LA Weekly's "Antonio's Kitchen Cabinet" (LAUSD article)
Man, is ZD happy with this week's LA Weekly: First of all, Homer Simpson, with the Groening graffiti overlay is on the cover meaning there won't be a copy left on newsstands.
Secondly, there is a fantastic article on "Eli Broad's Grand Illusion" (Grand Avenue Project); and the article is printed on the other side of a full page Tony Robbins ad promoting his August 10-13th Long Beach appearance. I have mentioned many times that Antonio Robbins is the main practitioner responsible for "unleashing the Zuma Dogg within." (Sorry kiddies, without Tony, there would probably be no Zuma Dogg/outgoing media performer.) And more importantly introduced me to some of the "art of communication" that helps ZD at the podium; and in looking for bamboozlements in the legalese. Bill Clinton used Tony Robbins back in around '93, or so, and ZD noticed the difference in Clinton's communication skills immediatley. (BEFORE I even knew Tony had worked with Bill. I actually called Robbins office, immediately after noticing the on camera results and his office confirmed they President Clinton had consulted with Tony.)
So pick up an LA Weekly, for the great LAUSD article, the article on Grand Avenue Project, and the Tony Robbins full page ad -- so you can figure out how to combat me on this blog. Click here for LAWeekly.com
[EDITOR'S NOTE: SINCE THIS IS A 3000+ word article is currently three separate articles, until I create some transition paragraphs that will help to better tie it all together for the reader, I'm gonna cut a bunch of stuff previously posted on this thread, then re-blog it in smaller pieces, and will add the paragraphs that help paint the bigger picture/intent. To help release my frantic creative energy (get it all out), I had to type it all up in that somewhat disjointed form -- and blog it immediatley -- so my head wouldn't explode!
But now that I got it out there enough for all the mayor sam "regulars" (who may have been able to take it all in) to have had a chance to see it, I think the story could be more effectively told, for everyone else who happens to check in here, if I didn't try and tell the fifteen year timeline and thousands of hours of people's research in one blog post.] If anyone would like a copy of this original 3000 word article, or for updates of the new material I will be adding to it, send an email request to zumadogg@gmail.com.]
So here's a nice warm and fuzzy education speech ZD has created for when he runs for mayor: However, since we have a crisis on our hand, and time is of the essence, and since the elections are not for a while, if any currently elected officials representing their community wants to quote portions of this "Education Reform" speech you may do so, without having to reference the source. You may simply integrate the message as your own. And I certainly hope you do! Zuma
LAUSD NEW "ORDER OF BUSINESS": COLLEGE READY KIDS?
College ready kids? How about vocations to prepare kids for today’s U.S. job market? Do you know how much carpenters, plumbers, sales people, electricians, AC/Heating, tile person, car mechanic or truck drivers make these days? ($90,000 plus.)
Most of the high-end college type jobs have left the region and are now overseas in Asia and China. But the vocations mentioned above, and others, are jobs you cannot export; and you cannot import. (You don’t fly in a construction contractor when you build a new condo. And you don’t have to go to college to become a construction contractor.)
Not everyone is meant to go to college. It is the school systems job to provide students with the basic, necessary skills to either enter the job market, go on to further vocational training, or college and more interpersonal skill training.
But to say it is the government’s job to prepare all kids for college, means that a diploma has no value as its own entity. A diploma is supposed to be the piece of paper you need to be prepared to enter the job market, not an expected requirement to enter another four-year round of expensive education to prepare you for jobs that are not available, because they have been outsourced and downsized in a new electronic era. Do all kids need to be prepared to learn Shakespear and calculus?
Today’s school system was created in 50's era to prepare kids to conform for the manufacturing jobs that drove the U.S. economy. Everyone had to conform to the same factory jobs, along the assembly line. No uniqueness required.
Engineers make a lot of money, sales people make a lot of money, real estate agents make a lot of money. Train people for the types of jobs the big corporations need: Sales, administration; and construction of facilities, among others.
