ZD's "Bad PR of the Year Award" Recipient: COUNCILMEMBER ED REYES for "Driving Away High Paying Manufacturing Jobs"

(Pictured: Ed Reyes standing next to a statue whose knowledge he is envious of.)

NOTE: This is even worse than when Cardenas let the Valley Fair move outside the Valley because alarCON aksed him to! We're supposed to be appearing "business friendly" even though gridlock traffic and high cost of housing has already driven away the region's high paying jobs.

ED REYES, I thought you were smarter than people give you credit for. When I frist showed up at City Hall, Ed was our (Venice Outlaws) favorite. He seemed like such a good guy. He cut that great segment with ZD from MacArthur Park during the six minute debacle). So I would say to people, "Ed's a really good guy." And they would say, "Zuma Dogg....Are you CRAZY, Ed Reyes is EVIL! (The constituent horror stories I have heard about Ed from people on my side of the rope at City Hall. He looks like such a nice, mild-mannered guy. But you know what they say about looks. THEY'RE DECEIVING, Y'ALL...JUST LIKE ED REYES!!! )

Kiss 200 good jobs goodbye
L.A. councilman prefers park to rail-car assembly proposal
BY BETH BARRETT, Staff Writer
LA Daily News

Even as Los Angeles has hemorrhaged high-paying industrial jobs over the past decade, City Councilman Ed Reyes is blocking a plan that would create some 200 lucrative manufacturing positions. [See ZD's SCAG article at LA Weekly.com]

[Some company owned by Hyundai] wants to lease the Union Pacific-owned maintenance facility in Taylor Yard just east of Elysian Park to assemble high-tech rail cars under a $305 million Metrolink contract.

Rotem officials said the deal would create up to 200 jobs with annual salaries of $40,000 to $80,000 each for several years.

But company officials said that when they met with Reyes in January, the proposal was shot down because Reyes favors an UNFUNDED community park project on the site.

"He said basically that they don't need jobs in the area and that they want to see a park developed and nothing to interfere with that," said Jack Martinson, Rotem U.S.A. vice president of business development. [HEY MARK PISANO, YOU HEAR THAT. YOU BETTER GET ANTONIO ON THE PHONE AND TELL ED TO STOP TALKING!]

Reyes argues that the site near [his pie-in-the-sky, legacy to himself, pet project] the Los Angeles River -- is best suited for a park, and community members already are deeply "vested" in the project. [Yeah, the community is vested, but not IN-vested, like the factory wants to be, in the community.]

"I told (Rotem) there are other priorities that have been established," Reyes said, noting he also supports efforts to lure more manufacturing. [We mean BESIDES meth labs, ED. Were these jobs on the table when Big Bird and Clifford the Big Red Dog established the priorities?]

While there is NOT yet money to purchase the land for the park, Reyes said, [LOL!], nonprofits are working to secure financing and federal funds COULD be available.

[Antonio, Hurry!!! Make him stop talking! Oh good, no money yet, but turn away the jobs cause some non-profits (as in non-profiting the community) are working to secure federal funds that COULD be available. That shouldn't take long, if at all. Meanwhile, let's just let the jobs go elsewhere -- when the park may not even happen until after the train rehab job is done anyway!]

ED, Fred Sandford just showed up for public comment:

Garcetti: Mr. Sandford. (Sandford approaches mic)):
Sandford: Ed Reyes, YOU BIG DUMMY!
Garcetti: Thank you Mr. Sandford. And, next time, please try and address Council as a whole.

Didn't you read Zuma Dogg's very excellent LA Weekly article on SCAG. Your mayor's boss, Mark Pisano said THE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY IS MORE HIGH PAYING JOBS IN THE AREA!!! NOT more park space near your stupid LA River project.]

"There's a lot of places you can put a park, but 200 high-paying jobs, that's something else. We're losing manufacturing-zoned land all over the place when this is the really good stuff in the economy, the nuggets of gold.", said someone who is a lot smarter and less shadier than Ed Reyes.

While Los Angeles has added a million residents, it has lost 50,000 jobs - forcing workers to drive farther to work even as freeways grow more jammed, Fleming said. [Huh...huh...huh...ED, I BETTER SHOW UP TO 30 COUNCIL MEETINGS IN A ROW AND TALK ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF LOCAL JOBS vs LONG COMMUTES!]

"We need these jobs desperately," he said. [Well Ed needs something, too, community! Na, na, na, na-na!]

"They have a great opportunity for 200 well-paying jobs on a presently unused piece of land, and the company is willing to vacate the land in plenty of time for the city to build the park it someday hopes to build," Allen said. [Don't let these kind of details get in the way of Ed's predetermined and in-flexible decision.]

"This seems like a win-win opportunity for the city." [A Reyes recall campain? Because that's the only way you're gonna win-win.]

"Who wouldn't want good-quality jobs?" he said. [Apparatley, Councilmember Reyes.]

And now, words of wisdum by Ed Reyes: "The problem is the park issue. ...There's been a big fight over this property. (The community) has fought for years for a park, and then someone comes along and wants to rehab train cars."

[Whatever pays the bills, ED! You make "rehab train cars" sound like they're kicking little old ladies out onto the street to convert a condo in violation of vacancy rates. You make a this $305 MILLION project sound like illegal hot dog vendors. Now THAT, you'll stick up for! Sorry kiddies...the Easter Bunny "Egg Hunt" has been moved somewhere else so your mommies and daddies can keep you from having to sleep in the park. (Boo hoo hoo!)

Regional Mayor Mark Pisano didn't say #1 priority was "an unfunded pet park project." He said, "it's more high paying jobs." (Cue Pink Floyd music) You can't have any pudding till you eat your meat. HOW can you have any pudding, if you don't eat your meat. HUH? Don't kick your feet.] In other words, if the region hasn't done it's homework of providing high paying jobs to replace the ones they drove away -- they can't play in the park for recess.]

[ZD heard only 8 percent of the City is zoned for industrial use. Build the f*cking park in the other 92%!!!]

Do you think I was being too agressive?

Zuma Dogg