Hahn redux: former mayor flirting with another run?
Is Jim Hahn laying the groundwork to star in the sequel voters denied him just two years ago? Word on the street is, at least one recent policy speech definitely crossed the line.
Friday marked the latest installment of Pancakes & Politics, a monthly Chamber-hosted powwow of business and government bigwigs.
Under the banner, Ready for Takeoff? The Case for the Modernization of LAX, the gathering of top-tier members heard from, among others, Deputy Mayor Jamie de la Vega and LAWA Board President Alan Rothenberg.
Though his name didn't appear on the published list of speakers, an eye-witness source tells the Sister City that Jim Hahn also addressed the group on the subject of airport modernization, delivering what could have easily been misconstrued as a stump speech.
In the land of short memories and continual reinvention, anything is possible. Let’s watch for continued signs of an effort on the part of the former mayor to raise his profile in the coming months.
Perhaps he’s simply hedging his bets, or perhaps our “Average Jim” is already convinced that by 2009, circus-weary Angelenos might just welcome, if nothing else, a return to normalcy.
Labels: 2009 mayoral election, james hahn, los angeles chamber of commerce
Posted by solomon @ 7/21/2007 12:00:00 AM
54 Comments:
Pay to Play, part 2? Give me a break! Who is going to be Hahn's campaign chairman- Ted Stein? Chief fundraiser- Troy Edwards? Will Leland Wong have some time outside of court hearings to serve on the campaign committee?
Run, Jimmy, Run!!
Please!!
Clearly ALL the Mexican agents MUST be cleared from ALL elective offices and appointments at ALL levels of government - this is just one office that is and will be overripe for clean out - there are far more than enough toilet brushes at City Hall to assist in the work locally in Los Angeles... I suppose it is not too early for any potential candidates to begin preparations.
Jim who?
The Hahn and Hahn dynasty: Pay to Play, and Ain't seen a tax increase for a failed program I don't like Janice: Bring on the marching bangs!
11:20
well i rather pay to play than get fuck and do not get pay? unless you're a fine lady.
Zuma for Spokesman and Director of Communications!
The Three Ladies in Van Nuys for Policy Analysts!
Matt Dowd and Mike Hunt for Fundraising! (Gotta sell a lot o' them incense and shea butter and t-shirts!)
Campaign Manager...Janice Hahn and Jill Stewart!
Legal and Ethics Advisors: Rocky and Michelle Delgadillo
11:26: I'm sure you speak for a lot of Hahn's potential followers.
BIG LOVE ALERT!!
Apparently ERS News has dug up the possible LAPD "girlfriend" on the security detail of the Big Chihuahua!! (EEeeeeeooooowwww!!! Was SHE one of the security detail hanging outside while Villar was schtupping the "reporter"? Contemplate THAT one! This guy is really creepy!)
From ERS News:
ERSNews has been investigating the alleged relationship of Mayor Villaraigosa and a female member of his LAPD security detail. The officer, who ERS/The Enterprise Report can reveal exclusively is 14-year LAPD veteran Anita Moreno, works on the Mayor's protective security detail provided by the LAPD. Officer Moreno has previously worked for the LAPD’s Pacific Division and also for the training division of the LAPD over her long law enforcement career.
According to multiple sources, the mayor has had a relationship with officer Moreno of some kind. The exact nature of that relationship is still unknown.
ERS sought comment from the LAPD, The Mayor’s office and directly from Ms. Moreno herself concerning any personal relationship she has had or does have with Mayor Villaraigosa. Prior to the publication of this report there was no response back to inquiries made by ERSNews from any of the contacted parties.
ERSNews has also confirmed that Officer Moreno has previously worked on the Mayor’s security detail dating as far back as late 2005. She is officially assigned to Chief Bratton’s office. According to the Chief's office she is currently “on loan” to the Mayor’s office and ERSNews has confirmed she was working on the Mayor’s security detail as recent as today (7/20/07).
