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Shadow secretary of downtown commerce Brady Westwater flaks for Eli Broad in Citywatch, taking offense to crit of his eponymous LACMA expansion, which includes galleries and galleries of works drawn from the white maley collection of...Eli Broad. I am more in line with Christopher Hawthorne; and admittedly, Broad's absurdly ugly performing arts school downtown has all but obliterated most views from the north of the Cathedral, downtown's most stately building. But what do you expect from a guy who made his first fortune building homes whose most prominent street elevation feature is a double-wide garage door?
One thing I forgot to mention regarding the AD 40 debate on Sunday: when Bob Blumenfield mentioned the fact that he had the endorsement of Fabian Nunez, snickers and out-and-out chortles rose from the audience. He won't likely do that again.
Because you get out a bit more than most other folks, you may think of Ed Boks as under fire, but the general public doesn't. In fact, it's the County's pounds that are the ones that the Times reports are under scrutiny. But don't blame the fishwrap entirely. The difference appears to be: the County takes action in the wake of complaints; the City is less inclined to critique its own. Never mind Boks; you didn't know that Gloria Jeff was doing a rotten job until she was gone; and you're not hearing anything untoward yet about Gail "GPS" Goldberg either.
LAUSD is trying to account for $400 million worth of computers and software, the Daily News informs in a Sue Doyle byline story. You'd think with 129,000 personal computers purchased, they could have done a better job monitoring their payroll system.
Labels: a guy in la, AD40, eli broad, fabian nunez, gail goldberg, lausd
Posted by Joseph F. Mailander @ 2/12/2008 07:36:00 AM
20 Comments:
Eli Broad has had other wonderful ideas like electing Tony Villar and Knucklehead Nunez (oh well that party's over).
Now he wants, on your dime, to spend billions to create a memorial to himself, Grand Avenue, a place that nobody other than winos will visit.
But I will give Broad credit for being such a brilliant salesman to get rich convincing folks a dream life could be had in Palmdale. Ha ha ha ha ha!
Hey Joe! I hadn't even had my first cup of coffee this AM and I jolted awake when perusing your blog and saw the $5.00 word "eponymous".
It sounded scary and ominous so I had to grab the Websters in a hurry and checked it out while meditating on the can.
"Eponymous" "A real or mythical person from whose name the name of a nation, institution, etc. is derived or is supposed to have been derived".
Sure sounds like an apt description of the art warehouse where Eli Broad keeps his ego.
But isn't this an old tradition of rich capitalist's?
I mean Paris has the Louvre, Madrid has the Prado, Mexico City has the Anthropological Museum, of course, but in our USA culture a man or family, who has through hook or crook,(usually mainly crook!) amassed huge wealth, power and political influence needs to legitimize, or through some public good deed, have their names exalted or laundered (like ill gotten dinero), it's an old tradition here Joe!
We have the Guggenheim, the Whitney, the Getty, the Hammer, the Autrey, the Geffen, Hearst Castle, ect, ect, ect,.
So the Broad Museum is just another of a long line of monuments to some rich guys image of themselves.
Eponymous! great descriptive word you have chosen Joe.
Thanks
DUMB DUMB DUMB HILLARY'
'SUPER' LATINO SLAMS CLINTON
New York Post
February 12, 2008 -- A prominent member of the national Democratic Party has circulated a sharp e-mail saying the removal of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle was disloyal to Hispanics and should give "pause" to superdelegates and voters.
The e-mail from, Steven Ybarra, a California superdelegate who heads the voting-rights committee of the DNC Hispanic Caucus, was sent to fellow caucus members in the hours after word broke that Solis Doyle - the most prominent Latina in Clinton's campaign - would be replaced by another close Clinton loyalist, Maggie Williams, who is black.
The e-mail noted that Clinton, who is looking to Latino voters for a boost in the Texas and Ohio primaries on March 4, scored heavily with Hispanics in her California win.
"Apparently, loyalty is not a two-way street," he wrote. "Latino superdelegates like myself . . . will have cause to pause."
Ybarra told The Post yesterday that the loss of Solis Doyle, a child of Mexican immigrants, just weeks before the Texas primary, where 36 percent of the population is Hispanic, was "dumb as a stump." Team Clinton insisted that the decision to switch from Solis Doyle to Williams, revealed on Sunday afternoon, was amiable.
