LAUSD Land Deals - 'The Jihad' - Part III
Here are two editorial pieces from earlier this week on how our current Mayor is handling the LAUSD situation.LA Times Editorial
vs.
Daily News Editorial
In a seldom found role reversal, the LA Times finds fault in the Mayor's LAUSD plans while the Daily News waxes poetic and misses the target. Anyways...
On Wednesday Villaraigosa went out on the stump with Romer to announce his support for ballot Measure Y on the special election ballot in November that funds new school construction.
Wonder who wins out on those deals. Maybe it his the people mentioned in the LAUSD Land Deals part 1 and 2...We'll look further in to the money chain tomorrow.
Here's the other rub. It was also announced today that 3 years running the enrollment at LAUSD has dropped, causing about a $100 million loss in funding from the state next year.
Wonder where the kids are going? I guess we'll have to look in to that as well...
Posted by Anonymous @ 10/13/2005 07:10:00 AM
51 Comments:
THERE'S NO WAY VOTERS CAN SUPPORT YET ANOTHER BOND MEASURE. SCHOOL SCORES ARE POOR. CRENSHAW H.S. LOSES ITS ACCREDIDATION. THE DROP OUT RATE IS OVER 50%. THIS SCHOOL DISTRICT IS BUNGLING THE FUTURE OF OUR KIDS AND WANTS MORE MONEY FOR THEIR FAILED LEADERSHIP.
Look into who's making al lthe money off these bond measures. It is obvious the contractors are, look at Huizar's donor list. But you know who else, campaign consultants. Larry Tramatola, Cesar Chavez former hatchet man, went from organizing farmworkers for $5 a week to making millions off bond measure - school district, local municipal, state - everything. Parke Skelton has also made a lot of easy money off bond measures. Both of these guys are tied to Larry Franks and all are intimate with Villaraigosa.
My guess, only a guess is that students are going to Charter and Private schools.
No more bonds. Teach kids.
Mayor Frank, I'm not to crazy about you, but I predict you will experience a surge in traffic.
You have been posting excellent threads.
Wish you the best in keeping this site on top of society issues.
Antonio is truly the classic "Clown of LA." How in the hell can he think voters want yet another bond measure when enrollment is down and there is a high dropout rate? Is he as dumb as he looks? On KCAL last night he said he will campaign yet again to help get this bond passed. Doesn't he ever do his damn job? I've never heard of a Mayor campaigning for a bond measure. Can he do this on our taxdollars and city time??
No to bond measure. Villaraigosa is an idiot for supporting this bond. Which one of his campaign contributors is he paying back with this bond?
Doesn't he ever do his damn job?
Get used to it L.A.. This is the main reason Huizar is getting his ass handed to him in the 14th District. Too bad for Huizar, he had such a bright future. But, that's the way the cookie crumbles. Only 100 days and L.A. hasn't seen anything yet - Tony the Liar will just embarass this city just like he's embarassed his friends, family and community.
"I want to use my political capital to help get this passed,'' Villaraigosa.
Idiot, use your political capital to get us more police officers like you promised.
Doesn't this "political capital" talk from this self avowed marxist just make you sick!
Political capital? Smooching with Israel, photo ops, riding horses, organizing daughter's wedding, and lies lies lies.
When will he have time to do work.
Jihad? Tony is going to Israel?
Villaraigosa has long had strong ties with the Jewish community. He grew up in Boyle Heights, a former Jewish enclave that became Latino. A Jewish teacher and mentor paid for him to take his college boards. And leading Jewish progressives and funders supported his political rise early on. Weiss said that Villaraigosa already has been to Israel twice before.
But Consul General Danoch, a fluent Spanish speaker, spied another semblance of connection. Danoch’s parents are originally from Yemen and when they “saw a picture of Antonio on television, they told Ehud that he looked like a Yemenite,” Weiss said. “The mayor got a big kick out of that.”
MAKE SURE YOU TAKE BREATH MINTS AV
A decline in LAUSD student enrollment.
