Weekend Headline Wrap-Up
Here are some of the headlines to get you rolling today...Mayor Gains Strength in Wage Talks
Los Angeles Times Mon, 05 Dec 2005
Union for 8,000 city workers is warned that a strike might lack labor coalition support, and its holiday picket line at LAX fell short.
Mayor narrows port candidates' list
Daily Breeze - Torrance,CA,USA
... Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has winnowed the list of candidates for the top job at the Port of Los Angeles to three people -- all of whom have experience with ...
Chick gets tough with LAUSD, may be state candidate
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
With Controller Laura Chick announcing last week that she wants to oversee a management audit of the school system, the district will learn that the pit bull ...
'A' is for audit -- of schools
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... of the Kremlin in the 1950s. Los Angeles Controller Laura Chick has offered to do the job. The self-protective instincts of the ...
The numbers game
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
In his campaign to reform the Los Angeles Unified School District, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has repeatedly cited the LAUSD's 50 percent dropout rate, as ...
Delays spur special hearing
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... DWP General Manager Ron Deaton has said he considers lobbyists to be an essential expense because they advance the DWP's interests in Sacramento and Washington ...
The Unsolved Mystery of the Notorious B.I.G
Rolling Stone Mon, 05 Dec 2005
The murder, the cover-up and the conspiracy
Governor puts Democrats in a bind
San Francisco Chronicle Sun, 04 Dec 2005
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's very public moves to rebuild his political fortunes by reaching out to Democrats are making for some tricky equations up in Sacramento. Take, for example, Arnold's call for a multibillion-dollar bond to rebuild the state's...
It's a revolving door for top staff
The Sacramento Bee Sun, 04 Dec 2005
When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced at a press conference last week that he'd chosen one of his predecessor's top aides to run his staff, he did something else unusual for a California governor.
Posted by Anonymous @ 12/05/2005 05:10:00 AM
15 Comments:
And Ruby de Vera ends up in Laura Chick's office.
Planned by AV long ago Joseph.
That's right! AV planned this sham. Ruby De Vera is a mole, mole, mole.
Teachers need help, not criticism
By Davy McClay, Guest Columnist
http://www.dailynews.com/theiropinion/ci_3275832
"A must read piece"
Have you noticed a pattern?
Public civil servants, who plan to run for higher office are jumping on "FIX THE SCHOOLS" bandwagon?
If they only knew the truth. Small activist alerted AV early on during quest of mayor-ship.
Chick gets tough with LAUSD, may be state candidate
Rick Orlov, Columnist
"Some school officials have been talking to Chick aides, urging her office to look at another long-standing issue - the $100 million suit the district is part of against the Department of Water and Power on accusations of overbilling."
Huh? When did this happen.
Mojo
Rolling Stone..
The most startling revelation..... was the testimony of LAPD detective Wayne Caffey, who told of having been shown a PHOTOGRAPH OF A WOMAN posing with Mack and Perez that he had understood was seized from the home of a South Central L.A. gang member. The WOMAN IN, HE SAID ON THE STAND WAS APPARENTLY BERNARD PARKS' DAUGHTER, Michelle.....jurors on the edges of their seats," Sanders says. "They had to wonder what the daughter of the chief of police was doing posing with a couple of gangster cops for a photograph found in a gang member's house."
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Laura Chick can have her... Ruby was the least knowledgable, least inspirational, and most BORING pol running in the last special election.
She made Paul R. seem bright!
Check out:
"Study links diesel fumes to illnesses", Times, 12/03
"Calif. emissions could be deadly", Press-Telegram, 12/3
"Plan for cutting pollution unveiled", Breeze, 12/3
"Port dilemma" and "To port critics health issues have priority", Breeze, 12/4
The Times article reports on a California Air Resources Board study released last week.
The study finds that 750 premature deaths and $6.3 BILLION in health care costs will result from seaport related cargo operations this year, concentrated mostly around major seaports such as the Los Angeles-Long Beach complex.
"Californians who live near ports, rail yards and along highway traffic corridors are subsidizing the goods-movement sector with their health," the study warns.
Count me as one who is also willing to pay a couple of bucks more for tennis shoes if that means port companies pay for expansion (and pass the cost to us).
Planned by AV long ago Joseph.
No, I heard from the proverbial reliable source that the Mayor wanted Ruby to go to Huizar's office and Heckmann to a Housing commission, and also that Jose's too busy catching up on Council duties, which have taken him by surprise.
If what I heard was true all around, I'm especially for the Heckmann part. Heckmann should be on one of the City's various landlord-tenant commissions, on which there are a few openings, and I think he could fit it into his practice pretty easily. Heckmann's represented both landlord and tenant at his practice, and he would be a good catch if someone were looking up. A commissioner who is thinking in terms of bond indebtedness would be a real asset.
But the wild card: with Garcetti running things, forget anything the Mayor wants off the top of his head---most of the rest of Council will take the opportunity of the next two years to catch up on their napping while Garcetti's staff dishes the Mayor everything he needs. It will be like page and monarch---Antonio the king will saunter down the aisle, and Garcetti will be towing the train but also giving the Mayor's office a discriminating tug when the Mayor waltzes off into the wrong direction.
Jose offered Ruby a job at a dinner they had at the beginning of the campaign, Joseph. After a discussion with Parke, it was decided that AV's friend Laura Chick would give Ruby a job.
BTW, Ed told Ruby at the beginning of the campaign that he didn't want her back. So, it was a bit of theater we saw from Ruby after her loss, Joseph.
The Harbor Department needs some fresh blood and new energy, so I hope the Mayor hires one of the outside candidates. Hopefully the new Port Manager will sweep out the dead wood, and be more open to out-of-the-box thinking.
As you like it, anonymous. You think Ruby was theatric after the election? And? I don't get the point. The whole election was theater. Arceo was pure theater, Nick's micromailings were theater, Jose's affordable housing riff and handwringing for the School District were all theater. If Ruby went in for some theater, she was, as a political figure, entitled.
One of the reasons I liked both De Vera and Heckmann enough to write about them during the campaign were they were the two least theatric candidates I encountered, by far. The whole election was a carnival, but those two were not prone to the theatric.
Onto another point: You say Ed told Ruby even before she declared that he was going to get rid of her if she ran? Well, again, what's the point? I've heard that too and I've actually been interested to give him a mulligan on that, precisely because, to me, it makes Reyes sound even worse to me---didn't it to you?---like he was trying to blackball her into not running. At least if he had genuinely waited until after the campaign, he could have pleaded her work was compromised.
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