Recall Proponents and Weiss Come to An Agreement
Don't freak out! No supporters of an effort to remove Clowncilman Jack "Wacko Jacko" Weiss have not made some deal with the devil. Read on:Jack Weiss says the recall effort is all about greed and the Proponents of the Recall say “we could not agree more,” according to recall proponent Monique Kagan. If Jack Weiss paid even half as much attention to his constituents as he does developers, lawyers and lobbyists he probably wouldn’t be in this situation. But Jack’s greed for money and power has become so all-consuming that he doesn’t even pretend to care about the little guy any more. Weiss ONLY pays attention to the residents of CD5 when they stop trying to talk to him and start interfering with his cash flow. “Then Jack Weiss gets angry,” says Kagan, former Chief of Staff to past Council President Alex Padilla. Jack is finally paying attention, however he is still non responsive. Rather than attempt to resolve issues that matter to his constituents, Jack has begun to solicit even more campaign contributions from downtown developers and lobbyists so that he has money to protect the status quo. It just shouldn’t take a recall to get Jack Weiss’s attention.
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Posted by Mayor Sam @ 6/19/2007 12:30:00 AM
21 Comments:
Who did Weiss think he was fooling? Did he actually think people would believe HE was anti-development?
Doesn't he know ANYONE can go to the City ethics website and find out how much money he gets from developers? Latham & Watkins? Lobbyists?
Maybe he should have spent more time helping his constituents across his district.
Anyone who has tried to get him to listen to them knows what the real truth is.
Calling him a Clowncilman is an insult to all clowns.
Now we wait and see if the Weiss crew headed by sleazeball/campaign finance violator Larry Levine (who represents sleazeball/campaign finance violator Jack Weiss) can find more ways to try to spin the issue.
Who will they blame it on next: Let's find out.
Levine should hire Trujillo
who cares about that bimbo monique kagan? apparently p'o'd cuz she thought she was hired as a paid assassin by the recall group, but realized they had no money cuz noone wants to pay the losers to lose...so she is getting the biggest loser of all, mayor sam, to take on her story.
I resent that last post; the Biggest Loser of All, the Mother of All Losers is not Mayor Sam.
It is his pal, Zuma Dogg, aka Dave Elliott.
You are giving losing a bad name.
Monique is a classy, educated, well-spoken individual. Which is more than can be said of many of the #**!@& who rant and rave on this blog.
Wait. Who is Jack Weiss?
Exactly what people will be asking after the recall election.
Wait a minute. When you say that JackAss Weiss and the recall people came to an agreement, are you saying that there's no more recall? Or are you saying something else?
The level of this discourse and its dense participants, about sums up the level of the recall group -- whose brilliant response to the recall is a na-na-na-na-na, we can say it too! As a taxpayer and resident of CD5, no way I'd want these idiots or wannabes like this Kagan woman or Eveloff or any of them running MY city..they're a bunch of time-wasting losers. It's the councilman's authority to decide what fees or mitigations are to be gotten from developers; the unbelievable nerve of these ego- besotted nobodies presuming to do it on their own, acting like little ganglords -- isn't that what the Mafia does, shake down anyone who does business in "their" hood? Saying they were going to use the money for their own one community is not excuse. They just made the developer mad, Weiss stepped in and did the fair thing, but ever since, they non-stop potty-mouth the councilmen with their spiteful rants, regardless of what he does.
Go away, you miserable pile of insects. It's MY time and money you are wasting, too, for your pathetic little spectacle.
Jack Weiss from the time he was elected did zero for the individuals in his district. If you didn't have power or money you were a zero. He has gotten campaign contributions from the firm he is using to defend him. He has taken money form those who come before him on his committees like the Fire Fighter's Union and the Police Unions. No one signed his petition from the district only those who would benefit from his munificence. Help us get rid of this guy because he has to power to plan the new building projects for the next 20 years. Do you want that?!!
Lots of people like him, and he was reelected as exactly the same person he is now. But you're a sorry bunch of losers, no prospects of fielding a candidate who's not a miserable worm; you have no concept of what it would take to run a district the size of many cities, nor do those power-hungry wannabes you put forth. The buildings and traffic issues you gripe about are all over the city, from downtown to the valley these days; you people bashed Feuer and Zev for exactly the same things. He's actually been criticized by some, e.g. on the "Bird Streets" of the hills, for opposing huge houses there and some call him anti-development.
The only people in the hills who support the recall or were even consulted about it, are old people and three-dollar bills, weirdos...
I'm glad he had the guts to stop your miserable little group of inflated egos re: Century City. Who do you think you are? You don't represent me or anyone I know, nor will you ever.
AND if you weren't so bitter, you'd see all the positive impacts he's had, and has ALWAYS pushed for the light rail/subways/DASH bus across WLA -- another proposal yesterday.
UCLA kids/young people/anyone with vision and intelligence, thinks he's great. But you people are just spiteful, hurting all of us in the district by not wanting to work w/ his office whatever he does, so intent on your stupid recall; which will never, ever succeed, give it up, shut up, do something else. You're so spiteful and stupid, your Tract 7260 Website update blames HIM for the saying Zev's one-way streets proposal was "thoughtful;" as has every other Councilmember, and virtually all the public, etc.
He just said it's worth studying, but you lash into him for that!
You people want a time-warp, and are too narrow-minded to see it.
