Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Thursday

Yea I'm back. For now. I've been busy, traveling and dealing with harassment from certain individuals with relation to the blog. I've also had more fun blogging here than here. And when I had to log back in shedding this guy and becoming this guy again, it felt odd. But here I am. A BIG thank you to Joe Mailander and Zuma Dogg for holding down the fort. Let's get into a hotsheet, shall we?

Shane Goldmacher reports in the Sacramento Bee that there's a big dust up in Sacramento between Senator "Two Bill" Gil Cedillo and Assembly Speaker and former alleged Mirthala Salinas paramour Fabian Nunez. Gil - on a break from trying to give driver licenses to illegals - now wants to give a free college education to illegals. Cedillo's bill is in trouble in the Senate and apparently Gil is trying to blame everyone else including Fabian, to wit the Speaker had to bitch slap Gil in both Spanish and English. "I am deeply disappointed and severely troubled by your disingenuous characterization of the circumstances surrounding the failure of SB 160," the speaker wrote, in a letter sent Tuesday.

Dan Walters reports that Mayor Villaraigosa isn't the shoo in for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination that folks thought he was. State Superintendent of Schools Jack O'Connell is a dark horse who has $1 million of Reed Hastings' money behind him and former Governor now Attorney General Jerry Brown is a growing juggernaut. And there are least three to four more solid names on the Democratic bench. As well Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner could be the first well funded moderate Republican candidate for Governor since Pete Wilson. Stay tuned.

A crowd of idiots with nothing better to do showed up to the City Council demanding they pass a motion calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Apparently the only Councilman so far supporting this is Silly Billy Rosendahl but as of now his motion is dying for the lack of anyone taking such a ridiculous idea seriously. After taking hits for the dog food settlement and other antics, the last thing the Clowncil needs is talkradio and others going postal on them on such an utter waste of City time.

In light of the closing of King-Harbor Hospital, civil rights activist Joe Hicks wonders why African-American leaders are demanding an "incompetent" hospital remain open as opposed to calling for the same level of care for the Black community as others.

And finally over at the other blog, I take on retail-phobe nannypoo NIMBYs, no, not in Sunland-Tujunga, but this time in my own community. Yes indeed there are a lot of us who WANT development in our town cause we need it now! Anti-big box leaders from other communities you are not welcome here.