Quick bits for a Sunday
Thoughts to ponder on a lazy Sunday.*Is the Valley better off, five years after secession fail ?
*Are we better off with Villaraigosa, over Hahn ?
*Will Robert Urteaga become "Councilman Urteaga" ?
*What role did "Rafa" play in the Nunez Charity story?
*Who is Victor Griego ?
*Who on the LA 32 Neighborhood Council, "doesn't" reside in Cal Trans property ?
*What do Jenny Krusoe, Al Nodal, Lincoln Heights NC, and Rec and Parks have in common ?
*Is Jackie Autry the "Georgia Frontiere" of the Southwest Museum ?
*Is Corina Villaraigosa returning to the public limelight ?
*What job will Fabian Nunez have in 2009?
............ and why does Steve Maviglio make you go "MMMMMOOOOOOOO!!!" ?
Labels: mayor antonio villaraigosa
Posted by Red Spot in CD 14 @ 11/04/2007 10:22:00 AM
36 Comments:
Will Wet Spot ever learn to spell and use quotes properly? Is Antonio Watch Urteaga and why doesn't LA32 secede since no one cares about it?
A better question would be, "Could the city survive six and 1/2 more years of Antonio?"
Councilman Robert Urteaga?
That is a joke right?
The English charlatan John Edward's water boy is running for office.
You know that town is going to shit.
Is this "RAFA" ?
Rafael Gonzalez,
Rafael Gonzalez is the Associate Director for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s Office of Neighborhood and Community Services, where his responsibilities include directing a city-wide field staff for the Mayor, designing and implementing community service programs, promoting civic participation and volunteerism, establishing community partnerships, and providing constituency services. Until recently, he served as the Executive Director for Collective SPACE (Social Power through Action and Community Education), a non-profit organization committed to building an informed and active citizenry in the MacArthur Park/Pico Union area. Mr. Gonzalez also founded the nonprofit organization Public Allies – Los Angeles, and served as its executive director; was Coordinator of the Affirmative Action Education Campaign for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) during the Proposition 209 campaign; and served as Director of Civic Education and Communications for the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Education Fund. Mr. Gonzalez is a parent representative on the LAUP Board and is the father of a 5-year-old son.
Spotty, what is the "public limelight" that Corina is supposed to return to?
Is there a private one?
Can you try to write a little more clearly in the future?
Daily News: Corina gave a talk to a thousand Hispanics urging them to read to their kids to ready them for school. Told them = in Spanish -- it doesn't matter if they read to them in Spanish or English, just read.
We're not missing anything in her as our First Lady/ Chief City Educator.
But yeah, poster: post enough so your point gets across or skip it.
Next Mayoral race-
Corina vs Antonio
No quiero hablo espanol. No quiero Corina quien habla sola espanol. Me gustaria Antonio mejor. Antonio tiene amigos que hablan ingles.
Corina para las Latinas, Antonio para los todos otros!
How long before LA elects a Mayor who speaks Spanish only?
Coro is especially pleased to congratulate Rafael Gonzales, Coro alumn, as he is now working with the Office of Mayor Antonio Villaragoisa as Associate Director of the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood and Community Services under Deputy Mayor Larry Frank. Rafael with remain involved with Collective SPACE as a board member.
when did Rafael Gonzalez leave Collective Space to work for the Mayor? sometime in 2005? was he the one who set this scheme up for fabian?
too bad that a small nonprofit with good intentions in a neighborhood that really needs help will likely have to be shut down because people like Rafael and Fabian decided to use it as a vehicle to advance a politician's personal agenda.
Collective Space has failed to file annual tax returns and paperwork that would provide detailed information on how the money was spent.
Doug Mancino literally wrote the book on taxation of exempt organizations and says documentation is key to insure that the non-profit did not operate as a shell operation for Nunez.
"You would also see in the salary line what people are getting paid for," said Mancino. "You can test whether this is just another way of having a charitable slush fund."
Saw Fabian on the tube trying to sell the honorable and ethical rationale why he took a small local charity that is not in good standing with the state and used it as a funnel for contributions from firms that need his good will and can get a tax break for doing so. He said: "I have the poorest district in the state. I'm not going to turn my back on these people..."
Ah, yes, but what about rules and ethics and the law and honorable public officials!? What about not turning his back on these precepts??
Fabian makes Antonio look like Mister Clean.
@ 12:35 p.m. This is what happens when non-educators make pedagogic (look it up) assumptions. If someone does not read English, they should read to their children in whichever language they have fluency. A child who is read to early and often in any language develops thinking and cognizant skills that better prepare them to learn English when they begin school.
3:15 snark: How do you spell "pedagogic" in Spanish? Look it up.
It may be better for their little brains to be read to by their non- English speaking (or choosing not to speak English) parents in Spanish or Japanese or Farsi than not at all, but when it comes to the whole pile of them showing up in public school unable to communicate with each other or the teacher, who then has to teach them English as a common language because their ethno-centric culture didn't think that was relevant in America -- then OUR English-speaking kids are held down and the whole school suffers.
