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JM, Zen Monday, 3.24.08
Joseph Mailander a guy in la • elsewhere • email
This sort of serves you right, for voting for it: SoCal isn't likely to get a fair share of affordable housing money. Whatever a "fair share" might be. SoCal has over 2/3 of the population but ended up receiving less than half the money. Really, if you thought you the State ballot exists to do anything other than figure out ways to send SoCal money to NoCal, shame on you, and let's move on.
But the Mayor, who loves public affordable housing projects for the few the way a Skid Row drunk likes a fortified wine, protests on our behalf.
By now, most everyone knows full well that such projects don't do a thing to make housing more affordable for more than a small few lottery winners---in fact, by tying up so many developer's efforts who might otherwise be building to serve a true market need, they likely make housing more expensive. But these projects can still line a few key local contributor's pockets, so Antonio will shill for the developers anyway.
The moral of the story is: if you're an affordable housing developer, please hurry, get out of town, go to Oakland where you can pick up your cash.
How beholden to the Mayor is Commish Cynthia Ruiz? In this piece, she's quoted as saying, "I love my life and every day I wake up grateful -- I'm grateful for the great leadership in the city." It's almost as bad as Steve Hymon referring to himself as a sage.
In Ontario, they're thinning the herd: "Authorities will begin forcing people without local ties to leave a homeless encampment that has grown to nearly 400 residents," the Daily News reports.
What matters is not the justice behind identifying Jamiel Shaw, Jr's. alleged assassin as undocumented, what matters is the perception. AP picked up the story yesterday, so God knows what cow counties around the US and the world are reading about it---and thinking about it---today.
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Posted by Joseph F. Mailander @ 3/24/2008 07:43:00 AM
25 Comments:
Detroit Mayor indicted! Uh oh, Antonio did you use your city issued Blueberry during your escapades with that t.v. whore?
The Detroit mayor is also being charge with using public funds. We all know that Antonio has used public funds to fulfill his fantasies. His LAPD detail has all kinds of stories on him, and they are talking.
Now only to gethim under oath - this is probably the reason the city settles on every damn lawsuit instead of going to trial. To protect the mayor, just like Gonzales protected Bush in Texas.
The cholo apologist writes ...
Too bad the comments are always the same old, long Mexican-gang related stories that none of us here care about. I'm sick of Jethro's crappy old EME, MS-13 Mara Savatrucha, illegal immigrant bashing, Pedro Espinoza, gang bull shit.
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Daily News comments about illegal alien gang members
I noticed the link to the illegal alien gang member story has many comments. If nobody cares why are there so many comments about the story about Pedro Espinoza being here illegally?
Jethro please keep posting "the same old, long Mexican-gang related stories" the people of Los Angeles do care, as shown by all the comments in the Daily News.
The Mayor and other mexican politicos are never going to talk about this problem.
I've been following the Detroit story.
Too bad D.A. Cooley does not have somebody with the cojones like that Kim Worthy in Detroit.
Cynthia Ruiz...
"I love my life and every day I wake up grateful -- I'm grateful for the great leadership in the city."
WTF is that a crock of bull shit, the city leadership can't manage the city budget or anything else.
LAUSD has some of the worst schools in the country and the drop out rate is about 50%.
Gangs run amok in Los Angeles.
Traffic and growth is not managed, and a complete mess.
In the words of a great poet.
"Great Leadership my Ass"
BREAKING NEWS:
From KNBC.com:
(updates by Zuma Dogg based on MSNBC/KNBC LIVE coverage)
About 200 (estimate on MSNBC says up to 300) firefighters are working to put out a blaze that broke out Monday morning in a (5 story) condominium building under construction in the Warner Center.
Emergency crews were sent to the 6200 block of Canoga Avenue at 8:43 a.m., said Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire Department. Brian Humphrey of the LA City Fire Department said firefighters expected to get the fire under control but also expected to be at the site most of the day.
Fire crews were hauling hoses onto the roofs of nearby buildings in an effort to attack the intense fire, which sent thick clouds of smoke into the air over the western San Fernando Valley.
No injuries were immediately reported. No evacuations yet. There is talk of dumping water from helicopters since it is a "dense" area (as in "density").
Click here for LIVE streaming video
UNRELATED MATTERS REGARDING HOUSING FIRES: Although unrelated, this fire DID remind me of some news coverage I became aware of over the weekend that I was going to post, anyway: With the housing market in such a slump, and foreclosures on the rise, people are setting their homes on fire to get out of future payments. Unfortunately, now all fire claims with insurance companies are immediately considered for arson. Click here for more.
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Zuma, why don't you take that to LAist, where they don't have any opinions or writers and just link to other content and therefore might be interested in it?
I know how to turn the bloody TV on when I want to.
That's rich from a guy who doesn't even have a house to burn down let alone a pot to piss in.
Who? Homeless Dave Elliott, the village idiot of Los Angeles.
Can I tell you something else about Homeless Dave?
Noone posts on his blog.
