Election Tidbits
We hear that longtime neighborhood council activist and teacher Bennet Kayser may have taken out papers to run for the Board of Education seat being vacated by David Tokofsky. Kayser previously served as member of the Charter Reform Commission and has run for the Los Angeles City Council.
In other news, Alex Padilla staffer Felipe Fuentes and former Assemblywoman Cindy Montanez both announced Monday they would not be running to suceed Padilla in his 7th District seat as he assumes his new seat in the California State Senate. Both are bowing out due to the entry of former Councilman and now recently elected Assemblyman Richard Alarcon.
However, if David Hernandez' and Ted Hayes' legal challenge to the Proposition R term limits scan is succesful Alarcon would not be eligible to take the Council seat.
Richard Riordan backed candidate Monica Rodriguez has stated she will remain in the race and has hired John Shallman as her campaign consultant.
Suggestion - Fuentes and Montanez find a way to quietly funnel some resources to the Prop R lawsuit.
In other news, Alex Padilla staffer Felipe Fuentes and former Assemblywoman Cindy Montanez both announced Monday they would not be running to suceed Padilla in his 7th District seat as he assumes his new seat in the California State Senate. Both are bowing out due to the entry of former Councilman and now recently elected Assemblyman Richard Alarcon.
However, if David Hernandez' and Ted Hayes' legal challenge to the Proposition R term limits scan is succesful Alarcon would not be eligible to take the Council seat.
Richard Riordan backed candidate Monica Rodriguez has stated she will remain in the race and has hired John Shallman as her campaign consultant.
Suggestion - Fuentes and Montanez find a way to quietly funnel some resources to the Prop R lawsuit.
Labels: proposition r
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 12/12/2006 09:46:00 AM
38 Comments:
How much tax payer money has Alarcon wasted?
Assembly Set Up- $30,000
Assembly Staff- $650,000
Council Salary- $180,000
Being a shameless Politico- Priceless
Alarcon is from Valley?
I thought he was from Los Angeles. He ran for mayor.
I don't know too much about Monica Rodriguez, but if someone could shed light, that would be great.
Frankly, I am not happy with Alarcon and his desire to run for LA City Council since he has only served less than two weeks in the Assembly.
I also wonder what kind of deals were made behind close doors regarding the withdrawl of Montanez and Fuentes from the race.
I saw we throw out all these people and start with a fresh slate of officials.
"Deals" made? Oh, my, is that possible!!!!? With Antonio in the middle, perhaps?
Who's Antonio's El Sereno pushovers?
Parra?
Why don't the lazy LA reporters ever say that when Huizar was school board prez for 4 years HE DID NOTHING. Someone slap Jose next time he stands up in council and states, "When I was prez of LAUSD." You'd think he would be embarrassed saying that. Then you have the drop out cholo mayor in a suit who represented the nation's 2nd most over crowded school in his district and HE DID NOTHING. Now all of a sudden he cares about the kids. ZUMA YOU ARE RIGHT ON THE MONEY. They want to get their hands into that $$$$$$$
uly 2002 - “Reform Board” grants up to 2.9 million dollars to an arm of the Alliance for a Better Community to do work on the contaminated Belmont Learning Center project. The Alliance’s team includes a host of politically influential members, including billionaire Eli Broad. “Reform Board” member, Jose Huizar and Superintendent Romer defend the decision to front the money arguing that: “ If you look at ABC itself, those are civic-minded, concerned citizens”. Of the 2.9 million dollars only $263,775 is to go to construction, while the bulk would go to project administration and consultants LA Times 7-10-2002 | PDF page 52
April 2005 - Issue of Mayoral appointment of School Board picks up momentum, becoming an issue in the Los Angeles Mayoral campaign, advocated by Richard Riordan and Theodore Mitchell, ex-President of Occidental College and appointed Chair of Governor Schwarzenegger’s Committee on Education and Excellence. Board Presidents Caprice Young and Jose Huizar are also appointees. Eli Broad pushes this governance idea legislatively. Seven of California’s largest school districts are initially slated for mayoral control including Los Angeles.
July 29, 2005 – The Presidents’ Joint Commission On LAUSD Governance is formed. The commission is mandated for a one-year duration, to study educational governance issues by City Council President, Alex Padilla and Board of Education President, Jose Huizar.
July 21, 2006 – A confidential letter from Eli Broad to Mayor Villaraigosa, dated June 30, 2006, “surfaces” in the press. Broad admonishes the mayor for not supporting SB 767 and for negotiating with the teacher’s union. He proffers amendments to AB 1381. One of them insists that the Inspector General “must report directly to the Council of Mayor’s”.
August 8, 2006 – AB 1381 is amended. The Inspector General’s budget is now under the control of the Board of Education. However, the language substitutes commanding legal words like require and shall, in directives to the board regarding the IG, for the vagueness of words such as authorize and may. This maintains the uncertainty of whether the Inspector General will even have permission to exist and if so, perhaps who will appoint him.
