Did Eli Broad Apply Carlton Sheet's "No Money Down" Method For His Grand Avenue Project?
HERE ARE A FEW THINGS I WAS JUST WONDERING REGARDING ELI BROAD, LA CITY/COUNTY AND RELATED COMPANY'S GRAND AVENUE PROJECT: THIS IS NOT AN ON-THE-RECORD LEGISLATIVE REVIEW, BUT A CHANCE FOR SOME FOLKS TO WEIGH IN ON THESE QUESTIONS.
I'm not saying it's all true...but maybe some others can confirm or deny. Stop treating me like Bob Woodward and let me throw some questions and potential concerns out there for others to comment on. And remember...keep your criticism substantive and only attack on a strong point. Just think, if you did that, maybe this wouldn't be here right now. But you FORCE me to keep thinking about this stuff!!!
GRAND AVENUE $2 BILLION DOLLAR PROJECT
CAN'T WE JUST BUILD HIM A STATUE?:
I was wondering: Is Eli actually using any of his own money for the Grand Ave Project Downtown? I heard that he isn’t.
If not, I asked myself, “Why would the City allow a billionaire to make all these decisions and allow him to build this project Downtown with City subsidies, without having to invest any of his own money? Oh yeah, that way it doesn’t look like there are any conflicts of interest. And if he doesn’t have any money invested in it, I hope he doesn’t receive a penny of the profit in the rare chance that there is any.
Man, can the City give that same deal to ZD? So how did Eli get such a lucky deal?
We all know Villaraigosa’s Chief of Staff Robin Kramer. She was Chief of Staff for Richard Riordan when he was mayor.
After that, she went to work for billionaire developer Eli Broad. He’s had that big Grand Avenue Project that he was trying get jammed through the City, County and State. And being a three phase project, with two phases still unplanned, I guess he still is trying to jam the project through.
Who better to help facilitate this project between Broad’s Grand Ave Project Committee and the City Hall than Robin Kramer? So Chief of Staff it is, Antonio! After all, you don’t think you pulled your own strings into office, yourself, do you?
So she jumps from Broad’s office into the Mayor’s office and everyone can work together, in concert, without any appearance of “conflict of interest”. (Did I say, “conflict of interest?”)
But like Rush Limbaugh, Kramer is talent on load from “Broad”, because they all knew there was no way the mayor who was elected would be able to run the City without her. I wonder if she will be returning to the Broad gig anytime soon?
Now I know that a gig with Broad must pay a lot more than a city paycheck. So I wonder if Eli was allowed/is allowed to subsidize her paycheck the way the city is subsidizing the project for allowing the mayor to borrow her? I’m not an expert on Charter law, but maybe someone else knows? (Cause wouldn’t that be a sweet deal if she could!)
But if he hasn’t been paying her all along, I wonder if he is allowed to give her back pay after she leaves the mayor’s office. I know in Los Angeles City, a lot of people like to moonlight and wear more than one hat and be a part of more than one pie. Is Kramer still able to “work” for Broad under current circumstances regarding her position at City Hall?
And regarding the mixed-income affordable housing, ZD says that’s the shadiness that needs the spotlight to illuminate like you do the streets at night to prevent crime. [So much to bamboozle, that’s a whole topic in itself that I am researching further.]
And, oh no…Please do not tell me the Chris Sutton Bonaventure lawsuit was one of those “controlled burn” situations. Here’s what ZD is afraid may have happened:
Would it surprise anyone to think that Mayor Antonio could be doing something a little shady, manipulative, controlling and beneficial to his associates? I hope Antonio is not tied to the people who hired Sutton. I hope the mayor didn’t hook Bonaventure up with a lawsuit so he can give even more city taxpayer’s money to his friends over there on the Sutton/Bonaventure side. After all, ZD happens to feel the Chris Sutton argument could shut the whole project down.
And if some of this stuff gets out, I don’t think Antonio is in a strong enough position anymore to fudge the situation and hold it all together. So LACER pension fund people beware. Investors in the City of Los Angeles beware. Although these things seem to have a way of getting jammed through, some of these legal delays could really drive up cost and force the developers to keep pouring more and more money into this like a desperate gambler in Vegas trying to win back the losses just to get back to even.
And it’s with City, County and the people’s time, money and land. So if the whole thing goes bust…the only ones who lose are the people.
zumadogg@gmail.com
ZUMA TIMES
Posted by Zuma Dogg @ 8/10/2007 09:28:00 PM
76 Comments:
Los Angeles, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa came from gang-ridden East LA background and before mayor, worked down the hall form Eli Broad's "consultant" (working to push through a USC East LA hospital), literally having an office down the hall if memory serves.
Of course, in a classic Freudian/Clintonian move (remember his return to Ark. for some African-American execution or something like that to "stand up" to the identity politics wing of the Dem. party), eventually he'll have to "take some brave bullshit action" that infuriates Broad while still surging ahead from the all money and power Broad has introduced him to.
So I guess you can tell what my answer is for now. But life is always full of surprises.
