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Monday, October 10, 2005
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I'm a 14th District Voter and received a call yesterday from some "volunteer" from Local 99. He gave me the rap to vote no on the four propositions, then he asked me to support Jose Huizar. This call came from the Local 99 office as evidenced by my caller ID, is this legal? Can campaigns co-mingle money in this manner?
He went on to criticize Nick Pacheco for not keeping his promises. When I pressed him and asked him to be specific about a promise he hasn't kept he couldn't give me any. His response was, "Well that's what everybody is saying." Then I reminded him about Antonio's broken promises and asked me to name one thing Antonio had done for the 14th and again he couldn't give any specifics. That's the way to train your "volunteers" Local 99.
Then I asked him why he was pointing out Pacheco with so many other candidates in the race, again, dumb silence. I chalked this up to being good news for Nick, if you are a target then you are ahead.
My final question to him was how could I vote against that "anti-Union" measure when their abuse of labor dues was evident in that exact phone call. How could I vote against Arnold when this particular local took it upon themselves - or more likely directed by Parke Skelton - to spread lies about Pacheco.
Again, just like Huizar, all I got was dumb silence.
No, it's not illegal. It's their union and their dues. They can support whatever campaigns they want and in a single call.
Downtownnews.com
If Huizar is good at walking precincts, then Pacheco is very good.
Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of walking with Pacheco is the name recognition. He often approaches by announcing "Yo soy Pacheco," and in home after home there is instant awareness. "Pacheco," they respond, elongating the second syllable. There is genuine appreciation that he is knocking on their door, asking about their problems.
It's not illegal if the toll from the call is reported to ethics. I somehow doubt this will be the case for Local 99.
Yet 8:52 ANON you state, "No, it's not illegal. It's their union and their dues. They can support whatever campaigns they want and in a single call." There are some Local 99 people suporting Nick, bus drivers and cafeteria workers and janitors who worked with his mom, doesn't this lend credence to Arnold's argument?
And if it is not illegal, why is Sue Burnside so concerned about her canvassers carrying Huizar AND anti-ballot measure material? I hear Pacheco has some of his supporters out there, cameras in hand along with drafted depositions to expose this illegal activity.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told Israeli Foreign Ministry officials Wednesday he will visit Israel next year. Villaraigosa will lead a group of local businessmen to Israel.
9:03
Hmmmmm. When was the last time Tony the Liar went to Israel? When he was speaker of the assembly. Does anybody recall what happened before that trip. The trip in which his wife Corina decided at the last second to go with him. So Tony had to tell that staffer that she couldn't go and then all hell broke loose. There is a State Police report on the incident since they had to intervene.
With calls like the one from Local 99 going out, is it any wonder? From today's Times:
"Prop. 75 Worries Union Leaders
Many in the rank and file could support the measure, which would limit use of members' dues. Opponents have been slow to rally.
By Michael Finnegan, Times Staff Writer
With thousands of Californians already voting by mail, leaders of organized labor are increasingly anxious about the strength of their push to mobilize union members against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's November ballot measures.
Their chief worries are that many won't vote and that many of those who do will support Proposition 75, a measure fiercely opposed by labor leaders yet alluring to many in the rank and file.
The measure, backed by Schwarzenegger, would bar government employee unions from spending members' dues on political campaigns without prior consent. Labor leaders fear it would sharply diminish their ability to make campaign donations, tilting the balance of political power in California toward business interests.
"We're not winning on this thing, and we've got to step it up," Steven Neal, a Los Angeles County Federation of Labor official, told scores of union leaders at a campaign breakfast last week in downtown Los Angeles. He likened the battle against Proposition 75 to a "sinking ship" in need of rescue..."
The irony here is that Pacheco has a much stronger pro-labor stance than Huizar.
I've seen tons of Pachueco signs around my neighborhood. The only problem is that they've been strategically placed on street corners and islands around Huntington Drive. In order to be able to display a lawn sign, one must get permission from the resident. Since these sins have been illegally placed in designated areas, I've taken it upon myself to tear the signs down. Pachueco camp, place your signs wisely!
10:05
You're a moron. Read up on City Law, signs can be placed on strategic place, i.e. telephone polls, etc., so long as they are removed within a reasonable time period after the election.
You're the one performing an illegal act by tearing down a campaigns' property. I hope you don't get caught on camera. But I can't blame you, looking at how Huizar's campaign never materialized, I guess that's the only option you have. It's no different than Huizar people tearing down Pacheco with lies.
