Mayor Sam's Blogbits for Monday

Brady Westwater is calling on Los Angeles' Neighborhood Councils to demand the reforms necessary to keep Los Angeles' tony hillsides and multi-million dollar homes to keep from burning in coming wildfires.

We usually figure NIMBYs to be mostly humorless; a group of them in West Hollywood has proven this point. LA Voice reports that a group of opponents to a real estate project in West Hollywood kind of embarrassed themselves distributing an anti-development treatise. The piece in question was actually a tounge-in-cheek piece developed by a team including the project's land use attorney. D'oh! Lets hope Joe B. never makes a mistake like that!

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Remember to vote for us in the Bloggers' Choice awards. We're nominated in categories here and here and here.

John Benoit is a Republican California Assmeblyman from Palm Desert. Seven years ago he was a California Highway Patrol officer who pulled over a then 19 year old Paris Hilton for allegedly driving at about 125 miles an hour. Via Capitol Weekly.

The State of California and some yahoo in West Hollywood have nothing better to do than to sue Pinkberry. The issue at hand is whether or not the immensely popular frozen dessert is yogurt or not.

Was Mayor Sam blogger Zuma Dogg's father a Venice bohemian who got his picture taken at a City Hall protest in 1965? City Nerd found a picture that might suggest such.

Watsonville has named itself an illegal alien sanctuary, but pro-open border activists in the Northern California town take the view that sanctuary is not the right term as "the land was stolen from us."

Some blog posts from over the weekend you may have missed:

• A Guy in LA
• Pomona Harrassing Bloggers or the "Not Ready for Prime Time City Attorney"
• Solving The "Affordable Housing Crisis" Through . . . Sphincter Control?!
• CM Alarcon Suckers LA City Council (And The Rest Of The City) For $1.7 Million For "Emergency" Musuem Motion