Two weeks ago, on July 3, 2007, Mayor Villaraigosa revealed that he had a personal relationship with Telemundo anchor/political reporter Mirthala Salinas. That revelation set off a firestorm of media coverage over the past two weeks. In addition to the questions about the Mayor’s personal life, his relationship with Telemundo journalist Salinas raised serious issues of journalistic ethics, favoritism and special access for Ms. Salinas and her employers at Telemundo/NBC.
According to multiple sources including sources familiar with the LAPD just how Officer Moreno became assigned to the mayor is not entirety clear and the LAPD nor the Mayor’s office would comment on the process by which Officer Moreno was assigned the Mayor’s security team citing a blanket policy against commenting on issues related to the Mayor and his protection.
The standard practice is for the officers assigned to the Mayor to be members of the LAPD Metro Squad. Once on the squad they go though special training at the Los Angeles Police Department Academy. There, they learn techniques in protection of individuals such at the Mayor. The training is so complete that other police departments send people there for the training.
OOOoooppss!! Sorry! WITH pictures:
http://www.ersnews.com/
I'd take Hahn over Villaraigosa in a heartbeat.
Checked ERS and they don't have one iota of evidence to back up their allegations, just lots of photos of this cop -- just because she's reasonably attractive, doesn't mean she can't be professional.
How many years back do you people want to set the women's movement, anyway? To where women have to be ugly in order to be considered free of suspicion? Find FACTS first, before trying to ruin another woman's reputation. Just because one is possibly over the line, doesn't mean anyone else is.
"Throng greets opening of downtown Ralphs," the "first new supermarket to open downtown in fifty years."
A thousand people were lined up outside as the store opened...
Heralds the revitalization of downtown, with more to come.
Hey, Zuma: there's your "Grand Illusion." Who's the one who's deluded now, Mr. Visionary?
Any one other then Antonio
Feature about Salinas' future in the balance, LAT. Too bad, sounds like a hard-scrabble girl b. Mexico, career cut short. Never finished state college, started working at 17; seems part of her problem is, newscasters are chosen for their looks and being "tough" (as admitted by her earlier bosses), vs. maturity and depth and any real readiness for the real world. That is fault of employers, the values placed on journalism.
Maybe she can go back to school and finish her degree, start over when she's really mature.
12:23
Or maybe she can get in touch with the DC Madam for some networking ... she may still have some "curiosity" value to the customers of that particular trade. Probably her days as a viable "political power f****r" are waning...
You guys are really something.
Jimmy Hahn couild not pass the mirror test. He's still a nice guy, but he has as much chance of being elected to anything as ZD does; slim and none, and you know what happened to Slim.
Nope, face it sports fans, Mayor Villaraigosa will be reelected because there is no viable candidate who can raise the money who will take him on. He still has his base and it will take a major player, with a base of their own to beat him.
Jimmy Hahn's base is either already indicted or awaiting completion of the investigation. Just like last time around, he's still seen as a loser and no one would invest a penny in him.
You haters better look for another White Knight, but hurry, because with about two years to go, the election derby really starts next January.
As Bill Clinton has taught us, it'll take more than a roll with a bimbo to beat a strong player like Antonio.
1:52
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Up late tonight, eh "Mayor"??? Still trying to catch that Clinton "aura"??? Well ... you've got part of it down, but not so sure about that solid base part...
Ha Ha Ha Ha ..... Whew! .... Good one!
12:23
"...problem is, newscasters are chosen for their looks and being 'tough'..."
"Tough"? Don't you mean "fluff"?
poor jim.
does the taxydermist need a touchup?
Pay to Play - as Skelton has dishonestly tainted Hahn - versus Screw to Play, a moniker Antonio has so clearly staked out for himself.
Hahn will win because all of Parke Skeltons lies, just like Antonio's campaign pieces - will have been exposed. Jim Hahn won't have anything to lose and he won't hold back this time. The press will finally get the proof on all the Antonio rumors.