August 9, 2006 – Chief Legislative Analyst for the City of Los Angeles recommends that the City Council oppose AB 1381 unless the mayor of each city represented in the Council of Mayors pursue a memoranda of understanding with the consent of each respective city’s and county’s legislative body, and that the superintendents power to make contracts be contingent upon approval by the Board of Education.
Alarcon has relatives in noreste cd 14.
Something just hit me. (I'm a little slow, sometimes, but then it hits me like an anvil.)
I was thinking it was City Council who is trying to effectively eliminate the LAUSD school board with this new Charter Amendment regarding term-limits, campaign financing, committee review board, and whatever other stuff they are cramming into the Jose Huizar-written ballot measure for March (Charter Amendment).
So let's face it, the mayor still enough juice with City Council to get this LAUSD "spay and neuter" amemdement of the March ballot.
So, although the mayor may claim to be excited to work with the LAUSD school board, to help the kids, under AB 1381, but let's face it; when you follow the actions (not the political spin), a real railroading is happening at the hands of Antonio and his political muppets like that Nucklehead Nunez. And I'd still like to know why Eli Broad and Richard Riordan are so hell bent on all of this?
If Broad or Riordan cared so damn much about kids, you'd think they would take their millions or billions and sponsor one poor kid a year and send them to college.
Instead of trying to form capitalistic, entrepreneurial schools. That's rich.
Zuma Dog I was starting to have some faith in you then you go and ask an elementary question.
Eli Broad/Riordan/AV/Nunez all are following the contracts. I would definitely want to control the budgets but more importantly I would loooovvvveee to control the bond construction money. AB1381 addresses nothing that actually has anything to do with the classroom education or results in the classroom.
What it does address is who's running what budgets.
For example and mark my words...the three clusters will be comprised of the group of schools defined as have the highest potential for school construction development in their areas (term used loosely).
Don't think of them in terms related to school improvement, underachieving or quick fix to raise API clusters. If you do/are you are completely out of the game.
Think of them as the one's with the most potential for building where there will be less opposition from the community and then look around and see where all the LLC's held by Broad and Riordan are land holders or where new LLC's are being established by the land acquisitions being negotiated.
Start by getting a realtor friend to run a profile once a month that tract the changing of owners of 3+ acre properties within the boundaries of LAUSD. Ah, now your wising up my friend.
Zuma Dog, first you must use your sense of smell and then it's good to use those hind legs. Use them both and use them wisely.
BY:
Little ole me in the corner of a valley
On July 23, 2004, the Los Angeles Times reported that a federal grand jury is now investigating the Los Angeles Unified School District’s $74.5-million acquisition of a downtown high-rise building which now serves as its administrative headquarters. In 2003, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s major fraud division launched an inquiry into whether or not the school district overpaid for the purchase of this building in order to bail out its past investors, such as billionaire Eli Broad.
Despite the dual investigations, an additional $73 million has been spent on improvements and repairs on the new headquarters, bringing the total to $147 million, an amount which even the teachers union and other critics allege is a waste.
There is also a new $40 million plan to build additional parking areas for the headquarters. According to the Los Angeles Times, Board of Education President Jose Huizar abstained from the original vote on the purchase of the building and still concedes that “from a financial and location criteria, this wasn’t the best possibility” for a district headquarters.
LAUSD is corrupt AND clueless! And Eli Broad benefits all the way.
I've seen the universal pre-school commercials, but I didn't notice Broad's involvement. This guy needs to be exposed for the scum he is. But he's greasing the skids on all fronts, contributing big to the current admin as well as all his Dem-Rat co-conspirators
Yep, there's a First Five commercial out there with ol' Eli's herdin' the little babies on a aeroplane.
I guess socialism has been good to him.
Eli is the Broad of K&B
Charlotte Dobbs and Company -- Fundraising ProfessionalsLAUSD BOARD MEMBER JOSE HUIZAR: Coordinating fundraising for re-election ... annual fundraising luncheon in 1999, honoring Eli Broad, and luncheons in 2000
Excellence in LA Schools :: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Committee ...City Councilman Jose Huizar, the former LAUSD board president who backs the ... a $100000 donation from civic leader Eli Broad - to run an informational
Jose is a nice guy, but so is his $300,000 toilet. He has a bright future, unlike those students that account for the 65% Latino dropout rate. As president of the LAUSD, he is the point man for all the bad currently going on with the district, if there had been some improvement during his tenure, then by all means, throw your hat in the ring - but this is not the case, things have gotten worse. He aligned himself with Tony and will hire his underlings - they will be only cannon fodder team that have proven they can win and have been waiting in the sidelines for two years - some for six.
Jose Huizar is still a baby in diapers. He can't do anything without consulting someone a little older. The majority of residents who backed ADV in 2003 hate him so much they realized what a great job Nick did. CD14 can't afford to train anyone and Jose has no experience. Jose is the outsider. Sure in lives in the district but he never thought enough to attend any meetings unless it was his personal agenda. He is a flip flopper just like ADV. That association alone with hurt him and the fact that word around CD14 is Jose tippped Richard Muerlo to the land LAUSD was holding for a school. Jose in no way can play with the big boys. He needs about 10 yrs to mature.
