Wednesday Hotsheet at 3 a.m.
I know, it's California. But Brand Library and Exposition Park have already done it. I've done it. And you should do it too: cut back your roses. This nice cold morning snap will let their aching bones rest a bit. And feed them when they have an inch of growth on them next month.
"Suicide by cop" is responsible for 11% of all LAPD shootings, the Police Commision learned yesterday. Suicide by cop is shorthand for the shooting of a crazed individual who seems bent on ending it all in a confrontation with police.
If you want to try to navigate the mined waters and file a motion in City Council through a Neighborhood Council, you're going to have to put a financial statement on record, City Council declares as the matter finally comes up for vote after two years of wrangling. (This seems to have the boys here expletive-level angry.)
Indeed, if you believe that this was truly a last-minute sudden thought, and not a long-meditated hijacking of the the spirit of the Motions motion, you just may be naive enough to think your ideas for the City will be heard by Council in good faith.
Speaking of secessionism, there were rumblings of it again in Hollywood last week, ironically just before Johnny Grant died, as the Independent made the idea their headliner. But the idea of Citywide voters becoming willing to ditch Hollywood remains quite farfetched.
"Someone left the crack out in the rain": Nobody covenanted for sustained maintenence of the private surveillance video cameras in the public space known as MacArthur Park, so Council today is obliged to ply its wisdom to the deteriorating situation. The former fishwrap of record says as much in about 1500 words. Thus it ever is when private public "partnerships" by committee require sustained economic support: the private businesses spring for the razors, and the City gets stuck with the blades.
If you want to try to navigate the mined waters and file a motion in City Council through a Neighborhood Council, you're going to have to put a financial statement on record, City Council declares as the matter finally comes up for vote after two years of wrangling. [This seems to have the boys here expletive-level angry, fwiw.]
Indeed, if you believe that this was truly a last-minute sudden thought, and not a long-meditated hijacking of the the spirit of the Motions motion, you just may be naive enough to think your ideas for the City will be heard by Council in good faith.
Reminds me: a couple years ago, Jason Lyon told me he wasn't a politician. But he's one of the guys backing Prop S on your Voter Information Guide, and he speaks for the NC's quite a bit when they need a quote. There have been accusations in the past that he's used Neighborhood Council-culled email lists for non-NC political purposes---a no-no.
Cooley's raise went through with no opposed. Not even Zev. He now makes far more than any United States Supreme Court justice, and in an easier real estate market. Interesting take: the Daily News article gets into speculation regarding the way Cooley looks the other way on Brown Act violations, which at the County might become fairly routine in a less backroomy political environment.
If you wonder whether or not this is a slap in the face to both Hillary and the Mayor, it is: the region's leading labor leader, Maria Elena Durazo, backs Obama. Do you note how the candidates are arriving here just as absentee ballots arrive in your mailbox? If there had been more absentee balloting in New Hamshire, Obama would be the frontrunner today.
Labels: a guy in la, Barack Obama, jason lyon, lapd, Maria Elena Durazo, steve cooley
Posted by Joseph F. Mailander @ 1/16/2008 05:54:00 AM
38 Comments:
There were only five days between Iowa and New Hampshire, for god's sake.
I think you're suggesting that Obama would have won IF more absentee voters had mailed in their ballots on the Friday and Saturday before the primary.
As if, dumbass.
JM,
Latino Leaders Endorse Sentor Obama:
If Hillary wins the ticket and doesn't single out Gov. Bill Richardson as her VP running mate, I'd feel betrayed. If Obama wins the nomination and makes Sen. John Edwards his VP choice, I have no problem with that. But now, if Obama wins the party ticket, and proceeds to asking Gov. Bill Richarson to join him as his VP, well then lads and lasses, I poop in my pants and fall dead...but not before voting for them (Obamson).
OBAMSOM...has a little jewish flavor to it? As a Sabbath Observing Huichol, I can dig it.
