Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Wednesday
Much has and more will be written about the significant blow to Mayor Villaraigosa's plans to take over the LAUSD when the appeals court ruled legislation crafter for this very purpose was unconstitutional. One of the more delightful reactions was that of civil rights leader Danny Bakewell - who learned of the decision while in an interview with journalist Tony Castro - who was described as ecstatic and had already told Castro of plans to tell the Mayor "where to go."With his mid-term "State of the City" speech this evening pundits are saying the shine is off the dime for Mayor Villaraigosa's once hopeful administration. Having lost both the Olympics and the LAUSD in the space of three days, and tough challenges ahead, some say the Mayor "overeached."
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The long running Bradley Landfill (no it's not named for Tom Bradley as I had thought as a child) was closed last weekend. Wonder if they're going to turn it into condos?
The City Council is now considering buying a downtown office building for $219 million that it could have bought three years ago for $125 million.
California Attorney General Jerry Brown is going after student loan lenders who may have cozy relationships with colleges and/or their staffs. "Schools and universities in California must be above reproach," Brown said.
Parking companies that lost lucrative contracts at LAX may find themselves suing the City. The losing firms say the airport department improperly handled the bidding process.
Transit advocate Bart Reed is a good friend of the Sister City and is kind enough to post the Transit Coalition's E-Newsletter every week at Mayor Sam 2. At CityWatch, Brady Westwater highlights a talk Reed gave the Transportation Committee of the Los Angeles Neighborhoods Council Congress.
Legislative Democrats find themselves pinched between two of their most valuable sources of political contributions, labor unions and Indian tribes who operate casinos. This came to a head when Senate leader Don Perata started dumping tribal compacts for approval on Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, who was already getting a lot of heat from labor unions who don't take too kindly to non-union Native American gaming halls. Tensions have cooled a bit with Perata farming sheparding of the compacts to some of his lieutenants which helps take some pressure off Nunez.
The Executive Director of public affairs training organization Coro Southern California, Carrie Lopez, has accepted a position with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as Director of the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA). She will begin her new position on Monday, April 23rd, and former Coro Fellow and civic leader, Tom Riley, has been named as the Interim Executive Director.
City Controller Laura Chick will host all of California's elected city Auditors/Controllers on Wednesday, April 18th. The session which will last from morning until early afternoon and will include a visit to the City Council.
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 4/18/2007 12:15:00 AM
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Here's another "Hotsheet for Wednesday" item: Zuma Dogg has stopped making posts at Mayor Sam's and has "hidden" many of his past ones. Why isn't Mayor Sam talking about this?
I took the threads down hoping 'out of site, means out of mind."
I take this is an admission of defeat by Zuma Dogg. Maybe he thinks that he can do better by selling stuff on the Venice beachwalk or selling himself to reality TV cameras. But he probably thinks this blog is simply not worth his time. In that sense, he is certainly defeated but on to bigger and better things.
And people will just think the blog is as dead as you say it is, and will simply think you missed this comment.
Sure, the glory days of Mayor Sam are long gone, but it is not dead. I have tuned in to watch the (mostly) three man show of a homeless "activist" whose rambling and often incomprehensible postings indicate he has severe mental problems (Zuma Dogg), a self-righteous former ambulance chaser turned Mayoral candidate who has been soundly defeated once and will be again (Walter Moore), and the man who started it all, an ultra-conservative PR flack in the Valley who thinks that because he volunteers for the Jaycees that he is "in the loop" politically (Mayor Sam, aka "Fatboy Higby"). What do all three have in common? Being attention whores.
This is great entertainment. Monitoring these losers make me feel much better about my self. Keep it up Mayor Sam! Zuma Dogg, you may be defeated on this blog, but you can chase something better.
Antonio should wearing a bag over his head. This is what was printed today as an achievement in the paper.
....Villaraigosa ticks off a list of his own triumphs, including a recent lobbying effort to secure money for a carpool lane on the 405 Freeway and the city's ongoing embrace of alternative energy sources to clean up the environment.
