Oops! Rocky Did It Again!
Two items on our favorite State Attorney General candidate.Bradley's newwestnotes.com reports: Asked about his resume flap, LA City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, uphill challenger to former Governor Jerry Brown in the Democratic primary for state attorney general: "If Jerry Brown wants to make the campaign for Attorney General about football and my football prowess, I say let's do it, let's get on the football field one-on-one and I'll even spot him 30 points."
Next, is Rockard playing fast and loose with his life story again? I know exactly how you Rocky lovers will spin this ("He never said he got a Harvard law degree, he said he went to Harvard AND got a law degree.")
Well, anyway, the latest from the Jerry Brown camp shows how good, old Governor Moonbeam has Rocky not only on the ropes, but out of the arena:
Brown Campaign Asks Delgadillo to Pull New Ad
Says Reference to Harvard Law School Deceptive and Misleading
The Brown for Attorney General campaign today wrote a letter to Rockard Delgadillo asking that he immediately pull his new ad which claims that Delgadillo “went on to Harvard earned a law degree...”
In fact, Delgadillo went to Harvard as an undergraduate. He did not attend Harvard Law School. In a letter to Rockard Delgadillo, Brown campaign consultant Ace Smith said:
"I am writing to request that you immediately pull your new television ad in which you make yet another deceptive statement about your background. In the ad you claim that you ‘went on to Harvard earned a law degree...’
In fact, you went to Harvard as an undergraduate. You did not attend Harvard Law School. You never earned a law degree from Harvard as your ad leads viewers to believe.
In light of your past problems caused by the fact that you have repeatedly made false claims about your athletic career, scholarships and academic awards, it is bizarre that you would run a television ad making such a deceptive and misleading claim.
It is nearly two weeks since your earlier falsehoods were revealed and to this day you have refused to take responsibility for them and apologize to the people of Los Angeles for misleading them about your background when you ran for City Attorney in 2001.
Five years later you are again trying to mislead the public about your background.
Please pull this spot immediately and apologize for your past and present behavior.”
Labels: rocky delgadillo
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 6/02/2006 05:08:00 PM
42 Comments:
The odd thing is, he got his law degree from Columbia University, which is a great law school. It's not as though he went to the People's College of Law and failed the bar exam four times without ever passing.
what's so odd about all of this is he has some good stuff - why all the lying - maybe Rocky can spend his leftover campaign cash on a good psychiatrist
Rocky: It's not about football - it's about telling the truth. And if you got on the field of truth with Jerry Brown he'd have to spot you a few thousand points.
challenging a sixty something man to a match of football in the middle of a serious political campaign is one of the more moronic things i have ever heard - next thing you know he'll be threatening to beat him up - great move rd
To anon at 3:51:
LOL.
There was a TV show in the 1980's called "American Gladiator" It was hilarious. Contestants would battle with show regulars in various novel competitions. One involved getting shot at with a tennis-ball gun. Another involved wrestling on a spinning platform. Maybe that's how we should decide who gets to hold office.
Since when is the Hill above Sparkletts (Eagle Rock) near the rail road tracks, and growing up on the East side of what Eagle Rock Blvd. Rocky has always had a hard time telling the truth I remember when he was 10. No one in the family wanted to admit that they were Mexican/and only half at that. Now with his text book Spanish who know where he will end up? Maybe back at Franklin High school still pretending that he is the football coach. Rocky yur no Mr. Vogal.
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It must be psychological. Harvard undergrad, Columbia Law... What more do you need? I say call Dr. Phil asap!
i think this man needs Dr. Freud
Rocktard's ridiculous football challenge to Brown is an ill disguised physical threat. Now we know that when Rocktard's back is against a wall he can get very, very ugly. So much for your gang injunctions you idiot thug.
I thought there was a rule in California that all politicians from the L.A. area had to go to an unaccredited law school.
Then again, Delgadillo's chances of winning aren't very good since he's never been involved in trashing UCLA property either.
More deceptive Rocktard press releases. City attorney "announces gang injunction." Conveniently, the attention grabbing headline omits that Rocktard does not yet have one. I'll take a mayor from an unaccredited law school over a lying city attorney any day.
Walter:
Your "American Gladiators" entry got me thinking:
How about an "undercard" to Rocky fighting Jerry?
Like Jerry's current wife and Linda Ronstandt versus Ann D'Amato & Jennifer Kreiger.
That would be SO AWESOME!!!