Nothing worse than illegally placed "sins" (another LAUSD graduate from the Huizar era).
There's lots of Huizey "sins" placed illegally where I live, too... guess they have to come down, as well?
Good lord. The CD14 folks don't even take Columbus Day off.
I'm stuck at work picking up rejection letters. Had the day off until boss called
PICK UP THE DAMN LETTER, THE BLOGGERS ARE AT IT AGAIN!
We rent a home in Cd 14 area, It is a home made out to be a duplex. The other renters just put a Huizar sign and I want Pacheco to win. What do I do before we fight over a sign.
Who is Sue Burnside
Mayor Sam,
That's because pretty much like Tony the Liar, Columbus was also a farce. New evidence points to the fact that he wasn't even Italian but a Catalan, as opposed to the winning faction Castillians in Spain. So like Tony, he went out, reinvented himself, seduced Queen Isabella (Queen Molina?)and found himself in the graces of power. Thanks History Channel for clearing this up.
And I don't even want to venture into his "America" debacles. No need to celebrate for this lost map maker. Maybe if we were to "dream with him" we would take the day off.
9:11 What Staffer?
10:05 Are you the one I saw tearing down a sign, but leaving Gonzalez signs up?
11:34
Put up a banner. The Pacheco Campaign will order one for you. There contact info is a www.nickpacheco.com.
If you can't get a banner, just spray paint 61% on his wall. That's the Latino dropout rate and that's the number that will always be identified with Huizar.
While your at it, share with them the story of Roosevelt High Students holding it until they get home because the restrooms at the school are so disgusting. All this while Huizar spends over $300,000 of your tax money for his personal toilet at LAUSD headquarters.
I agree with the Columbus Day blogger, who clarified the holiday. There is also evidence which dates back further as to the first sea people who founded this land. Way back! C.Columbus is a WHITE imagination.
11:40 AM The R. H.S. incident you speak of, when did this happen?
This weekend it seemed he had plenty of support.
What are you talking about?
11:36
If I post her name Mayor Sam will delete this post. But she attacked Tony at the State Capitol parking garage prompting State police to restrain her. Tony had made all kinds of promises to her, including that intimate trip to Israel - sound familiar? I hear she even lost a shoe in the incident, my friend - and witness to the incident, picked up her shoe from the elevator and now proudly displays it in his Sacramento apartment. I believe he used to post here as SactoNighties.
11:43
It happens everyday. Just go and ask the students. Some have even taken pictures of the mess.
And there are over 5500 students at Roosevelt. I am sure Tony and Huizar didn't have even 5% of these students at thier staged event.
11:44 I need your help. Lately, I've been succumb to Huizar propaganda and have been brainwashed. This is my first time here at the insistence from a work friend. This information on Huizar at this place was not told to me before. Where can I get this type of information.
Blogger at 11:44
You are in the KNOW. This must be a slap of reality on our faces to lies we have been fed.
Just saw the Ed Reyes/LA Weekly article.
If Pacheco can't count on any financial contributions from John Edwards, at least he can count on his vote, right?
NO.
Edwards lives in Cypress Park. Isn't that in Reyes' district?
I find it ridiculous this asshole manages to keep his profile so high thanks to Pacheco despite never having accomplished a damn thing.
Where can I pitch in for his one-way ticket back to the slums of London?
Go back to London Fundraiser.
I'll pitch in the first $100
12:30
There is a small portion of Cypress Park in the 14th District. It is up Division Street.
And what high profile is Nick giving Edwards? I ahven't seen him around.
11:48
That 11:44 post wasn't about Huizar, it was about Tony. Huizar shouldn't be castigated for Tony's past sins, eventhough they are both in bed now.
The information on Tony is easy to obtain. Since I suspect you to be a Tony lover looking to put out fires, I won't give you the information but I'll tell you were you can get it. The Speaker of Assembly's trip to Israel is public information. A little before his departure, there was an incident in the State Capitol garage, State police have a record of this since they had to intervene. Put two and two together, it shouldn't be that hard. I hear she even filed suit against the State shortly thereafter. But funny as politics is, she filed the suit against Richard Polanco for sexual harrassment - remember when this 500 lb gorilla (accoridng to the Times) bowed out of the 1st District race and Reyes got in - with Pacheco's help. We probably would have been better off with Polanco since Ed turned out to be such a pussy.
Not a Tony Lover, a mere supporter based on facts given to me by brochures, knocks on my doors, but if information you posted is true.