Since 1999, Villaraigosa has received at least $61,450 in campaign contributions from Cadiz, its executives and its board of directors, according to Ethics Commission reports. Villaraigosa worked for Cadiz as a consultant in 2001 and 2002, and the company's president, Keith Brackpool, has been one of the mayor's close friends, a political fund-raiser who directed $25,000 toward Villaraigosa's inaugural ball, which raised money for after-school programs.
The thirteenth post on same topic, because people have not been posting substantive enough comments, treating him "like Bob Woodward," and therefore, YOU all have "forced me" to post again. Given the first two posts, which are almost as pointless as Zuma's own, seems he finally met his match. (Zuma, do you really think Bob Woodward would post the same story a dozen times because no one paid attention the other 11X?)
Resign Villaraigosa. Every day you stay in office you are further humiliating yourself and more importantly the City of Los Angeles. The sad tales of your personal life and ethical transgressions are growing bigger every day. And now you're blaming gophers and Jay Leno is laughing at you on national television. You have failed Los Angeles and you a joke.
No one respects you Tony Villar -- the best service you can do for LA is resign!!
In a nutshell:
1) Robin Kramer is above reproach; any attempt to sully her or her reputation only illustrates how fucking stupid you are ZD. Ask ANYONE who knows her; she is straight as an arrow.
2) Broad needs nothing; he is hard ot deal with, but he is very civic minded; your insinuations are disgraceful.
3) The project makes sense and is a good one. Your "inquiry" is a cheap shot, and you are a cheap shot artist. Shame on you.
4) The fellow who writes about Cadiz is on to something; Cadiz is a shady scam; Keith Brackpool, it;s CEO is less than savory and needs to be checked out.
5) Leave my Mayor alone, creep.
I just heard the sound bite of Antonio blasting Sacramento for not coughing up the infrastructure dollars fast enough declaring he was going to get the subway to culver city built on time.
TIME FOR SOME OF THAT ZD SPECULATION THAT DRIVES THE HATERS CRAZY. (And I think I need to start clarifying the difference between ZD the "strategist" and ZD the investigative reporter. So this is just regular old chit-chat for others to weigh-in, too.)
FOR THE MAYOR TO OPENLY BLAST SACRAMENTO LIKE THAT...
Is like ZD walking in and blasting Council like that. They tend to not like that. Now the ZD strategy is to keep blasting and blogging until you send enough smoke signals and cause enough waves that the big boys take note, and then the real pressure to get the job done is applied, as ZD is starting the next wave of smoke signals. (I'm a "wide, but shallow" specialist that is good for breaking into the market. Then the "narrow, but deep" people need to come in to drive it home.)
And ZD is not on the same side of the rope as Council/Mayor's office. Antonio, is on the same side of the rope as Sacramento. They do business with each other, and Sacramento is his boss! (They hand HIM the money.)
So for him to be willing to employ the ZD strategy on his own team (bite the hand that feeds), that means you are in the "ZD/underdogg/desparate" strategy mode.
Well, ZD tries to use it to work his way UP. But Antonio is already UP. So he must be using it because he knows he is on his way down. He must know he is losing power and is going to have a hard time getting things done anywhere in the State using his charming politician skills that have now expired. Like when Macauly Culkin hit 13.
So you gotta go ZD and bark at Sacramento.
(Which is funny, cause ZD felt he had to switch to a new more toned-down, mainstream deliver before council and the public on TV 35. So we must be on strategy!)
So he must feel the public pressure routine is the only way he can get things done. (LOL!)
And look how he has the nerve to blame Sacramento for his problems. He blew the money I thought? Now I'm not saying Sacramento can't do more and should do more...but what a diversionary tactic for him to pull to try and deflect attention of himself.
And you don't talk like that to Sacramento without stepping on some toes and pissing off some folk like ZD may have. (And some of the true insiders know what people will try and do to ZD for treating City Hall the way Antonio just treated Sacramento. AND LET'S FACE IT, when he says "Sacramento", he really means The Terminator. Which is what he is going to try and do to you. But you knew that. And said it anyway. Hmmm...And typical Antonio, hiding behind the people to champion their cause, like taking a hostage when you are about to be captured.
And he is now smart to use a narrow strategy/issue to help salvage his chance for re-election. (If he makes it that long.) TRAFFIC. He knows that's the #1 issue to throw in their face. Schools are where the money is at, but no one cares about that in polls. Crime is big, but that's impossible to win in a perception battle in the mind of voters.
Blaming Sacramento for the traffic problems you are increasing at a geometric rate of progression with you're dumb growth and by running a cahoots racket on all the public funds. If the politicians would cut out the hardcore racketeering, the city would stand a chance.
So the mayor's team will say, "no good deed unpunished...He still has to fight for infrastructure dollars" and all that. But this is just a big smokescreen. Is Antonio using the media to do deals with Sacramento like ZD uses TV 35 for Public Comment to try and get his message through? Can't he just pick up the phone.
Would Richard Alarcon start going ZD on Ed Reyes in front of everyone on TV 35?
So bottom line, when the mayor with everything to hide in the investigation department starts mouthing off to the Governor's office, he knows it's over. So better grab some hostages (the people say "traffic") and start yelling that it's Arnold's fault, even though the things you do everyday with your friends and associates on the job would probably land an ordinary citizen in Federal Court. And not over AB 1381 legal challenges.
