Open Thread for Thursday
We're in day 2 of the end of our long civic nightmare and Time Warner now reigns supreme in Los Angeles. However, this old, dead Republican mayor has been tied up with other things, so just enough time to post an open thread.Here are some topics for you:
1) Term limits. Did the Council really sign off on this train wreck? Will Mayor Villaraigosa veto it? (By the way Joe Mailander's favorite local pundit, Sherry - Not Shirley - Bebitch Jeffee will appear on Patt Morrison's radio show on KPCC at 2:00 p.m. Thursday to talk about term limits.)
2) Did the LA Sheriff's Department give Mel Gibson special treatment?
3) The Sister City made 700,000 hits today. What's your favorite moment?
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 8/03/2006 12:00:00 AM
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COUNCIL JH SUCKS!
National Council La Raza isn't separatist group
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M ichelle Malkin's July 15th online column, "How radical La Raza gets federal subsidies," is filled with inaccuracies about our organization, the National Council of La Raza.
For example, Malkin incorrectly translates our name as "the race." In Spanish, as in English, words have multiple meanings. In our case, "La Raza" means "the people" or "the community." Hispanics are an ethnic group, not a race.
Similarly, Malkin repeats an already discredited charge that we use federal funds for political purposes. In fact, these funds are used to support the work of the Raza Development Fund, the largest Latino community bank in the country, to help fund health clinics, daycare facilities, homes for first-time buyers and community-based charter schools.
Malkin also cites a quote from Marcos Aguilar, which we do not agree with or endorse. NCLR is not a separatist organization, and we do not and have never supported a "Reconquista" (reconquest). As an American institution founded nearly 40 years ago, our mission is to help open the door to the American Dream to all Latinos and we work to help integrate Hispanic immigrants into this great nation through more than 150 community-based organizations that are helping people learn English and become citizens.
I have offered for months to meet with Malkin and she has yet to respond. The offer still stands.
Janet Murguma
President and CEO
National Council of La Raza
Washington, D.C.
INACCURACIES, INCORRECT TRANSLATIONS
Column misrepresents Hispanic group
By Janet Murguia
Re "Separatist group has White House's ear," Michelle Malkin column July 13: [Malkin's column] is filled with inaccuracies about our organization, the National Council of La Raza. For example, Malkin incorrectly translates our name as "the race." In Spanish, as in English, words have multiple meanings, and in our case, La Raza means the people or the community. Hispanics are an ethnic group, not a race.
Similarly, Malkin repeats an already discredited charge that La Raza uses federal funds for political purposes. In fact, these funds are used to support the work of the Raza Development Fund, the largest Latino community bank in the country, to help fund health clinics, day-care facilities, homes for first-time buyers and community-based charter schools.
Malkin also cites a quote from Marcos Aguilar that we do not agree with or endorse. NCLR is not a separatist organization, and we do not and have never supported a reconquista (reconquest).
As an American institution founded nearly 40 years ago, our mission is to help open the door to the American Dream to all Latinos, and we work to help integrate Hispanic immigrants into this great nation through more than 150 community-based organizations that are helping people learn English and become citizens.
I have offered for months to meet with Malkin. She has yet to respond. Is she being impolite, unfair, or is she just afraid to hear the truth? Regardless, the offer stands.
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The writer is president of National Council of La Raza in Washington D.C.
'Race schools'
By Michelle Malkin
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Top White House adviser Karl Rove traveled to Los Angeles to pay homage to the anti-immigration-enforcement lobbying group for Latinos: the National Council of La Raza.
"La Raza" is Spanish for "The Race."
It's bad enough the White House lent its prestige to The Race's annual conference. But did you know the Bush administration has forked over millions of federal tax dollars directly to The Race?
According to GOP Rep. Charlie Norwood of Georgia, The Race snapped up $15.2 million in federal grants last year alone and more than $30 million since 1996. Undisclosed amounts went to get-out-the-vote efforts supporting La Raza political positions. The U.S. Department of Education funneled nearly $8 million in taxpayer grants to the group for a nationwide charter schools initiative.
Among The Race's most infamous government-funded charter schools is La Academia Semillas del Pueblo, the Los Angeles public school that teaches "Aztec math" (ancient dot math is the new math) and the Mexican indigenous language of "Nahuatl." The ethnic separatist principal of the school, Marcos Aguilar, told a sympathetic UCLA interviewer:
"We don't want to drink from a White water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain in our aqueducts. ... (U)ltimately the White way, the American way, the neoliberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction."
