Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Thursday
Rick Orlov reports that school in the LAUSD starts up again with fewer students than last year. Yet we're building more schools because, uh, well, you got all those campaign contributions to elect all those new school board members and, well, uh, you know which piper has to be paid right?Who said this: "YOU'VE got to use public transit. You can't keep on pointing to someone else and saying it's their responsibility." I'll give you three hints: he's a big city mayor, he drives around town in a big SUV and no he's not this guy. Yup! You're right! It's this guy.
A major fundraiser for Hillary Clinton failed to show up in court and a warrant is now out for his arrest. Nothing new for Norman Hsu who was allegedly supposed to show up in court Wednesday because he allegedly failed to show up and serve time on alleged felony fraud charges 15 years ago. Of course its not the first time we've heard of funny business with Clintonian fundraisers. And who else has Hsu donated to in the past? You guessed it!
Council Member Jan Perry has apparently angled a farmers market for the City Hall area but shoppers have nowhere to sit and eat their purchased goodies. The City can't seem to get benches installed in the park next to the market.
LA won't do it but Denver is going to impound the vehicles of illegal aliens. However if you're dumping trash in Victorville or Los Angeles police will immediately seize your vehicle (no word on if there is an undocumented worker exception to this policy). Next up: impoundments for people who fail to install swirly light bulbs, cut off their pets' private parts or vote Republican.
And finally, who would have thunk it but apparently real estate agents advise against installing urinals in private homes. According to CurbedLA it reminds female buyers of prison. However it might not be so bad if you had someone to clean your urinal.
Labels: Mayor Sam's Hotsheet
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 9/06/2007 12:52:00 AM
51 Comments:
According to Galatzan, school populations are increasing mostly in areas like Porter Ranch, and outside LAUSD in places like Calabasas. The families move there for the schools in the first place. What about the fact that there is not a single good middle or high school on the entire Westside? People in multi-million dollar homes are funnelled to schools with large majority ethnic students, low test scores, and the kinds of social environments they spent a lot of money to live away from.
But for years, the P C brigade has argued that if LAUSD refused to put schools where these people live and let them be for locals first priority, then they will be forced into the crap schools in that exist now. (And the crap schools include those in the middle of the westside but the students are all bused in; try schools in the hills, Brentwood and put one in Westwood etc. and all the people now forced to spend over fifteen grand a year WILL go.
There is so much disgust and apathy over the school system because the people who pay such a large bulk of the taxes have been intentionally shut out, and now the schools serve only the bused-in minorities there.
What about considering the insane idea that people who pay millions for a house and all those taxes, also deserve a school they can send their kids to?
Gotta love KFI John &Ken who slammed Huizar and Hahn on the impounding bullshit. I hope th city gets sued for discrimination on this one. Idiots!!! They know illegals are driving without a license so what does our clowncil do to educate them? They give them a free ride on the impounding. Next time there is a DUI or traffic accident where these assholes take off like we all know they have to many friends I hope the CHP or Sheriff's nail them. They don't have a consent decree
Only the Daily News has the guts to say it like it is and slam those idiots on council.
Traffic detour
City Hall needs major reforms to create a credible planning process
LOS Angeles' process for traffic studies and mitigations for new development is a mess - just as city officials want it to be. Many city residents are pushing for an overhaul of the way the city assesses the environmental impact of new developments.
That's the entry point for Councilman Jack Weiss, the embattled Westsider who wants to become city attorney.
Beset by residents of an area afflicted by relentlessly slow traffic caused by overdevelopment without good planning, Weiss has proposed ending the system that allows developers to hire their own consultants to do environmental and traffic impact studies.
Instead, the consultants would be hired by the city Planning Department, which would then bill developers for the cost of the studies.
The trouble with this idea is that it's hard to believe that the public would be any better served if it became another function of an already dysfunctional City Hall.
As it is, council members continue to act as lords over development in their districts, which makes the role of the Planning Department pretty much that of a rubber stamp. So when residents feel a project will have dire consequences to their neighborhood, they can't count on City Hall.