"Rasmussen said he believes the higher-than-expected enrollment decline was due to the sharp increase in housing costs in the Los Angeles area."
Yea right, Los Angeles was not the only city who experienced rising house costs. It was statewide you morn Rasmussen. Did Huizeee tell you to say this? It declined because parents are sick of the bureaucracy and lies.
"We have some of the most overcrowded school districts anywhere in the nation," he said at a news conference with school board members. "I intend to use my political capital for these kids. ... We can't say that we want smaller schools, we want more success, and then not invest."
The bond measure would cost property owners about $60 per year for every $100,000 of assessed property value.
THE FULL STORY CAN BE FOUND AT DAILY BREEZE WRITTEN BY By Alison Shackelford Hewitt
Copley News Service
"Mayor to back school bond plan"
LAUSD LAND DEALS, THE JIHAD...WELL, VILLARAIGOSA HAS A GOOD FLORIDA FRIEND, ACTUALLY MANY FLORIDA FRIENDS CONNECTED TO AIRPORT CONTRACTS, DEVELOPERS, ETC...
ONE OF THEM IS SERGIO PINO. PLZ READ.
BUILDER INTERESTED
"Sergio Pino, a leading home builder in South Florida, said he was ready to expand his operations into Cuba once Castro was gone. He said his company, Century Homebuilders, and Lennar, a national builder based in Miami, are even helping draft building codes that could go into place once Cuba becomes an open market."
ANOTHER FRIEND JOSE CANCELA
Jose Cancela wants to turn Cuba's state-run media into a profit-making enterprise
"He said Castro controls an impressive broadcast empire: The country has four island-wide television networks, 16 regional television stations, and between 70 and 90 radio stations.
''The infrastructure is in place,'' said Cancela, a former Univision and Telemundo executive who was also president of Radio Unica when it went bankrupt in 2003. He predicted that within seven years, Cuban media could grow into a $900 million industry.
But Peters, the Lexington Institute analyst, said Cuban media holdings may not be the cash cow Cancela expects.
''In that business, you're blazing a trail because there's no paid advertising in Cuba right now,'' Peters said. ``Is there enough purchasing power in the market to support that?''
Daily News, Their Opinion
Photogenic pol
Everywhere I look or listen, Antonio Villaraigosa appears before my very eyes. He is either out riding a horse, pruning a tree or some other photo-op. The latest being on the front page of the TV Book in our very own Daily News, showing that he is appearing on the "George Lopez Show."
If Villaraigosa is out of his office so much, who is minding the store? The first 100 days are over now and I would like to hear what has been achieved by this mayor, apart from gallivanting from place to place.
Pamela Franklin
Granada Hills
Improve the schools
Re "Should the mayor run the schools?" (Oct. 7):
Instead of taking over the LAUSD, the mayor should take over the INS and enforce the laws of the land regarding illegal aliens. Then he could solve the low test scores and dropout rates at the LAUSD, the gang problem, the graffiti problem and the closing of all the emergency rooms. He could do all that from one throne. Politicians, don't you just love 'em?
Bob Budworth
Woodland Hills
Can this one guy who hates Mayor Villaraigosa give it a break? His repeated hostile threads are sickening. This hatred is no good for the political arena.
Get a life you loser!
Please, please stop it. You know how sensitive the almighty mayor is.
Please DO stifle free speech about the mayor. It's just like back in the 18th century, when everyone made fun of George III.
You see what a mess we made out of that. If we'd have left well enough alone, we'd still be the impoverished, overtaxed colonies of a now second rate, washed up former political power (and goose-stepping, probably).
BAN FREE SPEECH, it only leads to hurt feelings and, um, that overrated progress thing.
P.S. Wasn't the laugh track COOL on AV last night on the G. Lopez show. They LAUGHED when he said his NAME (and then NOT when he told the "joke").
