Perks of membership in the "Southwest Society"
This from the NELA Yahoo Group Site.Councilmember Jose Huizar joins members of the NELAcommunity in sponsoring a post-Valentine' s Dayget-together on Sunday, February 17, 1PM-3PM, honoring one of our favorite neighbors, Anthony Portantino, and supporting his re-election as California stateAssemblymember for Assembly District 44.
Italian food, beer, wine and music will be served.Suggested minimum donation is $60 per person.
Location for the event is 1109 Oneonta Drive in Mount Washington.Sponsors of the event are: Hon. Jose Huizar, Patricia Alarcon, Paul Ahrens, Jeff Boxer, Scott Burleigh, Doug Dawson, Sandra Figueroa, John Gallogly, Mary Garripoli, Pat Griffith, Carol Jacques, Sharon Kyle, Dick Price, Connie Rohman, Keith Rohman, Bill Rumble, Tony Scudellari, Eliot Sekuler, Jain Sekuler, Hank Shaeffer, Dalila Sotelo, Amy Yeager.
Remember this past award for Eliot
BOLD Denotes "Southwest Society" members
For Jenny Krusoe, the spoils are in Boyle Heights. One needs to check out this deal.
****MORNING UPDATE****
Read about Eliot's attempt to overturn Neighborhood Council election results for the Mt. Washington area.
Labels: Eliot Sekular, Southwest Museum, Southwest Society
Posted by Red Spot in CD 14 @ 2/06/2008 02:57:00 PM
19 Comments:
Dalila is (a) on the Fire Commission as one of the Mayor's appointees and (2) fancies herself as Carol Jacques's "protege". This little party will be one to watch.
Don't make too much of this. There are only about 12-15 "activists" in the Mount Washington community, and they all sit on each others boards and committees like they were joined at the hip. The same laundry list of a dozen or so are usually the the officers of the Mount Washington Homeowners Association, the Arroyo Secco Neighborhood Council, the Northeast (Regressive) Progressives, the NELA Democrats, the Villaraigosa for Mayor endorsement list from 2005, the Jose Huizar endorsement list from 2007, the Monica Garcia for School Board endorsement list from 2006, the local elementary PTA, and now - the SW Society.
It's the same 12 people wearing a total of 144 hats.
3:36
You need to play catchup boyo, Ms. Sotelo jumped ship from the Fire Commission sometime last fall, but not before making a big mess and having some formal complaints filed against her.
Fox Guarding the Firehouse?
by Inside Out Saturday, Jun. 03, 2006 at 11:15 AM
(la.indymedia.org)
Grievance filed against fire commission president for creating hostile work environment just as panel investigates allegations of harassment and discrimination on LAFD
LOS ANGELES — The city commissioner charged with investigating reports of widespread harassment, discrimination and inappropriate behavior within the fire department has herself been accused in a formal grievance of “creating a hostile work environment” by a subordinate.
Fire Commission executive assistant Blanca Gomez-Revelle informed the board’s president, Dalila Sotelo, in writing on May 11, 2006, that she was initiating the first step of grievance proceedings against Sotelo, noting that Sotelo’s interaction had progressed to “a level of aggression” during communications with the subordinate staffer.
The investigation into inappropriate behavior in the LAFD came in response to an eye-opening January audit by Controller Laura Chick. The Fire Commission conducted a 90-day investigation and unveiled a plan for reform that focuses on human relations; leadership and communication; complaint and disciplinary process; and the recruit training academy.
An informal discussion with a supervisor is the first step in formal grievance proceedings available to members of the Engineers & Architects Association, a union which represents thousands of city employees, including Gomez-Revelle.
In question, however, is who exactly is the supervisor (and therefore final decision-maker) in this situation, which will be of critical importance if the grievance progresses past the informal discussion.
Gomez-Revelle is a commission staffer. The commission president is the focus of the grievance. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa appointed the commission president. However, if Sotelo gets her way, she herself will be the one in the cat bird’s seat.
Thus far, Sotelo has kept the matter under tight wraps, quietly looking for ways for it to be dismissed or handled as swiftly and discreetly as possible — outside the mayor’s radar.
Sotelo has gone so far in efforts to close ranks around herself in the event the matter progresses that she has had the LAFD’s organizational chart reviewed to consider whether she, as commission president, may act as supervisor — essentially becoming final decision-maker in her own case — without informing LAFD Chief William Bamattre, or the mayor.
This lack of disclosure and ironic timing and circumstance could embarrass the mayor, who reportedly hand-picked Sotelo to lead the commission.
Sotelo was a Villaraigosa campaign supporter and a member of the mayor’s transition team. Sotelo previously served on the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument Authority.
It was during her time on the El Pueblo Commission that Sotelo first came under fire for communication and personality conflicts on a city commission.
Sources within the city say former El Pueblo Commission President Mike Gatto and Commissioner Lisa Baca-Sigala butted heads with Sotelo numerous times during her El Pueblo tenure about her communication and “difficult” personality, pertaining to the scheduling of a proposed commission retreat, Brown Act requirements and for representing the commission in an official capacity at a public event without having been requested to do so or informing other commissioners.
While Villaraigosa has had positive things to say about Sotelo since her appointment, others say they are not surprised to hear of conflicts related to the commissioner.
They predict it’s only a matter of time before Villaraigosa and others begin to realize what some have come to know first hand: that Sotelo shows her best side to those in a position to help her, but can turn on those who cross her or become spiteful and, as Gomez-Revelle alleges, “aggressive” when things don’t go her way — and that’s no way to keep political waters smooth long-term.