NY's newly installed "first legally blind and black gov" Peterson admits he used a city credit card to rent hotel rooms for trysts, but always paid it back. No one's asking him to step down... Seems we should focus on things that have to do with job performance. By that standard, Rocky's shenanigans, financial taking advantage of city money and staff, being too stupid to have insurance even for himself, while he never took care of his wife's outstanding warrant and lack of insurance -- designation on the Top Ten Dumbest Lawyers list, all should have gotten him recalled.
People seem to prefer the personally prurient which has less to do with job performance. No wonder our city is where it is.
Who calls a press conference about potholes and begins with "I love my life?"
Jeez.
Hymon calls himself the "road sage" with irony. Maybe it was meant to take him away from city hall beat, but traffic is actually among the most important issues in town.
IF he's allowed to tie it in to crazy politicians wanting to shove dense, low-income (in the literal sense, including subsidized housing for the poor) next to nice parks on the Westside like Holmby Hills, Westwood and the ones in the Palisades.
Like he insisted he wants and the city WILL do, damn those people on the westside. Reyes, Huizar, Perry, Alarcon, with support from Parks, Wesson and Hahn, even dumb La Bonge (who does anything Hahn tells him to), say they're going to put their housing right next to the parks on the westside and valleys, instead of just next to mass transit stops like they're supposed to under AB1818.
Hey Janice, how can you say you're opposed to destroying the city with AB1818 overdevelopment, but then go along with shoving even worse types of housing next to parks in residential areas with NO transit hubs? HUH?
Karen Sisson is telling the Budget Committee, Rosendahl and Parks and Greuel, that expenditures especially in healthcare, far exceeded revenues ever since the early 90's -- the real estate market just helped hide this fact.
Wonder WHY the healthcare system has "a structural deficit," so that citizens have their "basic services clipped?"
Rosendahl notes that the city and county have to eat these costs, since the private sector won't (treat illegals for free, that is, although they're supposed to treat those who turn up literally dying, but it's a dilemma -- pass the tab to private patients paying insurance, or rush the patient to county?)
One good idea Rosendahl has: the excessive retirement benefits after 20 years of work, regardless of age, that any city/ government worker gets. He's right, no one in the private sector gets that.
(Unless you're the CEO of a crooked company like Edison, but in general this is a valid point.)
11:08
Does that mean that Antonio used city credit cards for his penis tours? Did he buy that bottle of wine with the city credit card?
One good idea Rosendahl has: the excessive retirement benefits after 20 years of work, regardless of age, that any city/ government worker gets. He's right, no one in the private sector gets that.
Who the hell would work for the City for twenty years if they didn't have some kind of promise ahead? Fortunately it kills you young and you never get to collect much of it.
March 24, 2008 10:35 AM
Dumb ass, what about everyone who is at work behind their desk with no television? Internet is their only way.
The only hope this city has is David Z as a reporter. He's the only one who has the balls to report the truth. He needs to investigate Antonio big time. A lot of people love Zine's idea of cutting the salaries for the Public Works commissioners. Cynthia is related to Antonio, campaigned for him and now makes $126,000. Under Antonio city hall is more corrupt then ever. We all know the LAUSD election was fixed, Huizar's election was fixed, Huizar's ex employee is now the corrupt gun for Wyvenwood complex developers, follow the dots here folks..Joe Avila, Huizar ex chief of staff now makes $126,000 as a "staff assistant" for DWP...all the commissioners being appointed including Lara are all political paybacks of Antonio.
"Can I tell you something else about Homeless Dave?
Noone posts on his blog"
Oh, but they do. Like many of us, they read and learn. It isnt necessary for us to join in to every blog.
Thats why he has beaten Mayor Sam and others blogs a number of times. It's stuff people want to read and can find it quickly and efficiently.
Possibly zuma has devised a remote bot that constantly, round the clock directs to his site from different urls because frankly it seems implausible that he'd get ALL those hits he claims and virtually no comments except maybe from DQ who needs the attention..
But zuma gets an A for effort - hoody-hoo- nevah seen so many enticements and goodies without getting a bill..
If you have no job and are a loser who stays up all night in your mother's basement plugging away into a computer you can game Google.
Who would have though it ? Homeless Dave has actually achevened something!
We never have to worry about Homeless Dave using a City credit Card to buy sex or hotel rooms.
That would require a job.
Idioot.
"We never have to worry about Homeless Dave using a City credit Card to buy sex or hotel rooms. '
He may be getting it for nothing. Heard he cleans up real well.
If Higby went back to moderation he could spare us Homeless Dave.
How many more lies from Homeless Dave Zuma Dogg Elliott?
3:06 - You are absolutely right!
A lot of people love Zine's idea of cutting the salaries for the Public Works commissioners. Cynthia is related to Antonio, campaigned for him and now makes $126,000......
The board president, cynthia also serves as liaison to President Garcetti and the Hollywood area. Lots of freebies - Grammys, Oscars, China, Victoria Secret and other fashion shows.... doesn't that need to get reported? How does that benefit the public works?
These folks aren't thinking about the city. They are thinking about what they can get. There are family members everywhere.......
I'm not a cholo apologist. In fact, I'm whiter than a saltine cracker. I'm just sick of Jethro's nonstop racist posting.
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