Headline Round-Up
It is going to be a slow news week, so dig in and expect lite blogging!Here are some headlines to keep you busy...
Council presidency transfer could be smooth after all
L.A. Daily News
Talks between Council President Alex Padilla and Councilman Eric Garcetti over a shift in power have come after months of behind-the-scenes maneuvering by various council members.
Top Council Post to Garcetti?
Los Angeles Times
Eric Garcetti has lined up the votes to become president of the Los Angeles City Council and will soon take over from Alex Padilla, the two councilmen said Friday.
Garcetti, Padilla to hash out council duties
Los Angeles Daily News
Moving to end a week of rumors, City Council President Alex Padilla and Councilman Eric Garcetti said Friday that they plan to meet over the weekend to discuss ...
MTA Sees Success in Orange Line
Los Angeles Times
Busway use is much higher than projections. But some say estimates were set cautiously low and that the numbers are misleading.
LAPD hiring is on back burner
Daily Breeze
... Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who appeared a year ago on television commercials for a public safety tax increase, has largely used his bully pulpit to rally the ...
Green light for red-light deal
Los Angeles Daily News
... are still there but in light of the fact that we need to put something into place I'm going to support moving forward," said Councilman Dennis Zine, a former ...
Posted by Anonymous @ 11/21/2005 07:45:00 AM
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We've been saying for some time that Garcetti is acting like the Council's de facto CLA. It's a very natural evolution.
The LAT piece on the mayor's harsh rhetoric against the LAUSD board is interesting. MAV repeats what he said during his campaign, "nobody is accountable over there" - meaning the LAUSD board members. Why did he go all out and endorse and campaign for Huizar? one of the people he blames for the bad state of our schools.
AV is going to force Huizar to malign the schoool district, the board and UTLA. And, Huizar has no choice but to implement AV's plan. Sad, but true.
Didn't Antonio say he didn't want to take over the LAUSD until after his term? Now he saying he wants control now. In today's papers it seems as though he making a lot of enemies along the way. Let's see how this all plays out. Doesn't AV need the union money to run for gov next year?
Bad week for padilla... the paper tiger get's burned by LA Firefighter and now LA councilmembers
These 'insiders' always tend to get the facts wrong on these city hall/capitol stories.
Alex terms out in 2009, not 2007.
I'm not surprised that our 18th Street Cholo Mayor is lacking on Public Safety. The dude is a total dolt. Go ahead and build your Subway to the Ocean, No one will support funding it because the streets and business surrounding this still aren't safe.
Despite your usual racism that's a pretty good topic. I just spent five days largely on the Westside and I was shocked by how crime-cognizant the whole area is.
Wednesday night, I heard far more car alarms clicking off (doot-woot-doop!) while walking to a Brentwood party than I even hear in Los Feliz in a month.
Thursday night, on a Rapid that made it to Westwood, I took a walk south on residential streets and didn't encounter a single smile in two miles of pavement-pounding. The streets are rolled up, desolate, and nobody knows their neighbors.
Saturday night, I knocked on somebody's door, looking for his next door neighbor, and got a muffled conversation through the grill, and a dirty look. Sure didn't get a warm welcome there.
Undoubtably, unease about crime on the Westside fueled the Mickey Kaus phantom rumble story, which Kaus never recanted.
The funny thing is, whenever an eastsider goes west, it's the eastsider who most often needs to check his wallet. Lots of "enterpreneurs" out there who suddenly forget handshakes and don't pay when it's inconvenient to. If you cross Sepulveda especially, be sure to see the money.
Antonio is not putting the public safety issue on the ballot because he's going to put the housing issue as an iniatitive. They will be competitive. Crime on the westside is going up because they took 70 officers away to put at Rampart and Wilshire because of gangs. The Daily News stated that the education issue will be one of the most costliest for the city. Funny he can find money for homeless, Orange Line but not for officers. That's idiotic
How about some coverage of the AD44 race? I haven't heard much and I'd like to hear what is going on.
