Tuesday Hotsheet at 3 a.m.
Your old, dead Republican Mayor is back in town from water-hoarding NoCal. Before I disappear into my novelist's hermitage again, I do want to thank a lot of people, silent to all but those who know, for letting me into their days just enough to keep this 3 a.m. hotsheet going. As a blogger, I'm the kind of guy who likes the personal---the email and the phone call---rather than the feed and the search. What I can tell you from calling around town on MayorSam's behalf is that is that the influence and cache of this blog around town is enormous.
In fact, I was talking to a press aide at a certain pols office a few weeks ago, trying to explain who I was, hoping for that before-5 p.m. callback. I must have mentioned every editor I knew and a few I don't really. Then when I said, "And I write for MayorSam" the aide said, "Oh, yeah! We love MayorSam!" He didn't say that about a certain fishwrap of record...
Anyway, here's the last 3 a.m. hotsheet for a while.
It starts with a story near and dear to my own heart: a discussion in the fishwrap of record on the wisdom of permitting crackerbox apartments, NY style. You may know me by now: I want this solution, bad, for the City! It's a market-based solution, and in housing markets that become tight, anything other than market solutions always to me comes off as more money for someone else. Go for it, Gail!
There's also a wonderful foto essay on the aftermath of the Griffith Park fire in that fishwrap; just click from the home page. It would have been a little more wonderful in May than July, but you know them, that's the way it works there. In my neighborhood, we've seen a lot more coyotes since the fire, and also, happily, a lot more birds.
This is some big stuff in the Daily News: "Residents in the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys are poorer, mostly unhealthier and visiting emergency rooms for mental illness more than they were three years ago, according to a report to be released Wednesday." It makes me think, for one, how healthy it is to have a newspaper in town that has a strong Valley pedigree; this kind of story doesn't get featured in a more truly citywide publication. It also points to an underlying fact: if you cut mental health services, it affects everywhere, not just the adjacent blocks beside the former clinic. The Mental Health System in this State is a tragedy, as anyone who's ever held someone's hand through the Kafkaesque skeletal labyrinth knows full well.
Speaking of, if you'd someday like to read me on yurts for the homeless, here you go. Why pols aren't picking up this solution is a mystery to me.
My pleasure again to fill in for the Mayor, and shanti.
In fact, I was talking to a press aide at a certain pols office a few weeks ago, trying to explain who I was, hoping for that before-5 p.m. callback. I must have mentioned every editor I knew and a few I don't really. Then when I said, "And I write for MayorSam" the aide said, "Oh, yeah! We love MayorSam!" He didn't say that about a certain fishwrap of record...
Anyway, here's the last 3 a.m. hotsheet for a while.
It starts with a story near and dear to my own heart: a discussion in the fishwrap of record on the wisdom of permitting crackerbox apartments, NY style. You may know me by now: I want this solution, bad, for the City! It's a market-based solution, and in housing markets that become tight, anything other than market solutions always to me comes off as more money for someone else. Go for it, Gail!
There's also a wonderful foto essay on the aftermath of the Griffith Park fire in that fishwrap; just click from the home page. It would have been a little more wonderful in May than July, but you know them, that's the way it works there. In my neighborhood, we've seen a lot more coyotes since the fire, and also, happily, a lot more birds.
This is some big stuff in the Daily News: "Residents in the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys are poorer, mostly unhealthier and visiting emergency rooms for mental illness more than they were three years ago, according to a report to be released Wednesday." It makes me think, for one, how healthy it is to have a newspaper in town that has a strong Valley pedigree; this kind of story doesn't get featured in a more truly citywide publication. It also points to an underlying fact: if you cut mental health services, it affects everywhere, not just the adjacent blocks beside the former clinic. The Mental Health System in this State is a tragedy, as anyone who's ever held someone's hand through the Kafkaesque skeletal labyrinth knows full well.
Speaking of, if you'd someday like to read me on yurts for the homeless, here you go. Why pols aren't picking up this solution is a mystery to me.
My pleasure again to fill in for the Mayor, and shanti.
