PUBLIC COMMENT: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa: The People's Champ? Only If You're A Chump
Since Zuma Dogg is the voice of the pueblo, he though he would turn the blog over to one of his 'stitches for a little Public Comment on Mayor Antonio Viagraosa regarding his lifeless 9 point education plan: (See ZD thread below for rock-solid, air-tight analysis.)
Anonymous said...
When are we going to realize that MAV is done with us already? In about three months he'll be trotting all over the country trying to get a VP job on a full time basis.
Is it really worth commenting on a plan no one has any intention of carrying out? The real question is whether we should all nod in agreement and tell everyone how wonderful he is just so he can get the hell out of here a year or two sooner than he already plans.
At least he'll still be planning news conferences around here until February.
I used to laugh when CD14 complained about the "absentee landlord", now I just laugh at the poor souls who still expect something good out of him (except good press, that is.) My prediction...he'll take over the schools, grab the contractor money, flow it into the national campaign, and be gone. We were never meant to be anything more than a stepping stone in the first place.
Even with the best intentions, he's incapable of managing anything othe than an elections campaign. VP is perfect for him. He's the dan Quayle of the Democratic Party!
How about this, for all of your plans for LAUSD. Look at the performance over the last few years, check out the plan to put all schools on a regular schedule, the hiring of Brewer, and the recent raise negotiated by UTLA.
Then recognize that they teach primarily kids who are disadvantaged by language, poverty, and crime. That they have been dealing with overcrowded schools and low budgets. I think things are already turning the corner without MAV's or Riordan's involvement.
Could it be that the people who brought you increased trash "fees" without voter approval and never increased the amount of police; who are trying to force AB1381 on us without voter approval; who shoved Proposition R down our throats without judicial or Neighborhood Council review; who collected funds from developers and lobbyists for "school reform" and then only reluctantly notified the public of the names and amounts collected; who spent nearly $100 per vote in a school board election and still was unable to avoid a runoff....
Could it be that those guys are possibly trying to take credit for something they never worked for in the first place? These guys that were elected to root out corruption in politics?
The plan as I see it is to get these knuckleheads out of our pockets and out of our town as soon as possible and let the people who are already turning things around for LAUSD get their job done.
[Hooooody hoooooooooo! ZD has always maintained, the mayor knows he is politicial toast in this town, and must hop on that VP ticket. So may as well milk the city's school construction budget on the way out.]
Anonymous said...
When are we going to realize that MAV is done with us already? In about three months he'll be trotting all over the country trying to get a VP job on a full time basis.
Is it really worth commenting on a plan no one has any intention of carrying out? The real question is whether we should all nod in agreement and tell everyone how wonderful he is just so he can get the hell out of here a year or two sooner than he already plans.
At least he'll still be planning news conferences around here until February.
I used to laugh when CD14 complained about the "absentee landlord", now I just laugh at the poor souls who still expect something good out of him (except good press, that is.) My prediction...he'll take over the schools, grab the contractor money, flow it into the national campaign, and be gone. We were never meant to be anything more than a stepping stone in the first place.
Even with the best intentions, he's incapable of managing anything othe than an elections campaign. VP is perfect for him. He's the dan Quayle of the Democratic Party!
How about this, for all of your plans for LAUSD. Look at the performance over the last few years, check out the plan to put all schools on a regular schedule, the hiring of Brewer, and the recent raise negotiated by UTLA.
Then recognize that they teach primarily kids who are disadvantaged by language, poverty, and crime. That they have been dealing with overcrowded schools and low budgets. I think things are already turning the corner without MAV's or Riordan's involvement.
Could it be that the people who brought you increased trash "fees" without voter approval and never increased the amount of police; who are trying to force AB1381 on us without voter approval; who shoved Proposition R down our throats without judicial or Neighborhood Council review; who collected funds from developers and lobbyists for "school reform" and then only reluctantly notified the public of the names and amounts collected; who spent nearly $100 per vote in a school board election and still was unable to avoid a runoff....
Could it be that those guys are possibly trying to take credit for something they never worked for in the first place? These guys that were elected to root out corruption in politics?
The plan as I see it is to get these knuckleheads out of our pockets and out of our town as soon as possible and let the people who are already turning things around for LAUSD get their job done.
