CAT FIGHT!! Chick to challenge Hahn's Gang Tax proposal
It's On!!
City Controller, Laura Chick announced to an audience of business leaders, that she will challenge the placement on the ballot, a proposal by councilwomen Janice Hahn to implement a tax for Anti-Gang programs.
Readers of this blog have been vocal with their opinions on Hahn's proposal. Lets just say that this proposal should be given the "OVERNIGHT PILL" and aborted.
Until the audit of the much-aligned LA Bridges Program is completed and and publicly dissected, then not a single cent should be allocated so that the likes of "NO GUNS" and gang workers can "PAPER BAG" on city time.
City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, hit it right on when he stated that before we ask for more money, we must demonstrate the we can properly spend the money we ask for.
Kudo to Chick, now its time to draw up the chair and watch the fur fly.
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LA Daily News - Chick, Hahn face off over gang measure
Labels: rocky delgadillo
Posted by Red Spot in CD 14 @ 9/21/2007 09:19:00 AM
34 Comments:
Red Spot:
AMEN!!!
WOW! Chick is going to save the day over at LAUSD too with Tamar Galatzan. She is going to help with the payroll problems at LAUSD. ....Plus now she will save the day for the City of LA. How does she do it? She should be mayor instead of Antonio.
Why is Chick spending $500,000 to audit anti-gang programs, instead of using her own city auditors? And why, after being in office over six years, hasn't she done this important audit? Now all she's doing is trying to be the center of attention again. Yawn.
At least she is stepping up and doing what the mayor should be doing!
I may of gave her Kudos for going "CLAW Y CLAW" with Hahn. But she must produce a "TRANSPARENT" audit on the Bridges Program.
BTW, What are the thoughts of our new "GERNERAL SECRETARY OF GANG INTERVENTION" ??
Good about exposing Hahn's tax. But why has it taken so long for her to step in and make the same offer to "save" LAUSD's payroll? At a conference yesterday, she said she hadn't wanted to interfere until asked, that only now is there an atmosphere in city hall where she can feel free to make the offer to LAUSD, the last Board brushed her off, didn't want any city "interference" from any dept. Says a lot about the last Board, how control and power-hungry they were.
I say better late then never for Chick but she better be transparent and do a thorough job for the $500,000 tax payers are footing the bill for. I bet if the Mothers Against Gang Violence knew that 6 council members were given political campaign money from LA Bridges they wouldn't be helping Janice campaign. No way this will pass with the KFI guys on our side. Too many community members and hundreds of e-mails are flying reminding people of the corruption and crap city council has been up to and instead of figuring it out and stop wasting millions no way will tax payers help them out this time. AGAIN
Please identify which non-profits in LA Bridges gave campaign contributions to councilmembers.
634 people killed in LOS ANGELES COUNTY SO FAR.
The Homicide Map >> Los Angeles County victims
A visual interface to The Times' Homicide ReportBased on county coroner data and Times research | Updated September 15, 2007
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WEEKLY TOLL
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FILTER: 634 matches0-9 13
AGES:
10-19 145
20-29 250
30-39 97
40-49 79
50+ 50
unknown 0
asian 20
black 213
hispanic 337
white 57
other 7
female 82
male 552
Weapon:
blunt force 30
gunshot 505
stabbing 66
other 33
Day of Week:
monday 83
tuesday 76
wednesday 74
thursday 76
friday 74
saturday 99
sunday 152
killing
by police 27
suspected
domestic incident 35
So in the HUGE county of LA, it would appear that male Black and Hispanics between the ages of 20-29 with guns, should stay home on Sundays.
We need gun laws. Get rid of all of them. I don't see any statistics there stating that age old argument about self-protection. How many of those homicides were residents protecting their properties from random burglars?
And I meant get rid of guns, not gun laws. We need stricter gun laws.
LA Times did the story on campaign donations to 6 city council members. I'll look it up and post.
Too bad neither Hahn nor Chick look anywhere near as good as the babes in that photo. Talk about OLD GRAY HAGS ON SPRING STREET!
What Janice Hahn doesn't want you to read. E-mail to as many people throughout the city who can vote and after reading this if they don't agree that we don't need a gang tax they need to move to another city.
WHAT JANICE HAHN DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ
DID CITY HALL FUND A GUN-RUNNER?
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/did-city-hall-fund-a-gun-runner/16534/
LA ANTI-GANG PIONEER ARRESTED BY ATF
Big Weasel's No Guns organization received a cool $1.5 million from the city's LA Bridges program. Marroquin received the funds despite being arrested for ex-felon in possession of a gun last year (click and scroll down five posts) by police searching his house looking to arrest his son for a home invasion robbery and despite ample evidence he remained a very active, dangerous criminal who was a tax collector for the Mexican Mafia.
However, the Marroquins are connected to powerful politicians like Villaraigosa whose LA Bridges director accused police of harassing the family and continued to funnel
money to the No Guns rehabilitation non-profit.
http://ccpoa.blogspot.com/2007/06/la-anti-gang-pioneer-arrested-by-atf.html
....and John Chavez took the fall for this at CDD.