Instead of starting ready to read, all these "diverse" kids with ethno- centric and maybe snarky liberal-left backers, waste our tax money and our kids' learning time.
So our English- speaking kids start learning a year later than if their little Tower of Babble peers had learned in English.
Thank goodness Corina is teaching in Montebello or whatever Mexican enclave she's in, good riddance.
Maybe her next husband and she can stay in their Mexican immersion and leave the rest of the city alone.
Jackie Autry and the Southwest Museum:
Jackie Autry has such a deep emptiness that she needs to fill it up with more and more and more. Her ambition is so extreme that she does not care she is dragging her husband’s name through the mud, as long as she gets what she wants. Too say that she is doing it for her husband is a lie. Gene Autry is no longer among the living.
@ 3:15 p.m. Wow. Undereducated and racist too!
8:31: You illiterate wacko, what's your agenda? Are you a UTLA teacher maybe, who gets extra pay for ESL or whatever it's called these days?
The English-speaking population spends a lot of time and money getting their/ our kids ready to learn in preschool, only to waste their time with a bunch unprepared kids never taught English by their racist, anti-American and Anti- English wackos parents like you. Which is why even the poor are moving away to the Inland Empire and anywhere they can.
What an idiot, to claim that teaching kids English so they can speak a common language upon entry to school is illterate and racist.
You are so stupid you must have been raised in LAUSD yourself.
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pe·dan·tic (pə-dān'tĭk) Pronunciation Key
adj. Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules: a pedantic attention to details.
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Synonyms: These adjectives mean marked by a narrow, often tiresome focus on or display of learning and especially its trivial aspects: a pedantic writing style; an academic insistence on precision; a bookish vocabulary; donnish refinement of speech; scholastic and excessively subtle reasoning.
Are we better off under Hahn or Villaraigosa? Well let's see... Under Hahn we side stepped citizen law suits at the Police Department with the conscent decree. Los Angeles has not been able to meet the terms of the decree. And under Villaraigosa, the harm has been extended to harming the lives of protestors, newspaper reporters, and citizens at large. It seems to me there is no difference under Hahn or Villaraigosa, we are going in the same direction. What do you think?
If young people are not trained to think and to pay attention to language, it seems obvious that they will be more susceptible to the techniques of advertising than to the more challenging processes of reason, common sense and logic. And surely it's not only a few paranoids who have noticed that systematically under-educating a population is one way to ensure future generations of men and women qualified to work at the McDonald's or serve on a corporate board without stepping out of line, or asking too many questions, or asking the wrong questions, or knowing what questions to ask.
Francine Prose
AMEN!
9:47: At a time when MSM reporters are little distinguishable from the paparazzi, I'd argue they are harming society by focusing on prurient items to sell their papers rather than on educating the public with well- researched and editor-verified facts.
They are often ham actors provoking our pols and police into frivolous lawsuits. Of which we have paid out so many, might as well issue a bond or tax and just call it a lawsuit tax, not hide it under phone tax/ decrease or whatever.
No way does May first justify the kinds of excessive lawsuits, nor the LAFD ones. If getting back to a consent decree is what it takes, let's work towards it. The LAPD under Bratton is taking more blame than it ever did even under black chief Bernie, let alone Gates or the others. The LAFD too, but has a long frat boy culture to overcome. Yet look at what all the firefighters did the past month: do you mean to say that's nothing, because of some unfortunate pranks?
There is truly a lot more accountability in all depts. than under Hahn. Even the way the budget is being handled by the City Council, I see many of them agonizing over what to cut and how not to waste. With a few exceptions like the leftist Latinos Alarcon, Huizar and Reyes, who blme the westside and west Valley for not giving them enough. Be careful the Daily News is banging the drums again for some sort of secession, or unrest among the valley. They're lucky the westside is too liberal to be as exclusionary, but people are wanting more of their own tax dollars back there, too.
But under Hahn, everything was too hidden even to begin to argue these points. So that is progress. And the MTA is really working towards real mass transit, city officials are trying to do something about one=way streets and reversible lanes on the 405. Wish they'd done this 20 years ago, but too many were too provincial to think outside their boxes at the time.
People are finally thinking and acting like a big city, except in the valley. Maybe we do need a New York Style borough system: west of Fairfax is Manhattan, to the ocean; to the east, Brooklyn; South L A is the Bronx; and the Valley might as well be Queens; San Pedro Staten Island.
Under Hahn this city had way more class and even the lapdogs who are kissing Antonio's butt have said so. Our law enforcement and firefighters had way more support then the crap they get from corrupt politicians in city hall who love to preach but who are the most corrupt group this city has had in decades. TWe can all thank Bitter Bernie for over $100 million in lawsuits filed because of Rampart. Clowncil waste millions of dollars on bullshit, lie to us on Prop R now on the phone tax and pretend this city is in a state of emergency because they SCREWED UP. We have a Mayor who people around the nation on many blogs have called a "fool" and a "clown." No other city in the world caters to people who are in their city illegally except Los Angeles. Our main language is ENGLISH yet the no class morons and low life Mayor want everything said and written in SPANISH. Shows they are a bunch of uneducated, no morals, no leadership, no guts group of sad adults.