Ace, I can't believe how many posts you've made above. Must be some sort of record. To bad no one else is reading.
First of all, I'm not one of Rocky's people. I will say though, resume issues aside, Rocky has done a great job in throwing the smack down on the urban terrorists ruling the streets of LA. His gang injunctions are the way to go if we want to get a handle on these idiot gangsters!! I would like to see what he could do statewide given the chance.
From Walter:
**********To anon at 3:51:
LOL.
There was a TV show in the 1980's called "American Gladiator" It was hilarious. Contestants would battle with show regulars in various novel competitions. One involved getting shot at with a tennis-ball gun. Another involved wrestling on a spinning platform. Maybe that's how we should decide who gets to hold office.
June 02, 2006 4:19 PM ******
Walter is the kind of guy who should be the mayor of the second largest city in the nation. He has impeccable taste. I just don't ever want a mayor who was an "American Gladiator" fan.
In fact, how about if Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie did a "Simple Life" show in the political arena and they got to pick the mayor based on "whatever" they feel is important issues to them. We're forced to keep him for 4 years. Walter would probably laugh and laugh..
From Walter:
**********To anon at 3:51:
LOL.
There was a TV show in the 1980's called "American Gladiator" It was hilarious. Contestants would battle with show regulars in various novel competitions. One involved getting shot at with a tennis-ball gun. Another involved wrestling on a spinning platform. Maybe that's how we should decide who gets to hold office.
June 02, 2006 4:19 PM ******
Walter is the kind of guy who should be the mayor of the second largest city in the nation. He has impeccable taste. I just don't ever want a mayor who was an "American Gladiator" fan.
In fact, how about if Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie did a "Simple Life" show in the political arena and they got to pick the mayor based on "whatever" they feel is important issues to them. We're forced to keep him for 4 years. Walter would probably laugh and laugh..
Religious freak -
That was fucking hilarious. If you are a human being who reads that shit and follows it - you need more help than anyone can give you.
What kind of person could go through life "buying" this stuff?
Oops, Mayor Sam did it again. Another Rocky-bashing article.
Yawn.
What else do you expect from Rocky who was initially put in the office by LAPD thugs needing him to cover up the aftermath of Rampart. He committed perjury by certifying he qualified for the LA City Attorney office when he did not. Now, he is heavily funded by LAPA+Prison guards unions Alliance.
Mayor Sam please delete that insane long post.
I will give Rocky credit for the gang injunctions but what else has he done? Ok give him the neighborhood prosecutor program too. But his corruption with the slum lords and taking money from the billboard companies instead of prosecuting them lost him a lot of support. Also, with ALL the people in LA why would he have to put one of his city staffers in his campaign TV ad????? Bad move Rocky, you really showed people you may not have the support you thought.
To Anon at 1:09 a.m.
1. Like you would vote for me anyway!
2. Dude, 1:09 a.m., Saturday morning, and you're blogging about me? Here's something to add to your to-do list today, right after "pick up dry-cleaning:" "GET A LIFE!" Yikes.
THE WAR HAS STARTED
In a serious break with Chief William Bratton, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Friday repudiated the chief's strong public stand against stripping the LAPD of key responsibilities in emergencies at LAX and giving that authority to Airport Police.
Antonio would rather have rent a cops handling terrorists threats at LAX then the best trained LAPD. Typical of his mentality.
We are reporting this to the Los Angeles City Ethics Department because Delgadillo must resign his CURRENT position.
It is utterly unacceptable for Delgadillo to go unchecked.
I can assure you that we will make this follow Delgadillo around not just for future elections, but to every law firm he ever works for in his post political career.
Do you know what's more angering? Delgadillo's flippant comment about playing Jerry Brown in football.
That is a bully mentality.
That is what Rocky is. A lying bully.
This is what happens when you have a scumbag MAYOR. Scumbag Villaraigosa and his scumbag city attorney.
I don't see Tony Villar weighing in on honesty. After all, this involves the City Attorney of his city.
Watch the nasty comments Nathalie. Your stench can be smelled a mile away.
I don't think Rocky and Villaraigosa are friends or on the same page. Remember Antonio had his croonie Laura Chick N Shit audit Rocky.
9:59 AM
Repeat after me: It is not an ethics violation to tell the truth.
Rocky did go to Harvard and he did get a law degree. The Ethics Commission has real violations to investigate, not political smears.