That's the tip of the iceberg. I found dozens of other publicly subsidized charter schools sponsored by The Race and funded with our money, including:
Aztlan Academy in Tucson, Ariz. According to The Race, the school's success rests on "Aztlan's ability to integrate a meaningful Chicano Studies program into their lives, language, and academics, as a means of developing their intellects as well as their pride and self-esteem." The school's name -- a reference to a mythical swath of the vast Southwestern U.S. expanse, which Latino activists claim is their rightful homeland and which they seek to reconquer for Mexico -- says it all
Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School in St. Paul, Minn., Board of Directors member Louis Mendoza, an activist Chicano Studies professor, pushed the school to lobby for the federal DREAM Act (providing in-state tuition discounts to illegal alien students not available to legal nonresidents). The school's Web site features one flag on its front page:
the Mexican flag.
The White House will tell you that the National Council of The Race is a "moderate," mainstream civil rights group. But there's nothing "moderate" about The Race's advocacy of driver's licenses and in-state tuition discounts for illegal aliens. Or its opposition to strengthening security for identity documents and improving cooperation on immigration enforcement between state, local and federal enforcement immigration officials.
President Bush pays lip service to immigration enforcement and assimilation while the White House sends Karl Rove to make nice with the separatist leaders of The Race and the Bush Education Department showers our tax dollars on radical Reconquista schools. It doesn't add up.
Unless, of course, you're using Aztec math.
Michelle Malkin is author of the book "Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild."
News Friends in High-Rise Places
Developers make big plans for Westside, write big checks for Antonio
By DAVID ZAHNISER
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 - 6:00 pm
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/friends-in-high-rise-places/14158/
My favorite moment was from Sunday's "Cut And Run" video. I liked seeing Nunez feign indignation to Roy Romer.
u sicko! I luv Nunez
BEST POST!
Didn't recognize Montessori from the pic, but do see her name plastered on a lot of schools. I don't have first hand knowledge of her teaching methodology, but she does have an interesting biography (opposing Mussolini, forced to leave Italy in the 1930s etc.)
Anyway, if anyone should be forced to leave it should be Huizar. I see his fan club has already highlight some of his brilliant quotes this morning. Here's another one:
"There is little to no accountability at the school board."
You said it Jose. You're a walking testimony to that.
OTRO BUEN MUCHO POST
The City's own legislative analyst recommends the Council oppose MAV's power grab, i.e., AB1381. Bottom line, mayor basically gets to pick superintendent, and the mayor and super get jurisidction over siting of schools and "joint development" projects." This is atrocious and MAV does not have the credibility to handle this amount of power.
700,000 hits? Do you know what hits are? Explain yourself. Do you mean pageviews? Unique visitors? What?
Saying hits just shows you are as smart as ITA.
Favorite moment: The first "WHAT HAPPENED TO THE 80 FAKE NEIGHBORHOOD WATCHES" sighting.
Or maybe the first "Parque Esquelto" sighting.
Or maybe the first "Martin Ludlow King" sighting.
Or quite possibly the first "La Antonia Times" sighting.
There ought to be an open-password day, where readers can blog away like complete dum-dums for 24 hours.
The arrogant clowns on city council need to go. Just because 2 organizations wanted this ballot measure they voted for it bypassing neighborhood councils, the people and not listening to Rocky.
Two members of the Ethics Commission said its panel members often have weeks or months to consider and make recommendations on important measures. In this case, they were barely given time to familiarize themselves with the plan's details, they said.
"It showed absolute contempt for the Ethics Commission. I'm really outraged by this," Commissioner Bill Boyarsky said.
Gotta love the Daily News for not being afraid to print the facts...
dailynews.com get whole story
LOOK WHO'S FALLING SHORT ON DECORUM....City Council newly charged with protecting decorum and propriety in council chambers, started late Wednesday....At 10 a.m., when the session was supposed to begin, Councilman Dennis Zine was the sole member visible. Council President Eric Garcetti, who's made it a point to start meetings on time, arrived shortly thereafter, followed by a handful of other members...After nearly 20 minutes, Garcetti, adopting the tone of a frustrated teacher calling the class to order, asked the other members to show up...It took an additional five minutes for them to arrive, though few took their seats or even looked up from the other tasks they were doing when the meeting finally was called to order.... packed with activistss..Yet, as they rose to speak, council members talked on their cell phones, chatted with staffers and typed on their computers. Even the most provocative speakers drew little more than a glance from the 14 elected representatives present.
