
Let me ask you, where does this "war chest come from"? One has to be either a sellout or a rich person, and probably both.
Money in politics has been made to matter more now than ever before BECAUSE of term limits, and BECAUSE of this instinctual desire to punish politicians and strip their office's of power.
Instead of franticly screaming about how corrupt a freakin' sign is, why don't you think about why that politician was motivated to have it made. The commercial media doesn't give local politics much, if any, play. Instead of having politicians weasel their way into free P.R., why don't we, as citizens, decide to just give it to them for free, upfront, and out in the open?
As long as you force someone to depend on a "war chest" you are going to have these cheap tricks to get a sign put up and politicians selling themselves out to get money for mailers.
I can't believe you are apologizing for Jose's wasting taxpayer money.
How do you think parents of kids in LAUSD feel about your argument for politicians using public funds because 'term limits are the real problem'?
Other interesting tidbits about Huizar and LAUSD.
Although not the board president anymore, Huizar has the LARGEST number of staff members of any of the board members.
Only 3 of the 7 board members keep anything like a "PR" person on staff. But, Huizar has not one, but TWO FLACKS on his board staff (half the number employed by the entire board); ONE in charge of "public relations" and ONE for "school relations and communications."
Question: When did LAUSD first begin issuing press releases about Huizar?
Answer: Spring 2005, and not a moment sooner.
2004 = zero Huizar releases
2003 = zero Huizar releases
2002 = zero Huizar releases
2001 = zero Huizar releases
Face it if this guy was a "stock" getting ready to go public, the SEC would have already pulled the plug on them for "hyping" the offering.
There's another way, dude. It's old-fashioned, but itcan still work, even though Antonio made it go out-of-style while a CM.
Here's the secret formula: first ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING, then promote the hell out of it. "Free media" will cover accomplishments, creative solutions, novel changes that improve efficiency.
BUT, if all you've got is hype and tricks, then you DO have to rely on cheap tricks, huge campaign warchests from special interests and being owned by the existing powerbase.
How much good does it ever do to "blame the system" and then "fix the system" when you have people who will always look for the loophole and the way around whatever rules you finally set up, just to get the edge.
(And they're usually lawyers, aren't they?)
Channel 35, city channel just had the candidates for CD14. Jose kept saying the same exact words Antonio used during his mayoral campaign, "I can bring people together." He named all his endorsements. He said he built schools. BFD. What has he done since being on board for the community? NOTHING. What has he done for the students? NOTHING How much of our tax dollars has he spent on his office, bathroom, parking garage? MILLIONS
Pacheco came off as more experienced had a much clearer vision of what he would do if elected, had great solutions to issues in CD14. HANDS DOWN PACHECO'S EXPERIENCE AND LEADERSHIP IS WHY HE WILL GET ELECTED.
I will not vote for a real estate lawyer! Yikes! No Way!
Is that channel 35 available on Satellite?
I do not get that channel
Too little too late Jose. Why all of a sudden are Jose's staff going to community meetings pretending to be concerned? Where the hell have they been for the last 4 years? They are not welcomed. Their as bad as the CD14 moron reps who just go to community meetings and write. They never follow up, they never have anything worth hearing to say, they arrogant, rude, disrespectful and blatantly show they just don't give a damn.
to the last anon,
what community meeting are these reps attending? The El Sereno, Eagle Rock, Highland Park?
Does Huizar have the same staff Parra & Co.?
Do any of you have a pic of Parke Skelton or Mike Trujillo hanging out together.
I'll settle for one that shows them alone;
Word is trujillo doesn't take pictures.
It seems like the Hahn cut and paste crew has remorphed into the Pacheco cut and paste crew. They lied and made claims of nothing on the Mayor and now they LIE and make claims of Nothing on Huizar.
Me thinks they have NOTHING TO write about Pacheco.
You know for all the NOTHING they like to talk about everyone else, have they ever pointed to SOMETHING that Pacheco did?
