No Home Depot Spanks the other Mayor (Sam)
To do nothing else but show how Mayor Sam got it all wrong...
And from the 12/28 rally...
Next time, Mayor Sam, try to get your story straight, perhaps consider contacting other people, dig for the details,
collaborate your information.....kneejerk posts are just that, and very unbecoming a man of your, uh, stature.
And from the 12/28 rally...
Next time, Mayor Sam, try to get your story straight, perhaps consider contacting other people, dig for the details,
collaborate your information.....kneejerk posts are just that, and very unbecoming a man of your, uh, stature.
Posted by Unknown @ 1/02/2007 12:08:00 AM
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Joe you're an ignorant fool. Your videos have barely more people protesting than the video Mayor Sam posted.
It was once claimed the folks people who protest Home Depot are nothing but a bunch of old fat whiteys. It seems as if you have made that case.
Mayor Sam should kick you off this blog. You have are nothing but a one issue poster. There is no valid reason for you to remain a writer for Mayor Sam. You add nothing.
9:27
Please review the videos once again.
You seem to have missed alot.
And I am a one issue poster.
Mayor Sam invited me here for that reason.
He is right. there are only about 20 people in the protest WOW! where are the 100 people?
Who's right?
People like to shop at discount stores like Wal-Mart, Target, Costco and Home Depot. Why? Because the prices are low and you don't get ripped off like other stores do.
10:02
You are right!
Here is the proof:
http://video.nbc4.tv/player.html?dlid=46506
927 - I don't see any need to kick Joe off the blog. I know his deal is the Home Depot gig though I totally disagree with it. However I would like to see him write about other issues; I think thatwould be interesting.
I do have to agree though that these videos don't appear any different than the one Louis shot.
I think I'm going to puke on Mayor Sam.
The protests have been well attended,
but it has never been about numbers.
You try to get people out at 7 am on a weekday , in gale force winds, over anything! We were shocked at the large turnout!
The protests were designed to be supported by 6 to 10 people! We have had 70 to 100 in attendance at most of the demonstrations!
The protests are about commitment,
and taking a stand to protect our community!
The videos show it well!
Hey, Joe, these people do not believe their own eyes and ears!
I have been at every single protest and I have personally counted our numbers. At all of the demonstrations we have averaged 65 to 70 people or more, at all times, with numerous people coming and going; stopping by, grabbing a sign and demonstrating on their way to work, school, home, the store, whatever. Others come and stand for the whole time even when it is literally freezing.
Joe, did you tell them that the chill factor on the day that last video was shot was about 20 degrees and during a Holiday week afternoon. The actual temperature was 28 degrees earlier that morning, and we still had at least 40 people show up - and we do look fat. I had on two tea shirts - one long sleeve, a sweatshirt and a jacket with warm socks, scarf, hat and gloves and it was still damned cold.
There are more women than men and that is no surprise as housewives and home mothers can attend easier. As to diversity, look at the pictures.
And thanks, Mayor Sam and friends, I had never noticed our diversity - it makes no nevermind to me, but you made me look at the videos with diversity in mind. I am delighted to say we are very, very diverse. Isn't it wonderful!
Mayor Sam is either a masochist or a sadist for Home Depot.
Only an old, ugly, worn-out, and dead Republican mayor, would be so stupid!
He deserves the spanking he so sorely needs, wants, and so definitely deserves!
Mayor, what a crock!
I am a Sunland Tujunga NIMBY and I am proud of it.
No Home Depot in Sunland Tujunga!
Mayor Sam, it is a good thing you are dead.
Listen the Sunland Tujunga wack jobs lie and spin every aspect of their failed and miserable campaign against Home Depot.
They tell us tens of thousands support them yet they can at best muster on a good day not much more than 75 people (though they've yet to post anything confirming this lie). They make excuses that it was cold out that day AS IF Sunland was Minneapolis. Actually the movement appears to be maybe 20 people.
