Citizen of the Year: Jim Alger
He came in a close second earlier this year when he ran in the 38th Assembly Democratic primary but this time Jim Alger came out on top in our first ever Sister City Citizen of the Year poll. That means according to our readers the President of the Northridge West Neighborhood Council and Vice President of the Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Congress is the person who had the most impact in 2006 besting Mayor Villaraigosa by 45 votes.Interestingly, third place went to 12th District Councilman Greig Smith who as far I as can tell was most noted for sleeping in Council meetings in 2006.
Remember this poll is not scientific and is only the votes of the folks who read this blog and bothered to vote. But it is interesting.
Jim Alger 23.1% 249
Antonio Villaraigosa 19% 204
Greig Smith 11.2% 120
Rocky Delgadillo 10.8% 116
David Hernandez 8.5% 91
Richard Riordan 6.7% 72
Dennis Zine 6.2% 67
John and Ken 5.9% 64
Zuma Dogg 5.5% 59
Doug McIntyre 1.4% 15
Alex Padilla 1.3% 14
Eli Broad 0.2% 2
Marcos Aguilar 0.1% 1
Bernard Parks 0.1% 1
Tenny Pierce 0.1% 1
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Posted by Mayor Sam @ 1/01/2007 01:24:00 AM
21 Comments:
Congratulations Jim! Thank you for all your volunteer time and hard work and passion to make things better.
I know people with no life and who are lonely and depressed will come on here and personally attack you. Jim, you have a hell of a lot of support from many of us over the hill. We will see you at the next meeting.
Happy New Year first of all. Secondly, I want to comment on the Greig Smith vote. let me point out the terms again on this vote (verbatim from the original post):
"The Sister City Citizen of the Year will go to the person who has had the most impact on Los Angeles in 2006, regardless of whether its negative or positive."
So I'm voting that Algers was positive, the mayor was negative, and Greig's people went out of their way to fix his vote, cause he couldn't stand having less impact than Rocky, and besides, who ever heard of Greig Smith?
Jim is showing great skill at being a politician. Saying all the right things and kissing all the right a$$
Poli= Many
Tics= blood sucking creatures
Jim may be OK but. Sure seems to want to be a politician awfully bad???
Maybe thats where the money is
8:59 am - before you slander someone with allegations of corruption and crimminal activity, perhaps you should back it up with som facts.
Every dime the NC's spend is available online and considering that NENC has $37,000 of its $50,000 available don't think too much was "diverted". Why do you morons act as if Jim has the power to divert NC money in the first place? The City Controller writes the checks after an official vote of the board and a countersigned Demand Warrant to which Jim isn't even a signitory just to prevent even the appearance of inpropriety... an yet you Alger haters who can't find anything good to say just go and make it up.
I hope he sues your asses.
Jim is definately one of the more influential people in Los Angeles and his leadership of the NC's during the recent Sarno fight has been second to none but not sure he has had more influence then the Mayor.
Jims' draw is that he will actually say what everyone else thinks (usually diplomaticly) and in doing so shows a boldness not seen in most.
He also isn't afraid to go to the public (or NC's) for support if he can't win during "behind the scenes" talking. That is where his true strength is. I will never forget watching him in City Council when Cardenas and Smith tried to assert jurisdiction over the DWM MOU. He was standing in opposition and during his comments he read a list of NC's and as he read their names they would stand up behind him. It was powerful and in the end Councilman Cardenas had to withdraw his motion. That is the type of leadership the NC's need more of. Knowing when to use the carrot, and when to swing the stick.
Congrats Jim!
Touche on Jim. I was at that council meeting and it took a big man like Cardenas to retract his motion because of Jim and his NC's support. All those haters could never get as many people as Jim can to one meeting to discuss an issue. People know who Jim is and unlike the immature Zuma you don't see him patting himself constantly congratulating himself. Having said that when anyone slams him its the right time to come out and put it out there. Good for you Jim and know that many NC's reps citywide have your back.
I wonder how many times Jim voted for himself?
I tried too vote for MAV twice, it didn't let me so I am thinking Jim has better things to do over the holidays than find a way around the voting blocks on a blog.
Hello NC participants,
NC is covered extensively by many people who have participated in NC waaaaaay more than ZD. (I've attended a handful of various meetings across the City, but not to the extent of so many others who present information on Mayor Sam regarding NC.
(I still to other issues, not covered as much.)
But, after reading Janice Hahn's article (posted below), I made some calls and reached out to a few folks from the community to find out both sides of the story regarding Sarno/Chick/Mayor Tony vs NC members.
And here's what I think is going to need to occur, before NC can finally be the effective public input tool and even ifluence City policy, beyond the combative struggle it now encounters:
Although it COULD be said that audits from Laura Chick of NC members can be constrewed as nothing more than targeting problematic NC members who oppose the Mayor, Council and their policies, someone made a good point:
For NC to be taken more seriously by Council, certain things need to happen FIRST. First of all, there is $50,000 some of these NC members have to play with, and there is spending that can go un-accounted for, and NC needs to be as accountable as CC. And even though my mere mentioning of this point will infuriate some of my close political activist friends who will stand by the point any audits or accountability is really just political retaliation. THE POINT IS (from a marketing warfare point of view)...UNTIL YOU CAN THROW IT BACK IN THE FACE OF THOSE PEOPLE OUT TO GET YOU THROUGH AUDITS, THEY WILL ALWAYS BE ABLE TO SHUT DOWN ANY AND ALL BRIDGE BUILDING WITH THESE CLAIMS OF ABUSE.