Indeed, the EIR process proposed by Weiss won't necessarily make it better, just more politicized. This is a town where politicians hold press conferences to announce that trees are getting trimmed and potholes filled and then run off to a fundraiser to make sure they get re-elected without actually doing anything substantive.
A better solution would be for the City Council to respect charter reform and give up its fiefdom rights, empower the planning bureaucracy to stand up to the elected officials, and bar political contributions from developers and their agents.
Those steps at least would give some hope of a credible process for approving new developments - something City Hall is unable to achieve without radical reform.
Why nothing on the gang czar Arnold picked. Antonio picks an idiot who doesn't even know Los Angeles or where the gangs are and Arnold picks an experienced, professional, successful prosecutor. Go figure!!! No one has seen LA's so called gang czar. We're waiting for him to come out so we can blast him.
....growing concern about gang violence - including in the San Fernando Valley - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed a former federal prosecutor Tuesday to lead new efforts to fight gangs with a coordinated statewide approach. Harrison Sheppard in the Daily News. Paul Seave, a former U.S. attorney for the eastern district of California, was named to the post of state director of gang and youth violence policy as the governor also appointed a 10-member gang-advisory committee including two Los Angeles officials.
Fuck the Westside.
Interesting article by David Zahniser in today's L.A. Times: about failure (?) of the mayor's highly-touted push towards regionalizing air traffic; i.e., getting flights to go to other airports in Southern California....
Seems that folks can't even agree on terms for coming to the table to discuss this, much less on any kind of plan to move forward.
Interestingly, the wikipedia entry on LAUSD only goes through 2005, the year the enrollment started declining. If it declined to 700,000, that's a fairly huge drop in a few years.
I'm trying that City Hall Farmer's Market today. Looks good! And wow, Steve Hymon is just blowing the lid off of City Hall again: no benches for those Times scribes who never miss a meal---alert the media!
Schools are still overcrowded, aren't they?
That's why we have so many year-round schools in LAUSD.
My god, you're utterly blindered by your loony-tunes rightwing agenda, Mayor.
Dumbass.
And by the way, Tamar Galatzan wouldn't know a good school if it bumped her in the ass.
She's a part-time know-nothing, elected thanks to scads of money from education profiteers.
Another dumbass.
I have lived in Brentwood for 40 years and my kids had the best education at our local public schools! Our city was 90% white and crime was non-existent. I am so sorry for every parent in the LAUSD. Private elementary schools are averaging between 28K and 33K a year! John Thomas Dye in Bel Air (K thru 6) is 33K/yr.) But what is the alternative?? Certainly not LAUSD!
I have a suggestion: Instead of the 19B boondoggle of 160 new schools in LA by 2010....WHY NOT BUILD PRISONS INSTEAD???? TURN THE SCHOOLS INTO PRISONS! Most of the population at LAUSD will end up in prison anyway...so why delay the process?
Also, we should start thinking about a class action lawsuit against every single person in city hall and Sacramento...for gross malfeasance and incompetence! Don't forget, most of the imbeciles in local politics are LAUSD drop-outs!
For those of you who are old enough to remember the 'days without a Mexican'...wasn't it wonderful???? Our children will never know how wonderful our city used to be...how sad!
I have lived in Brentwood for 40 years and my kids had the best education at our local public schools! Our city was 90% white and crime was non-existent. I am so sorry for every parent in the LAUSD. Private elementary schools are averaging between 28K and 33K a year! John Thomas Dye in Bel Air (K thru 6) is 33K/yr.) But what is the alternative?? Certainly not LAUSD!
I have a suggestion: Instead of the 19B boondoggle of 160 new schools in LA by 2010....WHY NOT BUILD PRISONS INSTEAD???? TURN THE SCHOOLS INTO PRISONS! Most of the population at LAUSD will end up in prison anyway...so why delay the process?
Also, we should start thinking about a class action lawsuit against every single person in city hall and Sacramento...for gross malfeasance and incompetence! Don't forget, most of the imbeciles in local politics are LAUSD drop-outs!
For those of you who are old enough to remember the 'days without a Mexican'...wasn't it wonderful???? Our children will never know how wonderful our city used to be...how sad!