@ 9:09 p.m. Wow again. You use big words to express your philosophical values. Like stupid, wacko, idiot. But I am glad you took the advice to check a dictionary once in a while. It will get easier as you go.
By the way, if you read carefully, I'm not the only one responding to your racist rants.
8:51 wacko: I'm not the one who took the time to look up pedagoc in any language -- fools like you don't deserve a response. Someone else did it to show how pompous you are: arguing that it's racist to learn English in America (guess you don't know L A belongs to America not Mexico, look it up on a map -- not a Mecha/ Aztlan/ Reconquista fantasy map, but one recognized by the Int'l Geographic Society), but trying to come off as snarky smug.
Everyone posting here opposes your racist, anti-English, anti-American agenda. As even liberal blogs do.
You must work for Huizar or Alarcon or one of the other racists who are increasingly open about calling Los Angeles "the capitol of Latinismo," of the Latin American world, not even part of the United States linguistically or culturally. Then lamely justifying it with garbage pedagogy which is as illogical as it is pedantic and irrelevant.
You Mechistas are incurring the national backlash we're seeing by openly taking our taxpayer money to fraudulently turn the country into a linguistic and cultural extension of Mexico, a defacto land grab. Your anti- English, anti- American, separatist, racist agenda is only going to generate more and more backlash.
Even the liberals on the westside are disgusted with your socialist tactics of trying to seize taxes they pay, to pour into your Third World, racist, anti "anglo" areas.
The Valley is openly threatening to secede again, telling your Huizars and Alarcons they want no part of your anti-English, anti- American agendas. Look at how more of Lake Balboa seceded from increasingly crime-ridden, Hispanic Van Nuys this week. Just a symbolic gesture but one which made a strong point.
Cardenas was mad as hell that people had the guts to opt out of the crime and blight your illiterate "non English speaking Hispanics" have brought to the area but they did it anyway. And try as hard as your anti- American leaders will, this ostracism of your MEcha agenda is spreading and growing.
Across the country, which makes the Valley seems downright liberal, the passion is much stronger.
Our detention centers are already full from the ICE responses to the general public. Keep calling anyone who wants English to stay the universal language racist, and you'll ensure more and more of your illiterates defying the language and culture of America, while coming in illegally to benefit from our schools and hospitals and social security system and first amendment freedoms, are rounded up and deported.
@ 8:51 And you can't focus - from reading to children to reconquistas and 20 topics in between. All couched in racist rants. You may not believe this but I have a lot of compassion for you. All that bottled up hatred and anger - watch your blood pressure!
Hey 10:05 a.m. You sound like a nut. Half our office is laughing at you.
1:05/07 -- If you really work for a city official, no wonder nothing in your district ever gets done. It's you no one agrees with -- the other responses from others all say the same thing. No pedagocic attempts to justify why not learning English is a good thing, just name-calling, really sharp. If you think this is such good public policy, tell everyone who you represent.
Why would Councilmember Robert Urteaga a Joke?
we have Antonio as Mayor the biggest joke.
We have Mike The Meat-Head" the field director fot Clinton. "Another Joke"
Jimmy Blackman "Do nothing Joker"
Should I continue jack-ass 11:49 am.
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Are we better off with Hahn or Villar? Definitely with Mayor Hotpants. If Hahn had gotten another term, it would have allowed that piece of dead flesh to continue his campaign of mediocrity. At least with Villar in office, both he and Hahn have been exposed for as the worthless pieces of $hit they are. Hopefully, they will now both go away.
And under Villaraigosa, the harm has been extended to harming the lives of protestors, newspaper reporters, and citizens at large.
The protesters were lobbing frozen bottles of water at the police, the reporters need to learn that they are not that special and when ordered to get out of the way they must obey that order. As to the citizens at large -- if you go looking for trouble, you will find it. They should have gotten the hell out when they saw people throwing foreign objects at the police.
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At least Arnold isn't out there telling all the (five thousand?) Austrians in L A, in German, to just read to their kids in English and send them to school unable to speak English, since it doesn't matter what language they speak. All Europeans and their kids become bilingual soon as they come here. Do you think he'd have been elected Governor if he had the same ethnocentric, anti "Anglo" views that some Mexican pols do? If the Austrians or Chinese or Armenians became just as separatist with OUR taxpaid schools and institutions, plus demanded full rights for their illegals, they'd get a backlash too. Hey, why not just let anyone from anyone who comes here on a cheap tourist fare, just stay on and march for their "illegal rights for separate and full justice" too?
It's hard as hell for them to stay.
MEAN of course, Arnold isn't out there telling the Austrians and Germans, in German, to just read to their kids in German and forget about teaching them English... etc. Okay, so Arnold's English isn't the Queen's but he is as American as apple pie. Not just because he likes apple strudel -- although apple pie is based on old country strudel.
Europeans, Japanese and Chinese all teach their kids their language and culture on their own time and dime. But teach their kids English too.
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