Secondly, people in the community involved have told me (and I have witnessed it myself) that sometimes you have three people at a meeting carrying motions. Or you can get elected with 40 votes. In other words, until there is more participation from more people in the community, NC blockers will just say, "Yeah, it's three people they are representing."
And here's an idea that might help increase NC participation, and bigger election turn-out.
HAVE CITY WIDE NC ELECTIONS ALL AT THE SAME TIME. Then people will be aware of the NC elections on a City wide basis (more publicity) and more participation. Then, they will taken more seriously,
And finally, talk about ZD and decorum. I've never broken out into a fistfight with anyone during a Council meeeting. You gotta get that kind of stuff straightened out.
So, unlike most ZD posts, I'm not here to pass judgement or add opinion. Just report back, that based on my feedback from various districts of the community, these are the challenges facing NC in regards to the type of effectivness Janice Hahn would like to see.
ZD, The United States Congerss and more than one State Legislature have devolved into fistfights, it is not a common occurence there, nor is it one in the NC's.
NC's funds ARE audited every year. EVERY dime has to be approved and it is the City Controller who issues the checks. The petty cash they have on hand is less than $1,000.00 so talk about a red herring. There is always going to be "questionable" expenditures, but that depends on who is asking the questions. Remember, DONE has to approve these expenditures.
Fraud. I smell another Florida.
Congrats Jim!
And also a big thanks for being
a consultant to the No Home Depot Campaign!
Slander, schmander, 1:48. Ethics problems are ethics problems. Sloppy administration is sloppy administration. Let JA sue everyone who tossed him out of office in his NC because of these kinds of issues. The guy can't take criticism. He was the first one whining to the City when he thought someone was accusing him of something even though he wasn't even named by name. If the shoe fits...get your friends to vote you "citizen of the year" to make it look like a glass slipper!
I'm with Alger all the way. If what he did at Northridge West was so bad, why did he get re-elected shortly after losing in an election DONE threw out because of flawed procedures?
Alger gets out there and takes the bruises and bleeds for the rest of us. We should be grateful. Enough with the nitpicking. Nobody's perfect.
A flawed procedure for which he as the Neighborhood Council President was obligated to ensure was completed correctly.
He of course takes no responsibility for a lack of outreach and no responsibility for the flawed procedures. Ironically both situation benefit him, a lack of outreach ensures no competition and a suprise possible Brown Act violation that overturned a vote which ousted him as President. The leadership of the Council, Alger, had an obligation to ensure proper procedures were followed.
According to Alger, proper procedures were not followed and a new vote placed him back in the Presidency.
Jim, "I am not a crook" Alger, Man of the Year?
"The leadership of the Council, Alger, had an obligation to ensure proper procedures were followed."
Sounds like that is exactly what he did, and sounds like you don't like it. Did your side have enough votes to oust him? NO... you could only get 4 out of 13 and now you whine.
GO JIM!
5:05 / 7:17 am, I can take criticism just fine, I just prefer it to be based on facts, not spin.
"He was the first one whining to the City when he thought someone was accusing him of something even though he wasn't even named by name."
WOW how wrong is that. First someone DID accuse me BY NAME of many false things, my complaint was not that they did so, bbut they did so in JULY, Sarno included it in her report in NOVEMBER and the first I ever heard about it was DECEMBER when it was posted on the DONE website.
My point was that if Sarnos' report had a basis, wouldn't you expect she would at least contact the parties involved before using a charge contained in an email as support for her slanderous report against the entire system? Of course the allegations had no merit, which is why I was never contacted. She did this repeatedly, I was able to use mine as merely an example of a shoddy hatchet job of a so-called report.
"He of course takes no responsibility for a lack of outreach"
What lack of outreach? Our NC sends out thousands of flyers each month... oh the ELECTION... your still pissed that I wouldn't campaign for someone else... nope. Not my job to campaign for someone else.
"and no responsibility for the flawed procedures."
The "flawed proceedures" you speak of was STATE LAW. The City Attorney provided advise and the board decided to hold a new vote. Had my opponent HAD THE MAJORITY OF VOTES, he would have won. It really is that simple.
"Ironically both situation benefit him, a lack of outreach ensures no competition"
Compietition for what? I wasn't up for election.
"and a suprise possible Brown Act violation that overturned a vote which ousted him as President."
Shockingly incorrect again. THE ENTIRE BOARD decided to redo a vote based on a motion to set aside the previous vote made by NOT ME but rathet Dennis DeYoung... my opponent who then resigned after his own motion passed.
"The leadership of the Council, Alger, had an obligation to ensure proper procedures were followed."
Which is precisely what I did with the advise of the City Attorney. Apparently you have a problem with Democracy.
Now as Mayor Sam would say, go play on the freeway.
As mayor sam would say....jim arnt u mayor sam? cuz thats what u have told many!!
Everyone knows who Mayor Sam is...
Michael Higby who was "outed" last year in the papers you dolt.
Alger never said any such thing, nor would he. What are yu in 3rd grade?
Everyone knows who Mayor Sam is...
Michael Higby who was "outed" last year in the papers you dolt.
Alger never said any such thing, nor would he. What are yu in 3rd grade?
Oh Christ. Alger voted for himself two hundred times. Gag me.
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