Posted by Joseph F. Mailander @ 7/24/2007 03:00:00 AM
26 Comments:
Joe:
There is no doubt that you and Sam add a lot to the City Hall scene and are respected by all of us.
The overwhelming long, rambling, inane posts by Zuma Dogg are distracting and annoying.
Get rid of him, and his merry band of fools like Matt Dowd and Tony Potato, and your blog will gain even more esteem.
Gotta love that MS is now 18 on blognet.
David Z is back and writing like we love. Read the difference on his take of this story compared to others who report. David facts to his story that are otherwise left out with AV spinners. Glad to see he's becoming city hall reporter cause we know we'll get facts not puff pieces Av's people throw him.
....Telemundo yet to question L.A. mayor. LA Times by David Zahniser
I agree. I have been amazed at the influential people who follow this blog.
8:52:
Was that today? I am also a big Dave Z. fan, going back to the Breeze days. I really try not to miss his work. Thanks for the heads up.
Yes today's LA Slimes Calif. section with David Z. Doesn't sound as if he was bought off.
How can Antonio says this, "My hope is that if this investigation was conducted fairly and impartially, she will be vindicated, at an event focusing on traffic congestion.
I think a lot of people have a big problem with two main issues of this affair. How could Salinas report on AVs marriage knowing full well she was the cause and him to? Any human being with an ounce of decency in good conscience would not be able to do that. Then how can a woman who has a history of being with Fabian and Padilla want to look like an innocent victim in this? My heart goes out to Corina and the kids for being the innocent victims in this horrible media scandal.
9:18:
I couldn't agree more, but there are a lot bigger ramifications for the residents of Los Angeles and the region.
The total lack of judgment and self discipline which leads to messes such as this reflects in governance as well.
Anyone who will do this to his family will sell out the citizens in a heartbeat to further his ambitions for higher and higher political offices. A few examples start with the massive corporate welfare package for Related Companies, et al, around the Grand Ave. boondoggle, recently featured here. Others include sacrificing the neighborhoods around LAX to growth which he promised to cap - wait for it - and sacrificing the neighborhoods in the diesel Death Zone around the Port, which he promised to clean up. Why? Well where do the contributions come from to finance runs for Governor, et al? Not from Westchester, San Pedro and Wilmington, that's for sure.
As Mayor Sam said, I voted for the guy. I even contributed to his campaign. Alas, how could I have been so gullible? I repent! Never again!
The Daily News also features two overlapping stories about poverty, crime and gangs in the NE VAlley/ Panorama City area. Tries to put a bleeding-heart spin on it, but by featuring a woman with a load of kids, eight of them in a one-bedroom, who refused to even call the cops when she saw a woman dying in their building laundry room, sprawled on a washer -- yikes, what kinds of people are these? (the other story bout a man killed in same hood.) These people don't take respnsibility for their own area, who can help them? There are more cops there, but if they son't call them, what good are they? Even with SP40 the place is literally an abomination, so forget the SP40, card and deport illegals.
The story noted that as regular people moved out twenty years ago, the illegals, poor, uninsured, many illegals -- brought in the gangs.
Well, maybe they will tend to also be uninsured, use the ER's, and have mental health problems or develop them living that way. The areas noted in your article have more of the same people moving in.
They are Mexico's problem: send them home, or bill Mexico.
Have you all noticed that when you go into a store in certain areas there is a security guard. Go to Rite Aid, Ralphs, Blockbuster, Retail stores and you see security guards. That wasn't the case when I was growing up. The illegals have definitely brought criminality to our city. They are also pigs the way they live. Go into some old neighborhoods and the lawns are beautifully manicured. Anywhere illegals are living its a pigstye. These people act like a bunch of uneducated, filthly animals who have no manners or respect for anyone. I'm Latino so its more disgusting to me.
I just drove through a section of my neighborhood that literally looks like a Mexican slum. I couldn't believe my eyes. Piles of trash, stray dogs, gang graffiti. ZERO DIGNITY. ZERO SELF RESPECT. It costs NOTHING to pick up trash around your home. It costs NOTHING to call 311 and get the sofas, mattresses and piles of trash removed. There is no excuse for this.
