Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Thursday
First up this morning, a group of African American activists will hold a protest in front of Maxine Waters' office demanding she end her support for illegal immigration.Yesterday we reported on the poll that showed Jim Alger way out ahead of his primary opponents for the Democratic nomination for the 38th Assembly race. In looking ahead to the general election in November, Alger's campaign did name ID polling against his presumptive general election opponent, Republican Cameron Smyth. As to be expected, Smyth has higher name ID in his home base of Santa Clarita, Alger is more well known in the Valley and Simi Valley nearly splits the difference.
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Louis Lemberger, the Kosher Pickle King of Los Angeles, died on Tuesday. No word as to his age or cause. He is survived by his wife, a son and seven grandchildren.
Joe Mosca, 33, a former officer of the San Fernando Valley Young Democrats was elected to the Sierra Madre City Council during Tuesday's elections there. Mosca is an attorney.
Santa Clarita voters returned three incumbents to the City Council on Tuesday. Mayor Laurene Weste and council members Frank Ferry and Marsha McLain were re-elected in an election that election workers reported has extremely low turnout.
William Bratton and Antonio Villaraigosa are getting ready to get into your pocket again. This time they want to raise trash fees 155% to pay for more police officers. We don't need to go through the list of wasteful spending, but Wendy Greuel has. If the City needs more money, maybe they can get some of this money back. We don't need to raise taxes - the money is there. And if Bratton doesn't like that, he can leave the state. See Walter Moore's article on this topic at Mayor Sam 2.
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 4/13/2006 12:10:00 AM
33 Comments:
I heard there is a serious pay to play investigation on a particular city council member who resides in the valley
sssshhhh
This is going to get very interesting to see another elected official go down.
Is it trujillo?
Lucky with what?
If the Ciy (particularly the Mayor & Council)really wanted to save money they'd take away the bilingual bonus since 311 has a contract to assist the non-english speaking public, they'd take away city vehicles and make executives account for their mileage just like the rest of the country does when claiming mileage as a work related expense, they'd stop the use of "exempt" employees. I have seen former mayor and council staff hired into a department, as an exempt position that should be a civil service psotion, be it a clerical or analyst position. Which increases the salary budget because another exempt person will be hired to do what they did at their former jobs (does that make sense). Put an end to the "more chiefs than indians" environment. We are so top heavy and should offer some incentive to retire so these non-functioning employees can retire. The majority of these employees earn about 2.5 days of vacation and are always away from work because they are on salary and don't have to account for their hours.......I can go on and on but since our leaders are a sleep and self serving they don't realize their cost or rather don't want to acknowledge their abuse. And believe it or not there are those of us that work our ass off while these executive folks come in late, leave early, disguise their social activities as work related and bilk the city of big bucks. Don't let the City convince you it's necessary to increase trash fees when they haven't done everything they can to save $$$s
So let me see if I have this straight...
When Alger wanted to raise trash fees by 1 stinking dollar to help get us out of Sunshine Canyon, that was bad.
Now the mayor wants to MORE THAN DOUBLE our trash fees to get more cops??? WTF?????
While the idea of putting more cops on the street is laudable, all to often they don't end up anywhere near the folks that pay for them, ie residential households in the San Fernando Valley.
This city needs a shot of transparency and raising trash fees for cops makes no sense at all. There is this thing called taxes. If we need more money you raise taxes, period.
No politician wants to raise taxes, so they back door a tax hike instead. It used to be DWP with "supplemental transfers" now it is trash fees.
The bottom line is clear. If the General Fund needs more income, it must be shared by ALL Angelinos in the form of a general tax increase. That would need to go before the voters and require a level of support that has been unatainable in recent years.
A back-door tax that targets homeowners is not the answer.
11:10 anon, 11:23 anon and Mr. Alger (nice to see you back here Jim) all have a very good point.
This is nothing more than a scheme to funnel money away from what it should be doing (trash paying for trash, power paying for power ect) and playing musicle chairs with the city's treasury.
Perhaps the General Fund could afford more cops if the City Council would stop giving themselves raises (making them the highest paid in the country)
Perhaps the General Fund could afford more cops if Council Staffers weren't cruising around town on the city's dime in city vehicles.
Perhaps the General Fund could afford more cops if the City Council didn't have a gagillion staffers.