Since ’94, LAUSD has authorized charters: To this date, there is no accountability standard according to the district. I have also heard that there is an intensive application process. Some people view charter schools as a back door policy to break up the LAUSD district.
At Green Dot Charter, applicants are required to include parent income; previous student grades; and requires additional parental involvement. And some say the application process is more like a screener, skimming the cream of the crop students from the non-charter, public schools; leaving LAUSD with the special needs, and low-achieving students.
Steve Barr and Caprice Young on ABC-7 News Sunday, charter schools are run by a lottery to pick students. But the application process to get into the lottery is more difficult than and Ivy League Law School (12 pages long).
What are bright kids from low-income, less-attentive/non-attentive parents to do? They are being punished because charters won’t take them, because parents won’t commit to the added time, or don’t make enough money. Why are we blaming these kids for who they are born to?
As in “special education” students, “highly gifted” students (150 and above I.Q.) is an equally distributed number across all income, social and cultural levels.
So this means there are a minimum of 5000 “highly gifted” kids in the 73% Hispanic and 11% black LAUSD district which reflects the demographic makeup of the district (including 9% white).
So what do we do about these low-income, neglected geniuses not having their uniqueness being catered to?
You have to prove that you care about kids in the way THEY want you to care about them, instead of disenfranchising them; having them drop out, and fall prey to gangs, and we lose out on qualified workers to help keep society not only competitive in a global economy, but simply ticking and functioning on a day to day basis.
If you get them interested in these vocational skills, then they will be interested enough to want to learn the basic and more advanced math that is needed for shop, or garage class. And then, that just might provide the jumpstart that will allow them to be able to go on to college, if they choose; or to directly enter the local job market with a higher level of achievement, and there for higher level of skill and value to the job market and therefore, society. DWP can’t find qualified people to do the electrical work.
This is how you reduce the dropout rate as well. Get them interested in a vocation or interpersonal skill that will create the interest to get them involved in the math, science and English skills required to pursue their dream, and you will reduce the dropout rate; reduce the crime rate; reduce the gang rate; reduce the prison population and increase the pool of qualified applicants for jobs we need like teachers, police, fire, sales, administration, and all of today’s highly-demanded jobs.
A charter lottery is supposed to be an open application process of anyone who wants to “go charter”, then the lottery is based on all applications.
According to one LAUSD “reformer/charter supporter”, all the “involved parents” already pulled their kids out of LAUSD and are in private/charter schools.
So now, LAUSD will start to jump into the privatized Charter game, using public money and handing the management over to private entities. So we have to admit, we now have a two-tier education system, like cable TV. You have basic LAUSD (non-charter public school catering to special needs and English learners) and premium LAUSD (charter public school with “cream of the crop” skimmed off the district).
Instead of preparing for two school systems, all teachers, resources and efforts should go to ONE education system for all.
Is the newly elected LAUSD school board members like the zero experience as an educator, Tamar Galatzan, or even “now veteran” Monica Garcia knowledgeable on the type of school reform they are taking on?
I heard that at Green Dot, only 40%=50% of teachers are fully credentialed. In one school, only 3 out of 22 teachers are credentialed. By state law, this number must be equal to LAUSD, which is 90% credentialed across the general district.
IF THIS IS TRUE, THESE SCHOOLS SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN BY LAW!
Do these charters have the 12%-13% Special Education Classes like LAUSD? Are Charter schools skimming the cream of the crop students leaving LAUSD with the lower performers, then get to say, “LAUSD failed”, while making it easier to charters to show improvement with the cream of the crop highest achievers?
And the system is set up to keep the school in constant, “need for reform” mode.
The State Lottery placed steady funding for books and supplies. (In other words, they felt they knew what they would be getting.) It’s now used for wage and benefits.