(Re: the two idiots on the Council you dragged in: Zine from the West Valley, the SM-leather-dude perv of City Hall, the only other one along with Bitter Bernie to keep opposing Bratton -- who they also found too brusque, i.e., businesslike, not a windbag like that horsehead Janice Hahn you quote, whose bro was the epitome of fiscal corruption -- you are a joke, reduced to this blog.
Weiss is an Ivy Leaguer w/ solid L. A. pedigree, intellectual but local and someone who can mix with people at the higher government levels in terms of polish and sophisfication.
The individuals you found on the CC are, like the rest of you, oafish, narrow, mean-spirited egotists.
Go away.
I'm tired of seeing Eveloff dismissed as a "shakedown artist" by Jack Weiss's hired guns. Get the story straight before you flap your gums:
1) Weiss approves a massive development project without requesting any mitigation measures from the developer.
2) Several Homeowner Associations ask Weiss to request mitigation measures from the developer. Weiss refuses.
3) The Homeowner Associations, as a group and with Eveloff as lead negotiator, do Jack's job, negotiate with the developer and obtain $5 million in mitigation measures, to be allocated using fixed percentages to schools, parks, LAPD, LAFD, etc. There's no money in it for Eveloff or for any other individual.
4) Weiss is notified of this agreement by the Homeowners and threatens the developers with "torpedoing their project" if they go ahead with this agreement with the Homeowners.
5) Weiss then gets the same developers to allocate $2.5 million (1/2 of what they had already agreed to pay!) for mitigation measures, to be controlled in part by Jack (how do you spell slush fund?) And Jack publicly takes credit for this!
Now ask yourself, who is really the shakedown artist?
No. I'm not Eveloff. I've never even met the guy. But he's spent a huge amount of his time and money trying to make this city a bit more livable. In my book, he's a hero.
Per your #3, the H A's, headed by Eveloff/Tract 7260, "do his job," which was none of their business, any more than any of us can just willy- nilly "do the Mayor's job" by jumping into negotiations on behalf of the city, or "do the Chief's job" or "do the Sheriff's job," etc. Your group may think Eveloff a "hero" for doing this but if every H A around the city circumvented their Councilmember this way, then was openly nasty to him/her as a "negotiating tactic," the city would be instant chaos.
And you keep missing one point: many people just plain don't like you people or want you to continue your disruptive, boorish and wasteful behavior. But you've managed to show yourselves as such and as completely irrelevant.
Just read on lat bottleneck blog: the city should take all of Cheviott Hills NIMBYs by eminent domain, as "the needs of 5 loud people do not trump a 21st-century transportation system." You people are a miniscule minority all over the city.
Dear bile-filled pro-Weiss person:
Let's try a simple fact-based exercise.
Did the $5M exist prior to the HOAs seeking it for the community?
Why didn't Weiss seek any community benefit money?
Why did Weiss cut it in half which can ONLY favor the developer and HARM the community?
Why did Weiss simultaneously TAKE CREDIT for the HOA-negotiated settlement AND ALSO label the people that did the work shakedown artists?
Simple questions. See if you can answer them. See if you can do it without spewing hate. I bet not.
yawn. go away. no one cares about your greedy little attempt to seize power and money outside the system, of ELECTED officials whom we elected because they see the big picture. The whole city is fed up with you. It's your pathetic, infantile little video and tone that set the bar, and guaranteed your failure, and you've not said a thing of substance.
Au revoir, adios, sayonara -- done.
Whoever the Weiss spinner is:
When was the last time YOU got $5M for the community like the HOAs did?
Try to understand that these people are not your enemy. HOAs serve an important role. They are volunteers. They do not deserve your hate.
Who ARE you people? I don't give a @#!@ about any $5M. I don't even know what the hell you are talking about.
Weiss has people mad because he ignores his voters. He has allowed my neighborhood to get KILLED by traffic and no parking. It takes me 30 DAMN MINUTES to make a trip that used to take me 10 minutes.
When I complained to the council office, his staff said they would call me back and never did. Three times.
Recall people: As long as you let the Weiss crew focus on something other than Weiss, they will be able to hide from the fact that Weiss just stinks as a councilman.
Weiss people: At least have the courtesy of TRYING to answer questions without attacking people. It is unbecoming, makes you look mean-spirited and like you have something to hide.
Sounds to me like 4:28 and 58 etc., make some solid points and just don't like the recall people for good reason. I'm sure Weiss' people would never be on this site, any more than Baca's or the Mayor's. But I've seen some good detailed rebuttals to this group on CityWatch, D N, WLAonline, etc. Your general traffic issues are citywide, Weiss is actively addresing them, with studies of one-way streets (Zev idea) to Dash as immediate, to his strong desire for the rail line extension and the subeway. But if you think one person suddenly created or can stop traffic, that's naive. I've seen it escalate over 20 years along w/ the influx of population. There's good and bad: some areas that were abandoned by families for the valley like the hills and We Ho have them back again: the urban environment appeals to those who want those amenities near home.
Many independent supporters pop up all around, but the pros aren't as busy or spiteful or loud as this recall group, obsessed w/ their shakedown money and vengeance. Which is what it was, and they admit it. If you want to improve traffic as we all do, work on it constructively; this recall by some narrow, petty people is stupid and divisive, expensive and pointless as they won't win and no one with any credibility will run, whereas in just 18 months, there will be solid candidates: IF they're not scared away by this senseless, vindictive bunch. The only reason this group won't work with Weiss -- and they openly admit it -- is they are more intent on revenge over that five mil, than solutions.
Looks like Weiss has his own Trujillo.
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