Its not the "Mexicans" that made LA bad. It is the "illegals". If they had come in, according to the quotas that other countries have, we would have been able to acclimate them into our society. When they become documented we know that they are free from any communicable disease, they can read and write english, speak well enough to answer questions regarding citizenship, and swear allegiance to the United States of America. Mexicans are fine, illegals are not.
THEY NEED TO COME TO LA
11 public officials arrested in federal corruption probe
Thursday, September 6, 2007
By PETER SAMPSON
STAFF WRITER
A phony company created by the FBI netted nearly a dozen officials -- including Passaic Mayor Sammy Rivera and Assemblyman Alfred E. Steele -- who were arrested this morning in a widespread corruption sting.
Those charged are accused of demanding and accepting cash bribes to influence the awarding of contracts for roofing and insurance services by school districts and municipalities, according to criminal complaints unsealed with the arrests.
The defendants — a collection of mayors, state legislators, and school board officials from Atlantic, Essex and Passaic counties — are to appear in federal court at 1:30 p.m. in Trenton.
They include Steele, who is also a Passaic County undersheriff, Passaic city Councilman Marcellus Jackson and former Passaic city Councilman Jonathan Soto. Steele is also the pastor at Seminary Baptist Church in Paterson and has been in the state Assembly since 1996. He has served as deputy speaker since 2002.
Dubbed “Operation Broken Boards,” the investigation began in mid-2006 with evidence of corruption in the Pleasantville school district. The FBI established an undercover insurance brokerage company with two cooperating witnesses.
Pleasantville School Board members allegedly took thousands of dollars in bribes from the cooperating witnesses, one of whom had previously operated a separate roofing business.
The circle of corruption widened when certain Pleasantville school board members referred the cooperating witnesses to public officials in northern New Jersey who also took bribes and, in turn, put the contractor in touch with still other corrupt public officials, the complaints allege.
Federal authorities say the defendants demanded and accepted payments ranging from $1,500 to $17,500 at a time. In most cases, those charged sought to establish and perpetuate a corrupt relationship with the cooperating witnesses to continue receiving bribes, the complaints say.
U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie and FBI Special Agent in Charge Weysan Dun have scheduled a 3:30 p.m. press conference in Trenton to discuss the case.
Also arrested were Orange Mayor and the Democratic state Assemblyman Mims Hackett Jr. The chief of staff to Newark’s City Council president was also arrested, as were five current and former Pleasantville school board members...Jenna Pollard, who answered the phone at Steele's Paterson office and identified herself as his chief of staff, said she had no comment and didn't know if Steele has a lawyer...The arrests are the latest in an anti-corruption campaign waged by Christie's office.
Two Democratic senators, Wayne Bryant of Lawnside and Sharpe James of Newark, are facing pending federal corruption charges. Both pleaded not guilty.
More than 100 public officials in the state have been convicted on federal corruption charges in the last five years.
FBI - Please come to LA and take a look at the "non-profit' organizations. Please?
Wigging out at 10:18 AM. The FBI doesn't read this blog.
You could cross out "Clintonian" and just leave "fundraisers" and be just as accurate.
Can anyone say Jack Abramoff?
In the immortal words of George I, "There is no monopoly on this sleaze factor".
Yes, the Zahniser article makes for interesting reading.... How to make for a regional approach if no one in the region is willing to even participate in a discussion about this?? if no one trusts L.A.'s always ever-so-honorable intentions???
Very interesting about the urinals, Mayor. What about bidets?
9:19 a.m.
It is the anti-American MEXICANS i.e. Villar, Nunez, Huizar, Mollina, Sanchez, Cedillo, Bustamante, Becerra, et al, who are 100% responsible for turning this city and country into Mexico! They HATE American and Americans! They are Reconquista Mechistas and will stop at nothing to destroy America and Americans. They are Marxist revolutionaries and Che Guevarra is their hero.
They work for Calderon...not the U.S. Villar told El Universal newspaper in Mexico that "He would work closely with Mexico in shaping his policies"! This was one day after he was elected!