How about that Brown incident where he reportedly smashed a woman's cell phone and made racist remarks. Now there's one that merits investigation.
11:11
The Alameda County DA investigated those claims and found they had no merit, Rocktard. Is it an ethics violation to use city funds for a wig and some dentures?
No merit? Where is the report? What we heard is that the "investigation" has been "delayed". What a conicidence ...
Sorry Rocktard, but once again you are so wrong. The investigation is not delayed, it is fully completed, reported as such in the papers, and found no merit whatsoever to the claims made by a very drunk woman.
Now let's get back to who paid for your plugs and denture work.
Brown not cut out for top cop
Neither his hefty resume nor his, shall we say, occasionally otherworldly interests make former governor Jerry Brown a good fit for state attorney general.
By STEVEN GREENHUT
Most of us at some point in our lives have had a job interview that has ended with the interviewer saying something to this effect: "Mr. So and So, while you have interesting skills, we don't think you are the right fit for the position or our company."
After last week interviewing former governor and current Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown, who is running for California's attorney general post, I'm left wanting to pull out that old human-resources blow-off. "Yeah, Mr. Brown, you've got some really good experience, and many interesting things to say. But do you really think this is the right job for you? This is the top law enforcement position in the state, where you would have subpoena power and would be in charge of criminal-justice matters, including a death-penalty you view as Nazi-like. I'm afraid this isn't the right fit for you."
On Tuesday, California voters have a choice in the Democratic primary for attorney general between Brown and Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo. The Republican primary features state Sen. Chuck Poochigian of Fresno, an author of major crime-fighting legislation, who is running unopposed. In job interviews where managers choose the right candidate, this selection process would be a no-brainer. Delgadillo and Poochigian would be the two finalists, as both of them have excellent credentials for the position.
But public opinion polls in the Democratic primary show Brown to be heavily favored, thanks mainly to his name identification. Jerry Brown, the son of former Gov. Pat Brown, was elected governor in 1974, where he served eight unusual years at the state government's helm, earning him the overused nickname of Gov. Moonbeam. In terms of law enforcement, his main "accomplishment" was appointing Rose Bird to the California Supreme Court, where she used her power to overturn every death penalty conviction – 61, according to Wikipedia – that came before her. She was tossed from the court by an angry electorate.
That was then, this is now. "I live in Oakland, in a neighborhood where we had seven murders," he told me. "That gets your attention. I have been sensitized." He talks tough on gangs, saying gang members only understand jail time. Recent news reports quote Oakland community leaders who complain that the governor has gone from "Zen Buddhism to Rambo." Campaigns debate the condition of crime in Oakland, with the Brown folks focusing on the significant overall crime drops since the 1990s, while his opponents focus on the murder spike, with 50 homicides recorded in the past four months. It all depends on your timeline.
From the position of the attorney general's office, a crucial issue is capital punishment, something Californians widely embrace for incorrigible and violent criminals, but which Brown has a career of opposing. "I have shown over a long history a great fidelity to the law of California," he said, emphasizing that he would enforce the laws as they are written despite his personal views of them.
When deciding on a candidate, I'm a firm believer in looking at the total record and downplaying the last-minute conversions. Those conversions often are motivated – big surprise here – by the need to take the right positions as the candidate seeks another office.
Let's give Brown the benefit of the doubt and not go back to the Gov. Brown days. What was Brown saying a few years ago? Well, in 1996, on his "We the People" radio show, Brown slammed the execution of William Bonin, who murdered 21 teenage boys: "On Feb. 23, 1996, here in the San Francisco Bay Area, William Bonin was sent to his death, murdered by the state, by our representatives, in our name, to protect us. ... There isn't the same mood of generosity or humanity to look at what we are really doing. ..."
That's charmingly quaint 1970s-era "soft on crime" gibberish, which I gleaned from links to radio transcripts provided me by Ken Khachigian, who is overseeing the Poochigian campaign. Brown expressed those thoughts two years before he became mayor. He says that he has grown in office since then, but look at his ideological foundations. Sen. Poochigian nails the problem here. Back in the 1970s, when Brown and others like him were in charge, their theories of criminal justice propelled the crime rate into the stratosphere. That's what helped move George Deukmejian into the governor's office after Brown.
"We've seen a dramatic change starting in the 1980s," Poochigian said, with prison building, three strikes and other laws based on tougher assumptions about the motivations of criminals. The crime rate has dropped substantially, but now that it has dropped the public seems less concerned about crime and might be willing to elect Brown and move back in the other direction. "Brown doesn't want to focus on traditional law enforcement issues," the senator told me.