(-:
Cooley didn't look the other way when his office found that the LAX board had violated the Brown Act. An article in Tuesday's Daily Breeze noted that airport president Rothenberg wasn't going to fight the D.A. on the Brown Act violation. Good choice Alan!
we just absolutely love it when theres a real vote in Clowncil, like yesterday's NC action.
what is most fascinating, is that all the defeated parties in the preliminary votes immediately switch to the winning side (greig Smith) for the final vote (the amended motion).
making it unanimous.
and wow, look at this, Laura Chick has been listening to Matt's public comment about the attorneys in this City.
Hey Bernie Parks, our translation says stop being so complacent about getting sued. You can't afford it any more.
A lawsuit is much like a tiger : its cute and manageable when its a cub, but then it'll grow up and bite your head off.
problem is, you love the cuddly animal and everything's cool, until it draws blood! then you gotta scramble into a settlement.
we said complacent. maybe we better correct that to 'arrogant'.
The cameras in MacArthur were and are a good idea.
The company that was hired by LAPD was never the right company for the job and was not required by LAPD to do it properly.
I believe they are either out of business and/or operating under another name. Just waiting to take our money again.
Inefficiency at its finest.
Right on Santiago! Hillary or Obabma with Bill Richardson as VP would get my vote. (absentee ballot of course)
Living in NM a large part of the time I get a chance to appreciate what Gov Richardson has and is doing for the state of NM. after we endured years of Republican "Johnson" do nothing bs, who's big claim to fame was trash pickup and climbing Mt Everest for a photo op (also losing some toes or fingers to frostbite and brain freeze).
Richarson has attracted a lot of industry here and built a mass transit system that is becoming state of the art and one day will include a high speed train from El Paso to Denver.
Also due to tax incentives he has attracted major Movie bizz here, at the moment there are at least a dozen films in production in NM and Calif better step up or they will lose more business to "Tamalewood"
Hey Z Dogg! If your out there just checked on silver, dropped to $15.80 which makes your prognostication just about right on.
My trigger finger is itchy and waiting for your starter gun to go off.
What up?
Valley Doll sounds like we need to talk to the people in Hollywood.
Imagine if the Valley was it's own city - no Home Depot, no Las Lomas, no LeBong. We'll have to get our calendars somewhere else then. But I can live without that.
Hiby/Sam, Janice Hahn has a dozen swimsuit photos of herself, several published in Steve Hymon's Monday piece in the Times two weeks ago and in the Daily News around same time. She and a gal pal were doing the Polar Bear Dip after New Years.
These pix are so hot, she sent them to all the printer for them.
oops, last para: Janice Hahn's swim suit cheesecake pix of herself came out so hot, she sent them to all the CM's as well as her friends.
I hear she's looking for a printer to do the Calendar of herself.
Jack Hoff, stop salivating, pitch in and help get the job done! Send them to Higby and the ST and NoHo people who will be missing Tom LaBonge and his lady tramping through Griffith Park.
Don Quixote said...
Hey Z Dogg! If your out there just checked on silver, dropped to $15.80 which makes your prognostication just about right on.
My trigger finger is itchy and waiting for your starter gun to go off.
What's up?
Silver bells, silver bells
It's Christmas time in the city
Ring-a-ling, hear them ring
Soon it will be Christmas day
City sidewalks, busy sidewalks
Dressed in holiday style
In the air there's a feeling of Christmas
Children laughing, people passing
Meeting smile after smile
And on every street corner you'll hear
Silver bells,
Ring-a-ling,
Silver bells,
Ring-a-ling,
It's silver time in the city
Ring-a-ling, hear them ping
Soon it will be pay-off day
Soon, on every street corner you'll hear Silver bells.
I COULDN'T HELP MYSELF ON THIS ONE COMPADRE-LOL BUT I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, YOU AND ZUMA DOGG ARE GOOD SPORTS, SO I'M TAKING YOU BOTH OUT TO DINNER AND MEET-UP WITH BOTH TONY'S, MARTY AND BIG BETY...WHAT SAY YOU DQ?
this just means Hillary wouldn't pander to militant Durazo as much as Obama, who has no real Latino support so he's willing to give away the store. Yes, it's really between Durazo and Nunez, who she feels sold out the maid/janitors' unions in exchange for casino money and being buds with Arnold.