(THIS IS A JOKE)
...He is expected to call for a new $3-million grant program for gang prevention efforts in several gang hot spots, including parts of South L.A., the northeastern San Fernando Valley and the Eastside. A new deputy mayor would coordinate the grants.
(GIVE MORE MONEY TO GANG BANGERS TO ABUSE)
....As part of this effort, Villaraigosa is also expected to announce plans to expand a gang intervention program that he said has shown promise on the city's Eastside. The program provides regular group meetings and counseling for 200 teenage gang members and others
(IF HE GIVES MONEY TO FATHER GANG BANGER BOYLE PEOPLE WILL BE OUTRAGED. BOYLE DOESN'T HAVE ONE SINGLE INTERVENTION GUY AND ANYONE ON THE EASTSIDE WILL TEL YOU THAT. AUDIT HIS PROGRAM AND FIND OUT ALL THE CORRUPTION AND ABUSE THAT IS GOING ON FIRST)
El Alcalde should cut back on the press events and photo ops and focus on getting more done. Legitimate coverage will flow from real accomplishments rather than appearing to take credit for every little thing that happens in L.A.
The harpies on MayorSam (with their various agendas) will never cut him slack, but the public will if he's showing real progress. He's still a heck of a lot more popular than they are.
I wish someone would do a performance rating on the Mayor right now. Let's see what not only Mayor Sam readers think but the entire city. I guess the numbers would be around 20% approval and 80% disapproval.
We have a loser as Mayor and idiots as council members. No wonder LA is in such a mess.
LA Biz Journal
In keeping with its history of awe-inspiring financial decisions, the L.A. City Council is considering the $219 million purchase of Figueora Plaza, the downtown office complex it could have bought three years ago for only $125 million. The city now leases space in the 607,000 sq. ft. complex at 201-221 N. Figueroa St. for such agencies as the Construction Services Center and the Department of Cultural Affairs.
2:03 AM, So someone posting at 2AM is the morning thinks ZD, Moore, and Higby are losers?
yea good point, probably Kevin Roderick, Jim Alger or Stuart Waldman.
Where does it say I "stopped" making posts? Re-read whatever you read. (You have a reading comprehention problem.)
You say I'm an attention whore -- I know, I know ZD is an attention whore, just look at him..
That's why i took down the thread and wanted to be "out of site out of mind"/LESS ATTENTION. Don't confuse GETTING attention with being an attention whore. I like the attention because that's what activists/politicians/the whole world needs to help get their message across. (Is eveyone who takes out an ad or commetcial an attention whore?) Don't be jealous because I am ABLE to get attention. So again, I take DOWN the threads and try to disappear and want to stay out of site out of mind because I'm getting too much attention...and that's an attention whore. (Great timing on that call!)
Secondly, I am sorry if you find my postings "incomprehensible". Maybe that's why you are so frustrated with them. You don't posses the reading comprehension to "comprehend" them. Hmmm, the rest of the world seems to be able to. (Maybe you should have someone explain them to you. (Cause yeah, we fear what we don't undestand. No wonder you are so frustrated...Now I understand!)
"Indicates he has severe mental problems"...Oh no, you're not supposed to make medical diagnosises unless you are a medical doctor and have examined the paitient in a professional basis. Usually I delete false medical claims...but since it's only you, and everyone sees right through you, i'll allow your comment to remain.
Because remember, I am in control of your comments (since I could have deleted them for the illegal medical diagnosis) and since all it takes is a nice long, factual, exclusive ZD post, and your head pops off. But I'm feeling compassionate.
However, I will remind you...the best way to get ZD to stay off this blog (and isn't that what you want), is to stop talking about me. Cause if you piss me off and I feel like you need a bitch slap, I'm gonna come back MUCH harder than anything you have seen yet. And you will be BEGGING ZD to tone down to where he was during year one.
So be smart. Anthony Robbins would like to remind you, "Stay focused on your outcome." And in your loser-ass, powerless over ZD case, it's to see LESS ZD, so don't be the only one to cause MORE ZD.