Why isn't Laura Chick running for Council District 5?
they can't help having stray dogs in their neighborhood. department of animal services won't pick them up. they can't afford to fix their pets. they can't afford fences. so, cats and dogs roaming the street, being hit by cars, ending up like trash in the gutter
Does any know why Laura Chick is not running for Council District 5?
She doesn't live there for one. And, two, she wouldn't win.
They can sure afford cable TV!
Doesnt LA offer low income vouchers and mobile spay/neuter vans? How much easier can we make it?
These people are irresponsible plain and simple.
If you can't afford to fix your pet, don't get one.
4:05 pm yes, the dept offers vouchers for poor people but they don't cover all the costs. vouchers are $30 and $60. it costs $150 to get a big dog neutered, not including blood tests and vaccinations which you must have before you get the surgery.
and, poor people don't always have cars. you can't ride the bus with an animal. how they supposed to get to the clinics?
lack of neutered dog is related to finances, not race. poor white, black, spanish, asian all have unneutered dogs. it's not a race issue but a money issue.
true, they should not have pets if they can't afford to care for them properly, but they do. just like some people have a ton of kids when they have no money or job.
Of course it's not a race thing but I don't think it's much of a finances thing either. It;s an attitude/culture thing. A lot of macho guys seem to have an odd fascination with seeing their dogs' protruding scrotums.
"If you can't afford a pet don't get one."
That's funny anon, its like saying if you can't afford kids don't have them yet illegals keep having kids just to get the free aid and services. Have you seen how they live all cramped in one apt? Its disgusting and why don't any of these idiot Latino politicans who support them like Huizar and Reyes educate them who are ruining their districts with blight.
Does anyone else think it was odd that Hillary and Obama were at the National La Raza event yesterday to go after the Latino vote and no Antonio in sight? Could it be she finally gets AV is going to hurt her chances with Latinos because this scandal is not dying down.
it's not all about race and culture but money. you got the causality all wrong. a lot of hispanics don't neuter their dogs. is it because they're hispanic? no. it's because they're poor. hispanics in more likely to be poor. it looks like it's all the mexicans fault just because we have a lot of poor mexicans in los angeles. hispanics make up most of the population. being hispanic is not the cause of pet overpopulation. we need more totally free surgeries that are easy to get to.
they did some research which showed that blacks and mexicans got more illnesses. is it because they are black and mexican? no, it's because they were poor and they didn't go to the doctor when they first got sick. they waited until they were extremely sick. they also didn't eat right or have the best homes because of money, not because of their race.
Laura Chick can now run for Mayor. I'm sure she does live in LA at least and so far no scandal(s).
Again- attitude and culture.
"i want to see my pit bull's balls proudly on display because it makes me feel like a man"
"if it isn't free, i won't bother"
"not sure how i'm going to pay for them , but i just dropped a litter of kids so why can't my dog do the same?"
"who care about the health of my dog , i have enough problems of my own"
"if my dog gets nailed by a truck someone else will scrape him off the pavement"
"not my fault"
"not my problem"
"blah blah blah blah blah"
Call it what it is: IRRESPONSIBLE
They are Mexico's problem: send them home, or bill Mexico.
July 24, 2007 1:37 PM
The key word in your comment is "people" - rethink that. And you can remove "or" from the statement above and replace it with "AND" - get every one of them out NOW AND bill Mexico for the billions they owe us. I hope you have all learned your lessons about voting for enemy agents of a foreign country that is our enemy.
what is Laura Chick's next move? What will she do now?
6:21: What's this obsession with Laura Chick? Call her office and ask. If she's smart, she'll get a cushy job as a Commissioner.
Actually, Laura indicated that she's not indicated in a no-win situation; the NIMBY's/crybabies/fight everything bunch in CD5 is about as much fun repping as spending four years with a housefull of Super Nannie's worst, brattiest charges.
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