That Zev-spin from the DN article sounds very "Trujillo-esque!"
Maybe Mama Trujillo.
That's where Mike learned it at her teat.
GOOD THING IF THE MEXI-MIDGETS AND MECHISTAS ARE DIVIDING EACH OTHER. MAYBE WE CAN SAVE OURSELVES FROM BECOMING A THIRD RATE VERSION OF MEH-HEE-CO.
Sounds like yet another Mexi-Pest.
You'd like me then. I'd like to see crocodiles put into the Rio Grande(tm) and have electric fences and a freeway where the traffic goes on the British side of the road right on the border, with no speed limit. That way, when the Wetback_LOOTer tries to cross it, he gets hit by a semi
going at 100mph! Also, make the area a "free fire zone" so gun nuts will congregate and waste the Wetback_LOOTers. :) As far as I'm concerned, illegal aliens are tresspassers, and need to be treated accordingly. Sort of like the Navy case of "repelling boarders".
Big Don
No_LOOTers
How many comments by Santiago, Don Quixote and Drinking with Tony in which the old fool answers himself??
Mayor sam delete this idiot, he is wasting space on this blog. Does anybody really care to read his ramblings to himself.
12:34 YOU ARE REALLY THE PEST AND ITS QUICKLY BECOME APPARENT TO ALL, YOUR M.O. YOU ARE A QUICK BORE WHO NEVER ONCE SAYS SOMETHING NEW. RESPECTFULLY, FORTY SOMETHING.
Santiago thank you for that link the other day, I can be in the kitchen up to my elbows in soap suds and you let this song come on the radio and I will stop what I'm doing, dry my hands and grab the closest man to slow dance. This song just makes me sigh............Mel is as good today as he was then.
12:22 - try burying a few hundred military surplus anti-personnel mines along the border additionally.
DID ANYONE MEET WALLY WHARTON AT THE COWABUNGA?
Don Quixote:9:16 a.m.
Now...er, um....just who would be interested in taking a train from EL PASO to DENVER????? Why not just run it from the other side of the border??? That way, your precious illegals wouldn't have to pay the coyotes.
Is the Mexican Governor of NM trying to compete with the Mexican Mecha mayor in L.A.?
Christ, you Mexicans are such a craven bunch of freeloaders!
And, BTW, having Villar as Hillary's lap dog is the kiss of death! Stick a fork in her... she's done!
mayor sam said:
Valley Doll sounds like we need to talk to the people in Hollywood.
Imagine if the Valley was it's own city - no Home Depot, no Las Lomas, no LeBong. We'll have to get our calendars somewhere else then. But I can live without that.
I want to design my own calendar! I want a MAV Bobblehead calendar. Every month the mayor is dressed for that month's holiday.
Someone please help me make my dream come true. I can sew all the little outfits myself! For reals!
Mayor Sam, we SHOULD talk to the people in Hollywood. Then afterwards can we go to Lucy's El Adobe for margaritas?
I love the "Mayor Sam Pub Crawl Tour 2008". I'm totally on board with that!
Yes, I AM a fat-assed, smelly drunk, thank you.
xoxo
Is the PTA meeting the next stop on the Pub Crawl tour?
Well I'm just waiting for the Las Lomas people to step up.
Come on - are you going to let Sunland-Tujunga out party you?
Santiago, Song was great and you always have the appropriate one to share.
""I COULDN'T HELP MYSELF ON THIS ONE COMPADRE-LOL BUT I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, YOU AND ZUMA DOGG ARE GOOD SPORTS, SO I'M TAKING YOU BOTH OUT TO DINNER AND MEET-UP WITH BOTH TONY'S, MARTY AND BIG BETY...WHAT SAY YOU DQ?""
And i'm down with the dinner but I insist I help with the bill and I'll pay in silver with the dinero I plan on making due to Z Dogg's tip.