Other than NOT be Corrupt, which he is.
http://coba.shsu.edu/~ath_www/basketball/women/pics/michael_trujillo.jpg
That's Mike Trujillo
Thats the best picture of him i've seen to date.
Always wanted to know what he looks like, thanks fellow bloggers. Now i know who to get.
La Opinion endorses Huizar.
Huízar para el Distrito 14
16 de octubre de 2005
José Huízar mostró en el Distrito Escolar Unificado de Los Ángeles (LAUSD) poseer un liderazgo capaz de enfrentar las dificultades más complejas y la personalidad para lograr el consenso necesario para actuar. El Distrito 14 de Los Ángeles y el Concejo Municipal necesitan una persona como él.
Durante su gestión al frente de la Junta Educativa, Huízar mostró que no elude los temas difíciles, como cuando logró que el LAUSD ponga atención más detallada a la escandalosamente alta deserción escolar y en solucionar las desigualdades en la enseñanza extendiendo el currículo A-G a todos los alumnos del distrito. Allí también tuvo la responsabilidad sobre un presupuesto de miles de millones de dólares. Al mismo tiempo, fue una parte importante en la relación entre el superintendente escolar y la junta para hacer realidad la era de construcciones escolares que vive el LAUSD.
Huízar es un abogado especializado en planeamiento urbano con la experiencia, el carisma y el estilo de liderazgo conveniente para atender las preocupaciones diarias del distrito y enriquecer la visión colectiva del Concejo Municipal. ¡Vote por José Huízar para el Distrito 14!
Translation: Nick, you're fucked.
LA OPINION - has shown an 85% accuracy rate in picking the candidate that LA Latinos ultimately back.
Another notch in the belt for the I will lose this campaign in the RUN-OFF for Nick Pacheco.
Everyday is another point for the Huizar campaign -- Pacheco will get ousted again in the primary.
5:40
In addition to not making any sense, your post doesn't make any sense.
Capice?
Pacheco's Website and materials boast of four full years of completed accomplishments; Huizar's boast of "backings" from people who have all accomplished far less.
You can refute them, but you can't say there's "nothing there."
6:00 All that translates into THREE WORDS?
No wonder Mexico is such dire straits as a nation. Takes you three paragraphs to tell someone their F-ed.
Does the newspaper say anything about Huizar's "First Day of School Signs" in illiterate Spanish?
(From nickpacheco.com)
10 Accomplishments To Build On
Written by Nick Pacheco
Wednesday, 07 September 2005
As Councilmember for the 14th Council District I had some successes that I would like to share with you. Many of these were done in collaboration with the community and others were done by my staff working closely with the City departments. Either way, they are only the beginning and I look forward to returning to service and bringing a "sense of community" to the 14th Council District.
1. Celebrating A Clean Community/Celebrando Una Comunidad Limpia
(Environmental Fairs)
I felt that the only solution to bringing cleaner streets in our neighborhoods was through a joint venture with the community. I worked with the Department of Public Works to coordinate volunteers and promote "spring cleaning" in every part of the district. Each day ended with an environmental fair involving CBOs, environmental groups, and Public Works. This program started in CD 14 and has spread to 6 more council districts in the City. Councilman Villaraigosa changed the name of these events to “A Day of Service” and built them up to the point that thousands now show up.
2. Neighborhood Prosecutor Program
After September 11 the City of Los Angeles has a shortage of police officers in the neighborhoods because they were protecting the airport and other sensitive areas. During this time, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo asked me to introduce the motion to create the Neighborhood Prosecutor Program and as Chair of the Budget and Finance Committee I pushed it through the council. This was at a time that we had very few resources for new projects, but public safety trumps all other programs.
3. Washington Boulevard Bulky Item Drop Off Center
The Bulky Item drop off center was Lloyd Monserratt's idea and I fought hard to get it funded. I put $2.4 million dollars into the 2003-2004 budget so that South Los Angeles, Hollywood and the Valley could get their requested bulky item drop off centers, but unfortunately all were closed down after I left the council. I am committed to re-open this center and expand it throughout the City.