There was no sign that, a day after approving rules governing the public's behavior while in chambers, the council gave any thought to its own. ..Councilman Jose Huizar, who represents East Los Angeles, missed his scheduled opportunity to speak, pausing from his cell-phone conversation to ask to give his address later.
8:00, I was just going to post that story myself. And these clowns want another 4 years. Unbelievable arrogance and incompetence. Garcetti is a terrible leader.
I just read that old councilmembers can now come back and run. I would love to see Miciowski (sp?) come back. Boy would Rosendahl be shaking in his boots if she ran against him next year. Alarcon or maybe Galanter as well. You gotta read David Z's story in laweekly.com very interesting.
WHERE VILLARAIGOSA'S CASH COMES FROM
What Zahniser found were developers along the Santa Monica Boulevard corridor giving $275,000 — and free to ply the mayor's pet causes with as much juice as they wish because the campaign is not subject to contribution limits.
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"LATINO TONY BLAIR"
Coalition for Change
We invite youth of all races to come and dialogue with one another. Building bridges among our communities is crucial to the future of a multi-ethnic Los Angeles. Let’s start with the youth of Los Angeles. This dialogue will discuss different issues in our youth communities including violence in our schools. Let’s build bridges before its too late.
Sat August 5th, 12-2pm
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Los Angeles, CA 90012
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Panelists:
Li’i Furumoto: Interethnic Relations Coordinator APA Legal Center
Genethia Hudley-Hayes: Former President of LAUSD Board of Education
Joshua Tanamachi Parr: Senior Intergroup Specialist LA County Commission on Human Relations
Raul Preciado: Former Student Body President at Jefferson High School
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Jose Huizar has no spine. He's a jellyfish. His staff is retarded and paranoid that they are going to lose his reelection. I live in CD 14 and won't be voting for Jose again.
"JOSE HUIZAR-RAIGOSA" in body he is Jose, in mind it is whatever Antonio tells him to do.
KEEP TERM LIMITS!!! ALL WE NEED TO HAVE JACKIE GOLDBERG COME BACK!
Speaking of Genethia Hudley-Hayes. She is now on the board of fire commissioners.
Rank and file are trusting that with the other commissioners she does the right thing and recommends to the mayor that in order for a true reform of the fire department as recommended by Laura Chick's audit, that Fire Chief Bill Bamattre and Deputy Chief Andy Fox, who is also disgracing him these days as a Thousand Oaks City Councilmember (see the recent Vetura Grand Jury report about his antics), "retire" for the good of the city and the department.
"Speaking of Genethia Hudley-Hayes. She is now on the board of fire commissioners."
Wasn't she involved in some kind of cover up there in a personnel matter?
NICK PACHECO
WE WANT YOU BACK IN CD-14
Please run against this idiot jose and send him and his stupid phoney ass fake smile back across the border
Huizar, Monroy and Ricazza suck
Yes, really good article by David Zahniser in L.A. Weekly. "Pay-to-play" anyone? Deja vu all over again???
Also, very interesting about the big $$$$ from the Governator's good buddies. Part of the teaming of the "dynamic duo": you help me and I'll help you????
What's being "covered up" at the LAFD is the complete failure in the chain of command, starting with Bill Bamattre.
Facts are facts. Read the audits, count the growing number of lawsuits, and shake your head at what's going on at Board of Rights.
Shout out to David Z on the Weekly article. Many of us suspect the motive behind AB1381 is Developer Dollars for Governor not improving student learning.
This is just the first installment
If the bill passes all contracts with LAUSD run through the new Super to be appointed by the MAYOR
Can you say pay to play.
All you Pachuecos, you're on the wrong thread.
Without saying which mayoral candidate I volunteered for, I have to agree with Mailander that there were several favorite moments we shared.. the 80 neighborhood watch thing only for the first month. After that it was horribly boring. The first Parque Esuelto post... and as bad as this sounds, I must admit.. every single one of MEAT'S posts.
Nick. Don't run. It's over. A woman must run in CD 14.
It is not over until NICK says its over, and right now NO one is more qualified than him NOBODY!
NICK in 07!
YOUR the MAN NICK!
Of course Parke, we understand your need to rest up for the big governor's race.
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