"Just say 'no'" to another bond because:
1. We're over-taxed as it is.
2. LAUSD's drop-out rate and failure rate is abysmal.
3. Why build more schools when enrollment is declining?
4. Instead of building more schools from scratch, how about adapting the many existing vacant buildings all over town? It's not like the new schools have any grass or trees as it is.
5. When I'm mayor, you'll be able to take your kids out of the shameful LAUSD internment camps and put them in private schools.
The only time Walter Moore will be mayor is if he puts on a Mayor McCheese costume for Halloween.
FINALLY SOMEONE MADE SOME SENSE, AND THAT WAS WALTER. Where has our mayor Tony V. made sense? Never!
Council District 14 "DIAMOND" Poll
Conducted in September
Carlos Amador- 0
Crystal Arceo- 0
Judy Lee Beres- 0
Randolph "Randy" Carrillo-.00001%
Fernando Cruz- 0.0000089%
Ruby B. De Vera- 4%
Antonio Gallo-0
Frank Galvan-0
Paul Gonzales- 0.0000000000000002%
Brian D. Heckmann- 5%
Jose Huizar-21%
Benjamin Luis Jimenez-0
Juan R Jimenez- 11%
Ramiro Moseley-0
Diana Newberry-0
Nick Pacheco- 39%
Petra Ann Parker-0
David John Sanchez-2%
When you're "mayor" Walter, L.A. will be the first colony on the planet Xophen.
Greetings, space cadet.
WHO DONATED TO HUIZAR IN IE'S?
TOP DONORS
California State Council of Service Employees $10,285.11
California State Council of Service Employees $3,918.65
Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees International Union TIP Educational Fund
MULTIPLE DONATIONS OF $344.46 AND MULTIPLE DONATIONS OF $290.67
Independent Expenditure (IE)
Grand Total: $28,259.61
That "diamond" is kind of ruff on Huizar. LAUSD for 4 years over much of the same district, and pres for the last two.
Something tells me people don't think he "straightened up" LAUSD all that well. (Yeah, I got that silly mailer with the blocks on it).
I was expecting to open it up and see that Bert & Ernie had endorsed him.
Jose's in some powerful "pockets" out there. Nor what most of us would call a man of the people, huh?
VOTE YES ON PROP 75. Do we need to control union spending OUR HARD EARNED money into POLITICIANS POCKETS?
YES WE DO!
Proposition 75 “Paycheck Protection”
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. What is Paycheck Protection?
Proposition 75, also known as “Paycheck Protection,” gives workers like police officers, firefighters and teachers the right to choose whether or not union dues money from their paychecks should be used for political purposes. It simply requires public labor unions to get consent from employees before deducting money from their paychecks for political purposes.
Union bosses currently spend hundreds of millions of dollars, taken without permission from workers’ paychecks, on political activities that their members may not even agree with. If you are a Democrat, you should not be forced to pay for campaigns, which support Republicans, and vice-versa. Proposition 75 simply gives workers a choice as to whether or not they want their money used for politics by their union.
For the record, the Daily News's Mariel Garza went off on Measure Y:
As Charter Schools Grow, Voters Must ask, "Y" a Bond?
Arnold kicked off his initiative for the November 2006 election. The initiative is to strengthen the laws and punishment against sex offenders. This initiative will be voted on at the same time he runs for a second term. I guess he thinks he's running against Tony the Liar because hewas the only member of the Assembly to vote against increasing penalties for child molesters, remember those two 79 to 1 votes? Arnold does.
David Binder Poll.....
Los Angeles COunty Federation
Sample Size - 595 likely voters
4% margin of error
10/4 - 10/6
Los Angeles Wrong Direction - Right direction
22% wrong
58% right
18% don't know
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Job approval rating...