But for those that know me, including Jose Huizar, Enrique Gasca, Alvin Parra, and Antonio Villaraigosa and his wife Corina, know that I have always operated with the highest integrity and with my community's best interest in mind. Well my daughter is much better now and I am back.
In conclusion, I like Jose Huizar. He is from the same state that my mother is from, Zacatecas, Mexico. He has a lot to offer our community. But your character became suspect when you aligned yourself with Antonio - you know this. All this Grass Root activism could have been yours, but true colors come through when you are under pressure - and you caved to Antonio, not the kind of leader we need. But lots of luck to you and your team, strong aggressive campaigns only make our community that much stronger.
Jose Huizar was school board prez for 4 years yet why isn't anyone asking him WHY DIDN'T YOU DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE PROBLEM THEN? Just goes to show Jose has NO clout and is just a puppet. He's done nothing in his district and no one tells him anything about what's going on. He always finds out AFTER the fact.
Nahhhhhhh!
The LAUSD stumbles from one disaster to another and Huizar will be held accountable. Get prepared Jose.
Good morning ladies and gentlemen (looks at 10:27 with raised eyebrow):
You Yanks never cease to amaze me. Bloody hell, are you now waking up and smelling the Bandini?
Sirrah, you had the chance on November 7th to start with a fresh slate and instead chose not to. Many of you chose not to. And while my record of calling elections is equal to the record of the Clowncil for acting honestly and ethically, I would say that your cries of woe (or whoa!) are too litle too late. Whether you are happy with Alarcon or not is not worth a tinker's damn. Your fellow citizens voted in him and his friends to Sacramento and beyond, and all of you should be happy with your choices. SMILE, DAMN IT! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE HAPPY!!!!
Welcome to pizza politics (aka Chicago style) where a closed door equals good business and we are the ones with tomato sauce on our faces. Take a good look around you. Lots of closed doors there are. Even Lisa Sarno, if you will, keeps her door closed, savvy?
And of course should you open the door you'll most likely find the usual suspects behind it (i.e., the ones that didn't walk the plank). Rubbing their hands gleefully together and gloating about their hoodwinking prowess.
What was it that the employer of the other little midget used to say? Smiles, everyone! Smiles! Smiles!
Mayor SCAM why did you delete that post about Trujillo and AV and their intimidation of Tokofsky to get out of the race? The usual Trujillo-Nathan slimeball operation. Someday, it will stop working. Wall now we all know that Mayor SCAM is scamming with AV and that Mike Trujillo is one of his butt buddies.
Any one verify that Monica Rodriguez has the Mayor's endorsement and what does that mean or is it retracted after seeing the same polls that Felipe and Cindy saw.
Rodriguez has been saying to community members in the CD 7 that she has a BIG announcement early next week.
So what will Cindy now do??
...and where will her staff all go
I think that both Alarcon and Rodriguez need to look out for Oscar Mendoza... He's been silent for now, who knows what he's got planned. Anyone know anything? Whos helping him?
There is one of those stupid constituents that was referred to in the last thread.
Is someone seriously asking if Alarcon could run for mayor because he is from the Valley?
No, I'm going to assume it's a joke.
CD 7-
I think Cindy will get a nice commission from Nunez and I think that her staff will all get good jobs with various other electeds. They're all great staffers. She should be closer to home though. If we wanted to elect someone really good for the city, it would be Cindy. Good people. Hard worker.
Felipe was thrown for a loop because nobody really knows who he is and the mayor wouldn't have backed him and he was basically screwed when Richard got in the race. He'll move on to the next available job that will somehow further his career
Oscar Mendoza? Way too new. No way. He showed up on the scene around 2001 for secession and nobody has seen him since. No name recognition and couldn't go up against anyone in the race.
Monica Rodriguez? You actually think her BIG announcement would be the Mayor's endorsement? That's pretty funny. Sure.
All the Broad/Riordan/LAUSD regular budget and bond construction money/Huizar talk is making me livid.
We should all send money to David Hernandez' Anti-Prop R legal fund.
If anyone has proven that he can stand up to Richard and the establishment it's OSCAR MENDOZA. He's done it once before during sessession. He is to be commended for his effort. I am going to VOTE for him, and will support him in anyway I can. I suggest that the rest of you do the same.
A VOTE FOR MENDOZA IS A VOTE FOR DEMOCRACY...
A VOTE FOR ALARCON IS A VOTE FOR MOCKARY OF THE SYSTEM.
Brace your self people, I smell a new and vibrant leadership Imerging from the Mendoza camp.
Oscar, kick Richard's ass for all of us who are tired of him and the rest of that clan...
GO MENDOZA
Cindy could have beaten Alarcon. The system is so corrupt. Alarcon gets a full pension with the years he will get on Council and the community doesn't get served. When will people who actually want to do the job run for council. This is a sad day for the city.
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