With a $61,000 average LAUSD salary; plus those who chose to earn more money as mentors; summer school gigs; mentoring new teachers; or simply choose to work at Radio Shack during the three month vacation you are talking $85,000 a year, plus National Board certified teachers make upwards of $100,000. (And who else making this much also gets three months off?) But they had to dip into the kids’ books and supply money because teachers were too uncomfortable at this type of salary level, for nine months work. And teachers don’t generally work as many hours as other executives and workers in this salary range, and don’t have the long “after hours”, at home computer work many executives at this salary level are forced to take home everyday and over the weekend.
Charter school purpose: People have given up on our public schools, now they want to pass the buck to charter schools. (I mean pass the buck literally and figuratively.)
AND TO MONICA GARCIA, OR ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA, OR WHOEVER’S LAUSD SCHOOL BOARD: How come you already have all the answers (8 point “order of business”) stream-rolled through on July 3, 2007 without going through committee and without public input from parents – BEFORE you have the facts, statistics and answers (based on these actual facts, not previous “mayoral controlled” takeover plans based on other major cities and previous LAUSD board takeover attempts from the same cast of Riordan/Broad takeover player.
contact: zumadogg@gmail.com
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Secondly, there is a fantastic article on "Eli Broad's Grand Illusion" (Grand Avenue Project); and the article is printed on the other side of a full page Tony Robbins ad promoting his August 10-13th Long Beach appearance. I have mentioned many times that Antonio Robbins is the main practitioner responsible for "unleashing the Zuma Dogg within." (Sorry kiddies, without Tony, there would probably be no Zuma Dogg/outgoing media performer.) And more importantly introduced me to some of the "art of communication" that helps ZD at the podium; and in looking for bamboozlements in the legalese. Bill Clinton used Tony Robbins back in around '93, or so, and ZD noticed the difference in Clinton's communication skills immediatley. (BEFORE I even knew Tony had worked with Bill. I actually called Robbins office, immediately after noticing the on camera results and his office confirmed they President Clinton had consulted with Tony.)
So pick up an LA Weekly, for the great LAUSD article, the article on Grand Avenue Project, and the Tony Robbins full page ad -- so you can figure out how to combat me on this blog. Click here for LAWeekly.com
[EDITOR'S NOTE: SINCE THIS IS A 3000+ word article is currently three separate articles, until I create some transition paragraphs that will help to better tie it all together for the reader, I'm gonna cut a bunch of stuff previously posted on this thread, then re-blog it in smaller pieces, and will add the paragraphs that help paint the bigger picture/intent. To help release my frantic creative energy (get it all out), I had to type it all up in that somewhat disjointed form -- and blog it immediatley -- so my head wouldn't explode!
But now that I got it out there enough for all the mayor sam "regulars" (who may have been able to take it all in) to have had a chance to see it, I think the story could be more effectively told, for everyone else who happens to check in here, if I didn't try and tell the fifteen year timeline and thousands of hours of people's research in one blog post.] If anyone would like a copy of this original 3000 word article, or for updates of the new material I will be adding to it, send an email request to zumadogg@gmail.com.]
So here's a nice warm and fuzzy education speech ZD has created for when he runs for mayor: However, since we have a crisis on our hand, and time is of the essence, and since the elections are not for a while, if any currently elected officials representing their community wants to quote portions of this "Education Reform" speech you may do so, without having to reference the source. You may simply integrate the message as your own. And I certainly hope you do! Zuma
LAUSD NEW "ORDER OF BUSINESS": COLLEGE READY KIDS?
College ready kids? How about vocations to prepare kids for today’s U.S. job market? Do you know how much carpenters, plumbers, sales people, electricians, AC/Heating, tile person, car mechanic or truck drivers make these days? ($90,000 plus.)
Most of the high-end college type jobs have left the region and are now overseas in Asia and China. But the vocations mentioned above, and others, are jobs you cannot export; and you cannot import. (You don’t fly in a construction contractor when you build a new condo. And you don’t have to go to college to become a construction contractor.)