4. Y.O. Program and $9 Million Dollar Boyle Heights Youth & Technology Center
I fought hard to make sure that Los Angeles received a Youth Opportunity grant from the Department of Labor. I convinced then Mayor Riordan to add $1 million into the application for a new City facility in Boyle Heights to eventually house the YO program. The program has grown into the Valley and will be a permanent City program. I put together close to $9 million dollars to build the 20,000 square foot center.
5. Evergreen Cemetery Jogging Path
The Evergreen Jogging Path is the most creative project I have ever worked on. The sidewalk surrounding Evergreen Cemetery (1.4 miles) was torn out and replaced with a rubber/cement compound made of recycled automobile tires. The project was designed to minimize rain run-off into the storm drains. I can see the City replicating this type of project and embracing the use of rubber/cement sidewalks everywhere.
6. Doña Street Signs
The City will no longer misspell Dona Teresa; it will be correctly labeled as Doña Teresa. I received international press on this item.
7. Automated Toilet Program ("European Style" Public Toilets)
I visited San Francisco with then Public Works Commissioner Woody Fleming and returned with the goal to have these self-cleaning toilets in Los Angeles, especially for areas with larger number of homeless or tourists. They will soon be all over the City.
8. Affordable Housing Trust Fund ($100 Million Dollar Motion: CF# 01-1458)
I was asked by the housing advocates to create a housing trust fund in 1999. They were not optimistic but I convinced then Mayor Riordan to start one with $5 Million for 2000-2001 and then doubled it for 2001-2002. In July of 2001, the Council adopted my motion (01-1458) to pursue placing $100 million in the fund.
9. Neighborhood Leadership Institute
As Councilman, working with City departments (especially Public Works) I trained average residents on how to access City services. Council District 13 began a similar program after ours was initiated and other District Offices are considering following this model.
10. CLARTS Community Amenities Fund
I negotiated an Amenities Fund for CD 14 when the Department of Sanitation wanted to purchase a Recycling and Transfer Station located in CD 14. This fund generates around $1 million dollars a year for CD 14 projects.
As proud as I am about these items, there is still much work to be done. I want Council District 14 to have the same sense of community it had when I was growing up: when every family shared in raising the children in the neighborhood. We will get there, but only if we all work to bring government closer to the people it serves.
Join my campaign and share my vision of bringing local government closer to the people.
We, in CD 14, have the resources to energize our neighbors into being a part of the solutions to our problems.
5:40, you are walking around the district with your eyes closed if you think Pacheco didn't do anything. Let's list Villaraigosa's achievements side by side with those of Pacheco and see who did better for the 14th CD.
Why is that? Huizar's handlers never discuss any real improvement in LAUSD schools in terms of dropout rates or academic performance -- just more buildings.
La Opinion -- pleeease. If Huizar's camp think this is something to gloat about they're in much more trouble than we thought. La Opinion is a second rate newspaper run by third rate editors. Monica Lozano is just sucking up to her moocher boyfriend, David Ayon, who is Fernando Guerra's little gopher boy.
Put this endorsement alongside Tony the Liar's and all those Latino politicians who claim to be leaders. Just goes to show that the only integrity left in print media in L.A. is down in Torrance. The Times endorsement should be a shoe in for Huizar
For that blogger who posted Nick is corrupt, for the umpteenth time, where's your proof. We got proof on Huizar.
POOR JOSE. . . supporters in Northeast L.A. can't even get a dozen people to come out and meet him (From a Yahoo listserve with 800 members)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nelalist/
From: "a_kassabian"
Date: Tue Oct 18, 2005 12:12 am
Subject: House Meeting with Jose Huizar - this Thursday, Oct. 20th at 7PM
Hi all,
I am hosting a house meeting with Jose Huizar, candidate for Council District 14 of the LA City Council. Jose is one of the front-runners, along with Nick
Pacheco. This is an opportunity to meet the candidate and ask questions, etc.