Good - 58%
Fair - 24%
Approval - 82%
Disaprove - 7%
No Opinion - 11%
If the election were held today who would vote for.... (rotate names)
Nick Pacheco - 39%
Jose Huizar - 41%
Ruby De Vera - 3%
Brian Heckman - 3%
Jaun Jimenez - 5%
Paul Gonzalez - 6%
Other candidate - 2%
Nick Pacheco Approval rating
Approve - 51%
Unapprove - 38%
No opinion - 10%
Jose Huizar approval rating
Approve 63%
Unapprove 22%
No Opinion 14%
There were more questions, but i think this is the data most of you guys crave.
October 13, 2005 4:52 PM
Anonymous said...
For a copy of the poll you can call the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor
Phone: 213-381-5611
Fax: 213-383-0772
It's a private poll so there are under no obligation to share it with the media or public.
But because it has their candidate in a favorable spot, i suspect they will share it with those relevant people.
who did thy poll?
D
They must have called Huizar's family. What's more, you know it's a bogus poll when your main opponent comes within the margin of error.
Martin Ludlow learned a thing or two about taking polls and making them look sweet. The L.A. County Fed isn't exactly an objective bystander, are they?
Nothing Cock or Bull about it Tofu Girl.
I think what you are seeing is the pollster trying to push "leans" into one category or another.
And when a responder did not want to answer Huizar or Pacheco you see that the other "non factors" went up. Looking at the results of this poll i'd say that there is a 20% undecided factor.
Also we aren't seeing the "hard" numbers for each candidate. The voters whose minds can't be changed either way, they tend to be the more "intense" voters that pollsters only show in their cross tabs.
Any polling instrument created is never perfect and with 545 likely voters sampled, you can find fault with anything. But Binder has a solid reputation for giving fair numbers for his clients. Perhaps county fed asked Binder to push as much as possible each voter into a column without giving them the option of "undecided" unless they volunteered it. And by the looks of some of the questions it looks like it was a 15-20 minute poll. Looks legit to me, and i've left a message at the county fed for their reaction.
Tofu girl needs to understand the art of creating an instrument before more soy comes out of her.
NO MORE BONDS FOR THE SCHOOLS TO FATTEN THE CONTRACTORS POCKETS AND THEN DONATE TO THESE F______ WANABEE ELECTEDS WHO DO S___ FOR THE RESIDENTS. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
Remember these are the same bastards, on the LAUSD, that paid the Conservancy 5mil (5,000,000.00) over the lawsuit for the school at the hotel site. That's where the $$$ goes to pay offs.
The delicate balance Hahn is striving to maintain was evident at Parker Center in the last-minute alterations City Councilman Nick Pacheco made to his statement endorsing Hahn. The choice he’d faced, Pacheco’s written statement read, was between “an extremely liberal Democrat, Mr. Villaraigosa, and a ‘law and order’ Democrat, Mr. Hahn.” When Pacheco spoke, though, he amended “law-and-order Democrat” to “law-enforcement Democrat.” No point getting carried away...
Besides, Pacheco’s endorsement was plenty contentious no matter how it was phrased. Standing alongside his City Council colleague Alex Padilla, who’d already endorsed Hahn, Pacheco was effectively announcing an irreparable rift in Latino politics in Los Angeles...
For Pacheco, some of this is simply payback: Villaraigosa supported his opponent when he first ran for the council two years ago, and in this year’s primary, Pacheco supported Xavier Becerra....
It’s not that the dynamic duo is devoid of all deference: Pacheco and Padilla have happily done Mayor Riordan’s bidding for the past several years. Pacheco first came on the scene in 1998, as a member of the elected Charter Reform Commission. There, recalls USC constitutional-law professor Erwin Chemerinsky, who chaired the commission, “He was a very conscientious and hard-working member. In December of 1998, though, when the mayor was pressuring the elected commission to oppose melding our efforts into a single charter [with that of the other, appointed Charter Reform Commission], the mayor offered to endorse Nick [for City Council]. From that point on, Nick always voted to support the mayor’s position on the charter commission.”
