This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I'm an ex-mayor. Los Angeles is a magnet for people from all over the world. Some of them run for public office. Inevitably some of them stray from the golden rule and rule for those that have the gold. That's when I go to work. My name is Yorty. I'm a dead pol.
A day after Martini Republic broke the story and the Sister City echoed it, the LA Times and Kevin Roderick have both got around to (LA)Observing that former CD14 candidate Ruby DeVera was leaving her job with Councilman Ed Reyes.
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 11/16/2005 08:39:00 AM
Founded 10/21/04
32 Comments:
wow! this is the kind of insightful post, I come to your site for. I love it when blogs fight over who posted what first! Fascinating.
Stick to actual news, please.
Mayor, great for you but this story craves attention.
"Prominent Political Consultant Admits Molesting LA Boys
LOS ANGELES -- A consultant to top state Democratic leaders has admitted that he molested two brothers while working at a YMCA more than 30 years ago.
John Robert Stevens was an adviser to former Governor Gray Davis and Assembly speakers Antonio Villaraigosa, Herb Wesson and Fabian Nunez..."
PUT THIS GUY IN JAIL. WHY IS HE FREE?
There's no loyalty. Ed Reyes is proving what a vindicative, insecure idiot he is. This topic is the talk of the city. I've gotten 10 e-mails on it already this morning.
Stay tuned. Patience.
Yea right, you emailed yourself 10 times!
SEE, I knew you wouldn't let the blog die.
A day without a CD14/Eastside post on Mayor Sam's is like a day without. . . comments!
(And the think CD14 and the rest of the Eastside don't hardly make up one-tenth of the city combined).
I love it when blogs fight over who posted what first!
We're not caught up in that here. Sam's talking about the very ordinary journalistic courtesy of acknowledgement.
I asked the Times out of curiosity where they got the item, and a reporter responded:
"Someone told me about it--but I think they read about it somewehere."
He probably thought that response was really funny. Meanwhile, blog readership is increasing every month---and you know what's happening to Times circulation.
Nice work on this scoop, Joseph.
Also, can someone please tell me when Reyes and Nunez are going to be swapping seats? It's like swapping wives, only dirtier.
mayor frank,
you worked for all those speakers -- did you know this guy when you were on the Rules Committee?
Mayor Frank worked with that pedophile?????
No way, please dont say it is so.
The Mercury News
"..."Anybody who knows anything about politics in California, particularly in Sacramento, knows this man," said attorney Raymond Boucher, whose law firm represented Stevens in his deposition. "He was so vital to the process up there."
YMCA lawyer Stephen H. Haber denied in court papers that organization officials knew about the abuse.
Stevens, through an associate, declined to comment on his deposition. He is not a defendant in the boys' suit but is expected to testify when trial begins Dec. 5 in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Boucher said Stevens - whom he described as a longtime friend - was ashamed and "would like to find a way to make it right."
Stevens testified in April that he fondled and masturbated one of the brothers, who was then 13, during a YMCA-sponsored overnight trip. Stevens at the time was youth director of the Rio Vista YMCA in South Gate.
Stevens also testified that he later fondled and masturbated the younger brother, then 10, in his apartment near Compton.
He denied in his deposition the brothers' claims that he raped and orally copulated them.
Stevens retired in January after nearly 20 years in state government."
Hell no! Michael Jackson was accused and publicly vilified, why does this white guy get a free pass. You wait and see. The white folks will let this guy go and the the mayor will not interfere.
Shhh! Port's top executive interviews are elsewhere
Brown Act watchdog says public should have been informed of change of location for the process.
By David Zahniser
Copley News Service
How hush-hush is the search for a top executive at the Port of Los Angeles?
So guarded is the process that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's appointees on the harbor commission, a group that prides itself on holding its meetings in the community, scheduled closed-door candidate interviews at City Hall in downtown Los Angeles, 26 miles north of the Harbor Area.
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/1859061.html
Me gusta this story.
Winning lottery ticket worth $315 million sold in Anaheim
New, 10 a.m. State's first Mega Millions game winner matches all six numbers, but hasn't shown up yet to claim the prize. Store that sold it gets $1 million.
Daily Breeze
Does Ruby know that Fabian Nunez will run for that seat? He and Ed have decided to "swap" seats.
Fabian in CD1. I'd rather jump off a bridge than follow a criminals orders.
AH! Finally, a CD-14 port in the sturm!
Good, because y'all need to know that ALVIN is beginning to get his payoff for the unsigned slime campaign in the just-ended council race:
"NOVEMBER 15, 2005
Communications from the Mayor relative to the following appointments:
CD 14 05-2453 Ms. Nellie Rios-PARRA to the Board of Library Commissioners for the term ending June 30, 2006, to fill the vacancy created by the removal of Ms. Susan Key."