This a an old tactic. Convince people they aren't safe and scream we need more cops. If we need more cops, fine raise taxes. The primary function of the General Fund is Cops, Fire and general services. As Mr. Alger said, this is nothing more then a back door tax. Just like the DWP scheme was and is.
Did you all see how stupid the Mayor sounded when he said he was surprised about the deficit. His excuse about not being the Mayor before is even a bigger joke. What kind of idiot says I wasn't paying attention to my job and even worse, I wasn't paying attention to the details of the job I want.
What an idiot.
Since the median prices of L.A. homes has shot over the half million dollar mark, i may just put my properties up for sale and buy several acres and develop homes in the South or maybe in Arizona. At least there, the Sheriff of Maricopa county will jail illegals in pink suits if they violate the law.
L.A. is becoming a joke. Raising fees for trash pick up. Will the Sanitation workers get a raise or better technology for doing their job? Sanitation workers are some of the hardest workers in the City. Mind you, they get paid well already but the toll it takes on your body is fierce.
I bet Julie Butcher is on the fence with this one. Does she bitch about the tax hike affecting families of SEIU members, or does she say nothing.
You need to read the devastating expose of Rocky and his management team in this week's LA Weekly. The article reveals what many in the City have known for years -that Rocky's team is aggressively inept and uncaring and deceitful. The Orange County jury understood what Rocky didn't and doesn't - that even unpopular people have rights.
Where is the LA Times and Daily News on this issue? Why have they allowed the City's law firm to degrade and almost self-implode virtually without comment. Thanks to a reporter who cared to interview jurors and track down information.
LA Times has two good stories on this. 155% Hike in Garbage and an editorial "Picking Up the LAPD."
Antonio better have a plan to make sure if he's using the excuse to raise taxes for cops that it GOES JUST FOR COPS AND NOT HIS BAG. You're all right on the city vehicles. Why doesn't Laura Chick-N-Shit do an audit of all the city council members, their staff and Antonio's staff of city cars they all use during the week and weekend screwing around the city. With gas prices as high as they are how much is that costing us tax payers?
Now city council wants to put a $1.5 BILLION bond on the November ballot to fix ROADS...Are these council members living on another planet? They can't be this ignorant or maybe they can!!!!!
Streets that are worse than the third world, not enough cops, Toiletgairosa inciting illegals. Yap about the latest CD or school district race, but at the end of the day it won't make a shits bit of difference. This place is getting worse and in many ways is already the third world.
I'm amazed at how the LA Times scoops info out of Antonio's office. Who gave up the details of the school takeover before Robin Kramer wanted the info out. She's saying Antonio hadn't seen the drafts. Yet, the LA Times has a story on the details front page today. I wonder if AV really wanted it leaked out or he has a "deep throat" in his office.
This puts all the black politicans in an interesting position. What about Diane Watson, Yvonne Burke? It seems a lot of politicans in LA really haven't come out on a position re Illegal immigration. Why not?
10:58 Lottery winner?
Mallor Samuelito
De Dread "Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Wednesday" is by far the best for the week.
WTF is going on?
Archie,
Laura Tight Ass will audit Police Department.
Grapevine Rumor
Congratulations SFVYD Member Joe Mosca, who won his City Council seat with over 2/3 of the vote, sailing past all the other candidates!
Today the Sierra Madre City Council, tomorrow the world!
;)
Damian Carroll - SFVYD Prez
Is Damian the same one who was the Satan Child in the movies?
Gloria Molina is a hore?
She lives in Mt. Washington area 1/2 time and Le Beach other 1/2.
Is she poor or rich?
Forget about rich or poor! She's Fat! A FAT ASS CAT!
New meaning to the term "Fat Cat" huh?
Laughs
please no negative bashing on individuals.....leave good folks out of this
Gloria Molina does well for someone who dropped out.
Gloria Molina my FAT CAT hero.
1:50 PM
And you are who? Mr. Gloria Molina's husband
Last year after Measure A failed by that 2% the media reported that the County Board of Supervisors found $309 million. It was doomed because of the county.
1:52
No, her cook and supermarket.
What does the cow eat?
To Archie Bunker: Today's SF Chronicle
Polls, leaders say many blacks support illegal immigrants
Leslie Fulbright, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Influential African Americans across the country back up recent polls showing strong black support for illegal immigrants and for Senate proposals to offer them work permits and a path to citizenship.