They have Wendy Greuel kowtowing to them as they make a lot of noise and in this era of maybe low voter turnout every fat old white person counts. Alas Mrs. Schram knows that the Mayor quietly supports the Home Depot for all the right reasons but because he wants to be governor someday doesn't want to get into too many tussles with the last bastion of white america in LA.
However Home Depot is very important to Latinos in this area not only for those immigrants who work as day laborers but for the growing Latino middle class in the north valley many of whom own construction or related companies.
This Joe Barris guy and the rest of them should move to Idaho if they don't like it.
I can almost guarantee that 8:27
is none other than Rick Tyler of Dakota Communications, Home Depot's
PR firm.
Observations on January 2nd...
I don't know enough about this case to have an opinion on it but have gleaned a few things from reading the bloggers here.
Once again the self promoter Jim Alger has seized another issue he has nothing to do with. He is the Gloria Allred of local LA politics.
This Joe B. guy is a riot. He has no facts to back up his claims.
I hardly agree with Mayor Sam but his post was clear. His opinion is Home Depot has a right to open a store on their property. He also made it very clear in the videos (including Joe B's own video) that the participation in the event was lackluster at best. I don't know about other protests that were not videotaped but these are clearly weak.
Hey Mayor Sam....
This clown Joe re-arranged the order of stories on your blog to put his story before yours so people can read it first. If I were you I would boot him for that. I was reading the blog earlier and saw that he did this and he removed a comment where he said that his story should be first. liars like this should not be listened to.
Doubtful 857. probably the mayor's cut and paste team.
Mayor Sam Joe must go. Jim Alger too.
Gee I can't decide who I hate the most -- the pro HD crowd or the anti HD crowd. The anti HD people are a bunch of hippie yesteryear NIMBYs and the pro HD people are bunch of reconquesta Latina racists. Decisions, decisions.
Ha, the Home Depot shills had to work on a Federal Holiday!
Why do the anti-Home Depot people have an obsession with spanking? Some kinky stuff must go on up there in Sunland Tujunga. West Hollywood has nothing on them!
Joe is into some nasty shit must be. Perhaps that is why he doesn't want home depot but instead some kind of a leather bar.
As usual, the pro Home Depot group must resort to insults and slurs rather than facts. That's why their crooked CEO Nardelli is out today with his golden handshake. Home Depot employees have their crappy little salaries and he 's laughing with his millions.
Keep up the good work Joe and never mind the ignorance that flourishes on this blog. And also, NO HOME DEPOT!!! Check out the web and the www.homedepotsucks.com site, they have problems all over the country and rip off people all over the country. Look beyond the propanganda.
Home Depot's Nardelli Quits With $210 Million Package (Update3)
By Mark Clothier
Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Home Depot Inc. Chief Executive Officer Robert Nardelli, under fire from investors for earning $225 million while the company's stock languished, resigned ``by mutual agreement,'' the world's largest home-improvement retailer said.
Vice Chairman Frank Blake, 57, will replace Nardelli, effective immediately, Home Depot said in a statement today. Nardelli, 58, will receive $210 million in severance payments, the company said.
Home Depot has lost market share to Lowe's Cos. during Nardelli's six-year tenure, its shares have declined 7.9 percent and the company is headed for its smallest annual gain in profit in at least nine years.
``Ultimately the board felt the negativity associated with Nardelli was an impediment to his and the company's success,'' said Daniel Popowics, an analyst with Fifth Third Asset Management. ``This is a surprise. I thought Nardelli carved out some time for himself to turn things around.'' The Cincinnati firm manages $21 billion, including Home Depot stock.
Nardelli, who joined Home Depot from General Electric, became a lightning rod for critics of excessive executive pay. Nardelli was the only board member to appear at the company's annual meeting last year, where the size of his pay package was questioned.