10:23:
I agree. She would make a better Mayor than Tony.
4:42:
Right. Again, a blogger quoted at length earlier in the week from the current book, "The Mexican Mafia". The book has a lengthy chapter on how these programs have been infiltrated, and used as a profit center and base of operations, by the Mexican Mafia for years. The author discusses at length the very issue you raise about "No Guns".
I hope Laura strangles Janice's dumb (and that's being generous) initiative in the crib.
Laura Chick needs to remind people that 6 city council members took money from LA Bridges while they were campaigning for office. The LA Times has taken the story off their webiste. I believe Mayor Sam had it posted here last year. Can someone please post. Here Janice read this:::
....All in all, it’s a pretty good story of government malfeasance and inattention, huh? But the L.A. Times didn’t break it. Perhaps they were embarrassed by their credulous portrait of Marroquin in 2005 — a story that, according to the L.A. Weekly article, actually helped Marroquin con money out of City Hall:
A touching L.A. Times story in 2005 described Marroquin — a burly, bald-headed man with an “Aztec Warrior” tattoo, known on the street as “Weasel” — choking back tears of redemption. The message for years has been: Weasel left his old life behind.
Marroquin’s emotional confession and street knowledge impressed the right people and helped him win fat contracts. Thanks in part to his No Guns salary of close to $90,000 a year, he enjoyed all the trappings of mainstream success, such as his Navigator and numerous properties and businesses, including a bar he purchased for $645,000 in 2004 in his wife and daughter’s names
HE WAS ARRESTED FOR FELONIES AND NOT ONE COUNCIL PERSON SAID A WORD ABOUT OUR TAX DOLLARS THEY GAVE HIM.
3:18 & 19:
When the honest citizens give up their guns, do you think that the gangbangers and La Eme are going to meekly march down to the police station and turn theirs in?
No, they are just going to have us outgunned even more than they do now.
What do you think will happen during the next riot? The best image to come out of the last one was the Korean small business owners defending their stores, with nary an LAPD in sight.
Bring your SWAT teams and your armored cars when you come for mine.
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/hector-marroquins-revenge/16569/
JANICE HAHN, PERRY , GREUESOME DON'T WANT YOU TO READ THIS
Feds arrest “No Guns” activist for selling guns, while L.A. politicians duck second embarrassment of the week — the first being the sentencing of another of the city’s purported anti-gang program leaders, Mario Corona, for possession of a pound of methamphetamine and a handgun — was nothing compared to the scrambling for cover by L.A.’s elected officials.
From Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo to Councilman Tony Cardenas, head of the City Council’s Ad Hoc Committee on Gang Violence, the reaction was underwhelming as the District Attorney’s Office charged Marroquin and his girlfriend Sylvia Arellano with five counts each of selling automatic weapons.
So, were Marroquin and Corona — a leader in Communities in Schools, operated by anti-gang activist Blinky Rodriguez — just isolated incidents? Did any public official or City Hall insider — besides Rice, that is — see warning signs, a decade old and examined by the L.A. Weekly last December? That story explored, in detail, Marroquin’s multiple arrests on gun charges and urgent claims by gang investigators that he was dirty.
If any Los Angeles politicians did see the warning signs, what did they do about suspicions that a so-called former gangster was, in Rice’s words, “using the system”?
Villaraigosa was off to Washington, D.C., to talk to Congress about gangs. His press deputy Janelle Erickson said, “This should not have happened.” Cardenas, who acknowledges he is friends with Blinky Rodriguez, a former professional kickboxer turned anti-gang activist, did not return calls. In a written statement, Rocky Delgadillo, who claims that gang reduction is a cornerstone of his administration, said, “The Marroquin and Corona cases demonstrate the need for rigorous and critical evaluation of the city’s Bridges program by the City Controller.”
red spot in cd 14,
In answer to your question about the new General Sec of Gang Intervention (or whatever he is),Jeff Carr don't think much of him at all. Have heard him speak a few times. He does those whirlwind appearances like the Antonio.
As one myself who has been involved trying to bring resources to and for the intervention he has been completely AWOL. Another Antonio NADA. And that seems to be the feeling everywhere. And I have been involved from the Valley to South LA.
By the way important to know I am not looking for any funding from anyone for anything. Just a business person on my own dime.
My favorite comments about "gang tax" from the Daily news.
The city sounds like the drug addict who approaches asking for food money.When you tell him he will just spend it on drugs, he replies, he has money for drugs, he needs money for food.
Posted by: David Hernandez | September 13, 2007 12:00 PM
Is this supposed to be "protection" money, that the ploticians are extorting form property owners on the gangs behalf. It's absolutely disgusting that the billions we pay in taxes don't do anything to protect us from gangs.