How about some coverage of the AD44 race? I haven't heard much and I'd like to hear what is going on.
I think all LA-area Assembly races will be a bit skewed depending on whether one of the gaybashing initiatives make it on the June ballot or not. My guess: if they do, as Pasadena is fairly gay-friendly, turnout will be heavy again, like for the propositions, and races will generally skew more towards people with some standing in these communities. I think if an initiative qualifies, it could help Portantino even more, and he appears to be the frontrunner anyway at this point.
Antonio is not putting the public safety issue on the ballot because he's going to put the housing issue as an iniatitive. They will be competitive.
Who would spend money trying to defeat an affordable housing bond? That's the question. I don't think it can make much sense economically, but unions, developers, and builders will all likely support it; nobody has incentive to go against it except those grumpy taxpayer groups.
Subsidy housing sounds like something that has caused riots across France, but no matter; I'm just looking to see someone actually define affordable housing.
I can define Los Angeles' idea of affordable housing. I do it all the time.I can also define what it should be.
Since LA is run by developers and their campaign contributions, they like to rezone portions of the city, overdevelop a small piece of land and build 20-50 huge houses on very small lots. Not good for the environment, traffic or for the kids who have no yards so they run the streets and get in trouble. They sell those houses for over a million. The people who live in $600k - 700k houses buy the new $1.3 million dollar houses and put their houses on the market. Then the family who lives in a $400k house can move up into the $600-700k homes. Then a poor extended family with a total of 4 adults and 6 kids who currently share a 2 bedroom apartment get to move into the $400k house.
Nothing here helps poor people find affordable housing.
They talk a lot about building up those transportation corridors, but I'll believe that when I see it. They're doing it around the North Hollywood Red Line. Good. THAT is the affordable housing.
Going into gang infested North Hills and building affordable condo style houses which stand alone (manipulative zoning trick) and having 20 condos with NO GREEN GRASS or yards is the worst case of "affordable housing" I've ever seen. For one thing, they are $400k for a house in beautiful downtown gangbanging North Hills. That means that - again - one family cannot afford to live there so they move in with family members and share the cost of the house. Their kids have no place to play so they just stand out on the stoop in front and pace back and forth and voila.. they become gangbangers eventually.
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Gee, isn't North Hills Alex Padilla's district? Insiders says he's been seen walking on Sepulveda..
if he gives it up for developers, I'm sure he does for other things...
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that's hilarious. is Alex aka "the Paper Tiger" setting himself up as the woman candidate?
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City hall insiders are being told that Alex Padilla
will be endorsed by the manager of the Tom Bradley Terminal at LAX. This is as close as he will get to getting an endorsement from a mayor.
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Certainly the famously nude-and-drum-playing Matthew McConaughey never has fun with Craigslist either, though we were pleased to observe him a few years back late at night the lobby of a Milan hotel trying to score a three-way with a male buddy of his. Matty does like to have a good time, and what’s wrong with that? His career’s not doing too badly these days (OK, so we’ll forget Sahara, even though it did some business), and now the New York Post’s Page Six is reporting that People magazine is about to anoint the actor as its Sexiest Man Alive. Bongos, anyone?
http://www.out.com/gossip.asp?id=14911
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Geez what this place has degraded into. Gay outings and 3-4 actual posters a day.
Of course Gay Outings was part of the blog owners's mayoral race strategy, as well, involving family members.
I guess you get what you deserve!
I don't care if he's gay or not, I would vote for Matthew McConaughey as the sexiest man alive. He's definitely in the top ten.
I say, "Hey what's wrong with nude drumming while you're stoned?" He was in his own house. That doesn't make him not sexy.
So he was looking to score a three way? Well, he's bi then. He's also spent untold accounted-for weeks locked up with cute young female stars. Who cares? He's still sexy either way.
Now let's hear from the anonymous gay bashing white macho males who post here!
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