YOUR Wonderful Mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa-Loserosa, Blows It And Misses Out On LA's Federal Transit Money! (Oh well, go get 'em next time Antonio)
DON'T WORRY ANTONIO...IT'S NOT LIKE WE NEEDED THE MONEY...
L.A. misses out on federal transit funds
MTA submits a proposal to study rather than implement tolls on freeways, as required by U.S. agency.
By Steve Hymon, Times Staff Writer
June 8, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gridlock8jun08,1,1886857.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
Excerpts from full article on mayor's federal debacle.)
…the Los Angeles area managed Thursday to miss out on qualifying for hundreds of millions of federal dollars for traffic-busting programs.
…the application submitted by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority on behalf of local agencies requested money only to help pay for a study of congestion pricing.
But one critic of the application shortfall expressed his disappointment with a co-chairman, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who has repeatedly vowed to lobby the state and Washington for more money to fight gridlock and expand mass transit.
"The mayor really missed the boat," said Bob Poole, director of transportation studies for the Reason Foundation, a Los Angeles-based libertarian think tank.
"They submitted something that didn't respond to the criteria" that the Department of Transportation "clearly set out, and it's really a shame, because I can't imagine how Los Angeles wouldn't have been a finalist with a credible application," Poole said.
The mayor's office released a statement saying that Villaraigosa "will remain relentless" in pursuit of transportation funding. [Say, “start” being relentless…other wise it looks like you were relentless, and failed. And then we lose all faith. So say, “I was busy with AB 1381 lawsuit, traveling the world, and tanking everything else I go near…so now I will “start” to become relentless on this issue.]
CLICK READ MORE FOR CAROL BAKER THARP SHOWING UP AT GLASSELL PARK NC THIS MONDAY! So come on out, and tell her just what you think about Bradley's "In-cahoots Crew." PLUS CM CEDILLO? STREET BUZZ IS REYES WILL NOT RUN FOR RE-ELECTION TO MAY WAY FOR CEDILLO TO TAKE OVER THE DISTRICT? (Don't blame me, just posting some street talk for y'all to weigh in. Click Read More for info on letting fourteen year olds vote for NC boardmembers. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL SOMEONE TO TAKE THEY HEAD OUT THEY ASS!?!?
Glassell Park Neighborhood Council Executive Board Meeting
June 5th, 2007
Stakeholder asks questions of Chair Bradley regarding voting that took place on 4/17/2007 regarding the Victory Outreach proposed signage. Apparently there is paperwork on file downtown Los Angeles that shows a possible conflict of interest. The stakeholder has to stand up to get her paperwork back. (See YouTube video below)
Meet and greet Carol Baker Tharp, General Manager of the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (DONE)
Bring your concerns and comments
Monday, June 11, 2007
5pm to 8pm
Glassell Park Community/Senior Center
3750 Verdugo Road
Los Angeles, California 90065
(parking and entrance in the rear)
Zuma, I'll try and make it. Love how they have these meetings start at 5pm. I work in Culver City and don't get out of work before 6pm. Hopefully, I'll be able to be there for some portion of it.
FROM ZAP'S INBOX -- RE: REYES/LINCOLN HEIGHTS NC
Zuma, I will contact you about last night's Lincoln Heights Meeting, where the Board was considering whether to lower the voting age to 14 or make a by-law declaration that High School Students and older can vote for all Board Seats. The elections will continue to be held at Lincoln High School. Three Lincoln High School teachers seat on the current board.
David Galaviz, form USC Community Outreach and former aide to Senator Gil Cedillo, has been behind all these moves. Current talk in the community is that Ed Reyes will not be running for re-election next time around in order to make room for Gil Cedillo to take over the area.
David Galaviz is a Boyle Heights Native, that moved in to Lincoln Heights by renting from conflict of interest Board Member Sherlie Fierro, in order to become eligible to run for Board President. David is nothing more than a Carpet Bagger, along with many of his other cronies. USC should be ashamed of itself, since they are the main consultants for the implementation and evaluation of the Neighborhood Council System.
contact: zumadogg@gmail.com
L.A. misses out on federal transit funds
MTA submits a proposal to study rather than implement tolls on freeways, as required by U.S. agency.
By Steve Hymon, Times Staff Writer
June 8, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gridlock8jun08,1,1886857.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
Excerpts from full article on mayor's federal debacle.)
…the Los Angeles area managed Thursday to miss out on qualifying for hundreds of millions of federal dollars for traffic-busting programs.