[Hooooody hoooooooooo! ZD has always maintained, the mayor knows he is politicial toast in this town, and must hop on that VP ticket. So may as well milk the city's school construction budget on the way out.]
Labels: proposition r
Posted by Zuma Dogg @ 3/22/2007 07:25:00 PM
21 Comments:
Antonio got a 1.9 at UCLA.
He attended an openly communist law school.
He had gang tattoos.
He used massive drugs.
He advocated for open borders and the Reconquista.
He pushed, in writing, for the pardon and leniency of/for a man arrested with 50+ POUNDS of cocaine.
He has illegitimate children.
He cheated on his wife, while she was being treated for cancer.
He gave away airport concessions and city land to sleazy contributors who had greased his wheeels.
A woman accused him of rape during his 2004 campaign.
Antonio will not be anyone's VP choice, now or ever. We're stuck with him.
7:55
You may be giving him too much credit academically:
“I had a 1.4 grade average. I had dropped out of school before that.”
Antonio Villaraigosa
Daily News, 12/22/97
tsk tsk tsk.
The mayor did not get a 1.9 gpa -- it was higher.
people's college of law -- there is zero documentation about which political ideology it subscribes too. please reproduce the document.
he never stated he used drugs, and as of today no one has gone on the record to suggest otherwise.
you will find ZERO documentation of his advocation for reconquista. please show in HIS writings or quotes where he states that belief.
he did not request for a pardon but a review of the case, much like hahn did on 39 seperate occasions.
illegitmate children according to experts is only in reference when one of the parents declines responsibility for them. you will note that antonio has always embraced his children and paid all of his child support on time and in full.
not true about the wife, she was not being treated for cancer at the time, and they were legally seperate. stop trying to make it look like something it is not.
please name the specific airport concession he gave away? because as of today, yesterday or anything on the city agenda for tomorrow there are no such concession give-aways.
being accused of rape is new. so is the fact that he had a campaign in 2004. sir/ma'am there were no municipal elections in 2004, how convenient to make up a lie about rape, but to cover it up by claiming a false election.
Yes you are stuck with him, this is the job he loves, and according to voters in the city he has a 68% approval rating. higher than the 57% he received 4 years ago.
who woulda thunk it -- he is more popular and loved then on election day.
i think the blogger on here represent the 10% who are filled with insane hate and who have tapped a vain that attracts the other 10%.
makes it seem louder than it actually is.
Opinion polls are worthless in L.A.
Yes, it appears the budding scholar had a 1.4 HIGH SCHOOL GPA according to the 1997 DN article:
"already has been quite a journey for someone who once had trouble getting through high school. ``I had a 1.4 grade average. I had dropped out of school before that. I was a lost and angry young man,'' he said."
More: received law degree from an unaccredited law school, did not pass bar exam in 4 attempts
Source: NY Times
mr. dog, you're a quick study.
BRAVO
zorro
8:27 you're a very smart son of a bitch, too.
good arguments each one has merit.
7:55 put up or shut up.
zorro
I want to learn, not be fed ullshi.
keep it honest, do your homework..
Zuma,
Villaraigosa losing popularity.
Bite the head off the political snake and the rest crumble.
The political machine is destroyed.
"A woman accused him of rape during his 2004 campaign."
Are you sure?
this is 8:27pm talking again.
i forgot to mention that when antonio was at ucla the policy then for history majors was that only students with a 2.3 would get a degree.
the mayor does have a degree --so it had to be higher than a 2.3 for him to receive it.
sorry folks the 1.9 or 1.4 stuff were references to one year in high school.
:)
8:27p BETTER be smart. That's why the mayor is paying him. Wish he was paying me. Anyway,
8:27p is at least good at sticking up for the toasted politician better than anyone else on this blog. so when you want quality opposing spin, I chose 8:27p. Y'all know him and love him!
From the People's College of Law website:
"We only admit those students who, regardless of their quite varied political, spiritual, cultural or social backgrounds, have demonstrated a commitment to progressive social change, have an awareness of working class issues and will employ the skills gained at the school to further these goals in their own way. Thus, if you want to be a prosecutor or a corporate attorney, don't waste our time applying; there are plenty of other schools out there for you!"
http://peoplescollegeoflaw.edu/content/view/5/4/
As for 2004, HELLO! He was definitely campaigning in 2004 for the March 2005 election.