Parke and Antonio are shitting in thier pants right now.
Problem is if Antonio runs again he will be cast as a womanizing cheat who didn't respect his family and wasted tax payer dollars screwing around. His girlfriend will always be known as the "other" woman who destroyed a family. Antonio got voted in because of Latinos. No way would Latinas vote for this scumbag. He couldn't even be man enough to first leave his wife then screw around. He wanted it both ways and had the nerve to pretend to be a family man. What will he have on his mailers this time?
A rising media star's career hangs in the balance...Telemundo executives are close to deciding the fate of Mirthala Salinas, who had a romantic relationship with L.A.'s mayor while reporting on him.
By Duke Helfand, Meg James and Scott Glover, Times Staff Writers
July 21, 2007
Mirthala Salinas was a rising star at one of Los Angeles' premier Spanish-language television stations before she came to be known as the other woman in Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's life.
Hahn a nice guy? hahaha. He just had some underling doing his dirty work. I hope he runs so I can vote against him again and again see him lose.
Hahn's got his own personal issues, like bedding one of his staff members after going through his own divorce. He just had the good fortune to hide it better.
Mayor Sam,
Maybe Hahn is considering getting back into politics...whether its a run for Mayor or another office, his involvement threatens our current Mayor...while no one was watching the final Mayoral debates, Hahn cleaned the current Mayor's clock on all substitive issues...many Angelenos are figuring out that the current Mayor is changing LA and taking LA in a direction we may not want to go...someone will challenge this Mayor and, most likely, whoever it is will team up with a candidate for City Attorney...such a team concept could make that someone's chances much better...the Valley, the Westside and the black vote are NOT PLEASED with this Mayor's direction on a number of issues...however, if this Mayor can demonstate real leadership on some keys issues, he could be formidable...the airport is one of those issues...it is going to get very interesting...pay to play? Isn't that what Nunez is doing?
Will Hertzberg return and drain off enough votes to allow Tony to squeak by all over again?
It's sad when even in a big city like L.A. people have to talk about recycling a candidate.
At least there is one good thread on Mayor Sam today.
Yes, I'll take the boring Hahn over A.D.D. Villar any day. The Villar experiment has failed miserably and he has been a national embarrassment.
But this city is still f'd even if Hahn comes back as he's another liberal who panders to the extremist pro-illegal alien hispanic lobby.
We need entrepeneurs, engineers, wealth creators -- not sanctuary city policies, S.O. 40, and impoverished people from Mexico.
p.s. resign Mahony, you worthless piece of
s*!t
9:302: Well, we have Riordan, Eli Broad and the others behind downtown, giving AV his financial advice, and he's listening. So he may not have the business background, but his team is a lot more solid than Hahn's ultra - liberal spendthrift one oculd be: he'd be all about pouring money only into the inner cities for programs that don't work, infrastructure that doesn't create wealth (yes, like his sister is now), leftover stuff from the eighties, different economic times.
Remember, it's not just about AV himself, but the fact that he's a team builder, accepts and solicits advice from the industrial titans; he hasn't been caving in to the illegals as much as they'd wanted.
And I think after this, where the working-class, uneducated Hispanics (including many illegals) have been his worst critics, he'll lean in the mainstream direction even more.
Yes, call him a cholo if you want, but he's nothing if not a scrappy, pragmatic survivor and hard worker.
10:04
Can you provide specific, concrete examples of AV not caving to illegals as much as they wanted.
Hahn's got his own personal issues, like bedding one of his staff members after going through his own divorce.
Now, that is gross. Look at the man's picture and tell me it wouldn't be akin to necrophilia. Ewww.
Go away, Hahn. Get a real job for a change. I know your law firm is anxious to unload it's deadwood (you)but taxpayers do not owe you a life time job because your name is Hahn.
