Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Friday

Neither the UTLA, the school board incumbents nor Mayor Villaraigosa appear to have the stomach for the coming battle in the run-off between Tamar Galatzan and Jon Lauritzen but they're going to go through with it anyway. This old, dead Republican mayor is curious as to who third place finisher and the guy who should have won Louis Pugliese will support, if anyone. Louie! Give Mayor Sam an exclusive!

They're going to have trash a lot of letterhead and signage at the State Assembly office of Richard Alarcon as he gets ready to take his new (old) City Council seat in a few weeks. In the meantime, the new (old) Councilman showed up at City Hall to strut like a banty rooster and reclaim the first seat in the horseshoe as they are given out alphabetically.

The Long Beach Press Telegram is urging politicians in their community to not emulate the boondoggle "LA Bridges" anti-gang program, which has spent $100 million over 10 years and gang violence is worst than ever. They praise Mayor Villaraigosa for putting a hold on the funding for the program through September. We agree. How about just sending the money to the LAPD?

LAist catches up with Melrose Larry Green is sort of a "proto Zuma Dogg" but nowhere near as smart nor focused. He's a gadfly who's been part of the Howard Stern show and seems to show up everywhere. In fact, when Zuma Dogg first showed up on the scene, Melrose recognized the threat and told Zuma to "shut up" at a City Hall meeting. Los Angeles tax accountant Mark Neuman (by the way if you need a good CPA to handle your taxes, email Mayor Sam and I'll pass your name and number to Mark) often runs into Melrose and gets Larry to leave voice mail messages for friends and co-workers.

The LA Times recaps some of the "big mother" laws state politicians want to impose. For some reason they feel they need to protect us from trans-fats, dogs and cats that aren't fixed and incandescent light bulbs. Hopefully Arnold will veto these ridiculous bills if by chance any of them pass the legislature.

The "Encounters" restaurant in the "Theme Building" at LAX will be closed for at least six months officials say. A 1000 pound chunk of concrete fell off the building recently, which hasn't been renovated since it went up in the 50s.