DOH! Keep it up, ALVIN, that's only a short-term appointment. Maybe with a few more STIPENDS like that for your dirty work -- SOMEDAY the "missus" will finally forgive you for the LAUSD race screwwww-up.
Good for her 2:35. It's about time someone from our neighborhood is part of the Library of Congress. We need more democrats in Congress, you go Nellie!!!
HeeHaw.
Ruby'd have to move to run in CD1.
Nobody with any real self respect would uproot family and furniture just to run in an adjoining district for a CM spot.
(OOPS, sorry Antonio! But that was venganza - different story).
Anybody know the Tagalog word for vengence?
"paghihiganti"
Nice of you to give Fraud Brito a home after Mayor Frank kicked him out, Senyor Mailander! He needs to be able to keep kicking the dead guy.
I heard Antonio V. won the lottery criss-crossing LA County. He thought Anaheim was part of Los Angeles and wanted to do a photo-op. Instead he bought a ticket and won.
Bravo. Antonio gano la loteria.
How much is he giving charity?
What a surprise, Mailander likes it when blogs post about who posted what first! Blog writers think blog writer ego trips are important. Is this any surprise?
MSSC - i guess if you're targetted audience is the 30 blog writers who might read your site, then this is the perfect post for you! Otherwise, you may want to stick to news.
I think that was supposed to be a diss, Joseph M., but it may require some editing and a logic- and grammar-check before anyone can be certain.
"What a surprise....Is this any surprise?"
"...if [you are] targeted audience is..."
You see what I mean, JM? So, don't be offended, yet. Wait for the full rewrite.
This child molester should be prosecuter to the full extent of the law and put in jail just like anyone else.
Is there some sort of indication that he won't serve the same time as anyone else? Is he being protected by someone or are all of you just extremely skeptical? I like the black angle thing. Oh yeah, that's why he might not be prosecuted??
Why wouldn't he go to jail like anyone else?
Ruby De Vera, is being call a racists for attempting to gain the phillipino vote.
Huizar, called himself the first Mexican, not first Mexican born, to be candidate for the city Council, I guess he is now the first Mexican Councilmen in the City of Los Angeles, and he is not considered a racists…
Antonio Villaraigosa claimed to be the first Latino Mayor in Los Angeles in over hundred years. Is he considered racists too? Was the Mayor attempting to get the Latino vote? Yes, is call politics?
According to Huizar, Villaraigosa, Padilla, Cedillo, Nunez, Alarcon, Roybal, Pacheco, Molina, and Reyes are not Mexicans.
This answers my questions, Since grandparents came in 1880s and I am 4th generation, I maybe able to call myself an American now.
RECALL REYES !! ! ! ! ! !
What a surprise, Mailander likes it when blogs post about who posted what first! Blog writers think blog writer ego trips are important. Is this any surprise?
Not even babelfish helps rendering that one into English.
But I think what you're trying to say is: "Mailander likes acknowledgement."
Mostly true. It's not essential, but it's simply a courtesy.
We have a few bloggers in town who mostly cannibalize other sites. That's cool, but sooner or later the reader will gravitate to the actual source.
In the blogosphere, it's known as a "hat tip." MayorSam is about the best in town at acknowledging sources (Matt Welch is utterly scrupulous too) and Times scribes rank among the worst. And so that's what you see: people ditching the secondary, and going straight to the source. It's OK with me if they do that, of course, but we like to work with print journos, not against them, to get at some truth in a given story.
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The Ruby story is serious. She evidently had this discussion with Ed early on, that this would be her reward for a run, and she chose her path anyway, which is pretty noble, if you ask me. I've heard that she worked extra long and hard hours for Ed while Ed was running---I have to check that out.
Anyway, forget that; it's over. This is the real story, if anyone wants to run with it: if talented people who work at the City are going to be fired for running for Council, what kind of a message does that send to the whole of the City workforce? It says: if you want think about serving on Council, don't work for the City. And that would be a tragedy, and it's hard enough for candidates to learn the City. If some haven't been grown within the City, their positions will become largely ceremonial, and we'll have New York City circa 1975: nothing will work, and nobody will have any authority to do anything about it.
RECALL ED REYES !!!!!!!!
Put Stevens in jail for molesting two brothers?
What about Art Snyder the alleged child molester who claimed he "Blacked-out from alcohol doesn't recall penetrating his daughter." What about him?
It's pretty sick buildings and things are named after a sick guy like Snyder!!!
It's even sicker knowing Antonio accepted campaign from a pervert name Art Snyder.
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