10:53pm,
That's cool. It's good that someone posted that on her behalf, even it is someone on the team. (PA-TERNS!!!!)
But don't start getting TOO defensive...that's a good post...don't muck it up with a bunch of weak stuff not on point, that will make me want to prove you wrong. I'm willing to let your comments go unchallenged, and let you have the last word on that. That's what the comment section is for. Let's make sure that's what you keep it for. And remember...I always know it's you.
Don't I!?! And hasn't it been fun listening? I gotta get a new cell phone soon - so the show might end then. Sorry!
Regarding this however (not about robin), this is how everyone knows you are spinning as a pro:
"The project makes sense and is a good one."
I don't know a thing about those names, but by reading the tea leaves on this page, it would appear that Cadiz and Brackpool must pose a threat to you know who.
maybe the gravy train came to a hault and threw him off the wagon.
zuma at 10:55: Ah, Ha!!! You admit to misusing Public Comment time for your own political forum, which makes you a political commentator and not a member of the public. If I were a City Attorney, I'd take note... As for the rest, the only "citizens alert" I can see here, is that zuma is posting another thread, posing another hazard to clarity of mind.
zuma, don't ever compare the Mayor blasting Sacramento for stealing our gas tax intended for transportation -- which every reputable journalist and paper knows is a valid complaint even an ethical violation, and has written about it -- to your idiotic self, a nobody smelly homeless bum who is woefully uneducated, and was in his intellectual element as long as he stayed a tshirt vendor on the boardwalk.
Also, if 10:53 really worked for the Mayor, he wouldn't tell you so. He's trying to throw you off track, apparently has some personal beef with Cadiz. Many people seem to.
Ah... what?
Hey! Are you guys getting sluggish?
No VILLAR story? The shoe shopping with Mirthala, ERS' sources saying she has been spending LOTS of time at Gettyhouse, and this really terrific video (posted by Flap) of Villar running away from questions from KNBC reporter AND the fact that we may actually get a glimpse of the elusive Anita in this vid as well! - NO POSTING HERE??
This video is truly worth seeing:
http://video.knbc.com/player/?
id=142198
10:53 does NOT work for the Mayor; I know, because I posted it.
I know the Mayor well and support him because of all the good he has done in Los Angeles.
All the cranes and upgrading you see is because he changed the "do nothing" policies of Jimmy Hahn's administration.
Additionally he has appointed quality commissioners who have substantially upgraded the management at the Port and the Airports, and is in the process of improving LADWP.
His Police, Fire, Recs & Parks, Planning, B & S commissioners also are doing good work.
There is no corruption in any of those places; much diffrent than the days of Ted Stein, Leland Wong, Troy Edwards, et al.
ZD, you wouldn't know a good administration from a bad one, because you have no education and no experience. You are just a slug who is lucky enough to know Higby and suck up to him enough that he lets you ruin his otherwise interesting and knowledgable blog with your excrement.
The only reason any of us bother to comment here is to communicate with one another; none of us cares what you think.
I read the therapist's suggestions; why don't you take them? You need some serious help; your life is a tragedy and you bay at the moon.
Sorry! This link should make it easier for you to get to the video:
SEE VILLAR RUN! SEE ANITA BLOCK! SEE VILLAR DUCK INTO CONVENIENT PHOTO OP WITH MEXICAN GROUPIE THEN DUCK INTO AN ELEVATOR!!
Oh! And don't miss the Villar and "girlfriend" shopping vid!
TO QUOTE A SHOPPER: LOOK! IT'S THE MAYOR AND THAT HO! CLICK TO SEE TMZ SHOE SHOPPING VIDEO
FYI ... getting a "Site Certificate Error" warning when coming to this comments page...
4:48 AM,
Are you kidding?
Do a little homework and you may find out that all those cranes downtown are working on projects approved under the Hahn Administration. Projects like LA Live, the Ralph's Grocery Store, and all of the housing and commercial projects came through the approval process under Hahn. Villar has been there for the photo op, period.
As for all those strong commission appointments, isn't there a commissioner at the LA Convention Center currently under indictment for RICO charges? Villar appoints commissioner(s) with ties to organized crime and the press doesn't follow up on it? ....Shocking!
Of course he and his actions have done wonders for the public image of the city. What other major metropolitan area can boast that they have a Mayor who:
-Got kicked out of more than one high school!
-Fathered children with three different women, all before he was thirty!
-Was charged with assault!
-Left his wife, who was diagnosed with cancer, the day after he was elected to the Assembly, to run off with his best friend's wife and was nowhere to be found!
-Was Speaker of the Assembly, yet amazingly had no major accomplishment while in that position!
-Claims to push for clean and open government, yet refuses to open his books, have public hearings on his ethics violations, then pays a fraction of his allotted penalties
-Then leaves his wife again after being caught having an affair with a reporter who has already "dated" other high profile politicians (including married ones) without informing her bosses!
Everybody loves it when he mugs for the camera, even when he is uninvited.
We should all be so proud.