I am, of course, not referring to Americans of Mexican descent; but the Mexicans I refer to are in no way, shape or form...AMERICANS! They should be deported, along with all of the illegals they are bringing here!
csThe anchor baby scam is without a doubt the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on this country. The 14th Amendment NEVER intended it to apply to anyone other than children of slaves.
99% of LAUSD is 'anchor baby' fraud! None of these people will NEVER assimilate. Hell, they don't even speak English. Why should Americans pay for this scam? Why don't we bill Mexico??
And one more thing...I think we should follow Mexico's Constitution and DEPORT any foreigner who publicly protests..i.e. illegals in the streets, LA Raza, and every single amnesty activist!
THESE PEOPLE ARE ANTI-AMERICAN! They do not deserve to be in this country ...let them all go back to their cesspool in Mexico! UNGRATEFUL WRETCHES!!!!
Just the fact that there are imbeciles in City Planning who would even ideate upon building commercial, industrial, and residential properties without PARKING....is GROSS MALFEASANCE AND INCOMPETENCE!
To even consider such gross punitive excesses upon the citizens who are paying their undeserved, outrageous salaries is more than enough reaso to throw them out on their collective asses!
The developers can't make money on parking structures...so they want to eliminate them!
The Marxist city council is attempting to turn our citizens into little socialist robots. Villar probably noticed that most of the peons in China ride bicycles...well that's good enough for us...he thinks!
THROW THESE ASSHOLES OUT!!!!
...and we'll be right back after this KKKFI newsbreak!
7:14 AM: Don't believe the Daily News take on this, they're ignorant fools here. Read the reader comments attached to that article you've referenced under the Traffic Detour Opinion piece, and the references to the background articles mentioned there. Get an education.
As long as small groups of HOA's who ONLY represent homeowners, in intentional exclusion of renters, even condo owners -- and in the case mentioned on the westside, that includes the professors, Administrators and UCLA students-- what you've got is a bunch of old, reactionary property owners holding the city hostage with every EIR that does not come out against any building at all. THAT is their ultimate and only real agenda. In fact, if this process is done by a third party and not developers, these reactionary, anti-business and development HOA's can try to bully their councilperson into blocking the developments, accusing them of favoring developers. OR, in cases like Wendy Greuel in S-T with Home Depot, getting her to require an EIR in a way that gives the city a reputaition for being unfriendly to new business, forcing the Mayor to run around telling the HQ's that "come to L A., that ain't so!"
I found it pretty shocking to read the comments from one Board member and recent past Pres of a Westwood HOA heading the recall and blocking mass transit, bike paths and other traffic improvements any sane person not hiding in a reactionary world wants. A guy called Ryan Snyder really nails this woman and her group. He likens them to the days when only property owners could vote, and quotes her as saying as best she and her groups can, they will keep it that way.
Do you want your opposition to ALL development, using the politicizing of EIR's as mechanism, to come from old people who OPPOSED BIKE PATHS IN WESTWOOD THAT STUDENTS WANTED, OPPOSE LIGHT RAIL AND SUBWAYS THROUGH THE AREA, AND OPPOSE ALL OF THE IMPROVEMENTS TO INFRASTRUCTURE THAT THE OTHER 80+% of the population wants and demands?
Who is Jack Huff???? Are we supposed to know who you are, LOL?
Anyway, Huffy...the truth hurts, doesn't it? You must be a product of LAUSD...the only word in your limited vocabulary is R A C I S T.
You and your ilk need to come up with something new...R A C I S T just doesn't cut it anymore!
In the second para above, I meant of course "can't" instead of "can" bully their councilperson into doing their bidding.
These old reactionaries are hurting the city: all the talk here and all over the city about whether we need light rail (pretty universal yes, let's finish it already, to "the sea" and get money for the subway, too), encourage bikes on safe bike paths, etc., is all moot as long as they can stop all this by intentionally fooling the city into believing that they are "the" voice of the people. WAKE UP.