Immediately, I will withdraw my support to the Mayor and anyone politically in bed with him.
I like your post 1:14
What I have found out is the CD14 politicians are either all in cahoots with each other or backstabbing.
AV had old Alarcon staffers working for him. Huizar has Reyes old staffers, Pacheco has Hertzberg's old staffers and the list goes on.
Tell me, are they strategically placed to make sure the one they so call support, actually loses. Clandestine Operation?
Can you put a link to the Assembly Police Records???? website?
12:39
Put me down for $100 too.
Is this amount matchable?
Can Huizar respond to the following article in the Downtown News: http://www.downtownnews.com/articles/2005/10/10/news/news04.prt
What do you want Huizar to respond about?
You want to find records, go here
http://www.ss.ca.gov/archives/archives.htm
If Tony, Nick and Huizar were on a plane that crashed on the border between the U.S. and Canada, where would you bury the survivors?
That is sad. stop saying stupid shit
It's ridiculas that Jose can use the money he raised while unopposed for his LAUSD board seat for his election campaign for CD14. Does anyone know if the same contributors to the LAUSD campaign can contribute again for the CD14 campaign account?
If so, isn't that double dipping? And does he get matching funds for both accounts?
And if they are, is it the same people putting money into the campaign?
I live in the 14th district. I got phone calls (calls I add) from local 99 too. They have no idea what they are saying...that's the problem when your forced support doesn't give a rip and isn't really into the campaign he's forced to work on or be in trouble.
The guy spoke softly and even agreed he didn't like his dues being used in campaigns against a candidate he was supporting...and he supported the Gov. on that issue. Boy did I get an earfull...
OPPS jose's endorsements are in name only...Oh how embarrassing...
Anon 3:03
Oh my god, I had the same caller. He told me his kids go to public school and he hates Jose for the way he disrespected latinos and did nothing for the schools, took their dues for the LAUSD race and is now back again to get more money from them...This caller must be pissed...oh how funny!
I researched the state archives. The anon is telling us the truth about Antonio and the State Capitol incident.
My support has been withdrawn!
That is for Antonio & Huizar & Holden and all the politicians he is in bed with.
Ok buddy you have really proved your dumbness.
Such an icident does not exist on the state archive website, and there is no police report.
Just someone using this site to spread lies and innuendo.
If it existed post the site, not the main page, but link us to the document.
You can't because it doens't exist you idiot.
Distinguished School
LAUSD School Celebrates Honor from State
.
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Teachers and students at a high school in Boyle Heights held a flag-raising ceremony today to celebrate the campus' status as a 2005
California Distinguished School.
Francisco Bravo High, near County-USC Medical Center, is one
of five high schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District to receive the
recognition.
The designation lasts three years.
A white flag adorned with the California Distinguished School logo and the California Department of Education crest was raised to mark the milestone,said principal Maria Torres-Flores.
To be considered for the CDE-granted honor, schools must meet certain criteria related to academic standards, student performance, campus support
services, family and student involvement, graduation requirements and teaching
staff quality.
Interesting that this school while in CD 14 and in Huizar's district got this honor during their terms.
Now you idiots like to blame folks for all your miseries and even your un-paid bills but i think its only fair they get some credit for this good news coming from the community.
Now if you can't give them any credit, than you can't blame them either.
4:42 If you found such documents, state where you found them. The previuos blogger has it right, no such docs exist. You say they do, so where did you find such docs?
5:18
Most of these students are gifted/high ability students. It is not your regular LAUSD school you moron! The school was distinguished but does not mirror a regular school, it is only the cream of the crop from the remainder LAUSD schools that usually get transported by bus to this Bravo H.S.
What is odd, is that they did not get this award a long time ago. With all the brainiacs attending this school, what took them so long. Give the awards fairly, competitively by using schools with the same ratio of IQ. This is a BOGUS AWARD.
I bet you the other distinguished schools are also MAGNET schools. What a crock of shit award. Majority of the students are from city workers who fake their addresses. These employees live in Inland Empire, Covina, West Covina, San Gabriel and they have their kids attend these schools. They take away spots from students who actually live in the LAUSD district. Laura Chick can you investigate the LAUSD Magnet Program and find out how many students are illegally attending these magnet schools.
Investigate LAUSD illegal Magnet Program.
How many students live out of the LAUSD district?
Do the parents work for the City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County?
Can we report the illegal names of parents who do not live in the LAUSD district, but use fraud addresses to send them to magnet schools. Can we post it here Mayor?