By the way, here is a new and improved Bear Flag for your website graphic:
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Every week I'm so glad that finally the LA Slimes is reporting facts on our midget mayor and his bad administration. Like yesterday wasting water yet tellling everyone else to conserve. IF Antonio thought the scandal would die he needs to think again. Its gaining steam.
Whoever said this is an idiot!!
"""""Ask ANYONE who knows her; she is straight as an arrow. (rferring to Robin Kramer).
Haven't you heard the phrase "guilt by association". We all know Antonio is the most corrupt politican and anyone who is on his team is there for a reason. Robin isn't stupid and she knows all the crap going on. She's turning a blind eye and that's her problem.
The facts: Broad is not going to make a dime off Grand Avenue. He is pushing it because he likes the idea. Also for that Antonio groupie talking about all those cranes downtown- when do you think all that got going? Have you any idea how long it takes from concept, through approval, and then getting started? The only thing that got going on Antonio's watch is Universal. Everything else you see was Riordan and Hahn.
Villar wants to cut water usage? Cut traffic congestion? Is worried about the environment? Cut energy usage? Cut city budget and taxes? Make a DRASTIC reduction in crime? All he needs to do is get all the illegals and foreigners OUT OF HERE (along with himself and his gang of fellow enemy agents of Mexiceo)! Voila! Instant accomplishment!
4:50 AM:
He looks like he's aged about 10 years, doesn't he? Were those all bodyguards in the elevator, or do they let the great unwashed get on with him?
10:53 AM:
Better management at the Port and the Airport? Don't make me laugh. SOS with a better class of spin maybe.
"Like when Macauly Culkin hit 13."
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1:10am,
Where do I admit to "misuse"? I didn't see that. Maybe YOU feel the description is a misuse. But that doesn't mean your head isn't up your ass.
http://video.knbc.com/player/?id=142198
MAYOR, WHAT DO YE HIDE?
August 11, 2007 11:12 AM
He looks aged and tired in both videos, and the "girlfriend" is not looking too great either, but what's really great, when the reporter first asks about the "TMZ Video" you can see panic all over his face! He obviously didn't know about it and you can see him thinking "Oh sh*t! Video?? TMZ?? WHAT video on TMZ??" Imagine all the horrifically humiliating possibilities that were running through his head!! He he he he he ... a truly great moment! And he was clearly distressed and unhappy all the way into the elevator!
4:50 a.m. and whoever else made this stupid comment as "proof" AV is hiding something: I saw that video live, and the reporter was taking a page from Ugly Unger: hounding him, saying "don't push me away" even to a small female cop who just put up her hand: Newshound/bloodhound slime, out to get attention for herself from idiots like you all. You would, if you had a job, be happy to push and shove and knock grandmothers over to get your ugly faces near someone ypu wanted to harass.
You can't reply intelligently to the previous poster or anyone, so you scream stupidly and then post stupid rants in praise of stupid, pushy reporters. Proving you are just illiterate, rude and stupid.
Even Zuma is trying, he says, to rise above this level these days.
2:39 The Truth Hurts
Mayor is a liar!
Release Information
4:46 am,
Thanks for posting the KNBC link to the mayor of the video. I appreciate the news. Not sure why the Mayor Sam site is going soft these days.
The video is sweet! The mayor is losing it, baby! The spinmeisters can't spin this video except say "The Poor Mayor is being hounded by the press." ... and they can't diss Anna Garcia like Miss Unger. She's a real journalist unlike Salinas.
No one would deny that the L A Live and other projects mentioned were in many cases started under Riordan, who has been a guiding force throughout. Which is good: Antonio, the supposed leftist Mechista and gansta, respecting the counsel of an old, moderate and financially savvy Republican. (Who allegedly has two attractive girlfriends, by the way, and has been married two or three times. But it clearly hasn't hurt his job performance. What's hurting AV is not the g.f. per se, but that news hound slime won't leave him alone about it, or let him talk about anything else.)
But dredging up Hahn and trying to give him credit: boy, someone out there must be really desperate for the bad old days which ain't never coming back. Janice throwing taxpayer money around her district like it's water, from over 100K in fee-waivers for obscure block parties and such, having us paying busloads of people to go visit the alligator...La Patrona is the end of the Hahn dynasty, for sure.
Once again, the subject is the same old stuff, trying to trash the mayor. Whenever zuma posts, trying to sound smart by throwing around terms and names he barely can pronounce, no one pays him any mind.
Person who said people only post on his blogs because so irrelevant that they can feel free to ignore him and talk to each other, is totally right.
10:53 PM and 4:48 AM
4:48 AM?
ZD touched your nerve and you couldn’t sleep?
You claimed not to work for the mayor, so you couldn’t be Robin herself.
But you seem to be a good friend of Robin, a close friend of the mayor, also seem to know Eli Broad very well, but don’t like Keith Brackpool - the OTHER very close advisor to the mayor.
Hmmmmm …… Who could you be?
Your statements may have given us some good hints:
Some of what you said in 4:48 AM about the current administration appointing quality people almost seems like the interview with Robin. Please check it out:
http://www.laweekly.com/la-people-2006/the-matchmaker/13207/
And your statements in 10:53 PM give away more:
“The project makes sense and is a good one.” (typical bureaucrat mumbo jumbo)
“Leave my Mayor alone, creep.”