…the application submitted by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority on behalf of local agencies requested money only to help pay for a study of congestion pricing.
But one critic of the application shortfall expressed his disappointment with a co-chairman, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who has repeatedly vowed to lobby the state and Washington for more money to fight gridlock and expand mass transit.
"The mayor really missed the boat," said Bob Poole, director of transportation studies for the Reason Foundation, a Los Angeles-based libertarian think tank.
"They submitted something that didn't respond to the criteria" that the Department of Transportation "clearly set out, and it's really a shame, because I can't imagine how Los Angeles wouldn't have been a finalist with a credible application," Poole said.
The mayor's office released a statement saying that Villaraigosa "will remain relentless" in pursuit of transportation funding. [Say, “start” being relentless…other wise it looks like you were relentless, and failed. And then we lose all faith. So say, “I was busy with AB 1381 lawsuit, traveling the world, and tanking everything else I go near…so now I will “start” to become relentless on this issue.]
CLICK READ MORE FOR CAROL BAKER THARP SHOWING UP AT GLASSELL PARK NC THIS MONDAY! So come on out, and tell her just what you think about Bradley's "In-cahoots Crew." PLUS CM CEDILLO? STREET BUZZ IS REYES WILL NOT RUN FOR RE-ELECTION TO MAY WAY FOR CEDILLO TO TAKE OVER THE DISTRICT? (Don't blame me, just posting some street talk for y'all to weigh in. Click Read More for info on letting fourteen year olds vote for NC boardmembers. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL SOMEONE TO TAKE THEY HEAD OUT THEY ASS!?!?
Glassell Park Neighborhood Council Executive Board Meeting
June 5th, 2007
Stakeholder asks questions of Chair Bradley regarding voting that took place on 4/17/2007 regarding the Victory Outreach proposed signage. Apparently there is paperwork on file downtown Los Angeles that shows a possible conflict of interest. The stakeholder has to stand up to get her paperwork back. (See YouTube video below)
Meet and greet Carol Baker Tharp, General Manager of the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (DONE)
Bring your concerns and comments
Monday, June 11, 2007
5pm to 8pm
Glassell Park Community/Senior Center
3750 Verdugo Road
Los Angeles, California 90065
(parking and entrance in the rear)
Zuma, I'll try and make it. Love how they have these meetings start at 5pm. I work in Culver City and don't get out of work before 6pm. Hopefully, I'll be able to be there for some portion of it.
FROM ZAP'S INBOX -- RE: REYES/LINCOLN HEIGHTS NC
Zuma, I will contact you about last night's Lincoln Heights Meeting, where the Board was considering whether to lower the voting age to 14 or make a by-law declaration that High School Students and older can vote for all Board Seats. The elections will continue to be held at Lincoln High School. Three Lincoln High School teachers seat on the current board.
David Galaviz, form USC Community Outreach and former aide to Senator Gil Cedillo, has been behind all these moves. Current talk in the community is that Ed Reyes will not be running for re-election next time around in order to make room for Gil Cedillo to take over the area.
David Galaviz is a Boyle Heights Native, that moved in to Lincoln Heights by renting from conflict of interest Board Member Sherlie Fierro, in order to become eligible to run for Board President. David is nothing more than a Carpet Bagger, along with many of his other cronies. USC should be ashamed of itself, since they are the main consultants for the implementation and evaluation of the Neighborhood Council System.
contact: zumadogg@gmail.com
Posted by Zuma Dogg @ 6/08/2007 12:56:00 PM
21 Comments:
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen (removes hat and bows low with flourish):
What? You are NOT happy with Villabarbosa? Fie! You VOTED for him. You should be ecstatic or at the very least chortling with glee.
Zuma lad, are you about? I have something for you to look into. Who chairs the corresponding federal money-granting agency? And of those kind folks, who has a Los Angeles connection? The answer lies in those expense reports, savvy?
Oh, and one other thing. Judge Sauer is a fine jurist. I hold him in the same regard as Judge Dzintra. And having been in the presence of both, I must conclude that each is equally capable of jerking a bowknot into the monkey's tail. (Rolls eyes) And whose tail needs a bowknot? (smiles) Exactly. Savvy?
Now, you all know I love to point out the Mayor's shortcomings as much as the next guy -- maybe more -- but I don't think this is necessarily an occasion to do so.
As I understand it -- correct me if I'm wrong -- to get this particular money, the MTA would have had to COMMIT to making roads toll roads. If so, I probably would have "passed" on this money, too. Sometimes, money just comes with too many strings attached. I don't think toll roads are a great solution for the L.A. area. I know they're great some places -- e.g. the French countryside and New Jersey -- but I think don't think they'd be a great addition to our local transit mix.