Villaraigosa got his own personal issues, like bedding one of his comadres after his wife goes through cancer therapy.
Now, that is gross. Look at the man's picture and tell me it wouldn't be akin to sociopath and necrophilia. Ewww!
Go away, Villaraigosa. Get a real job for a change. I know your lack of law degree is deadwood (you)but taxpayers do not owe you a life time job because your name is Villarwomanizer
I would rather have an AMERICAN crook than a rabid, Reconquista MEXICAN CROOK!!!
Listen to Jim Hahn having a MELTDOWN on election day when he called in to KFI's John & Ken.
He literally started crying.
If Walter can get into the debates, he will hold his own at the very least.
If Arnold jumps in, it's over for everyone.
Bye-bye Special Order 40.
If Walter can get into the debates, he will hold his own at the very least.
If Arnold jumps in, it's over for everyone.
Bye-bye Special Order 40.
A great example of why Jim Hahn has no chance?
That fat chunk of shit advisor, Doane Liu, who steered the city INTO every storm possible, instead of away from them.
11:03 p.m.
Agreed!!! The Mexicans MUST be thrown out of ALL government! But until there is re-districting, it will never happen!
L.A. is epitome of what a city SHOULD NOT BE! The whole country is terrified that their city will turn out like L.A. if the Mexicans are allowed to move in and take over local government.
Villar will NOT be re-elected!
11:51: Never heard that one, but if there's tape of Hahn blabbering about his loss on John and Ken's KFI, he's done like a goose.
Not just for blabbering -- at least our little cholo mayor is tough -- but for having the bad judgment to do it on a talk show with right=wing hosts, and him being a leftie liberal they must have loathed anyway -- many levels of dumb and cowardly, which is the kind of gutless personality that leads to a corrupt environment.
Anyway, his interest in running is based on nothing but speculation, the mere fact that he crawled out of the formaldahyde bottle to appear anywhere -- and he wasn't even listed on the panel.
12:37pm I am referring to an AMAZING interview Hahn did on ELECTION DAY. He was blubbering and flustered in the most embarrassng way.
Go to KFI's website. Or John & Ken's website. It must be there somewhere.
I heard it live.
He was desperate for publicity on election night so he went on John & Ken hoping to do a little filibustering.
Instead, he was grilled about Special Order 40 and broke down.
"...many levels of dumb and cowardly, which is the kind of gutless personality that leads to a corrupt environment." Incomplete but correct description of the Big Chihuahua
He cried over Sp 40, the bill telling cops not to q illegals about their status? How so? Upset that people would q why it was a needed tool, or what? How could that make anyone so upset? Must have been something else like awareness he was losing, even though he did all the right things, like trying to appease "antonio's" Mexicans, and "they still don't like me."
Sounds like he just has insecurity issues, definitely not tough enough for the way things have gotten now, the tabloid trashing AV has taken.
Not that I think all this is a good direction: we're going to see the worst kind of candidates running, the rest will shun the race. Who needs this for around 200K, whose family wants to go through this?
Either really rich like Arnold and Maria -- and they're the ones who get away with raising millions in charity to help defray travel by private jet, taking over a floor of the hotel, etc. -- this AV stuff is nickel-and-dime, like did security detail hang outside his door. (I'd say yes, security is 24/7, they're not at liberty to decide what he does on his off time, nor are we.)
UNLESS it conflicts w/ job, as in this Salinas case.
Listen to July 20, 11:31pm. ERSNews has a slam dunk if they pursue this one. LAPD detail is EXPENSIVE. These guys make serious overtime pay!
Don't forget the mayor's bodypeople. Always with the mayor IN ADDITION to LAPD detail.
Credible source in City Hall says bodypeople were/are disgusted & sick of waiting for him outside various dwellings late at night! We're paying for this, too???
The Villar experiment
That would make a good title for a sequel to Logan's Run.
As for the vote -- no doubt, a few clowns voting 20 times each -- no one ever went broke underestimating the public.