What an erudite kiss-ass you are don coyote!
wow, look at all the public comments at council chamber today.
so much for Hunt Dowd and ZD killing it for everybody.
if anything we galvanized the people into action. check it out
there's a hundred Michael Hunt's down there today.
we loooove it.
one black guy just stepped up and said: "I'm dressed in black today, because I'm mourning the death of civil rights in my community".
thank you thank you thank you
the silent majority just became unsilent.
What about mourning the death of a hero Officer Randall Simmons who gave his life to try and protect the family of a gang banger you moron Matt Dowd loser.
Political leaders don’t support cops in crunch
I see many people in the Los Angeles media publicly bereave the loss of another heroic police officer, and I wonder where these people were when officers really needed them. It seems so appropriate to show sadness when such a dastardly act is perpetrated on officers in the line of duty. The tears seem moving, but taken in context, it seems contrived and selfish. For the media, when someone sheds a tear, there is usually someone else waiting to take political advantage. If this is true, shouldn’t this upset the public? Why do these people conveniently support the police at the most opportune times, and when the going gets tough, they are nowhere to be found?
These so-called “leaders” were not around on May 1, 2007 when an incident occurred in MacArthur Park. Illegal immigrants had illegally assembled. They were protesting our government and waving foreign flags and eventually got out of control. Most officers there acted with restraint, even though they were taken rocks and bottles. Some officers reacted differently to the violence and used escalating force to control the incident. Their intent was to secure the cooperating public within the perimeter of the event and extricate the criminals.
These officers’ intentions were justifiable and they should have been afforded the right of “innocent until proven guilty.” They weren’t. They should have been afforded the right of having city and civic leaders pause before they judged the officers’ actions in the media. They didn’t. As a result, rhetoric and untruths were expelled by the usual police-hating groups. These same “politicians” and “civic leaders” hung LAPD out to dry and put its image back another 10 years. The sad truth is, these people do not respect officers but only use them when it best suits their needs.
Is it ironic that these same civic leaders shed crocodile tears at the death of police officers and are the first people in the media to point fingers at them when they appear to be doing wrong? Does anyone see the hypocrisy here? You cannot say that this job is risky, dangerous and heroic and then with the same hand, throw officers overboard when it is politically expedient.
Shawn Fairman
Pinon Hills
I enjoy reading Greek Mythology, and I would like to offer my own vocabulary addition.
Since we have a regular commenter who posses many abstract personifications.
I present you the Greek Personified Spirit - POTHOS (or Pothus) he was the god of longing, yearning and desire. (In other words an Attention Whore)
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/proposition-s-city-halls-black-hole/18302/
Proposition S: City Hall's Black Hole
Don't expect the new city phone tax to be spent on cops and firefighters
By TIBBY ROTHMAN
Wednesday, February 6, 2008 - 6:15 pm
IT'S LESS THAN 12 HOURS before polls in Los Angeles will open, but a voter in the north end of the San Fernando Valley doesn't know what Proposition S is.
"The fireman one?" she asks, conjuring up the recent television ad campaign that featured Los Angeles Fire Chief Doug Barry hawking the measure.
Proposition S, a tax that many Angelenos became aware of through the Barry spot and its companion pitch — Police Chief William Bratton warning of serious police cutbacks if the measure didn't make it — was passed by Los Angeles voters by 66 percent to 34 percent.
So will the poster children for Prop. S be guaranteed a share of the tax they shilled for? No, says Los Angeles City Controller Laura Chick.
"I feel that the public was misled to believe that [the monies] were going to police and fire services," Chick told L.A. Weekly on Election Day. "This is tax money that has always gone to the general fund."
And, as Chick has learned, what happens in the general fund sometimes stays in the general fund. She says she's still trying to secure documentation from the last time the Los Angeles City Council upped trash-collection fees, purportedly to hire 1,000 new LAPD officers.
Big difference between LA County and LA City animal control. The County covers 6,000,000 people and twice the area of LA City. The City covers 4,000,000 people. County takes in 85,000 animals per year in six smaller very old shelters. The City takes in 56,000 animals in seven new to newer shelters. County budget is small but City budget is $32,000,000.
They both have similar problems with unionized employees. Employees at county and city both refuse to do their job. County does a better job with licensing. They already have mandatory spay and neuter.
The Times goes after county because they don't want to go after the City because of their cozy relationship with the Mayor.
Most importantly, there is no lesser of two evils here. Mayeda and Boks are both poor directors. They can't get the employees to do their job. Mayeda is at least semihonest about her horrible numbers. Boks lies about his numbers. His numbers are now meaningless.
9:56 a.m.: Wht a racist you are, just like that Steven Ybarra, who is your idol, apparently.