PS And hopefully the entertainment will be provided by the great "Handsome Mel Carter" as he was called on the old Johnny Otis Show. He was a favorite along with the great singers, all three of them, that made up the "3 tons of joy"
Disgraced Duke prosecutor bankrupt; lists $180M in liabilities...
WELL WHAT DO YOU KNOW!
I HARBOR SUSPICION, THIS COWARD WILL GENUINELY CONTEMPLATE "Suicide by cop", BUT THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS, HE IS REALLY IS A COWARD.
mayor sam said ...
Is the PTA meeting the next stop on the Pub Crawl tour?
Oh heck yes! We need to do some "The Tally in the Valley" research. How 'bout we check out that place I mentioned, afterwards?
xoxo
Good afternoon Valley Doll (takes Doll's hand and kisses it):
Every now and again when we're out and about in Van Nuys, we frequent Dr. Hoggly Woggly's for some artery-clogging epicurean delights, for the Dr., if you will, is always solicitious of pirates, savvy?
Does anyone wonder why LA politicians support Prop S? I guess $55K was enough to quiet Cooley's conscience.
Guys, come on, we don't need to tear the great city of Los Angeles apart. What we need is a system of burros.
Sorry. Couldn't help myself.
LOL! Loon at 11:54 is taking her identities to dinner in the Beverly Center.
Cooley is scum. Of course, he will go after LA City politics and ethical breaches (as he should). He doesn't do that in his court, however. Alleged criminals that have a donor connection to him get off the hook with barely a slap on the wrist.
Captain Jack Sparrow said...
Good afternoon Valley Doll (takes Doll's hand and kisses it):
::swoons::
Oh Captain Jack, I'd love nothing more than to get all messy and BBQ-y with you at the good Dr.'s.
xoxo
Don Q:
I posted the silver update on the Grieg Smith/NC thread below this one:
The January 16, 2008 8:21 AM comment.
I think metals will be dropping before they go up...but if you read my comment...i wouldn't have had the cajones to let it drop much more, either, though.
Overall, I DO NOT LIKE THIS MARKET because there is a lot of manipulation going on, trying to artificially stabilize the stock market -- you have the oil sheiks who sold tons of gold to pay for the U.S. bank investments (they had to dip into the piggy bank) -- AND, since people's stocks are down, a lot of people have to sell their gold to cover their margin calls -- and a lot of option calls come due this week -- and it ain't pretty.
Plus, England goes and says they are going to cut their interest rate (the way out fed has not) -- so that makes the U.S. dollar look stronger -- which ain't good for metals.
So it's all that stuff that makes the entire stock market the shakiest since...EVER!
BUT my East L.A. global economic adviser keeps reminding me, the dollar ain't gonna be looking good and there is waaaaaaaay more bad housing and credit news -- much worse than they are copping to.
(anyway, see other comment on thread below)
Right on...Mr. Zuma:
"WASHINGTON (AP) - Retailers, home builders and many manufacturers should brace for even more rough times ahead, a somber Federal Reserve suggested Wednesday amid growing fears that the US might be sliding into recession."
Steve Cooley is a man of integrity. We have no more scandals in the D.A.'s office since he became D.A. in 2000.
If you allege any wrongdoing against D.A. Cooley, then WHERE IS YOUR EVIDENCE?
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(Shouting like a lunatic) Yea! I'm gonna take this fist, and stick it straight up your ass!
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12:20
Steve Cooley is a man of integrity? Boy where have you been.
Remember Belmont - how did his friends (Gastelum) get off?
Remember Gloria Molina's husband and Cooley's direct quote that he wouldn't go after him?
Remember the debacle in Bell Gardens? How much money was spent on court defeats?
Remember Vernon? Where is Cooley on that?
Cooley if a full fledged political operative who has selectively investigated or prosecuted individuals at the direction of his political bosses.
And there is evidence of wrong doing - solid evidence - but you would be a fool if you think that evidence would be discussed on this blog - that is something for the courts to interpret.
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