Here are the details:
Date: Thursday, October 20, 2005 (in three days!)
Time: 7:00 PM - 7:45 PM (approx.)
Location: Glassell Park
For address e-mail: a_kassabian@...
or call (818) 395-8448 for the info.
**** PLEASE RSVP NO LATER THAN TOMORROW, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, so that I get a head count. If I cannot get between 12-20 people, then I am going to cancel the meeting (sorry for the late notice, but I just found out about this newsgroup).
Thanks and I hope to see many of you on Thursday.
Does anyone really think Jose would get 2 votes in CD14 if Antonio didn't pressure all those city council people and the people who endorsed him for mayor to back Jose? Now AV is campaigning for Jose shamelessly and getting booed. Residents are touting Pacheco's accomplishments and the fact that he had a staff that helped the community when he was in office. The fact that Jose is partly responsible for LAUSD mess even though the LAUSD has double the budget the entire city does. Parents don't want a board member who didn't even care about their kids.
Antonio's too cute to be a TV sitcom star
Mayor Celebrity: After his star turn last week on "The George Lopez Show," network producers have already put a new Antonio Villaraigosa series, "Photo-Op," into development. "We were going to go with 'Look at Me' or 'Am I Cute or What?' but they all seemed too on the money," said a yet-unnamed producer.
Not much better
Re: "Antonio backs school measure" (Oct. 13):Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa doesn't seem to be much better than what we had before. Plenty of photo ops and catch phrases like "political capital," but what's he really done? He hasn't stood up for the taxpayers at all, yet. His questionnaire to the neighborhood councils is a farce.
The city keeps giving more money to the public work force, so we can't afford more police. Villaraigosa's solutions are more taxes, less services, or no additional police. The neighborhood councils' only involvement is as a scapegoat for blame; dammed if you do, dammed if you don't. Now he wants more money for school bonds. Kids deserve better, but giving more and more money to the LAUSD hasn't been the answer.
- Mark Armer
Chatsworth
6:27 PM It is a favor for AV to endorse Huizar. Brown nosing.
THIS TUESDAY, October 18, we will have possibly the most
important community meeting that Hermon neighbors will hold this
year -- the Council District 14 Candidates Forum for the Hermon and
Monterey Hills Communities.
Candidates that have confirmed being with us are Brian Heckmann,
Nick Pacheco, Ruby DeVera, Crystal Arceo, David Sanchez, Paul
Gonzales, and Juan "Johnny Jay" Jimenez.
The Forum is being held from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Hermon Church
Fellowship Center, 5800 Monterey Road (at Wheeling Way) and is being
sponsored by the Hermon Advance Team, the Monterey Hills Federation,
the Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council, and the NortheastLA Yahoo
Discussion Group. There will be lots of community information fliers
and refreshments will be provided.
LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL
DISTRICT 14 CANDIDATES FORUM
For all CD 14 stakeholders.
Date: October 19, 2005
Time: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Location:Los Angeles River Center & Gardens (570 West
Avenue 26.
Each candidate will be asked to comment on how they will work to
create a proactive community base instead of a community base that is
divisive.
All certified candidates have been invited; those who have confirmed
they will participate are (in ballot order):
David John Sanchez
Brian Heckmann
Nick Pacheco
Ruby Baxter de Vera
Crystal Arceo
Paul G. Gonzalez
Juan "Johnny Jay" Jimenez
14th District Council Race
[ Listen ] http://www.scpr.org/programs/talkcity/index.shtml
Left vacant by the election of Antonio Villaraigosa, voters in the
14th District will go to the polls on November 8th to vote for a new
representative on city council. Frontrunners in the race are Nick
Pacheco, who held the post before ousted by Villaraigosa, and Jose
Huizar of the LAUSD school board. But there are eight other candidates
vying for the seat, Crystal Acero, Brian Heckmann, Ramiro Mosley,
David Sanchez, Paul Gonzales, Ruby DeVera, Juan Jimenez and Diana
Newberry. Kitty Felde moderates a debate among the candidates.