Not everyone is meant to go to college. It is the school systems job to provide students with the basic, necessary skills to either enter the job market, go on to further vocational training, or college and more interpersonal skill training.
But to say it is the government’s job to prepare all kids for college, means that a diploma has no value as its own entity. A diploma is supposed to be the piece of paper you need to be prepared to enter the job market, not an expected requirement to enter another four-year round of expensive education to prepare you for jobs that are not available, because they have been outsourced and downsized in a new electronic era. Do all kids need to be prepared to learn Shakespear and calculus?
Today’s school system was created in 50's era to prepare kids to conform for the manufacturing jobs that drove the U.S. economy. Everyone had to conform to the same factory jobs, along the assembly line. No uniqueness required.
Engineers make a lot of money, sales people make a lot of money, real estate agents make a lot of money. Train people for the types of jobs the big corporations need: Sales, administration; and construction of facilities, among others.
Since ’94, LAUSD has authorized charters: To this date, there is no accountability standard according to the district. I have also heard that there is an intensive application process. Some people view charter schools as a back door policy to break up the LAUSD district.
At Green Dot Charter, applicants are required to include parent income; previous student grades; and requires additional parental involvement. And some say the application process is more like a screener, skimming the cream of the crop students from the non-charter, public schools; leaving LAUSD with the special needs, and low-achieving students.
Steve Barr and Caprice Young on ABC-7 News Sunday, charter schools are run by a lottery to pick students. But the application process to get into the lottery is more difficult than and Ivy League Law School (12 pages long).
What are bright kids from low-income, less-attentive/non-attentive parents to do? They are being punished because charters won’t take them, because parents won’t commit to the added time, or don’t make enough money. Why are we blaming these kids for who they are born to?
As in “special education” students, “highly gifted” students (150 and above I.Q.) is an equally distributed number across all income, social and cultural levels.
So this means there are a minimum of 5000 “highly gifted” kids in the 73% Hispanic and 11% black LAUSD district which reflects the demographic makeup of the district (including 9% white).
So what do we do about these low-income, neglected geniuses not having their uniqueness being catered to?
You have to prove that you care about kids in the way THEY want you to care about them, instead of disenfranchising them; having them drop out, and fall prey to gangs, and we lose out on qualified workers to help keep society not only competitive in a global economy, but simply ticking and functioning on a day to day basis.
If you get them interested in these vocational skills, then they will be interested enough to want to learn the basic and more advanced math that is needed for shop, or garage class. And then, that just might provide the jumpstart that will allow them to be able to go on to college, if they choose; or to directly enter the local job market with a higher level of achievement, and there for higher level of skill and value to the job market and therefore, society. DWP can’t find qualified people to do the electrical work.
This is how you reduce the dropout rate as well. Get them interested in a vocation or interpersonal skill that will create the interest to get them involved in the math, science and English skills required to pursue their dream, and you will reduce the dropout rate; reduce the crime rate; reduce the gang rate; reduce the prison population and increase the pool of qualified applicants for jobs we need like teachers, police, fire, sales, administration, and all of today’s highly-demanded jobs.
A charter lottery is supposed to be an open application process of anyone who wants to “go charter”, then the lottery is based on all applications.
According to one LAUSD “reformer/charter supporter”, all the “involved parents” already pulled their kids out of LAUSD and are in private/charter schools.
So now, LAUSD will start to jump into the privatized Charter game, using public money and handing the management over to private entities. So we have to admit, we now have a two-tier education system, like cable TV. You have basic LAUSD (non-charter public school catering to special needs and English learners) and premium LAUSD (charter public school with “cream of the crop” skimmed off the district).
Instead of preparing for two school systems, all teachers, resources and efforts should go to ONE education system for all.
Is the newly elected LAUSD school board members like the zero experience as an educator, Tamar Galatzan, or even “now veteran” Monica Garcia knowledgeable on the type of school reform they are taking on?
