Chemerinsky Backs Chick in Battle with Delgadillo
Noted legal scholar disagrees with City Attorney's attempts to limit Controller's ability to audit.
The City Attorney has hit a major snag in his interpretation of the City Charter barring the City Controller from conducting performance audits of certain City programs.
"…I would say that is clear as a matter of statutory interpretation that the Controller can audit all City programs. The Controller can select either departments (or parts of departments) or programs for performance audits. The ability to audit the latter is entirely irrespective of where the programs are organizationally located," wrote Erwin Chemerinsky who served as Chair of the Elected Los Angeles Charter Reform Commission.
City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo recently wrote an opinion barring City Controller Laura Chick from conducting performance audits of City programs which are housed within elected officials' offices.
"As Erwin Chemerinsky's opinion underscores, the City Attorney is dead wrong on this issue. Further, it is a clear conflict of interest for him to opine that the City Controller cannot conduct performance audits of offices, including his," said Chick.
"Charter Reform was sold to the voters of Los Angeles in large part because of the promised transparency and accountability including the ability for the Controller to conduct performance audits. It is indeed troubling that those important reforms are now under attack," said Chick.
"The City Attorney requested the opinion from Professor Chemerinsky, and I ask that he now make this the official opinion of his Office," concluded Chick.
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The City Attorney has hit a major snag in his interpretation of the City Charter barring the City Controller from conducting performance audits of certain City programs.
"…I would say that is clear as a matter of statutory interpretation that the Controller can audit all City programs. The Controller can select either departments (or parts of departments) or programs for performance audits. The ability to audit the latter is entirely irrespective of where the programs are organizationally located," wrote Erwin Chemerinsky who served as Chair of the Elected Los Angeles Charter Reform Commission.
City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo recently wrote an opinion barring City Controller Laura Chick from conducting performance audits of City programs which are housed within elected officials' offices.
"As Erwin Chemerinsky's opinion underscores, the City Attorney is dead wrong on this issue. Further, it is a clear conflict of interest for him to opine that the City Controller cannot conduct performance audits of offices, including his," said Chick.
"Charter Reform was sold to the voters of Los Angeles in large part because of the promised transparency and accountability including the ability for the Controller to conduct performance audits. It is indeed troubling that those important reforms are now under attack," said Chick.
"The City Attorney requested the opinion from Professor Chemerinsky, and I ask that he now make this the official opinion of his Office," concluded Chick.
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Posted by Mayor Sam @ 3/17/2008 03:28:00 PM
18 Comments:
Wow, now Chick has Rocky's AND Tony's balls!
Will she go for a six-pack? Look out, --fill in the blank--.
Possible blank-fillers:
Tony Villar
Gary Newton
Antonio
The Governator
Carol Schatz
The woman's a boil on the ass of this city. Add that annoying, know-it-all Cherminisky, and I want to puke. For the first time, I'm rooting for Cardenas and Delgadillo.
Why is Rocky even in office? He STOLE from the City!
What's your source?
5:04: So you hate smart women who don't put up with "get out of my face" from some macho Latinos who can't manage their own lives?
Rocky driving without insurance for a year and blaming it on his wife, who also forgot to get a license or that she had an outstanding warrant for arrest for a driving violation? Like the one that Rocky went after Paris for, with a vengeance, and it bit him in back in his own ass?
Or Cardenas using his best B-movie histrionics in city hall to convince colleagues that he's best qualified to run the gang programs, but crying that even he, a supposedly powerful Councilman, can't control his own street enough to allow his own teen son outside?
Yeah, that's a good reference.
But getting past personalities: the same old programs, often run by or hiring former gangbangers, often hadn't been audited in a decade, and some workers still play it both ways, using it as a power base in the community.
The Police magazine has a recent feature on the history of EME which reminds us that back in the mid- seventies, a "made man" of EME who ran Community Concern and other anti-gang programs -- but was still an active member, and the EME even used company cars to make some 33 gang hits, usually pulling victims into the car and killing them there -- actually ran against Art Snyder for City Council, and came close to winning.
Played the race card, community activist card, "I know what's best for my people" card. Snyder managed to win and pull funding from Community Concern and one other project.