Leave my Mayor alone, creep? People would usually say the mayor or OUR mayor.
My Mayor?
My Mayor?
Who do you know talks like that?
7:15 AM has rebutted you very well.
8:09 AM has also addressed 10:53’s “straight as an arrow” claim.
So, I won’t repeat.
Regardless of who 10:35 PM and 4:48 AM is/are and their posturing, they didn’t say one thing directly to clarify Robin and Eli’s current and future work relationship, or Eli and Grand Avenue’s relationship. Can they?
Should be: Regardless of who 10:53 PM and 4:48 AM is/are
1:14pm,
Even though I feel the mayor has a long way to go in the fraud, waste and abuse departement, himself, before he can start pointing fingers; here's what I would say if I were a mayoral paid merchanary:
Zuma,
As you have been noting for the past year, the city has a plan that we have already started, to build much more housing and amenities in the city so we can stay competitive in the global economy. And yes, ZD, although many of the people immigrating to Southern California these days are people from Mexico, who are helping us in this effort (at the lower income level); we actually ARE living in a global economy, and over the next thirty years, many of the people who will be investing in the city and buying the high-end condos you see being constructed all around town, will be from Asia, China and other international regions.
All of this means we will have the diversity we need to help the City of Los Angeles in it's effort to become the world class city it must continue to be. And these days, in the international marketplace we now compete in, we have a lot of work to do in order to be able to meet these demands.
And like you have been noting, ZD; and as the newspapers have been reporting this week, all of this density is being created without the proper infrasructure to accomodate the added demand.
And with all the added public attention with articles in LA Weekly, LA Times, Daily News; we are hearing the senitment echoed on the AM radio talk shows and neighborhood meetings throughout the City. Although we are aware of this problem, too; and work on getting as much public transportation added and infrastructure built as quickly as possible, with all this added public outcry now weighing in, I not only wanted Sacramento to know that the City, State and even Country (since 40% of U.S. goods come through our region) will be stuck with a major crisis if we don't do more to focus this effort and do everything we can, right now.
But I wanted the people of Los Angeles to know that I know this is a front-burner issue, I hear you, and I want Sacramento to know that it is time for all government officials at the City, State and National level to all come together in a collaborative effort so we can not only survive, but thirve in this new era of economic growth that is needed in the global economy.
zumadogg@gmail.com
8:36 AM
I agree with you that the current downtown constructions should be rightfully credited to previous administrations.
But “Broad is not going to make a dime off Grand Avenue”? Really, that is good to know.
However, the project hasn’t even broken ground yet. So, how do you know?
Plus, there are so many ways to get SOMETHING out of a project, or get something back from a project, particularly from a HUGE project like this. It doesn’t have to be direct $$$. It doesn’t have to go to a particular person directly.
Say he is not a investor or a developer in this project. Then what is he?
Is he elected or appointed to be in charge?
Who elected or appointed him?
Just curious, because the project involves so much public money and tax payers' dollars. So we want to know.
Great advice; people stop at the second paragraph.
If you had attended business school, someone might have taught you communication; people nowadays live in sound bytes, and you exceed every known limit.
You are a loquacious fool.
If you had attended business school, someone might have taught you communication; people nowadays live in sound bytes
Like: MAV's water usage is twice as much because he entertains a lot. And Salinas has been reportedly staying at Getty House a lot lately?
And like: The mayor says he is going to work as hard as he can for our city. And he has been videoed strolling in the mall with his mistress. That is working hard?
2:39 PM
I love it when the Villar groupies go berzerk! They are so transparent, always wrong and completely hilarious!
Good point 3:44 PM! .... I've been wondering the same thing. He's off on Fridays? He must be working a 9/80 work schedule I guess.... with every other Friday off. Yeah right ...
3:00 PM
Ha ha ha ha !! Yup! It is sure looking more and more like meltdown time, eh??
And I agree, while they do tackle some very important city issues here, and that is good, this site really needs to stay on top of all the really important items and the items people WANT to know about ... getting a little slow on the Villar front... and that just sends readers searching elsewhere.
3:24 PM
Gaaagh...ack..ack..gackgack...
gaaagh...gagagag...ack...
gaaaaaggggghhh!!
3:06 PM,
I think Anna Garcia was referring to the fact that FORMER mayor Hahn turned over his phone records but the CURRENT mayor Villar will not.
Not sure why you had to bring the Honorable Council member Janice Hahn into the debate. Typical bait & switch by a spinmeister? So Janice Hahn had a couple of buses send kids to the City Zoo to see Reggie... so what? The mayor is bussing kids to the City pools ... which isn't a bad thing either.
Hahn is moving up.... Mayor AV is moving down. Get used to it.
4:19: You prove that it was indeed a paid flunkie for the "Honorable Janice Hahn" who tried to resurrent Jim Hahn's dead and dreaded image.
Janice Hahn moving up? To where? Is she planning to retire to Alaska, maybe? Besides being the ugliest and loudest and crudest woman in politics she is a dangerous spendthrift, an opportunist who grandstands to get her ugly mug on camera at every op.