I heard that at Green Dot, only 40%=50% of teachers are fully credentialed. In one school, only 3 out of 22 teachers are credentialed. By state law, this number must be equal to LAUSD, which is 90% credentialed across the general district.
IF THIS IS TRUE, THESE SCHOOLS SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN BY LAW!
Do these charters have the 12%-13% Special Education Classes like LAUSD? Are Charter schools skimming the cream of the crop students leaving LAUSD with the lower performers, then get to say, “LAUSD failed”, while making it easier to charters to show improvement with the cream of the crop highest achievers?
And the system is set up to keep the school in constant, “need for reform” mode.
The State Lottery placed steady funding for books and supplies. (In other words, they felt they knew what they would be getting.) It’s now used for wage and benefits.
With a $61,000 average LAUSD salary; plus those who chose to earn more money as mentors; summer school gigs; mentoring new teachers; or simply choose to work at Radio Shack during the three month vacation you are talking $85,000 a year, plus National Board certified teachers make upwards of $100,000. (And who else making this much also gets three months off?) But they had to dip into the kids’ books and supply money because teachers were too uncomfortable at this type of salary level, for nine months work. And teachers don’t generally work as many hours as other executives and workers in this salary range, and don’t have the long “after hours”, at home computer work many executives at this salary level are forced to take home everyday and over the weekend.
Charter school purpose: People have given up on our public schools, now they want to pass the buck to charter schools. (I mean pass the buck literally and figuratively.)
AND TO MONICA GARCIA, OR ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA, OR WHOEVER’S LAUSD SCHOOL BOARD: How come you already have all the answers (8 point “order of business”) stream-rolled through on July 3, 2007 without going through committee and without public input from parents – BEFORE you have the facts, statistics and answers (based on these actual facts, not previous “mayoral controlled” takeover plans based on other major cities and previous LAUSD board takeover attempts from the same cast of Riordan/Broad takeover player.
contact: zumadogg@gmail.com
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Posted by Zuma Dogg @ 7/19/2007 11:30:00 PM
21 Comments:
“Let’s be clear, honesty and ethics in City Hall start at the top,” said Mayor Villaraigosa. “We are the public’s servants. We must set a higher benchmark by our actions to restore the public’s faith and trust in local government. Today, we have begun to do just that.”
Mayor Villaraigosa also named Thomas Saenz to serve as the lead counsel in his newly created Office of the Counsel to the Mayor. As Counsel to the Mayor, Mr. Saenz will serve as the Mayor’s top legal advisor and chief ethics officer. Mr. Saenz and his staff will be the watchdog office within Mayor Villaraigosa’s administration establishing and enforcing a very high ethical threshold. Mr. Saenz will report directly to the Mayor.
Thomas A. Saenz Mr. Thomas A. Saenz has been serving as the Vice President of Litigation at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), a nationalorganization headquartered in Los Angeles whose mission is to preserve and promote the civil rights of Latinos living in the United States. As head of MALDEF’s litigationdepartment, Mr. Saenz oversaw the organization's efforts nationwide to pursue civilrights lawsuits in the areas of education, employment, political access, and immigrants' rights. Mr. Saenz joined MALDEF as a staff attorney in 1993; became Los Angeles Regional Counsel in 1996, National Senior Counsel in 2000, and Vice President of Litigation in 2001. For the last eight years, Mr. Saenz has also taught "Civil Rights Litigation" as anadjunct lecturer at the U.S.C. Law School. In 2000, the California State Bar awarded Mr. Saenz its Jack Berman Award of Achievement for Distinguished Service to the Profession and Public, which is presented annually to a young lawyer. Mr. Saenz also serves on the Los Angeles County Board of Education and the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations, where he recently completed a term as president.Mr. Saenz speaks regularly at universities and before community groups throughout the nation on issues of civil rights and law.Mr. Saenz was born and raised in Southern California. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history andpolitical economy. In 1991, Mr. Saenz received his law degree from Yale Law School, where he served as a teaching assistant and was awarded the Potter Stewart Prize (moot court) and the C. Larue Munson Prize (clinical work). After graduating,he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Harry L. Hupp of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, and then as a law clerk to the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Hey Zuma Dogg. Saenz was the one left manning the microphone after Nunez and then Villar ran out on the LAUSD phony "town hall" meeting engineered by the latter two last year during the takeover attempt.