So, much as it pains me to do so, I won't be faulting Villaraigosa on this one.
Geez, just how did the incredibly illiterate Zuma Dogg, who has to beg for contributions so he can afford transportation to harass city council, happen to miss that one itty bitty details. REQUIRED TOLL ROADS - it was right there in the Steve Hymon story, the part you cut out to sensationalize (i.e., mislead), people into thinking this was a screw up.
You'd have to start begging with a bucket instead of a cup, freeloader, if L.A. started putting in toll roads. We pay enough money for roads now, what with incredibly high gas taxes.
Missed that detail?
Nope, MisLED by leaving out that detail.
Lincoln Heights isn't unique in letting non-adults vote. A few NCs had no age limit whatsoever, and the elections people had to make ad hoc rulings on election day that if the kid couldn't at least print their own name on the ballot, they couldn't vote and their parent wasn't allowed to instruct them who to vote for, once they signed in.
And DONE and BONC approved their bylaws that way, and the City Attorney passed them through as legit under the city charter.
The first set of BONC commissioners, all James Hahn appointees, even encouraged more youth participation, telling other NCs that didn't factor that in that they should have at least a youth representative on their board.
In one NC, nearly one-third of the voters were teens or younger.
(The first three letters of "news" spells "new" - none of this is. It's been going on since the very first NCs were certified 5 years ago.
In the first Lincoln Heights election, 2001, 1 in 5 voters were from the high school. One social studies teacher gave his students extra credit it they would go and vote, and so the whole class showed up. Most of them only voted for the youth representatives, however, since that was the only candidate any of them knew, and so their votes had little affect on the actual makeup of that board.
you know who else blew it, the anti-measure R people who somehow dropped the case (or at least thats what i hear)...wasn't it supposed to be heard yesterday?...wonder what kind of deal david hernandez was offered to give up, and i wonder what he did with all those donations he got to fight it...what a f'n quitter
TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE
GREUEL-CHAIR
PARKS-VICE CHAIR
LABONGE
ALARCON
ROSENDAHL
Aren't these council members responsible for the CITY losing the money to?
I heard the Prop R case is scheduled for next month July. Someone chime in if they know.
Walter don't you find it interesting that if Antonio and the MTA board didnt' want this money they would have publicly stated so before this negative story came out. Hymon is one of the few who does his homework. He's blaming Mayor and others so I would do more research. Also, how about those losers on transportation committee? They didn't even know about it either? Something is not smelling right.
LOOK ON THE BRIGHTSIDE, EVERYONE!
OUR TOILETS ARE CLEAN!
BREAKING NEWS
After denying for months that he was having marital problems, Friday Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced he and his wife of 20+ years were separating.
4:22
Even though this blog is about LA Politics and Politicians...this is a personal matter that will seriously impact his children's lives...noting the matter is fine...but speculation/jokes are neither a fun nor an adult thing to do.
Just what the [expletive deleted] does doing "adult things" have to do with posting here.
Have you ever even read any of Zuma Dogg's posts???
4:24
This blog, whose founder attempted to "out" Mayor Jim Hahn's estranged wife as a tool in a campaign to unseat him is now going to cry foul at jokes about a sitting mayor's breakup.
Um, don't think so! Not while it remains unmoderated.
Antonio opened the door to this one by lying saying he was not separated when the entire city knew he was. He was hanging out with all those young staffers. Made a dumb excuse for not wearing his ring. I do feel sorry for kids though.
Yes, tolls were a part of the deal. But the mayor didn't say that was the reason he didn't go for the money.
And the reason that the Times gave, was that it might hurt them politically come election time.
NOT that tolls are not a good idea/efficient, or even that the city thinks they are a bad idea. Just that they think it would hurt them politically. And ZD can't worry about politics, he can only worry about FIXING stuff...
AND, before anyone says sh*t about the effect of the tolls -- make sure you read the complete proposals and impacts, and sit through the entire presentation about toll roads that I sat through at the SCAG meeting. (And not the one for the LA Weekly article. I continue to attend them, cause that's where you have to go to find out about this stuff.
BOTTOM LINE: If FEDS say you don't get money unless you do the toll roads, that means the toll roads are coming anyway, because the FEDS obviously feel it will improve efficiency. AND -- their number one goal IS managing traffic congestion.
NOT because they care about you..but because they gotta move those goods from the port down through town, as quickly as possible.