8:51 a.m.: Never mind the cost of private elementary schools. It's the desperate scramble to get into middle and upper school that is pathetic. Starting in 3rd grade at Dye and other such schools already, parents are prepping their kids as they used to just for college. The exams to get into 7th grade are tough as the SAT's and even more stressful, then all the interviews of the parents and kids, which makes even powerful men grovel in abject humility, is really pathetic. And ultimately getting in to a school has more to do with how powerful the parents/dads are, how much more will they contribute?
The kids are nervous wrecks, have no childhoods and hours of homework and scheduled activities instead of play. All of this is the really criminal part of refusing to build schools for these kids locally and forcing them to either go to the schools in their areas populated by bused-in, often illiterate ESL minorities, or go to hell. Just give us your money. Then pay for your tuitions and beg for admission there. It sucks big time.
You're right, 12:56...
RACIST doesn't cut it with racists anymore.
I would use "Ignorant Bozo," but frankly, it sounds kinda personal.
Plus, I wouldn't want to insult Bozo...
How about if you speak to the issues once in a while, instead of only speaking from your hatred?
Let us know! We're waiting.
YEAH!!!! THANK YOU ROCKY
Cars of unlicensed drivers can be impounded, L.A. officials say....
Jack Hoff said,
"How about if you speak to the issues once in a while, instead of only speaking from your hatred?"
Not fair, Jack. Not fair at all, 'specially since he's trying so hard. You should have seen him this weekend, fighting for the right to libel private citizens and calling everyone else here a "racist". Taking that into consideration, he's being very well behaved.
12:55 PM:
Spare me.
I have read plenty of EIRs prepared by City agencies, let alone developers, and they are just eyewash used to skate through the California Environmental Ouality Act (CEQA) process.
No significant impacts, no mitigation, sue us if you don't like it, have a nice day.
If not for brave HOAs and environmental non-profits, the public would be defenseless in the face of this crap.
very funny
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2:34: "Brave HOA's?" You old farts who prevented bike lanes for students and others in Westwood, prevent anyone who doesn't own a home from having a voice, and are nasty old bags and egomaniacial old buggers in person, the saviors of the city? And if you admit you distrust all EIR's, which is clear from your record of opposing everything, what is your brilliant alternative? Yeah, what we all know: to bitch and complain about EVERYTHING that many others want, and threaten to recall and sue. You do NOT represent the westside, you are narrow-minded old farts who would like to see the city go to ruin as long as it means your bigoted old butts can live in your racial, socio-economic and geographic insularity. Being around you, the sense of spite and meanness is so palpable, that most of us who ARE homeowners avoid you like the plague you are. You old reactionaries need to be outed.
Dave Z. was writing about the "betrayal" of Westchester, Playa Del Rey, and the rest of us who are impacted by LAX, when he was still at the Weekly, and rightfully so.
There is no serious effort on the part of Tony V., or anybody else in City government,
to "regionalize" air travel service. It is all just happy talk and spin to cover the real agenda. Clearly the staff and the industry are working like beavers under the radar to establish the fait accompli of LAX expansion.
It's an exact mirror image of the port issues on other threads. Who cares whose neighborhood gets ruined, as long as we make our money and/or get elected to our next political office?
The City of Los Angeles is like an animal that eats its young.
Truth to tell, he's pretty much banned from spewing his hatred anywhere else. So this is like his last arena in which to put all that anger. Sort of like a homeless person, pushing a shopping cart that says "I hate Mexicans" and go read it on "Mayor Sam."
2:34 PM:
My brilliant idea is to have the "lead agencies" do their EIRs truthfully and according to the law.
Fully identify the impacts, and fully mitigate same. If that were done, there would be no basis to sue, and everybody would be happy.
When they lie and obfuscate to save money, then they invite litigation from someone with the guts and the resources to do so.
I went to a lecture by a noted CEQA consultant one time. He famously said, "There are no CEQA police. The only mechanism for the enforcement of CEQA is litigation by the public."
2:54: When you say that all "lead agencies" are fraudulently pushing through EIR approvals, because they don't "fully mitigate" and identify all "impacts," so that "everyone is happy," you are giving yourself away again. You mean, if the outcomes are not exactly what YOU want, you'll sue and you do. Sue, threaten, and often behave rudely to the councilperson who is your only hope in City Hall.