Both Padilla and Pacheco, for instance, were among the last council members to support the LAPD’s consent decree with the U.S. Justice Department — even though the consent decree had been placed on the city’s agenda by the LAPD’s abuse of their own constituents. Apparently, standing with their sponsors in the ancien régime mattered more to them than standing up for the interests of their districts.
Now, with Ferraro dead and Riordan leaving office, they have fixed their stars to Jim Hahn — whose campaign capo, attorney Bill Wardlaw, was Riordan’s deal maker with charter commissioners back when Pacheco joined the mayor’s stable. Plainly, they are more comfortable cutting deals with the old order than they are championing the new — even though that new order, the labor-Latino alliance, has done more to better the lives of their constituents in the past five years than the city’s old-guard power elite has in the past hundred. How they explain all this to their constituents will be interesting indeed...
Jose is 15-18 pts behind Nick. The Union poll is fake. David said, "Union member 573, choose Huizar or no overtime! Ok who's next..?"
"Plainly, they are more comfortable cutting deals with the old order than they are championing the new — even though that new order, the labor-Latino alliance, has done more to better the lives of their constituents in the past five years.."
Oh yeah, Antonio has really bettered the lives of our community. What bullshit. Look at the crime rate, school drop out rate, business opportunities - it's all been worse hith Antonio, Gloria Molina and the rest of the old guard. This must have been written by one of those sideline historians - Fernando Guerra, David Ayon or David Diaz - who all do Antonio's bidding. But these people won't be writing our history and that's what burns Antonio and Parke.
I JUST WANT TO SAY TO ALL YOU CD14 PEOPLE THAT PLAN TO VOTE IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS THAT PACHECO IS A GOOD PERSON AND WAS AN EXCELLENT COUNCILMEMBER. I WORK FOR THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES AND HAVE EXPOSURE TO A LOT OF POLITICAL DECISIONS AND PRESSURES. I AM AMAZED ON HOW PRO HUIZAR PEOPLE ATTEMPT TO MAKE PACHECO LOOK INCOMPETENT. THE BEST THING TO DO IS LOOK AT HIS RECORD AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS. HE HAD A LOT OF PROJECTS THAT WERE COMLETED AND EVEN DELAYED DUE TO THE FACT THAT HE WAS NO LONGER COUNCILMEMBER BECAUSE HE GOT BEAT BY SOMEONE WHO HAD BETTER CAMPAIGN STRATEGY. I'M NOT QUITE SURE WHAT TYPE OF JOB ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA DID AS COUNCILMMEMBER BUT TWO YEARS IS NOT ENOUGH TIME TO GET ANYTHING ACCOMPLISHED WITH THE CITY'S BEAURACRACY, EVEN FOR COUNCILMEMBERS AND MAYOR. THOSE OF YOU IN CD14 WHO CONTINUE TO BASH PACHECO ARE TRYING TO CONVINCE OTHERS THAT HE'S A BAD AND DECEPTIVE PERSON AND NOT SUITABLE FOR COUNCILMEMBER. HIS RECORD SPEAKS FOR ITSELF AND IF YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH. SPIN ALL YOU WANT ANTI-PACHECO FOLKS BUT THOSE WHO ARE AWARE OF HIS DEDICATION KNOW THE TRUTH. I HOPE HE DOES WIN THIS ELECTION BECAUSE HE WAS A GOOD COUNCILMEMBER WHO APPARENTLY DID NOT HAVE THE RIGHT CAMPAIGN MANAGER TO WIN RE-ELECTION. IT'S ALL IN HOW YOU PLAY THE GAME AND APPARENTLY ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA PLAYED THE GAME BETTER AND WON. NOW HOPEFULLY PACHECO LEARNED FROM THIS EXPERIENCE AND WILL LET HIS REPUTATION AS A CITY COUNCILMEMBER SPEAK FOR ITSELF. THANK YOU
AND I DON'T POST AT WORK. NOT BECAUSE I CAN'T ACCESS THIS SITE, ( THERE ARE WAYS TO GO AROUND THE RESTRITED WARNING), BUT BECAUSE I'M FRICKEN BUSY TRYING TO MAKE CERTAIN POLITICALLY CONNECTED FOLKS LOOK GOOD.