NO ZD THE BIG ATTENTION WHORE IS THAT IDIOT FROM ROSE HILL REVIEW ANTHONY NUMNUTS HE GOES ON RANTING ABOUT I DO THIS i DO THAT AND i DO EVERY THING!!!!screw you you punk
NO ZD YOU ARE NOT THE ATTENTION WHORE !!
YOU ARE THE SAVIOUR OF OUR CITY!!!!
At last, the Mexican megalomaniacal mayor is getting what he deserves! Defeat!!!!
EVERYONE knows he has raped the taxpayers, aided and abetted the gangbangers, shown allegiance to Mexico, and can't even fix a pothole.
Thank God for the housing debacle...he can't grease the palms of his puppet masters anymore. LA is just about as bad as Tijuana now, and NO ONE is moving in....only the illegals.
He has shown total fiscal irresponsibility and by the end of his term, this city will be bankrupt.
God....just think....only two more years to go!!!! Can we start a countdown clock??? The Mechista mayor WILL NEVER BE GOVERNOR...thank God!!! In fact, he is washed up in politics.
However, he can hide and lick his wounds...but wouldn't you just love to know how much money he has stolen from us???? His pockets are lined with gold! It's Mexican corrupt politics at it's finest!
Judge Janavs is one smart judge. I knew she wouldn't be overturned.
Hey Walter Moore, could you repost your theory on "LAUSD game theory" and how the election of the new board could change things? Or was that only if Mayor V won the appeal?
Speaking of Judge Janavs, any update on Measure R? David H, where are you????
Zuma Dogg is taking a break. You guys beat everything. If he posts you complain, if he takes a break, you complain.
Good point re game theory.
Villaraigosa's optimal strategy at this point is to wait until the very last possible day to file a petition with the Supreme Court; hope to install a majority on the LAUSD board; and get them to "settle" before the Supreme Court denies his petition without a hearing.
However, given that he's 0 and 4 -- just like his score taking the bar exam -- I suspect even the new LAUSD Board members would be too embarrassed to "settle" the lawsuit at this point.
Instead, they will more likely just steer lucrative contracts to Villaraigosa's campaign contributors, which, in my opinion, was one of the primary objectives of the takeover all along.
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen (removes hat and bows low with flourish):
Incomprehensible? Oh bugger, that was MY gimmick! But let's talk about other things, shall we?
I am intrigued by the comment that the Mayor has over-reached. Really? Since when has being busy doing something close to nothing but different than the day before been over-reaching? Perhaps it is when you play fast and loose with the tax payer's moneys, savvy?
Or is it when you straddle the line? Be careful straddling that line for an alligator just may up and nip you in the arse if you are not careful. Now THAT would be a true statement of the spay and neuter policy!!
Aye, Cap'n Sparrow, the politics in our fair pueblo doth seemingly resemble the Louisiana political scenery! Them pipers who didst call attention to all manner of political wrongdoing in the Statehouse didst find themselves at the wrong end of a 'gator in the bayous, or so it were in the Carpetbagger Era.
Nowadays, it be some others from past the border south who hath been threatened by the natives with that same dire predicament in Louisiana! Mayhap the 'gator Reggie be still habitating?
Good evening Lord Chapman (makes elegant leg to the gentleman):
God's boots! Look what the storm has brought in! And a very hearty halloo to you, old boy! Oh bugger, I must admit, if you will, that I am lacking somewhat in American political history since my learnings took place 'cross the pond as it were. But I do remember enough to know that the natives were none too pleased with those who promised much, took even more and delivered far less, savvy? Perhaps someone at the Red Spot Institute can enlighten me? (Waves at Mr. Spot) Halloo? I say there, Spot old chap? What say you about this Louisana business?
I do think, Lord Chapman, that just as you and I are a vanished breed, so shall the current crop of hooligans vanish at some point as well, sort of like dried turds blown away by the wind, savvy? As for Reggie, I try to stay away from beasties such as that, for another pirate captain had dealings with Reggie that ended in an awful handshake, savvy?
Tonight the crew will be at the Redwood discussing Villabarbosa's oratory (or lack thereof). I just wonder whether or not that winsome lass who is his wife will be there beside him. Anyone care to place a bet on this one?
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