Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Tuesday
Big loss for NIMBYs - Mayor Villaraigosa has concurred with the City Council allowing Providence Holy Cross Medical Center to add a much needed 100 beds to the hospital. That doesn't mean the NIMBYs and their union buddies won't go to court, but lets hope they realize the folly of that (please don't waste our tax dollars on your fight).The lawyers at Warner Brothers finally caught up to Dennis Zine. Many know that our favorite former motorcycle cop turned Clowncilman (or Republican turned Democrat) had created a "logo" for himself that was reminiscient of the big S on Superman's chest. Denny got a cease and desist from the studio that owns the rights to everything The Man of Steel so its back to the drawing board for a new logo.
Good catch by the Daily News: Mayor Villaraigosa's online budget survey doesn't ask virtual budget cutters if they would cut the Mayor's huge staff, collection of city cars, etc.
West LA Online is officially merging with the Westside Today print publication. And in an interesting twist the print publication will pull from the online portion not the other way around.
Michael Cruz writing in the Santa Clarita Signal takes a stand against corporate welfare. Big League Dreams develops parks around the country that resemble famous ballparks and feature restaurants with bars. Sounds like a fun concept. However the company seems to think that taxpayers should finance their construction. Cruz is absolutely right to take on this dumbass plan and the incredibly dense members of the Santa Clarita City Clowncil who would buy off on this scam. His prediction that should the city buy into this deal, it will set a dangerous precedent leading other businesses to line up and hold up the city for dough.
Atwater Village Newbie says he got some pretty shabby treatment at the Burbank Circuit City and is now banned from the store.
Labels: atwater village newbie, dennis zine, los angeles politics, mayor antonio villaraigosa, providence holy cross medical center, santa clarita, westside today
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 12/04/2007 12:06:00 AM
11 Comments:
Add another failure to Antonio's list.
....Westsiders rev up opposition to traffic plan
..Westside residents ratcheted up opposition Monday to a city proposal to change traffic patterns on Olympic and Pico boulevards. Several community groups began circulating petitions against the plan or turned in signatures to key officials at City Hall...They said the plan would displace traffic to other streets, encourage more cut-through driving and hurt north-south traffic flows.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Councilman Jack Weiss last week announced the plan that would favor traffic moving west on Olympic and east on Pico, to ease commuter traffic through the Westside.
Cardinal Roger Mahony reveals Summer assualt
www.dailynews.com/breakingnews/ci_7628053
Everybody in Atwater Village is a Newbie.
Except for my homies at Kopper Keg Liquor.
Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen (ties mooring lines a little more securely and waves):
Halloo sots! Big surf we're having today. However big surf, if you will, does not always indicate rough water. For of course you sots know what rough water is. But do you know the difference between rough water and hot water, savvy?
(Walks to end of quay) Does anyone have any information on the brewing contretemps that is occuring in a certain Deputy Mayor's office? Madame Wu has informed us that there is a small group of rebellious staffers who are about to pull a fast one on a certain Deputy Mayor, and said Deputy Mayor is out to have said staffers "removed," savvy?
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Sssssssssssss phewwwwwwwwwww I am blowing and blowing, as hard as I I can but the annoying Captain Jackoff keeps posting the comments of innuendo which no one cares about. Savvy???
The wind is gone from his sails, Savvy??
Captain Jack Sparrow,
When Don Culo starts in with the "nothing to see here talk" you know you are onto something. Thanks for the tip.
Don Culo...Pobrecito! With all your huffing and puffing, you can have your own blowout.
As for 6:51 a.m., those same naysayers are the reason traffic has gotten as bad as it has over the last two decades: they're CAVES: Citizens Against Virtually Everything.
They demand to be "consulted" on everything before anything gets done, which means they want a chance to say no to anything so it won't get done.
Good for the Mayor and Weiss for just doing something: they're going to try their plan and see how it works, make adjustments accordingly or go ahead with Phase II. Which is what leaders should do.
