ZUMA DOGG "Week In Review" (The Shady Report)

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Thanks to ZD's new "Bat Computer" and a new ZAP "Public Records" expert, things have really heated up this past week, regarding the level of information flooding my zumadogg@netzero.com mailbox. (Seems good information, attracts more good information.) Interesting Mt. Washington is a real hotbed right now (SW Museum, Dirt Burnell), as is the rest of CD 14, cause you got that $14 million CRA bond that the pueblos are wating to see where it goes. And the Florida Condos coming to Boyle Hts. Hope City Hall doesn't trip on all their tangled "wires".

Here's a recap of some of the issues blogger here on Mayor Sam this past week (Tues.-Tues.) Gotta check out the comments section of these threads, too. And try and bring a friend to the next Neighborhood Council meeting in your area. Call 311 and ask where and when the next meeting is. Email this thread to some folks, too. We need more community outreach!

Mayor's Alhambra Connector Road Smog Parade Through Schools and Residence
Alternative Plans For Southwest Museum/Autry/LeBong's "Grifffith Park Expansion"
More Power to NC over Tract Maps
Tom Lebong is AGAINST "One Way" Pico/Olympic Express Routes -- Speak First, Read Study Later
Dirt Burnell Complaint over Fraudulant Permits
Dirt Burnell Story Revealed
LAURA CHICK: Please Audit These SHADY NON-PROFITS BEFORE You Give Them Money
Alternative Plans For Southewest Musem and the SHADY REPORT
Why We Need Affordable Housing in a Free Market Society
Oh No, PROP K "Park Money" HAS SHADY LOOPHOLES
CAROL BAKER THARP on Neighborhood Council
MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT/VICTORY REGARDING LOS ANGELES HOUSING POLICY FROM LA PLANNING DEPARTMENT

NEW: COUNCILMEMBER JANICE HAHN...ZUMA DOGG IS LOOKING TO YOU FOR LEADERSHIP OVER THE "REAL" AB 1381-STYLE SCHOOL REFORM MOTION FLOATING AROUND CITY HALL. Now that Tony has fumbled, pick up the ball and run it into the end zone!!! Tony is too busy to fix the schools anyway, and now that I've used a football analogy, you can probaly get "you know who" to second the motion.

AND FINALLY, click "READ MORE" for my new article, "The City of Los Angeles Is Just One Big Cow Waiting To Be Milked by Elected Officials"

The State of California and City of Los Angeles is Just One Big Cow Waiting to be Milked by Elected Officials.

by Zuma Dogg

After spending a just over a year at Los Angeles City Hall, attending a majority of Council meetings and reading most of the agenda items, the conclusion was obvious from day one:

The State and City is just one big “pot” (as Assemblymember Kevin DeLeon calls currently available park bond money) waiting to be grabbed like a football in play on the gridiron.

The politicians in the City of Los Angeles and the State of California are the types of genius minded metropolis thwarters like you see on Batman (Riddler, Penguin, Joker) all masterminds of how to find the flaw in the system; the loophole that allows you to call your homie and tell ‘em to apply for a non-profit grant. (Like when the Penguin got word some billionaire’s art and jewelry collection was being moved from one location to another. Or when the Riddler loots an upscale party.

Or donate to my private school reform fund, before you file that high density construction permit.

Or how about just issuing fraudulent permits because building and SAFTEY and EIR would NEVER allow six homes to be built.

Bond money is more vulnerable than a crippled sheep at Wolfstock. Make sure all your favorite non-profits line up for the money to buy and build the park, but make sure they let the sunset clause run out first, so then, you can build whatever you’d like on the land, like luxury condos.

Here’s a good way milk the city of it’s money. Create a motion to spend $100,000 to “jumpstart” a program, but MAKE SURE you do not call to FINISH the job...that would put an end to funneling more money into the project, later.

Or let’s say the City Charter requires a certain percentage of your high density condo project to include some affordable housing so workers who serve the area don’t have to cause gridlock traffic with ninety minute commutes. Well ignore those requirements and make sure the other City Departments don’t enforce that, or vacany rates, and zoning laws that would prevent many of these from happening in the first place. (That’s why you side-step the law and hope ZAP doesn’t notice.)

If the State appropriates $20 billion to help repair and build new schools (for the first time since the ‘70’s)...Stand up and call for school reform under a plan that puts all that school budget spending power in ONE PERSON’S hand. Then demand to choose that person, yourself.

If the City waives the fees to operate a non-profit, open to the public, event in the best interest of the community...have your favorite “non-profit” throw they own event, then create a motion to waive about $10,000 in fees.

Subsidizing big developers for billion dollar projects, waiving taxes for developers -- but then raising taxes and creating all kinds of new fees for the lower and middle class to pay for the services that the City should be paying for out of it’s “General Fund”.

Eminent Domain is a way to slide one past the pueblos. Even though it’s supposed to be for things like schools, fire stations, critical infrastructure improvement -- nothing wrong with using it for a new corporate mixed use mega complex that puts the rest of the surrounding businesses “out of business” and into a lower economic class -- many times putting an end to a multi-generational, family-owned, local business. Only problem with these types of businesses (from a politician’s viewpoint) is that they don’t funnel money into the campaign coffers.

There’s no money to be made if you play by the rules the People voted into the Charter to protect from all of you money diverting, general fund milking, fraud, waste and abuse of the people you promised everything to -- then did nothing -- except attach an intravenous money-sucker into their wallets.

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