Youtube video here.
Tom Saenz was involved in fighting Prop 187 back in the mid-90's, along with many other familiar faces. He was a member of the same ethnopolitical clique that arose in the mid-to-late 90's and included Villaraigosa, Cedillo, Nunez, Romero, DeLeon and others. All peas in the very same pod. All still scratching each others' back.
Saenz is "part of the ethnopolitical clique..." Has anyone told him that his name and ethnicity aren't Mexican?
The name Saenz is Spanish. Villar is Spanish, so is Romero, Cedillo, Nunez and De Leon.
The surname Saenz has a long history in Mexico.
(Mexico used to be colonial Spanish territory, btw - that's where the names came from. Thank me for the history lesson)
Wait, let me get this right - the guy who decides which projects are good (none) in our city and which are bamboozles (all) is asking who the players are??
There is a difference between corruption and sexual affairs, in case no one explained that to our resident genius. Jimmy Hahn's administration was riddled with corruption, and the indictments are still pending, but so far Troy Edwards, Leland Wong and Doug Dowie are most notable with some other small fry donors already pleading guilty, etc. Ted Stein is still unresolved, as are others while we wait for Leland to decide if he'll sing or not.
No such corruption has been alleged or exists in this administration, because Antonio's Commissions are all stsffed with outstanding members of the community and are not allowed to solicit money for candidates.
That is a hallmark, and to try to tie "corruption" and sexual liaisons together is cheap yellow journalism.
You go alternately from a know it all Ace Ventura to an neophyte trying to understand political Los Angeles, a very comlex structure that takes years to understand, you have two distinct personas, have you ever heard the term "Schizophrenic"?
Look it up; your picture is next to it in the dictionary.
There is just or more as much graft in the Mayors office than the preceeding four Mayors.
And, why does the mayor have is wn attorney when we (the taxpayers) pay Rocky. Who pays Mr. Saenz or does he do it for nothing? I doubt that
2:34am, aka Mr. Low Reading Comprehension said...There is a difference between corruption and sexual affairs. That is a hallmark, and to try to tie "corruption" and sexual liaisons together is cheap yellow journalism.
WHO THE HELL SAID ANYTHING ABOUT SEXUAL AFFAIRS -- WHERE IS THE ATTEMPT TO "TIE" IT IT CORRUPTION?
What the f*ck are you talking about you loser?
NO HACK ALERT:
Last night I posted this on the thread for a little public input based on someone raising the question to me on the phone.
* Regarding Thomas Andrew Saenz: This guy is the brains behind Antonio. He's Chief Counsel City of Los Angeles and (based on ZD's Google searches of LAUSD articles, today, must have been a spokesperson for Antonio's "mayoral takeover" attempt during AB 1381 pitch session days. And he served as Vice President of Litigation at the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund.
I'm kinda new to city hall: How was he appointed? Does his name doesn't show up in the city council file? I couldn't find it. What is his fee and is it paid by the public? Why does Antonio have a separate counsel when Rocky's office? Isn't he supposed to represent the mayor according to city charter? Was he approved by City Council? [Forgive me for perhaps aksing some obvious questions with well known answers; but I'm looking at LAUSD and it appears this guy is pretty influential."
THANKS FOR THE INPUT AND I AM SATISFIED WITH THE FEEDBACK (some which came in over the phone) and I took it off the main thread, so as not to create confusion as though I am trying to make more out of it than there is.
I asked the question, got the answers, and now I can move on...
so now the people who complained that i shouldn't have even aksed the question, can complain that i took it down, instead of leaving it up. (LOL!)