4:04
How do you do that? I voted and got the results graph and everytime I come back to this site, the same graph is there... it doesn't seem to let you vote more than once...
4:54: Well, if "the same graph is always there," maybe it was rigged.
Hard to believe that even on this virulently anti-AV site, so many can believe that Hahn would be running, based on no more evidence than that he turned up somewhere for the first time in years. Real question is, why has he been hiding so long? Hoping people finally forgot him, I'd wager, not hoping to be "rediscovered."
Let me see the city is millions in a deficit, gang programs are wasting millions yet no one is doing anything about it, don't have enough cops, traffic is horrible, no affordable housing, gang violence out of control. Yet, what has the Mayor done about any of these issues? NOTHING. People who voted for AV are now scratching their heads. AV ran on the family value campaign even though people were saying its not true and no one listened. I think they're listening now.
7:25, you got it all wrong. The role of the mayor isn't to fix such problems himself - that's for the bureacrats and lower-level city employees to do. Villaraigosa's job is to INSPIRE - to show up at, say, a Ralphs Fresh Fare opening downtown or a press conference for a new, famous member of the local soccer team, and give a BIG SMILE and maybe sign an autograph or two. In other words, the IMPORTANT stuff - not the trivial, laborious work that could compromise his ability to make Angelenos just feel good about their city.
To 10:30 pm.::what does MAV have--- Jaime and his Hummer doing his dirty work at the Chamber social? So Give me a Break! Maybe Hahn's inner group were corrupt but at least we knew who there were and where they were. they weren't in hidding. Now we have disgraced council man Richardo Alatorre as the head hancho. . .with Mike Roose who likes teenage girls as the number two hancho.
BIG LOVE SUNDAY UPDATE AT LUKE FORD:
Eric Longabardi Says On KABC Radio That The Mayor Specifically Requested Latina Security
By Luke Ford |
During the 5 p.m. show, Eric says the mayor specifically requested that women on his security detail be latina.
Attractive latina Anita Moreno skipped the normal process to get on the mayor’s security detail, says Longabardi, presumably upon the request of the mayor.
Eric: "The attitude within the Spanish-language media is that Villaraigosa is their guy. He’s on their team. The slack they give him is over the line… They give journalistic heads-up way out of line…telling him in advance of questions so he doesn’t get side-swiped."
Antonio’s Spanish-language TV show on Univision is called "On Your Side."
Longabardi suggests that Mirthala Salinas got her publicist from the mayor.
http://lukeford.net/blog/?p=513
I would love to see Winny Hahn and Antonio Villalinas run against each other.
The problem is Hahn has pist off the Valley Voters when he shut down Valley Seccession. He also pist off the Black Voters when he fired Bernard Parks. Not to mention very few Latinos existed in his Mayoral staff.
The outcome of Winny Hahn is keep dreaming you will be rejected.
Sad to say Antonio Villalinas will run for re-election and most likely will get elected, he has the BLING BLING to kick most of his rivals ass.
Maybe Rick Carusso will show some of his BLING BLING and challenge Mr. Pimp Villalinas. This would be a great run Money VS. Money.
Carusso made by his Daddy, Villalinas made by the radical Union. This is a better deal, Hahn is a straight loser.
Hahn, I like the guy but he has very little shot in 2009. It looks like the foundation is being laid for Tom LaBonge to run and clean Villaraigosa's clock
7/23 5:52
Believe it or not if you've been in the Valley and with leaders in South LA they have changed their tune because they've realized that Hahn was right all along.
Hahn was right about Parks because look at how he's not doing anything as Councilman. The Valley is witnessing the things that Hahn did to protect their interests.
Finally and most importantly LAX one of the big pieces that got Hahn in trouble will be his saving grace because his plan was the most effective in adding the neccessary space and minizing Community impacts. What is Villara-pose-a doing? Moving the runways right into the neighborhoods!
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