Trying to engage those people has only made things worse, and given them the illusion they can hold the city and their officials hostage.
This plan is a compromise between Zev's plan to turn Pico and Olympic totally one-way and minimizing the amount of traffic diverted to side streets. Zev's plan was "studied" for months before this compromise was reached -- very sensibly so.
The residents should be pleased if traffic flows more smoothly on those main drags.
One of their big objections is that Santa Monica isn't doing the same thing, and traffic to and from that city is a big part of the problem.
So they can put pressure on Santa Monica to follow suit, not stop the Mayor and Weiss from tackling the problem in their district. People like this just obstruct everything.
(But I love the gloating tone of this early a.m. poster, another na-na-na-na-na, which just shows their own spite and ignorance.)
The ignorant are those that believe the mayor, who welcomes so many illegal aliens to come into Los Angeles crowding the city, the schools, and the roads. He panders illegal aliens by making it OK to break the law. He benefits himself by allowing the builders to construct more housing that means more cars on the road.
Simple math: more people = more cars.
Like illegals have anything to do with the traffic overload on the westside, 12:19. If you knew anything about the region's traffic dynamic, you'd know the problem is the imbalance of too many westside jobs and not enough housing those workers can afford anywhere near their workplaces. So they live far away and commute in and scuzz up the freeways and surface streets doing it.
These are people with good jobs, but not so good that they can afford even the falling prices in L.A., so they live 30-100 miles away and leave for work at 5 a.m. and get home at 8 p.m. Some life.
And what about those spoiled little westsiders, always used to getting their way? Now they are whining about even a little change on the same gridlocked boulevards that they complain about every day. Heaven forbid that everyone might move a little faster under the Weiss-Villaraigosa plan.
And Zev gets to sit back and laugh. He set this mess in motion by calling for one-ways he couldn't make happen from his position as Supervisior. He embarrassed the city into taking it seriously, so they came up with a more reasonable alternative and now have to take all the heat for daring to try it out in the real world.
Zev's world is not the real world when it comes to things he can't control. He says anything he wants and then lets the chaos ensue as the monkeys scramble to react. It's classic.
Is he getting ready to run against Villa-garossa for mayor in 2009? Probably not. That would be too logical, and it might put him in a position of having to actually put up or shut up. It's more fun flapping his jaw and letting someone else be accountable.
5:38: I mostly agree except with your characterization of "spoiled westsiders." Yes, we put up with the congestion of people communiting into the city 100 miles, then put up with them one-upping us with their big houses in cheap Valencia or Thousand Oaks or San Bernardino, that they drive back to leaving traffic and pollution and congestion in their wake. For us to deal with.
A handful of these Homeowner groups are real low-life creeps, though.
You're absolutely right about the Zev situation, though: one of the groups most adamently opposed to the Weiss-Villaraigosa proposal, which stemmed from Zev's far more radical proposal, is the Westside Homeowners Assn. They are the home base for the anti-Weiss recall group who wanted to control how the funds they shook down from Century City developers were controlled, and started a battle that extended to some other malcontents who know less than zero about what's involved in running the city or Jack's role in it.
This group's website has run an ongoing personal attack campaign on Weiss, and -- get this -- blamed Weiss for saying that Zev's one-way proposal is "should be studied," but NEVER TOUCHED ZEV, WHO MADE THE PROPOSAL.
What a surprise that the people who were most active in the anti-Weiss campaign, and are the Board members of their HOA using the HOA website and dues to drum their personal agenda against him, are the very ones opposing this modified plan.
But of course, never mentioning Zev just bashing Weiss and the Mayor. (While blaming the Mayor and Weiss for not having gotten more cops for the trash tax sooner -- who do these morons think fought Parks' attempts to divert that tax altogether? This crap is what their recall website included.)
So don't lump all us westsiders into one pile -- this is a handful (literally and figuratively) who I'd like to ship to Orange County.
No, the OC is too nice... I can hardly wait to see what this bunch does to our next CM, and how he/ she puts up with these people.
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