"Mr. Saenz and his staff will be the watchdog office within Mayor Villaraigosa’s administration establishing and enforcing a very high ethical threshold. Mr. Saenz will report directly to the Mayor"
Uhhhmmmm....anyone see the problem with this setup?
Here's how it really works....
Mr. Saenz says timidly, "Excuse me Mr. Mayor, but I think it is slightly unethical that you are sleeping with a reporter that regulary reports on your office..."
Tony Villar fires back with a glare, "I hired you and I can fire you! I'll tell you what's ethical and what's not!"
Mr. Saenz, "Yes sir...sorry to bother you."
2.34 a.m. said:
....you have two distinct personas, have you ever heard the term "Schizophrenic"?....
you wrecked a good argument with a common fallacy.
schizophrenic is a broad term used to describe a patient with mental illness typically involving psychotic and hallucinatory activity. seeing and hearing things, for the dummies.
however, it does not directly describe the 'split personality' which you refer to.
common mistake. especially if you don't know anything about psychology.
the correct term is Dissociative Identity Disorder. it also cannot be diagnosed if there is any substance abuse .
here's my problem: you rake over Zuma Dogg for attempting to learn City politics, but then exhibit your own ignorance in a field where you clearly have no experience.
that's called hypocrisy.
look that up.
while your there, look up DID (see above)
it has nothing to do with schizophrenia.
* FROM ZD's BATPHONE: Thanks for the ZAPPER who called to notify ZD about IDAs saying, "Charters are not required to file form 700…In West View, did two schools get "Industrial Development Authority" bonds; a better deal; and longer to pay off these low interest handed out by the state. For example, Homeboys Inc. on Alameda is constructing a building with IDA bonds. It's a cheap way of getting land and a building.
You have to pay it back, but it is not at market rate...they are tax exempt bonds. At a public meeting, when someone from the public asked to see the backup report on the IDA bonds for two schools, they were asked, “Why do you want it?” [Why are you asking? It should be normal to ask for a public record.]
Is IDA money going to schools and should it be? Or should the INDUSTRIAL Development Authority money go to businesses so they can help keep and bring jobs to the City?
Schools are not industries. So will charters be able to get this money? (ZD hears at least one school has. Is it charter/private school?) If charters can get industrial money because they are considered private industries, but LAUSD cannot compete for the same money"
[MORE UNFAIR DISADVANTAGES FOR THE PEOPLE WHO NEED THE MOST RESOURCES, Y'ALL!!!]
Isn't it illegal for a school to take this industrial money?
2:34: There's no point in trying to "argue" w/ zd, now that he has had one -- heavily edited to make it even comprehensive, but still full of factual errors, in fact, consisting of nothing but factual and conceptual errors -- piece published in a fishwrap of a paper.
Everyone knows that all reputable journalists jumped that sinking ship: Zahniser to the LAT, others to wherever they could, and no one is taking it even remotely seriously. Jill Stewart and other dysfunctional types have driven all reputable contributors away.
The brainless "comments" herein, one-note shriekings often recycled from other threads, are increasingly desperate because the scandal is fading rather than growing.
Zuma and has ragtag bunch are, in fact, marginalized just as he is loudly screeching "zuma is so pleased with his piece" in Weekly.
hey joeaa:
the only member of the previous administration indicted was airport commissioner Leland Wong for allegedly getting paid as a lobbyist for Evergreen Shipping Lines while serving as a commissioner. It had nothing to do with the mayor. Dowie, who got his contract under Reardon, was convicted of ripping off DWP by padding bills. Also had nothing to do with the mayor. For corruption see today's daily breeze story on using taxpayers money to facilitate mayoral liasons.
re: zuma at 8:23/41 etc. etc. etc.:
This egomaniac is so foul-mouthed, as well as admittedly "new to City Hall, please give me some dirt so I can continue to trash-talk all the CM's and Mayors," like the previous post says: arrogant and filled with homself, yet admittedly ignorant.