We NEED a broad range of eyes on these programs, from Chick to the Mayor to Bratton. (But they've got to admit we've got major race gang wars on our streets -- realities and transparency are more important than trying to cling to their own records as presiding over an alleged drop in gang crime. Denying it will hurt them more.)
An extra green beer to anyone who wants to find and post the link -- not hard. I think it was 7/7/07.
I'm sorry, wasn't Chick chair of the Public Safety Committee when all these half-assed programs were getting millions? One can only pray for a Spritzer-like ending to her career some day.
Homocides are up 26& so far this year.
LAPD blog crime stats
Chick brought down in a "Spritzer" like sex scandal? Ugh, that's not a pretty picture. Maybe a threesome with her, Jackie Goldberg and Sheila Kuehl...The Three Feminazis.
She may have been on the Council when the programs were added, but like Zev keeps reinventing herself, and may be on the right side of an issue after a decade or two.
Besides, with all the macho idiot Latinos pandering to their fellow Hispanics and being pro-illegal, at least she's on the outside.
The idiot thinking gang crimes will stop AV from winning a second term is seriously stupid and wasting her time while AVs staff laughs their asses off. Those affected by gang problem don't vote. The rest don't care.
Rafael "Chispas" Sandoval is the EME dude who ran against Art Snyder in 76 and came pretty close to winning. What's my prize?
you get to blow the new guy on the third floor.
6:38: You are beyond "idiot," you're unbelievable. If you're trying to do PR spin for Antonio, you ought to be shot, at least tarred and feathered.
No one cares about gangs in this city who votes, idioso? It's more and more all over the mainstream news, fooloso. The black community's been aware for a long time that the racial aspect of the gang wars is being covered up to try to cover their asses, but lying to the public isn't a good thing. Bites you in the buttoso in the end.
White people plenty aware and mad. There are more and more shootings in Hollywood, close to home to the tony areas of SilverLake and Echo Park. Oh yeah, that kid was killed in Echo Park, Eric's hood, just yesterday. I'm pretty sure some of those yuppies vote. You can only fool leftie younger liberals for so long -- they kind of don't like getting people shot next to them.
They've got gangs in NoHo, Van Nuys, Mission Hills...Los Pueblos no le gustan los cholos, comprende?
And hey, guess what? The cholos and gangbangers are even bussed into the westside and Valley, where people are pretty furioso about the culture they're bringing to their kids' schools. And about having to go to private schools because their schools aren't there schools anymore.
The people on the westside and Valley suing LAUSD over treatment of special needs kids is just the tip of the iceberg. They should all sue.
You are a smug laughingstock, estupido. You'd be muy smarto to put a socko in that dumb moutho, Don Cholo.
The blacks will vote for Antonio. You are the one who is estupido and you are the money ho who sues. You think people sue the city because you the estupdio ho that blow the wrong men that kicked her culo says do it. We laugh at you. AV laughs most.
Even if the law and the facts were on Rocky's side, with his credibility gone, who could believe him or rely on him?
He needs to move on, but like nearly all disgraced politicians, he refuses to admit to anything. Besides, it's an easy paycheck.
If the pay in Los Angeles was not so outrageously out-of-scale with the pay in most municipal governments, the office-holders would not hang on so tenaciously to these jobs when it's over for them
8:11: a reply worthy of you.
I am really confused. Why will putting the gang and at-risk youth funds and control in the Mayors office suddently stop gang problems? Why would anyone believe that our Mayor can do a better job at this when he is nothing more than a puppet on everything else.
7:11, Where money is involved, Antonio becomes a control freak.
Who gives an F what that cross-eyed liberal a-hole says?
Go away!
Chick has spent hundreds of thousands of your tax payer dollars on an outside firm who has a no-bid contract to get her headlines. Has she ever saved the taxpayers one dollar from her hatchet jobs? Yet all of you fall for her Chick-en-shit time after time just because she goes after politicos. Remember her "pay to play" airport audit accusing everyone at the airport of giving contracts based on political contributions? She turned it over to the D.A. amid much fanfare, but after 4 1/2 years not one iota of evidence was ever produced to back up those charges. But it helped get Mayoy Tony, her buddy at the time, elected. You all deserve him.
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