How much did this blog contribute to the campaign spins for Villaraigosa and camp?
Loose lips
sink ships
and even anonymous bloggers.
Just sit right back
and you'll hear a tale
of the three biggest talkers.
The first biggest talker is someone you know.
For you he was not a-gunning.
One thing's for sure
for the last several years
for office he has been a-running.
The second biggest talker
is someone you know
he's connected somehow to MEAT
I'd give you a clue but let's just say this
you have ten of them on your feet.
The third biggest talker used to work with you
and that's all I am a-saying.
All of these guys around the town
Your names they have been a-spraying.
BY THE WAY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAY
L.A TIMES
They wrote that ten people have rotated throught these characters?
If so, then these ten people had the password to login and post as the character, so they must be friends. This would get even more interesting if we find out for example that Trujillo allowed people like Parke Skelton, Villaraigosa, Ace Smith, or any other campaign participant to post using his name and password, the plot thickens.
MT:
SOMEONE I KNOW, KNOWS WHO MEAT IS. THEY ALSO KNOW WHO YOU ARE. DENIAL IS DANGEROUS. COULD TURN MEAT INTO GROUND BEEF. SEVERAL PEOPLE KNEW AND KNOW WHO MEAT IS OR WAS. COME OUT OF THE CLOSET AND PLAY IT STRAIGHT, OH BUT POLITICS AREN'T PLAYED STRAIGHT RIGHT? ATLEAST NOT AROUND THE CITY. AND I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE CITY OF COMPTON.
Three authors of the City Hall tell-all blog Mayor Sam’s Sister City revealed their identities today, after a Times reporter asked them to confirm their association with the website.
Brian Hay, a political consultant for Bob Hertzberg, and Mike Trujillo, a spokesman for Rob Reiner’s preschool initiative, said they played key roles on the website. Michael Higby, a community activist in the San Fernando Valley, could not be reached this morning, but in the afternoon he and Hay confirmed their roles in a post on the Mayor Sam website.
Hay said that he was posting to the Mayor Sam site at the same time he was running a campaign blog for his boss Hertzberg. On Thursday, Hertzberg said that he was unaware of Hay’s involvement in the anonymous blog.
“I didn’t know it until today. I don’t know what he wrote and what he didn’t write,” said Hertzberg. “I probably would have stopped him if I had known. I certainly believe in blogging and the Internet and it’s doing fabulous things for political participation.”
Nahhhh Hertzberg would have hugged Brian and said aight
Just sit right back
and you'll hear a tale
of the three biggest talkers...
YOU KNOW THE SAYING THAT IF MORE THAN TWO PEOPLE KNOW THE STORY, IT'S LIKELY THE STORY WILL BE SHARED WITH MANY. SINCE THERE WERE SO MANY HANDS INVOLVED IN THIS BLOG DURING THE MAYORAL ELECTION THERE REALLY ARE NO SECRETS. JUST A LOT OF HEARSAY.
GOOD NIGHT MAYOR FRANK!
GOOD NIGHT CITY EMPLOYEE!
SWEET DREAMS............
TOMORROW IS FRIDAY - TGIF
GOOD NIGHT MAYOR SAM!
BRIAN HAY ALSO GOT PAID BY VILLARAIGOSA SINCE 2000
gOOD MORNING MAYOR SAM & FRANK
WOW! ALL THIS STUFF MAKES ME WANT TO MAKE A MOVIE
Sure looks like MEAT is back spinning for Huizar on this blog. Agree Tofu that the poll is b.s. WHY did it take so long for them to put it out there. You ask many of the seniors in CD14 and they don't have a clue who Jose is. That's why ANTONIO IS CALLING EVERYONE IN CD14 FOR JOSE. He needs all the help he can get cause there is no name recognition.
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