If anyone from any City staff gives this parasite any info, they should be the ones subject to laws governing treason. Lacking in IQ, facts, good judgment or even an open mind or integrity, and lacking the capacity to respond to critics without screaming foul epithets or crying "hacked! Get the FBI!" this paranoid-delusion individual is a danger to himself and society.
Zuma Dogg, you should be the poster child for Tony Robbins' seminars. I'm sure he'd approve!
Let's start a campaign for that!
Factual loser said..."...now that he has had one (article published)..."
[It is my second article in weekly -- you should work harder to get your facts correct so you don't lose all credibility...ooops, too late.]
Paranoid Hacker said..."or crying "hacked..." (as if the blog wasn't hacked)
[Bro, why are you trying to make it sound like the blog wasn't hacked? I caught two occasions myself. I guess some folks are concerned it's gonna come back to them? Y'all have talked about hacking the blog more than I have.]
MALDEF!!!! That says it all!!!
MALDEF
LA RAZA
MECHA
LULAC
A.C.L.U.
Commie, socialist, anti-american, pro-Mexico TRAITORS!!!
If this doesn't wake every AMERICAN out of their slumber...I don't know what else to say!!!!
GET RID OF ALL OF THEM!!!! THIS IS WHY THIS COUNTRY IS BECOMING THIRD WORLD!!!
THESE ARE CORRUPT MEXICAN TRAITOR POLITICIANS SUBVERTING OUR GOVERNMENT!
STOP THEM NOW!!!!
GET RID OF THE CLINTONISTAS AND THE VILLARISTAS!!!
It's one thing to have bona fide AMERICAN crooks; but it's INTOLERABLE to allow CORRUPT MEXICANS to stick their sorry asses into the fray!
AMERICAN CROOKS just want the money; but the CORRUPT MEXICANS want your MONEY and your COUNTRY!!!
From now on, everytime you see a Hispanic last name on ANY ballot, vote for the opposition! Sorry to offend any HONEST MEXICANS out there but I think you understand the problem!
It's time for a POLITICAL ETHNIC CLEANSING! Hasta la Vista...Mexico!
Let's see Richard Alatorre being paid by Antonio to consult him. Alatorre is the biggest crook on the Eastside. Mike Hernandez, embarrassed his family being caught on tape soliciting hookers and snorting coke. Yet, he's on Bitter Bernie's staff. Can you imagine the other crooks Bernie had paid while he was Chief? Then you have Sleazy Huizy who has all those developers in hand and didn't Jose forget to get that permit to do construction on his house? Molina Jabba The Hut is the most crooked with her husband and MTA and all these Latino politicans haven't done a damn thing for their own people but embarrass us with their affairs, corruptness, paybacks and so on.
Doug Dowie was Hahn's second closest advisor, after Bill Wardlaw, who was Ted Stein's patron saint.
Dowie got his padded bills paid during Hahn's tenure, not Riordan's. Dowie was doing PR for Hahn, and billing LADWP, not Riordan. Dowie will be doing his time soon, as will his number two, Stoddard (who will also be glad to know he wasn't indicted).
Leland Wong keeps getting additional stuff added to his indictment, they are sqeezing him to get to Stein, to get to Wardlaw.
Not indicted? Tell that to "Happy Endings" Troy Edwards, the Zuma Dogg mental midget of Hahn's administration. He knew NOTHING of politics or the operation of a city and he was in charge of LAWA, LADWP and the Port of Los Angeles. But mostly he was in charge of the BAG. He'll be really happy to know he's not indicted, either.
So, Cooley's group is still taking testimony as recently as a week or two ago, as I know folks who are still testifying before the Grand Jury.
Nope, Jimmy is not staging a comeback; he's lucky they didn't indict him for stupidity, but as Bill Wardlaw often said, "Jimmy's too stupid to be crooked".
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