Before Sotelo’s confirmation to the fire commission, a Highland Park journalist initiated a letter-writing campaign among local residents urging city council to reject Sotelo’s nomination, alleging that Sotelo, among other things, would go out of her way to misrepresent people and facts to suit her own purposes and that Sotelo’s intentions in offering her time to civil service were dubious at best.
The movement got little traction downtown. While Sotelo’s ambitions are undoubted and foes are increasing in number, her allies are thus far loyal.
However, incidences of long-standing, regular conflict related to Sotelo and her seeming disregard for the integrity of the grievance process over her desire to save face with elected officials, indicate flaws which may not be evident to the casual political spectator; traits which are carefully shielded from those in positions of power with whom Sotelo minds her p’s and q’s ... including the Mayor.
Dalila as a Advisory Board Member??
Did a just transfare rec.and park official just get moved south??
Where is the money coming from for Legacy L.A.? Prop. 84? Rivers and Mountains Conservancy?
Alnodalnymous
hmmmm....
Wasn't Lou Calanche involed in the scandal with Alatorre?
She has nothing to offer the school board, she's a lousy professor as well.
Rumor has it, that her younger siblings attend or have attended private schools because her & her family believe it would be a better educational move, instead if attending a public LAUSD school.
That's a true hypocrite! How can you not trust the very district, in which you are trying so desperately to be a part of?
Get real Calanche, you're not a good candidate for the LAUSD School board.
December 28, 2005 11:21 AM
hmmm cont......
Lou Calanche is so out of her element on this. She just wants to shine. She's horrible as a professor as well. Keep your day job Calanche, hey maybe one day you can be like your old boss Alatorre!
STOP RUNNING NOBODY WANTS YOU IN OFFICE!
March 13, 2006 11:12 AM
So how much MONEY the “Southwest Society” have raised so far? Wasn’t that the purpose of the Society? Is more than one hundred and twenty days that they have occupied that position and so far NO MONEY! Are they the political Pons of the Mayor and Jackie AUTRY National Center? Yes, they are!!!
Calanche never lived in Ramona Gardens.
Elliot Sekuler a traitor and a liar. He is one of the organizers for the Lummis Day. How can he be part of this celebration to commemorate Charles Lummis life and achievements when he is a traitor to the dream Lummis created? Elliot Sekular along with the Mayor and Councilman Huizar is helping the Autry National Center sell their lies so they can loot the Southwest Museum
Elliot Sekuler is stabbing Charles Lummis work and killing his dream. Elliot Sekuler doesn’t have any respect for his friends or people he knows, he sells the Autry’s lies to them, and he KNOWS THEY ARE LIES. Elliot’s preoccupation is to WIN, WIN, WIN, his agenda is personal and for his own benefit.
Wait, it gets better. Wasn't Sotelo involved with Tony Salazar in it's best days with LAHD? Then went to redevelop Aliso Village AKA Pueblo del Sol? displaced poor tenants from public housing!! all CD14, Tony Villar. Boy do they have some good times together!
This morning council committee on housing agenda had the appointment of Jackie Dupont-Walker for the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, this would be the fourth commissioner with pure development ties in that commission. Tony Villar might argue that he wants public housing developed but who is in the commission right now??? Developers and a puppet commissioner (Del Angel) which one is going to balance and give the commission a challenge? not one!! All of them tend to loose if they do not comply with special interests of the mayor. After all, not a single penny has been placed on "affordable housing" much pledged in the mayors campaign only commitments to the "fund"??? do the current commissioners have much to loose by going against the mayors wishes? seems to me big conflict of interest! The talent in HACLA is just not there, Rudy Montiel has been on the job to long and delivered nothing to the Housing Authority or the city! sick!
That's a preety sad bunch indeed.
Eliot Sekular defended a racist and homophobe.
Dalilo Sotelo was driven off two commissions because her petty ways interfered with city business.
Carol Jacques claimed to be disabled to get on a board then got miraculously cured.
Tony Scudelari tried to out a married man and, without dignity, e-mailed around some very snarky comments about city commissioners publicly.
Really, could it get any worse?
Aren't 2 or 3 of the people on that Portantino guest list really just Huizar staff members?
Alarcon, Yeager ??
Observation 101
Let’s not forget that Elliot Sekuler works for Universal Studios and in the works are plans to increase the land holdings of Universal Studios against the interest of the communities. Elliot Sekuler has to support the Mayor and Jackie Autry in the massive expansion of the Autry National Center in exchange the Mayor will support Universal Studios plans.
Ha! Like Eliot Sekular is that powerful!
Truth is about this bunch, that they are all penny-ante sycophants, who kiss the Mayor's butt unnecessarily and think he cares. He doesn't.
Sekular lost any reputation he had when he defended someone who made racist and homophobic remarks.
In true amateur fashion, he thus kept in the press something (Antonio's appointment of the guy with the loud mouth) that Antonio would have soon quickly forgotten.
People of Mount Washington still seem clueless about how the same 12 people from the community keep trading the public interest for their own perceived self-importance. Eliot Sekuler was just "installed" as the President of the Mount Washington Association. This used to be the group that protected the community from crappy development projects. But now Sekuler has declared that the Association will abandon the core reason it was formed and focus on social and cultural issues instead of land use.
Wait! Why would Eliot Sekuler, a Vice President to Public Relations for NBC Universal, the corporation that wants to build HUGE projects in North Hollywood and in Caheunga Pass, care about land use protections for his community? Right... he can cozy up to the developers who want to build in Mount Washington and the developers who support Villaraigosa will get what they want on Mt. Washington, and the Mayor will continue to support the NBC Universal mega projects as long as the developers are contributing money.
Everyone, please turn and continue to scratch everyone else's back.
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