Meanwhile, your HOA groups have never ONCE promoted anything that is good for the community as a whole, even vehemently and successfully opposing the bike lanes sought by students and staff at UCLA, because it would take away from the width of car lanes. You oppose any parking measures that are needed by the apartment and condo dwellers and businesses. You have a "We have ours, and will fight everyone else" mentality. Again, you have provided no viable alternative to the way EIR's are being done, except the "our way or the highway" and we'll sue you one you've used to the disadvantage of the other 80-90% of the community.
3:21 PM:
What a coincidence. I just found something really neat for you.
Check out "The developer's guidebook", at the top of the op-ed page (A23) of today's LA Times.
To the person who said his/her kids had a great public school education in Brentwood decades agp, and there were no ethnics then: the problem wasn't/isn't so much the legal immigrants and blacks, but busing: the P C insistence in the 70's meant that almost overnight, whites moved to the valleys, to places too far to bus the poor-achieving blacks (who were almost the whole ethnic population then). Now, there is still busing, except to a select few elem. schools like Warner, and a limited amount to Wonderland, so those schools are a viable alternative to the Thomas Dyes of the private school world for those who live in those narrow zones. But most multi-million dollar homes to NOT have those schools, and NO middle and high schools anywhere on the westside serve the local community.
Busing killed the school system, and any teacher not on the record who remembers those days, will tell you so.
Busing today has brought down the test scores, reputation and local access to the very last of the decent westside middle and high schools: Paul Revere and Pali High in Palisades. Guess the leftists couldn't stand that there was ONE school in each category left.
3:26: Neither that Op Ed nor your comments have address the underlying issues and questions, of how the city can deal with EIR's when people like you won't accept anything the city or developers do. And your going after someone like Weiss, who is one of the few bullwarks to the mainstream on the city council and a solid liason with police, sheriffs, fire dept., etc., trying to drag the city into an expensive and nasty recall election when you even have to admit he is absolutely no worse or more responsible for how permits are issued than any other CM or city official or dept., just shows your spite.
You're probably also the person who writes about how nice it was to send your kids to public schools in Brentwood/Bel Air some 40 years ago when the city and schools were all- white. Well, that may be nice, but we don't live in Mayberry of the 50s anymore, and we have to deal with the realities we've got. And if you had any sense, you'd realize that Weiss and a small handful of others on the council and city are your best bet at preserving quality of life. Seems you'd be better off going after people like Huizar and Alarcon, who don't bother to follow EIR's or worry about how best to make constituents feel assured there is consistency in their application -- in their districts, building proceeds without niceties of permits in some cases, and have you read the building permit fraud going on in CD14? YOu will NEVER get anyone you're happy with at City Hall -- guaranteed, the next rep who would dare jump into that mess will be a leftie who will tell you he will stop evil development, then proceed to sell the city down the tubes behind every leftist idea that comes along. A Janice Hahn- type. Or maybe a rightwing leather fetish guy like Zine, who'd talk to the white right-wing reactionary in you and turn around and approve the hugest mall in Southern California, maybe the West. You'd be better served by Reggie the Alligator -- at least you could sic him on anyone you don't like, and that would solve your problems.
To the "brave HOA" member/advocate:
By the way, if you look more closely at the Times Op Ed you refer us to, you will see that writer refers to "the Taliban mentalities of the local resistance," ie. the HOA's. He makes satire of the whole approval process from both sides. But here, using as his example a Wal-Mart type big-box, and the things he mentions would most apply to the Sunland-Tujunga battle against Home Depot than the stupid westside battle against two Century City redevelopments, one of which is taking a literally dead, dormant and bankrupt building and turning it into a nationally-recognized model of architectural brilliance.
If you look at this week's L A Business Journal (Sept. 3-9th issue) you will see that they list the top ten best-designed projects in town, from Disney Hall on, and the two in Century City are among the "dream teams" that are reshaping L A from a wasteland of minimalls and international architectural laughingstock, to the model that other cities look to.