So Hillary having the nerve to remove someone from HER employ, who hasn't been doing the best job for her, just because the woman is Latina, makes Hillary a racist and "disloyal to all Hispanics?"
What a crock of racist shit, worse than the local blacks who cried the same sort of "logic" when the Mayor removed Gloria Jeffs for gross incompetence and insubordination to city officials -- but was forced to pay her off to satisfy some of her black advocates.
We'll only be a truly "post racial" society when people are evaluated on their merits, but this kind of crap means we have to keep incompetent people of color on their jobs no matter what (whereas whites are of course expendible), even if that job goes to another person of color, the "wrong" color.
The logical outcome would be fear of hiring any Latino or black out of concern you can't even fire them. They sure do account for a huge % of lawsuits in the LAFD and LAPD and many city depts., and this kind of "logic" makes it hard to sort out when they might actually have a legit grievance.
Shame on you -- but you show how shallow and stupid the Obama supporters are.
Check out Jonah Goldberg's Op Ed in the Times today -- he's right on about the people who buy into his shallow talk are those who know the LEAST first-hand about living in a culturally diverse society, like the rubes from Iowa and Washington state.
Hillary does best with those who DO live in multicultural area, including Latinos -- except the ones like your La Raza bonehead.
Hey buddy don't attack me because you don't like the message. dumb ass Hillary is the one who kept talking about how Latinos love her and then she had idiot Nunez and Antonio with Jabba the Hut Molina to get Latinos. You have to admit it is pretty damn stupid to fire Solis (I don't believe media spin) right now. AND if Hillary can't even manage her own campaign money as is being reported all over cable news she's in deep shit trouble with money running out cause it has been mismanaged how the hell can she say she will manage the US economy....
Good point 2:12, I thought the same thing about Dubya in 2001 and again in 2004. How can this greedy stupid rich boy manage the US ecomomy without having it implode?
He's proven me right.
I do "blame" you because you started with DUMB, DUMB, DUMB Hillary, instead of talking about how DUMB that Ybarra guy is, and his assertion that replacing (not really firing) one woman who happens to be Latina, means Hillary is "disloyal" to the whole Latino race.
She obviously is smart enough to know there would be racist accusations like this, but did what she needed to anyway. Good for her.
Just like she knew La Opinion, La Raza, the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, and other Hispanic groups would attack her and jump on Obama's bandwagen because she refused to pander by promising illegals driving licenses. But she did the right thing, and in the end, she's the one who has a chance to swaying the moderate American public opinion on this issue, not that vague opportunist, Obama.
Uh, Uh, Uh Oh! Abramoff raises his ugly head again, this time in the direction of Presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain of Ariz,
From Sam Stein, Huff Post:
"" A review of campaign finance filings shows that the Arizona Republican has accepted more than $100,000 in donations from employees of Greenberg Traurig, the very firm where Abramoff once reigned.
Those donations include several thousand dollars from registered lobbyists who represent, or have represented, businesses such as NewsCorp, Rupert Murdoch's media empire; Spi Spirits, a Cyprus based company that has fought with the Russian government for the rights to the Stolichnaya vodka brand name; El Paso Corp, a major energy company; General Motors; and the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition, a group of businesses and trade associations "concerned" about the shortage of lesser skilled and unskilled labor.""
Essential Worker Immigration Coalition?
whoops there goes the right wing immigration hopeful,
Essential Worker Immigration Coalition?
whoops there goes the right wing immigration hopeful,
Good! Any port in this immigration storm is a welcome one. Illegals are bleeding the lifeblood out of our already hemmoraging country. Let Mexico collect and recycle their own garbage..
Does this Essential Worker Coalition mean some kind of Guest Worker Program?
Sounds more like that -- something the liberals oppose as exploiting the workers. But it's being done in many countries that are controlling their borders.
Not including Europe: which has a "guest worker program" under which their babies can't become achors/ instant citizens, but since there are no limits to how long they can stay, apparently, what's happened is many have become a 5th Column -- so the Muslims in Europe are MORE militant than the ones in Muslim countries like Turkey or Morocco and Algeria, in mamy cases.
Yeah that's why Obama is kicking butt all over the country against Billary. Hey, where's Bill been? I want to ask him why he pardoned that coke dealer Vignali and thanks to him Vignali is one of the largest land developers in downtown LA. Why isn't the reporters asking our mayor about that as well since he also wrote a letter for Vignali. if Hillary gets in how many more felons will they pardon?
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