Posted by: Mark | September 13, 2007 12:04 PM
Laura Chick consistently hits the nail on the head. It just makes sense (both common and financial) to show taxpayers that the $$$$ already being spent on gang intervention and prevention programs are working before you ask for more $$. A message to Janice Hahn: what, if anything, has been achieved by the anti-gang programs in the Harbor Gateway area? It would be cheaper to offer relocation $ to each gangmember upon his or her moving out of LA....
Janice is an imbecile and KFI will go after her big time on this gang tax. How does she sleep at night with? I think the blonde dye has entered her brain. Janice didn't do shit about the gang violence in Harbor Gateway until last year. Where has she been on the gang violence all this time? And what about the major gang violence in South LA and East LA? Guess if it happens every week it doesn't matter
They will never get a two thirds vote on this. Not when the truth comes out about council members getting campaign money from LA Bridges and other gang programs. this is corruption at its worst. Not one damn leader amongst the bunch of morons we have on council. All corrupt, brainless, gutless, losers. Hahn is the biggest idiot and they all follow instead of being leaders.
To show her ignornance Hahn is quoted saying "Even if voters approve this in February, we won't get a single dollar until next November," Hahn said. "That gives us plenty of time to vet the audit and determine how the money should be spent."
You dumb ass Hahn it should be the other way around first.
6:55 - I hope Janice Hahn doesn't run for Controller! The City would declare bankruptcy within two years if she is elected!
Don't worry. Not-so-good anymore Wendy wants that one. That's why she sucks up to the Mayor. She needs his endorsement. That's why she's fighting (wink wink) Home Depot. She needs the votes. That's why Home Depot will open up soon. She needs the money.
Wendy Gruel... hmmm... rather interesting last name.
Say, isn't gruel a rather thin oatmeal?
A Famous Quote for Janice Hahn and City Council,
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
- Ronald Reagan
It's payola. They are looking to pay off gang leaders to stop violence. The "gang-intervention" tagline is just a red herring.
Now, the Congress is involved in $1 Billion gang payoff bill, now going through Congress.
http://hatch.senate.gov/
index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&
PressRelease_id=1829&Month=6&Year=2007
(the URL above is cut into 3 lines. you'll need to append the prior two lines to the first line.)
excerpts:
US Senator Orrin Hatch
June 14th, 2007 Media Contact(s): Peter Carr (202) 224-9854,
Jared Whitley (202) 224-0134
Printable Version
HATCH-FEINSTEIN GANG BILL PASSES COMMITTEE
Washington - The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee today gave a green light to comprehensive gang legislation sponsored by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). The bill, the Gang Abatement and Prevention Act, would provide more than $1 billion for successful gang prevention, intervention, and suppression programs. It would also create tough federal penalties to deter and punish members of illegal street gangs. The committee approved the bill by a vote of 17-0-2.
Hatch's prepared remarks on the bill follow.
Mr. Chairman, I want to thank you for bringing up the Gang Bill today. Senator Feinstein and I have worked together for many years to get this important legislation passed and I hope the Committee will work with us to pass this bill again this year.
...
Gangs in the Universities, except nobody wants to admit they're there.
Get this con-job by the AP distorter who will not find anyone, or a "quote" from anyone, that says that the shooting is gang related and by gang students attending college (Wow, would that be a good story?).
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/
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HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
excerpts:
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DOVER, Del. (AP) -- Tension between rival groups of friends from New Jersey and Washington, D.C., preceded the late-night shooting at Delaware State University that wounded two people, students said Saturday.
While investigators worked to find the shooter who opened fire early Friday as several students left a campus dining hall, a classmate recalled how the violence had escalated from altercations during the week.
"They've been getting into it, New Jersey people and D.C. people," said James Dillion, 23, of Cleveland.
"Thursday night, they saw each other again and got into it," he said. "Everybody's still astonished about what happened."
...
Ali Muhammad, 18, a freshman from Washington, D.C., said that since the school year started he has heard of at least three fights involving cliques from New Jersey and the District of Columbia.
...
"There are no gangs here on this campus," student government president Nikki Chapple said. "There are students coming from different backgrounds. That doesn't make them gang-related."
What rot! Nikki Chapple is probably grooming herself to be an L.A. Council Member. From what I've gathered on this blog, she would be a perfect fit.
how about voting in a mayor that won't encourage the illegals and their gang element into the city. to tax the citizens to fight something that will only continue to get worse unless it is realistically dealt with is a waste of money. as far as needing gun laws, the ass holes will always find a way to have guns. the only people that would be punished are the people who wouldn't be using them for the wrong reasons in the first place. it's doubtful los angeles will ever have any hope of reducing gangs as long as the people in office refuse to actually address the problems honestly so they can do something about them.
I wonder how many council members actually took Civics as an education course? Maybe if they had, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in today.
I freely admit I never had the opportunity to take Civics in school; there's an online quiz which one may test themselves and find out how they rank against university freshmen and seniors.
My score was terrible, in my opinion - an 80%, but considering that I didn't have an opportunity for secondary school education, I imagine I did better than most.
If anyone here wants to take the test - it's a 60 question multiple-choice exam - you can take the quiz here.
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