AND these developments have been so responsive to the residents: I've attended a number of these meetings and their presentations. NO Home Depots here.
Again, this article only reinforces point that if developer/ Taliban relations are inevitably acrimonious, at least turning them over to a third party/city agency gives continuity. If that doesn't suit you, work with the CITY to give your input, don't harass the "underappreciated and overworked" local reps, as the article calls them.
Well, unless those reps might be doing things that actually harm the city, like in certain districts...
Alarcon pretends to think EIR's are important to the residents. He pretends to think they're unnecessary to the developers.
What a loser.
12.05 ....you actually wrecked an intelligent attempt with a glaring double negative.
Matt Dowd says that he has some successful legal experience, and 3 kids.....should I run for LAUSD board? Tamar only has 2.
all I need is mayoral backing and I would be a shoe-in, right?
this new LAUSD board could bankrupt the City of Los Angeles, because the bond markets tie the two together in a credit rating.
that's important. non?
I couldn't get past the "proud HOA" post. HOA's are mini governments that have political backing to revoke one's property rights, a right that costs us a pretty penny these days. They change the zoning despite the rights afforded by the city. If they don't like the color of your door they can fine you. If you don't pay the fine, they put a lien on your home.
The Attorney General needs to rein these fascist governments in and restore the rights of property owners as allowed, once upon a time, in our Constitution.
Matt at 7:52: Tamar Galatzan was one of two no's along with Marlene Kanter on the awarding of full health care to the cafeteria workers. So she's not one of the money-wasting ones you want to go after. No telling where she really stands. Meanwhile, two of the old Board members voted yes.
6:26 PM:
Reggie would be good. Do you think he is available as a consultant? I guess there are a lot of two legged versions around, but he really has a presence.
8:53 PM:
I have spent a lot of time working with local HOAs, and they are all just volunteer local groups. I have never seen one with the powers you describe to "revoke" any of people's "rights", much less to fine them.
Our esteemed Clowncil member studiously ignored us at all times.
Are you thinking of something like condo associations? That's not what I'm talking about.
Many HOAs have CC and R's, which do in fact micromanage what color you can paint your house and garage (often a choice of two proscribed colors in newer developments), how many cars you can park on the public street and for how long, including that of your overnight guests, and they can indeed impose fines and liens. Many of them exist all over the westside, from the hills to the flats of the westside and in Beverly Hills. This is more common in tracts, even very upscale ones, than in areas where houses were built over time.
This dictatorial nature of HOAs and of the people who dominate them is why my neighbors and I would rather deal with things one on one than form another HOA, after ours dissolved years ago largely due to people getting sick of this mentality and our having to pay dues in order to be bullied. There are a few older people who used to be on the Board who still act nozy over visitors' cars and complain when someone paints their house, but we can mercifully ignore them.
Tamar Galatzan is bitchy and cranky and she is irate at the mayor because she didn't get the huge raise he promised so why should she vote for lowly cafeteria workers to get raises? Now she can't quit her job with Rocky. How is she going to be a school board member, work for the city attorney and run for Wendy's seat?
Someone needs to find a candidate for CD 2 quick! Move it, move it, move it. Slam her down before she screws over the children to move on to bigger bucks.
That actually makes sense about Galatzan, that she's an ambitious woman who only ran for School Board as a stepping stone to CM. Worked for Huizar, but even he stuck around for a while and a low salary. Even if some say he took advantage of the situation, but no one serves without any ultimate ambition. What does Marlene Kanter aspire to?
8:32pm,
Hilarious!
Now that Bratton with Mayor's support will go back to impounding illegals' vehicles, only issue outstanding is why even those who can prove valid paperwork including insurance the next day but just didn't have it with them for some reason, also have to wait a full month to get their cars back, and pay over a grand? My wife has forgotten her purse when she's gone out and if she were stopped, it's not fair we should lose our car that long and pay the same fine that an unlicensed/ insured would.
11:59, it is fair. Sometimes one needs to be hit in the pocketbook so that one doesn't forget one's pocketbook (or purse) when going out.
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