She does her best to bankrupt the city in every way, big and small, and with Bitter Bernie, never loses a chance however misguided and dumb to bash Bratton and the cops. She tried to haul him into Council again in person, to explain to her Horsiness why there was a cop moonlighting as a DEA agent on one dispensary bust. (Bratton declined but is sending someone.) No wonder the LAPD finds it hard to recruit; can you imagine if this cop-bashing taxpayer-sucking woman were Mayor?
Of course, she backstabs and openly badmouths colleagues, too.
If you don't think she's a laughingstock already, let her try to run and all this will hit her!
Dump the Dogg.
BTW, I'd never have mentioned J Han's looks if she weren't so judgmental and mean to others, and self-rightous as well as hypocritical. She would be a financial and political danger to this city, leaving us with no money left for cops -- who wouldn't want to serve under her, anyway. If the current Mayor is being accused of being too anti-cop in catering to the illegals, she would do him one better to get their vote (like with her LAX- area living wage initiative being forced on non- city hotels, even though the courts have ruled it illegal). Developers and businesses in general see her as a threat.
There is no constituency, except the one she is trying to buy with fee waivers, that she could represent. That sort of leftist, tax-and-spend-antagonize business and the cops, era is so over, TG.
I believe the people of CD 15 will support Janice Hahn for mayor or for her probable next move to County Supervisor. She has made less enemies than Mayor AV that is for sure. ...Plus looks have nothing to do with it ...but she is much hotter than Hillary. Hillary will be our next president if she dumps the mayor from the campaign. Since you have problems with female authority, you are in big trouble down the road.
TMZ Meeting
How TMZ Got the Video
http://www.tmz.com/tmz_main_video?titleid=1137834708
HILARIOUS!!
I would come out of retirement to serve under .... I mean ....FOR Mayor Janice Hahn.
As the investigation into how Telemundo covered L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s marital problems came to a conclusion (with TV anchor Mirthala Salinas temporarily suspended without paid) the Latino fiesta goes on in the streets of Los Angeles in anticipation of the 8th annual Festival de la Gente, to be held Oct. 27-28 at the historic 6th Street Bridge.
According to the invitation –sent to me by a friend in LaLaLand– the event is organized by Arte Calidad Cultural Institute, and sponsored in partnership with California Assembly speaker Fabián Nuñez and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who –as everyone knows by now– seem to have the same taste in women.
The October public encounter between Nuñez and Villaraigosa will be interesting, but much more so if it gets to be covered by Telemundo 52 (we estimate Ms. Salinas will be back in business by then).
Our local politicians really gotta learn to walk the talk a bit. If they’re not jumping into a black GMC Yukon SUV after giving a rousing enviro-themed speech (Mayor Villaraigosa), they’re big-upping greener, higher density neighborhoods while clinging to homes in highly-restricted single-family residential neighborhoods themselves (Councilmen Ed Reyes, Tom LaBonge, and Jack Weiss).
And now, after urging angelenos to down their water use by 10%, Villaraigosa’s home’s been outed as a major water guzzler. According to the LA Times, “even if he had made a 10% reduction at the two homes where he has lived since winning election in 2005, he still would have used nearly twice as much water as comparable properties in the vicinity.”
GREENLAGIRL.COM
LA Mayor Villaraigosa: What the Media Will Dare Not Tell You
I had the above article translated earlier. Here are a few points about the Mayor and Sabrina Kay from the Korean news:
Sabrina Kay (Chung Hee Kim) is an influential Korean-American designer in L.A. She's also a long-time political ally of Villaraigosa, going back to when he was in the California state legislature, when she hosted fundraising parties for him. Recently, since his election as mayor, Villaraigosa brought Kay with him (and about 10 others) on a visit to China, Japan, and Korea. This was in the fall of 2006. Although the visit was supposedly for the purpose of attracting Asian investment in LA, the article's sources say the trip was not well planned, did not result in meetings with Korea's most important corporate leaders, and did not bring in any significant investment for LA. The paper wonders what was the mayor's intention of visiting Korea.
The one memorable event was when Villaraigosa appeared as a model in Sabrina Kay's fashion show wearing her clothing (pictured above). The fashion show was sponsored by the Hyundai Dept. Store. It was meant to promote LA's fashion industry. It was good publicity for Sabrina Kay's line, anyway.
The tour generated considerable gossip. One source says the article doesn't quite say the gossip was of a romantic nature. Another source says the article rumors that Kay is the mayor's mistress. The article suggests that the mayor was giving Kay a lot of free publicity, by implying an endorsement.
The article also wonders how Kay, a fashion designer, landed in the LA Planning Commission position.
Although the visit was supposedly for the purpose of attracting Asian investment in LA, the article's sources say the trip was not well planned, did not result in meetings with Korea's most important corporate leaders, and did not bring in any significant investment for LA. The paper wonders what was the mayor's intention of visiting Korea.
The rumor is that Sabrina Kay and the Mayor both disappeared for one night in Korea. The next day, the Mayor canceled the trip to Pu San(spelling?) where he was supposed to meet with Korea's most important corporate leaders but didn't.