So don't play politics with efficiency. Or at least say you are against toll roads because (blank).
AS A MATTER OF FACT...THANKS FOR REMINDING ME...1:44pm...IF THE MAYOR PASSED ON THE MONEY BECAUSE HE DIDN'T FEEL IT WAS WORTH THE TRADE OFF...
ZUMA DOGG WILL BE CALLING OUT THE MAYOR ON RADIO AND TV 35 NEXT WEEK DEMANDING TO KNOW WHY HE MADE THAT CONCLUSION AND DEMAND TO SEE THE STATISTICS HE LOOKED AT THAT PROVES WHY TOLL ROADS ARE DON'T WORK.
I'm not saying they do, or don't...but if you are going to pass on money for the #1 concern of citizens (according to recent poll printed in newspapers ...go find it yourself) -- HE SHOULD TELL US WHY...HE'S ELECTED TO REPRESENT THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE...NOT HIS POLITICAL STRATEGISTS. We all know what a bunch of hacks they are.
4:24 pm
SHUUUUUUUUUT UP!!!!!!
Everyone needs to remember one thing from now on: The Reason Foundation is a bunch of psychos. I have yet to figure how they continue to be quoted as "experts" on anything. They have a consistent track record of not wanting money to be spent on ANY public program be it mass transit or cleaning up the environment. They want privitazation of all government services. While some of you in the higher tax bracket may think "what's wrong with that?", imagine if your necessary, vital services were left to profiteering bastards like the oil companies.
The Reason Foundation actually has a mantra that says we don't need any mass transportaton in Southern California; all gridlock can be resolved with one solution: more roads. I'm not kidding. The new idiot manager of the LA Business Journal bought into this crap without even asking the obvious question: Exactly WHERE will you put those new roads??? Uh, have these guys been to West LA or Beverly Hills? Where is there room for another road? or 2 or 3? They are beyond stupid. Oh, and their board members include some of the long-standing members of the John Birch Society.
The Reason Foundation is the Paris Hilton of transportation information: completely useless and stupid.
Yeah, MAV "blew it" and let down all Mayorsam's CS cheapskate Valley white boys who would have gone postal if the city had submitted to Bush's toll lane blackmail in order to get a few million federal bucks. Get real! You guys are addicted to your SUVs and freeways (that's spelled f-r-e-e...) and you'd be circulating recall petitions if Villaraigosa proposed toll roads.
1:44pm,
Excuse me...looks like YOU are the loser, crybaby who didn't see this one little thing.
FROM ZUMA DOGG'S THREAD ON THE MAYOR BLOWING FEDERAL MONEY EVEN THOUGH THE FEDS ARE GONNA GET IT DONE ANYWAY:
"MTA submits a proposal to study rather than implement tolls on freeways, as required by U.S. agency."
I do NOT accept your douchebag apology -- and everyone sees what a low comprehension, crybaby, lo-hoo-oo-o-ser you really are.
8:00pm, mi amigo...
I give you that the bloggers would have hammered him for the toll lanes...cause anytime you start charging for something that used to be free there will be complaints.
But that's where leadership and salesmanship comes into the formula.
ZD or Anthony Robbins would be having the City BEGGING for this, once we get done spinning.
I'm going to respectfullly disagree with you on this one, Zuma. We're taxed so much already, I don't want to pay extra to use the roads. Enough's enough.
Walter,
For me it's not about whether toll roads or good, or not...I'm commenting on how HE didn't say whether they are good or bad, it was just reported that it wasn't done cause it looks bad politically. And if you are turning down FEDERAL money...we wanna know how he came to that conclusion.
AND OH...BY THE WAY...BY THE WAY...BY THE WAY...BY THE F-U-C-K-I-N-G WAY...
What if I told you, now that we aren't doing the toll roads, YOU WILL BE SEEING A GAS TAX Y'ALL!!!
That's right, you can blame ZD for saying I didn't say anything about the toll road (even though it's in the first paragraph of the thread) ...
Then say you are against it...BUT -- I DIDN'T SEE THE LA TIMES REPORTER AT THE SCAG MEETING WHEN THEY GAVE THE PRESENTATION...
It's an a)or b) option. a) is toll roads, b) is gas tax.
So now, even if you don't use the toll roads, you can pay the tax, y'all...
FUCK YOU TO THE PERSON WHO SAID "I" WAS THE ONE WHO DIDN'T TELL THE WHOLE STORY...
I DO NOT ACCEPT YOUR APOLOGY!
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