``I know he's been under pressure and that there've been dissidents in there,'' said Marvin Roffman, of Roffman Miller Associates in Philadelphia, which owns Home Depot shares among $410 million in assets. ``There had to be some kind of problem with the board.''
HOME DEPOT'S NARDELLI RESIGNS
Updated 1/3/2007 11:16 AM ET
From wire reports
CHICAGO — Home Depot (HD) said Wednesday that Chairman and Chief Executive Robert Nardelli has left the struggling retailer under a decision reached with the board of directors.
Nardelli's departure was stunning in that he told the Associated Press just a few months ago that he had no intention of leaving, and a key director said that the board was pleased with Nardelli despite the uproar by some investors.
Asked in that interview if he had thought of hanging up his orange apron and leaving Home Depot, Nardelli said unequivocally that he hadn't. Asked what he thought he would be doing 10 years from now, Nardelli said, "Selling hammers."
For Home Depot?
"Absolutely," he said at the time.
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY: Read the release
Nardelli, who came under fire last year for a pay package some investors said was not in line with Home Depot's performance since he arrived in late 2000, will receive a severance package valued at about $210 million, the company said.
He has been succeeded by Vice President Frank Blake, the company said.
Home Depot shares climbed as much as 4% in Wednesday trading.
ANOTHER GE ALUM: Blake worked under Nardelli at GE
"We are very grateful to Bob for his strong leadership of The Home Depot over the past six years. Under Bob's tenure, the company made significant and necessary investments that greatly improved the company's infrastructure and operations, expanded our markets to include wholesale distribution and new geographies, and undertook key strategic initiatives to strengthen the company's foundation for the future," Home Depot's board said in a statement.
Nardelli also incurred the wrath of some investors for declining to take questions or review the company's performance at its 2006 annual meeting, which was also notable for the absence of its board of directors.
"When you're highly compensated and you don't ring the cash register for shareholders, you're at risk," said Richard Steinberg, president of Steinberg Global Asset Management in Boca Raton, Fla., which owns Home Depot shares.
At the time of that board meeting in May, Nardelli had earned at least $119.2 million during his tenure, excluding options and some other compensation, while the company's stock price had dropped 15%.
Home Depot shares are up about 4% since early June and have rallied recently on speculation the company could be a target for a private equity buyout.
Nardelli leaves as Home Depot faces a regulatory probe over its options pricing practices and increased investor scrutiny amid falling earnings as a cooling housing market has hit demand at the retailer. Investors have also railed at the poor performance of the company's stock price in Nardelli's six-year tenure.
Last month Home Depot said it found almost 20 years of options backdating, resulting in $200 million in unrecorded expenses. The retailer's independent review of the options practices concluded that there was no intentional wrongdoing by any person who was a member of the management team or board when the review was released in December.
The separation package includes a cash severance payment of $20 million, the acceleration of unvested deferred stock awards currently valued at approximately $77 million and unvested options with an intrinsic value of approximately $7 million. It also includes payments of earned bonuses and long-term incentive awards of approximately $9 million, account balances under the company's 401(k) plan and other benefit programs currently valued at approximately $2 million, previously earned and vested deferred shares with an approximate value of $44 million, the present value of retirement benefits currently valued at approximately $32 million and $18 million for other entitlements under his contract which will be paid over a four-year period and will be forfeited if he does not honor his contractual obligations.
Nardelli has also agreed not to compete with the company for one year, and not to solicit employees or customers of the company for four years.
Home Depot did not say what Nardelli would be doing next.
The board also announced that Carol Tome, the company's chief financial officer, and Joe DeAngelo, the company's executive vice president, Home Depot Supply, will assume additional responsibilities.
Tome will be assuming responsibility for mergers and acquisitions, credit services and additional strategic responsibilities. DeAngelo was appointed to the newly created position of chief operating officer.
Contributing: Reuters, Associated Press
Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited.
Home Depot crumbles right before our eyes!
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