Oh no...it's official: Here is a boat that some folks want rocked...or sunk:
...Then there was (Keith) Brackpool himself, a smooth-talking Brit with a curious past. In 1983 he had pleaded guilty to criminal charges in London, including dealing in securities without a license, and paid a $3,200 fine. He hadn't disclosed this to American regulators, he said, because he regarded the charges as equivalent to misdemeanors. In 1991, he had lost his job as an executive for a highflying British food company after some financial dealings with a direct competitor came to light. He told me in 2002 that the transaction was legitimate but had acquired a bad odor when the competitor ended up at the center of a sensational business scandal.
Brackpool did, however, collect Democratic politicians like a navel collects lint. (emphasis added) Tony Coelho, a former California congressman and chairman of the party's congressional campaign committee, served on the Cadiz board from 1999 to 2003. Former Arizona governor and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt joined to work on international deals. (Nothing came of his efforts.) Villaraigosa signed on as a consultant for two years before becoming mayor; Cadiz, Brackpool and others connected with the company contributed a total of $43,650 to his political campaigns from 1999 through 2005. Another consultant was former state Assemblyman Richard Katz, who last week came within a hair's breadth of being named chief executive of the MWD.
The chief beneficiary of the Cadiz dole was Gray Davis, whose 1998 and 2002 gubernatorial campaigns collected $235,000 in donations. In gratitude, Davis made Brackpool his advisor on water, a relationship that put pressure on the MWD to play ball with Cadiz. Nevertheless, by 2002 the district, fed up with the project's drawbacks, pulled the plug.
Guys - in every comment section the talk still erupts into Villar ... wouldn't it just be better to post current stories so those comments could all be under one section??
Ding-ding-ding...
In the battle between Mayor Antonio's two closest advisors...
In this corner; we have Richard Alatorre...
In the other corner; we have Keith Brackpool...
And for some reason...
It is coming out on the this thread and ZD feels it IS on topic and maybe 7:38pm knows it.
More later.
If Janice Hahn is what he will have to face in the next election, we can all rest easy.
She can't get arrested, let alone raise the money to run for Mayor.
Parke is salivating at the thought.
Alatorre and Brackpool are both poor influences on the mayor. He needs to shed that image and stay with his friends that exude no shade at least until the mext election..
By the way, what was Ms. Hahn's role in the MLK disaster? Seeing as it's in Watts, and she is a wannabe-black when it comes to turning everything into a P C racial issue. She obviously didn't contribute to any solutions.
How sad no one had the guts to fire all the management, do full staff reviews, and start from scratch. With 8 area hospitals closed recently for lack of funds, keeping this one open was just pandering and waste.
There are seven clinics in the area already, but they are already overburdened (LAT), so turn the facility into another big one.
So it seems Hahn has her sights set on Mayor. Yup, that is keeping AV up at nights. Tax and spend liberal, anti-business and hated by business, cop-bashing and demoralizing, using every P C -sounding excuse to nab ethnic groups from blacks to illegal immigrant hotel workers, and then not doing a thing about MLK disaster: she might be able to follow in the footsteps of the incompetent and hypocritical Burke, only because that district seems so poor and easily bought and lied to.
In a city-wide election, looks and voice and charisma do all count -- at least, you can't horrify people the way she does. And Ms. Hahn, sir, is not Hillary. Even former Hillary-hating conservatives are surprised at how moderate she's sounding these days, more like Bill was. And Hillary the "butch" is still better looking.
Agree that AV has to dump Alatorre. That guy gave out contracts to his friends for everything from trash collection to computer software development and sometimes the jobs were not even done competently. Everyone knew he was the worst kind of Mexican politician, and he didn't run for higher office knowing it all would have come out. Dump Alatorre!
With the likes of Riordan and Broad, AV doesn't need that kind.
8:51 PM,
There you go again trying to bring Janice into issues where she doesn't belong. Where is the mayor on the MLK disaster and it's impending closure? I haven't heard a word from the mayor about MLK. ...Only about shoe shopping with his mistress. At least former mayor James Hahn, with help from Jesse Jackson, helped keep MLK Jr. from closing during his term. It is a County hospital ... Janice doesn't have jurisdiction. It's in the City of LA though ... so the mayor should care about the closure. Except, he has no clue and couldn't keep it open if he tried.
10:17: So you admit, in fact boast, that Jim Hahn was "helped" by the ubiquitous Jesse Jackson in turning the hospital issue into a racial one, which is precisely why it was never fixed, and kept open heading toward its inevitable final disaster and demise. You just don't get that keeping it open at all costs, when it failed inspection repeatedly by the JCAHO and even Medicare, was NOT in the benefit of the taxpayers!
Even now, you totally miss the point, no wonder you work for Janice Hahn. And that woman has an opinion about everything that is outside the city's jurisdiction, she is a busy body, is she can climb onto some bandwagon to grandstand.
Knowing that they were untouchable under Hahn, the staff at MLK became more and more incorrigible. Even with the management was finally replaced AFTER Hahn, they were undermined by staff mutinies/ calls in sick strikes, false injury compensation claims, all to undermine the new management.