Jobs and immigration are separate issues for blacks.
"The choice is to line up with right-wing reactionary forces under the claim that their action will benefit African Americans," Anderson said. "But those are the same forces that have been hell-bent on opposing civil rights, affirmative action and government programs for the less fortunate."
The NAACP, the Urban League, other major black organizations and such influential African Americans as Sen. Barak Obama, D-Ill., have voiced strong support for legislation to help illegal immigrants.
Jackson said the jobs that blacks have lost have disappeared altogether or been outsourced.
"Our middle-class automotive jobs, our shipyard jobs, our steel and textile jobs did not go to undocumented workers," Jackson said. "Those jobs were exported."
"Unfortunately, you find a lot of employers who are prejudiced (against blacks) and prefer immigrants, saying they are better workers, have more efficient hiring networks, and they work off the books," Camarota said.
The Field Poll in California released Wednesday showed 82 percent of blacks support offering undocumented workers the opportunity to become citizens, while 76 percent of Latinos and 74 percent of whites took that position.
Rick Callender, president of the San Jose branch of the NAACP, said the idea that blacks are particularly hurt by the competition for America's lowest-paying jobs is insulting.
"Since when did these become black jobs?" Callender asked. "I don't know where people are getting this idea that African Americans believe immigrants are taking our jobs."
Like Jackson, analysts such as UC Berkeley economist Steven Pitts said the culprits are employers, not immigrants.
"The reality is that with or without immigrants, a major detriment of black job outcomes is the issue of racism in the labor market," Pitts said. "When people talk about immigrants taking black jobs, it places the onus on the workers and not the employers.
"People who are in crisis with low wages, crime and poor education look for scapegoats, and the new ones are immigrants, but they are not the source of the problem."
The loss of jobs is the result of an unjust economy, said the Rev. Amos Brown, president of the San Francisco chapter of the NAACP.
"African Americans know that Hispanics need to get their daily bread and take care of themselves," Brown said. "Some of us still need to evolve to the social and moral level of understanding that you don't have to put someone else down in order to succeed."
Jackson said that the Confederate South "organized whites against blacks on the basis of economic fear, saying we were going to take their jobs. Now with undocumented workers, the same thing is being said to blacks."
Dear 11:10--
Good post--here are a few thoughts:
"If the Ciy (particularly the Mayor & Council)really wanted to save money they'd take away the bilingual bonus since 311 has a contract to assist the non-english speaking public,"
THis contract is MUCH more expensive than the bonus (it's a contract with an outside company that bills by the minute)--much better to do with bonus.
"they'd take away city vehicles and make executives account for their mileage just like the rest of the country does when claiming mileage as a work related expense,"
Agreed. I can see some upper level folks getting cars (standard for us in private sector quite often), but not as many as they do.
"they'd stop the use of "exempt" employees."
Exempt employees are much much better--civil service kills us.
"I can go on and on but since our leaders are a sleep and self serving they don't realize their cost or rather don't want to acknowledge their abuse. And believe it or not there are those of us that work our ass off while these executive folks come in late, leave early, disguise their social activities as work related and bilk the city of big bucks. Don't let the City convince you it's necessary to increase trash fees when they haven't done everything they can to save $$$s"
This I disagree with. I don't know which executives you are talking about, but whether you like the mayor or Councilmember Cardenas (two folks that have enemies on different sides) or not, they both work their asses off. General managers work incredibly long hours. Our problem is not that they are asleep at the wheel. It is that we are too timid to pay for what we get. The trash fees are overdue. Stop thinking about them and look at the price that every other city (usually with larger tax bases per capita) are paying. You gotta pay for it, baby. I know you don't like hearing that, but it is true.
5:52 PM
If you are going to compare our city with others trash fees, stop!
Other cities don't charge residents. Why don't you compare us to this type of city and say we pay too much!!!!!
They should take that poll in New Orleans. Blacks are really upset that all the new jobs to rebuild the city are going to illegals. Why haven't we heard one single black leader from South LA speak on this issue? Felon, parolee Naji Ali sounded as if the blacks are not supporting the illegal issue here in LA. I don't consider him a leader but he's always getting quoted
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