Detailed article with footnotes for sources re Mecha connection (I haven't read it):
http://www.bruinalumni.com/antonio/antonioindex.html
Okay, now that we've been through all that, let's focus on something more important. Villaraigosa has held office at City Hall since 2003, first as City Councilman, and then as Mayor. What specifically has he done in that time that has improved life in L.A.?
His GPA "had to be higher than a 2.3" ! Whewww, that's an impressive statement -- summa cum laude material no doubt.
p.s. I would LOVE to see Villaraigosa debate Walter Moore.
If Walter makes it into the debates, the other contenders are toast.
8:27pm here again.
walter -- let me put it like this -- i wouldn't typed what i typed if you could easily go onto the people's college of law to refute what i wrote.
i see what you pasted on here-- and no where does it say "communist" that 7:55pm referenced. perhaps you weren't defending 7;55pm and you just wanted to paste that part of the website for our reading enjoyment. then to that i say thank you, but alas no real defense of 7;55pm.
as for mentioning that antonio "campaigned" in 2004 for mayor in 2005. this is correct, i don't disagree, but again this was in rebuttal to 7:55pm and then you defended it. But 7:55pm wrote his/her statement so one would clearly think the election was in 2005. Now if a woman did accuse him of something, that is news to me. if its news to me regarding something in 2004 about antonio, i'd suspect it actually did not happen.
next, yes yes lil andrew and the bruin alumni blahsociation -- read it, memorized, rebutted ALL of it in long ago threads.
thats said, there is no documentation of antonio supporting reconquista, in fact if you believe the bruin alumni folks the mayor denounced mecha. so why do crazy people keep on harping on it?
again, i was rebutting 7:55pm, and if you were trying to back up 7:55pm with some relevant material, you were off, however, and i believe this to be the truth -- you just wanted to post that stuff as a mere FYI and not a defense of 7:55pm.
please tell us walter -- all your posts were a FYI and not a defense of 7:55pm, because if it was a defense, then the mayor doesn't ACTUALLY need to debate you. i can do it here from my couch sipping hot coco.
8:27 pm
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SMOKING???/
Unless Edwards/Gore wins the primary, AV will not become the VP...
Come on people...do you really think a black or a woman presidential candidate would have a latino as a VP?!?
I think it's really funny that the MAV supporters are only refuting past allegations and siting unknown "polls" to support his reputation and have ignored the facts of the original post.
What was MAV doing during the last presidential election campaign? Doing "the job he loves" at CD14? What was MAV doing during the last gubernortorial(?) campaign? Was he:
A) Out there supporting Angelides as "an extremely popular Democrat"
B) Doing his job in City Hall
C) Banging the boards for school reform
D) Out to lunch in China
If you said D you'd be absolutely correct. Why? Because MAV was doing "the job he loves" and had no desire for Arnie's endorsement for governor or need to portray himself as a "moderate" Democrat with international ties.
MAV has never talked to any current presidential campaign about possibly being a VP or promising to campaign nationally for funds and/or latino support. My bad.
If MAV loves this job so much why does he have so much contempt for the voters of this city. AB1381? Trash "fee"?
Of course, if he plans on spending a $100 per vote from now on in local elections, he could sure "show us some love" by eliminating the middle man (sorry Trujillo) and just cutting a check to those of us "likely to vote."
You guys are paid city staffers/campaign "volunteers" and that's the best you can do? Maybe MAV can hire Parke like W hired Rove to be part of his "Cabinet".
Then maybe you can cite a specific poll about his "popularity." Make sure it's the best money can buy.
While you're at it...maybe Trujillo could spend a lot more money to create those 40 Neighborhood Watches they've been meaning to find.
More facts to let people make their own judgements about the mayor's character:
-In his 20’s, fathered two children out of wedlock
-separated from his wife for a period in the early 1990s after having an affair
-In 1996, wrote a letter supporting clemency for a convicted drug dealer whose sentence was commuted by former President Clinton
Source: NY Times
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