They had never been disciplined before, and now, reacted in the only way they had learned: by even more egregious, mutinous behavior.
That's what happens when people like Jim Hahn, Jesse Jackson, Yvonne Burke and Maxine Waters turn a matter of quality control into a political sacred cow. You PROVE all the points made against the Hahns, of which Janice's current term is, hopefully, the last we see of any of them.
The opening of the MLK Jr./Drew hospital was a racial issue. I guess you weren't born during the Watts riots and so do not know your history and why the hospital was opened in the first place.
If you think I proved your point ... so be it ... then you prove that you are delusional. Where is the Mayor of LA regarding this issue? He doesn't even know it is an issue for him and the city.
All you do is keep proving why anyone who supports Janice or any Hahn is and was a financial disaster. Yes, I know -- and the papers keep telling us -- that the hospital was opened in the wake of the Watts riot to placate the locals (does that make it a "racial" issue, because the area is or was mostly black?), but it should have been run with the same fiscal and quality-control responsibility that any viable hospital is required to.
Your repeated denial of this fact, and why it's being closed after too many years of bowing down to your kind of racial intimidation, only shows why Janice and her supporters are the last thing the city needs.
Your endlessly demanding where was the mayor in all this, only calls attention to the fact that he wisely did NOT put pandering to people of a certain race over the objective criteria it takes to run and maintain quality at a hospital.
In other words, he's acted like a leader, not a Hahn-type demagogue.
Janice Hahn has about as much chance of being elected mayuor as ZD does.
Know why he gets along so well with her?
They are BOTH wanna be blacks, Y'all.
But they are different in one respect; she has hair.
the reason tony did not want to get involved in the MLK issue is because it's fate was already decided, and, more importantly, the LA Times had made closing the hospital their number one issue. You think it was a coincidence the Times "discovered" last month Yvonne Burke didn't live in her district? Everyone knew that for years. She made the mistake of finally trying to save MLK.
Yvonne the "martyr" exposed as a fraud for "finally trying to save MLK." What was she doing the previous many years, besides sneaking around to pretend she lived in Mar Vista, and attending photo ops with Maxine Waters, Jesse Jackson, Jim Hahn and every other opportunist?
She and they sure weren't trying to correct the grievous and downright homicidal conditions at MLK, which started with disciplining the staff who left critical-care patients hooked up to monitors unattended for hours, until they died, one of many specific violations filed against them over the years. When a new administrator was finally installed by the supes, he quit in frustration at his supervision- averse staff.
And into this mess, over 40 years later, and about 15 on the job as supe, Burke comes in to "save" currupt and incompetent MLK (i.e., to try again to intimidate the city into subsidizing this disaster), the LAT finally decides to shed some light on this. The papers play up how a woman was left dying on the floor after repeated visits to the ER where she was told to go home and take some Tums, and finally this sham has to end.
Zev, Antonovich and even Molina could see the writing on the wall, had wanted tougher measures for years, but the racial poseurs kept coming out for their righteous photo ops and sound bites, then going away again, leaving the place to its expensive, murderous ways.
Gee, poor Yvonne, the Times should have left her to continue sneaking around and doing nothing but obstructing solutions, even longer.
You are right that this is what the Times exposing her residence was about: waste and intimidation.
August 12, 2007 7:12 AM
Liberal racist. Don't try to hide your true intentions anymore. You are clearly an advocate for bigotry and prejudice.
Thanks for outing yourself and many of your leftist allies.
"Tax and spend liberal, anti-business and hated by business, cop-bashing and demoralizing, using every P C -sounding excuse to nab ethnic groups from blacks to illegal immigrant hotel workers"
I'm sorry, were you referring to Hahn or Villar?
Robin Kramer is a tough, knowledgeable, loyal employee. If she is with you, she is with you; if she is on the other side, be prepared for a tough fight. But she has always been known as a honorable person...
As for Brackpool, he couldn't even spell "honor", much less live by any rules of ethics or integrity. And also regarding Brackpool, word is that he and Janelle Erickson, the mayor's press deputy, have been "an item..."
Robin Kramer is a tough, knowledgeable, loyal employee. If she is with you, she is with you;
She is with MAV
if she is on the other side,
The other side of MAV is the truth
be prepared for a tough fight.
She is fighting hard against the truth?
But she has always been known as a honorable person...
How could that be when she is with MAV? You might as well say MAV is an honorable person.
Guilt by association. Be careful of who you associate yourself with and who you work for.
As for Brackpool, he couldn't even spell "honor", much less live by any rules of ethics or integrity. And also regarding Brackpool, word is that he and Janelle Erickson, the mayor's press deputy, have been "an item..."
Are you saying they are having an affair? You see .... association. Similar types of people hang around each other.
You are doing a great public service by directing attention to this boondoggle.
I love it when Eli says that the Grand Ave. park will be LA's Central Park. The GA park is proposed to be 16 acres. Central Park is over 450 acres. This is what passes for "vision" in Los Angeles.
Getting back to Brackpool, where did Tony V and Brackpool go when they slipped security together in Korea and China on Asia trip?
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