Ok People...if you know of someone who is committing fraud and using fake addresses to send their kids to a Magnet school, post it here.
It is unfair to take away a good spot from someone who deserves to be there and is not because some middle class kid from another area is taking his or her rightful spot in that class.
What a disgrace of an educational institution.
Illegal names?
Is this identity theft. . .
J. Meyers from Bravo lives in Pasadena, fake address. Her father is a doctor.
5:33 I think you know what the poster meant.
From what I gather. This poster wants us to report any individual who gave fraud docs in order to illegally send their offspring to an LAUSD elite school. I don't think illegal names was meant the way it was posted. Heck, I don't really care about this shit anyways.
Dear Bloggers,
This is the current criteria to enter a Magnet Program:
To qualify for a highly gifted center, students must meet the criterion of 99.9% on an intellectual assessment administered by the LAUSD Psychological Services Branch. Assessment results may be accepted from an other public school district when it is determined that District eligibility criteria are met.
The Gifted/Talent Programs Office must receive identification of highly gifted by the deadline for returning the Choices application. Upon receipt of the application, the Office of Student Integration Services will automatically check District records for eligibility.
Please refer to your Choices pamphlet prepared by the Office of Student
Integration Services, Los Angeles Unified School District for a complete and current set of criteria.
An application and detailed application instructions can be found in the Choices pamphlet.
DID YOU KNOW THAT KING DREW (LAUSD) MAGNET ACCEPTS KIDS FROM COMPTON UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT. WHAT HAPPENS TO THE STUDENTS THAT ARE REJECTED BUT ARE WITHIN THE DISTRICT AND HAVE ATTENDED LAUSD. THEY FAVOR OUT OF DISTRICT KIDS WITH HIGHER TEST SCORES? IS THIS ETHICAL?
A SCREENING PROCESS SHOULD BE DONE, BACKGROUND CHECK ON PARENTS, PROOF OF ADDRESS BY INCOME TAX CHECK, PAYROLL STUB, W-2'S ETC...
CURRENTLY ALL THEY ASK FOR IS UTILITY BILL AND IF YOUR FRIENDS WITH THE COORDINATOR OR PRINCIPAL YOU NEED NOTHING.
The majority of the students at Bravo Magnet are not from the area. There are very few.
I find it amazing that Pacheco when he was councilman was the one who started the "community cleanups" and now Antonio tries to take credit for coming up with the idea. Also, HAHN was the one who started the traffic officers at intersections and again Antonio taking credit. Doesn't he think of anything himself?
NOPE, AV CANNOT THINK OF ANY ORIGINAL IDEAS OF HIS OWN. I RECEIVED A COPY (CC) OF A LETTER SENT TO VILLARAIGOSA ABOUT COLLEGE. ENTIRE IDEAS WERE STOLEN BY VILLARAIGOSA FROM THIS LETTER. THIS GULLABLE PERSON WAS USED. THIS PERSON STILL BELIEVES IN ANTONIO, THIS IS WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND. IT'S AS IF THEY LIKE TO BE USED AND TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF.
6:44
It's called blilnd faith. You know, just like the south practices with regard to W. Just like that poster who cannot beleive anything bad about Antonio. These are die hard Tony Lovers, we should just call them all Bubbas, just like their southern brethren.
If these people only knew the real Tony Villar and his history. Can't wait for that tell all book. And there's penty of people to tell all. Tony liked to brag to anyone who would listen.
There is only ONE way to fix LAUSD and it is not popular, but extremely necessary.
All magnet programs must be eliminated. Every family in the City should have to purchase or rent a house/apartment in the school district they want to live in.
We have kids on buses from 6:30 AM - 6:30 PM. That is crazy. Then we try to blame the school board for all of the problems.
People who teach their children to lie to get into a school is teaching their children to lie about everything else for the rest of their lives. What kind of parenting is this??
Schools should be the fabric of the community. Kids should all know their neighbors and they should all walk to school together. We have junior high and high school students in my neighborhood who have their parents drive them 3 blocks. Just to add to the traffic congestion and smog; not to mention endanger a couple of the other children's lives.
Instead, we have entire neighborhoods of children who live 1-2 streets away from each other and never see each other. That is very sad and doesn't make for lifetime friendships.
I know this idea is too radical, but it is needed. This city doesn't have the balls to do that anymore than they have the balls to fix their other problems.
They'd rather pander. That sucks so bad.
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