Delgadillo, whose focus is gang crime, seems to agree. After talking to him, his staff joked that it seemed as if Brown were running to be United Nations representative. Delgadillo is a liberal Democrat, but at least his views on crime come from the right planet.
But Brown's retro views on crime are no less troubling than his views on the evils of corporate America. The attorney general, remember, can use the power of the state to launch investigations against private companies and individuals for many reasons. Some AGs, such as New York's ambitious, spotlight-seeking Eliot Spitzer, have used their vast powers to wage political crusades against anti-abortion activists, gun makers and others they view as evil. This is a hugely powerful position ... a state investigation can bankrupt many companies and destroy the lives of individuals.
"The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein," Brown said in a 1995 "We the People" radio show. "Corporations are ripping us off and we need to understand the mechanism." He argued to me that the radio show was meant to be provocative and is a form of entertainment, not a fair description of his views. He also argued that he has encouraged much investment in Oakland and has been quite friendly to private companies. But in our discussions, it seemed clear Brown would put the environment ahead of property rights, and his views are still hostile to private enterprise.
Remember, Brown's anti-free-market language is not from the past. Speaking at the Boalt Hall School of Law a little more than two months ago he said that "Hundreds of thousands of working people are currently exploited and as attorney general I could and will go after employers with our lawyers to enforce the law," according to the campus newspaper. In my interview with him, Brown emphasized the threat of global warming and said he would defend a California anti-global-warming law against the Bush administration, which could provide some insight into the priorities of a Brown administration. "With over 1,100 lawyers and 5,000 employees at his disposal, the California attorney general has great powers," explained Khachigian. "Irresponsible use of these powers could have an enormously destructive effect. ... It's clear that the massive powers in this agency would be implemented to fulfill his passion of tearing down the corporate structure and, as he has already promised, aggressively prosecuting employers."
Brown adamantly denies that, saying he would have "a sense of restraint." But which Brown do we believe, the corporate-hating leftist or the newly sensitized Oakland mayor? Nevertheless, the interview was delightful, as Brown meandered from thoughts on Mother Teresa to Friedrich Hayek. Fascinating stuff. If we were electing a state philosopher, I might walk precincts for the guy. But as a top cop?
I hope voters will say, "Thanks for applying, Mr. Brown. We'll keep your resume on file, just in case we have another opening. This just isn't the right fit."
Oh no, when Leviticus drops into the thread, you know the Poochies have arrived.
LOS ANGELES, June 3, 2006 -- Making multiple false claims to the public about his past and committing perjury in 2001 about his qualification on an application for his present job may just be the tip of a huge iceberg for the LAPD-endorsed Delgadillo.
http://la.indymedia.org/
If Rocky can get rid of the city's #1 Gangbanger, Frijole Boy Villaraigosa, I will vote for him!
RECALL VILLARAIGOSA!
Sign petition on http://www.watchdog.com
250,000 signatures needed...we can do it!
Which Rocky is the Professional Football Player?
by Ralph Harrison Sunday, Jun. 04, 2006 at 10:19 PM
adlueh875@yahoo.com
Which Rocky Delgadillo is the Professional Football Player that he was telling voters about in his 2001 and 2004 elections?
download PDF (16.5 kibibytes)
A: The one in the left photo;
B: The one in the right photo; or
C: Neither one.
(Both photos can be viewed at Rocky2006.com).
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/162345.php
How amusing. You Brown lovers must never go to the dentist. Got teeth?
Why are people making such a big deal about the commercial and saying Rocky is lying about his credentials....jealous...his credentials are something to be proud of...Harvard undergrad, Columbia law school....Wow "he attended Harvard...and law school....blame the slip on the person who produced the commercial for the oversight or the unclarity of it>...That doesn't take anything away from him, and his work......You go Rocky!
Rockard lied, fool. It's too late to defend him. He's toast. Outclassed, outgunned
And there's a big difference between getting your teeth cleaned and getting them sanded down to nubs of exposed nerve, then using atomic superglue to attach artificial fangs. One is normal maintenance, the other is a cosmetic nightmare.
I notice you did not address the plugs.
I've heard of fear of the dentist, but you Brownies take the cake.
Keep smiling, Rocktard.
p.s.--
Go Democrats!
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