Last night on Full Disclosure Roger Carrick Special Counsel to LAUSD was stating that Steve Cooley doesn't want to indict anyone because of the Belmont mess. Who's responsible for that million dollar mess and why Doesn't Cooley go after them?
You are invited to a moderated
Los Angeles City Council District 14
CANDIDATES FORUM
for the HERMON and MONTEREY HILLS communities of NortheastLosangeles
Date: October 18, 2005
Time: 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Location: Hermon Church Fellowship Center 5800 Monterey Road, at Wheeling Way (1 block South of Via Marisol) Los Angeles, CA 90042
Full Disclosure Network
NEWS BLACK OUT ON SCHOOL BOND VOTE SCAM
Los Angeles, CA. Jon Coupal, President of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association has raised the possibility of a legal challenge for the misuse of bond funds by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) on the latest Full Disclosure Network™ video blog to be launched on the Internet website http://www.fulldisclosure.net/ on Monday, October 17, 2005.
this makes sense . It was prop 13 that took the money away from the cities and couintie and put it in the hands of teh state .
Maybe the JArvis tax group should be leading the reform . They brought them in they should take them out
DGARZILA HAVE YOU GONE TO THE FULLDISCLOSURE SITE? IT HAS A SHITLOAD OF CRAP ON LAUSD, BELMONT, MISUSE OF COPS FUNDS
I READ SOME OF IT AND WILL READ MORE.
HELL NO. WON'T VOTE 4 HUIZAR, HE IS PART OF THE PROBLEM.
http://www.fulldisclosure.net/Program_Details/VideoBlog14.html
http://www.fulldisclosure.net/flash/VideoBlogs/VideoBlog14.php
You have to watch the video. I had no clue LAUSD spends average of ten thousand dollars for each kid. Look at the awful education the kids receive for this money. I can get two kids in a good private school for that kind of money and still have a 97% chance that they will not drop out and go to college.
The survey shows this so far, if you take the survey it will update and change.
Good Luck and watch the video blog at fulldisclosure.net
FDN Interactive Survey
Do you think the voters should approve yet another $3.95 billion to help the LA Unified School District pay off the half a billion Belmont boondoggle?
Yes 11%
No 89%
Are you willing to vote for a bond measure that will pay off the debts that were run up by the District, without your knowledge or approval?
Yes 11%
No 89%
Should we support a plan to force the Los Angeles Unified School District to be dismantled and broken up into several smaller and more accountable school districts?
Yes 89%
No 11%
Should we urge lawmakers to pass a law requiring that bonded indebtedness, including COPs must be approved by the voters who will have to pay for them?
Yes 89%
No 11%
Huizar keeps saying he built schools. Why weren't any of the NEW high schools built in CD 14 his district????? Why wasn't another high school built to help with the overcrowding at Roosevelt? Why were the new high schools built in South LA?????????
This is the reason NOT TO VOTE for Jose. He cared about other parts of the city then his own district.
Have you seen the voting pamphlet mailed to registered voters?
In the far back of the booklet is states all of the schools that will benefit from the bond.
CD 14 got ripped OFF!
What's the latest legitimate poll on the CD14 race?
Did you feel that earthquake? It is shaking in Cherry Valley tonite
Latest legit poll? The sad part is that Huizar camp will not release the poll.
I just went to Crystal Arceo's website and she has more endorsements than Nick has. Better be careful Nick she might beat you for the second seat in the run-off.
one million endorsements v.s. proven record
what would you pick?
are you a leader or a follower?
everyone should really look into voting for BRIAN HECKMANN. while pacheco and huizar are career politicians, Heckmann is not and he seems like he actually CARES about making a change and improving the streets. it even actually looks like if he can continue to mobilize his success of a grassroots campaign, he can win the District 14 seat through a runoff. look into him!!! votebrianheckmann.com
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