Open Race to Replace Burke Draws Contenders
Yesterday was the filing deadline to replace Los Angeles County Supervisor Yvonne B. Burke in the June primary election. Here's the list of the 9 contenders:
- City Councilman Bernard C. Parks
- state Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas
- Antonio Alvarez, a real estate agent
- Martin Luther King Aubrey, a maintenance painter
- Drew Fenton, a physician
- Morris Griffin, a maintenance technician
- Thomas Neusom, an attorney
- Delaney Smith Jr., a physician
- Florian Thompson, works in dental medicine
Labels: bernard parks, Board of Supervisors, Mark Ridley Thomas, Yvonne Burke
Posted by Edward Headington @ 3/08/2008 05:06:00 PM
10 Comments:
Forget those other clowns, this race is really Parks v. Ridley-Thomas.
Ridley-Thomas should get the LA Police Protective League to endorse him and run ads saying how horrible a police chief Bitter Bernie was.
Parks should tell black community groups in the district that he was the reason the community actually SUPPORTED the department in larger numbers than any time in recent memory. Maybe he should run ads linking MRT with Jimmy Hahn.
FORGET BERNIE PARKS! He is viewed as a sell-out in the SLA area, and personally I resent his will to silently igore important issues.
Ridley-Thomas it is. And I know neither of them personally.
Can't believe that nobody is saying nothing about Jerome Horton failing to file for the 25th SD. That is huge news and nobody is printing it.
Those of you in that district, please be careful who you vote for
because there are no term limits for County Supervisors and many people will continue to vote for an incumbent just because of name recognition and not because they are doing a good job.
Supervisors decisions can impact all of us, expecially regarding health care and land use issues.
Parks, who tried to brazenly steal the trash tax fee hike, "for cops" as it was sold to us, to balance "his" mismanaged city budget. He's trying to do it AGAIN with Prop S etc/ etc/
If that's "fiscal conservatism" and not sheer deceit, I don't know what is. This many SO TOTALLY CAN'T BE TRUSTED.
Ridley-Thomas Embraces Police Union Whose actions he once characterized as “Vicious and Ugly”
LOS ANGELES, CA In 2002, as a candidate for State Assembly, Mark Ridley-Thomas put out a direct mail piece to voters slamming the Los Angeles Police Protective League for engaging “in a vicious attack campaign to fire our Police Chief Bernard Parks.”
The letter from Johnny Cochran—written, designed, paid for and mailed by Ridley-Thomas—goes on to say, “Chief Parks has enforced the law, and disciplined abusive police officers. He has adopted tougher policies to crack down on police corruption.”
The letter concludes by saying “Mark Ridley-Thomas has the courage to back Chief Bernard Parks—and he will stand up to the police officers trying to get rid of him.”
Also included in the mail piece was a news article from the Los Angeles Sentinel characterizing the PPL as “the police union vilified by the black community for what most regard as racist actions to remove police Chief Bernard Parks.”
The mailer reprinted the entire Los Angeles Times opinion editorial Ridley-Thomas wrote entitled, Parks Proved His Leadership. Ridley-Thomas says Parks is a “proven leader whose efforts to improve public safety have at the very least been hampered by the overbearing campaign by the Los Angeles Police Protective League to drive him out of office. The league’s ugly attacks on the chief only serve to undermine the very officers it claims to represent.”
In response to the League’s endorsement of Ridley-Thomas, Parks’ campaign consultant, John Shallman said, “Mark Ridley-Thomas has run for so many different political jobs, he apparently can’t keep track of his own campaign rhetoric. We prefer the Mark Ridley-Thomas who supported Bernard Parks for Chief and for City Council.
“The fact is Mark Ridley-Thomas has never put on a uniform, worn a badge, carried a weapon and he has never risked his life on the streets fighting violent gang members or drug dealers. Bernard Parks dedicated 38 years of his life fighting crime. We’re confident that the brave police officers who live and work in the 2nd District will support a professional crime fighter--not a professional politician to be their next Supervisor."
Ridley-Thomas Embraces Police Union Whose actions he once characterized as “Vicious and Ugly”
LOS ANGELES, CA- In 2002, as a candidate for State Assembly, Mark Ridley-Thomas put out a direct mail piece to voters slamming the Los Angeles Police Protective League for engaging “in a vicious attack campaign to fire our Police Chief Bernard Parks.”
The letter from Johnny Cochran—written, designed, paid for and mailed by Ridley-Thomas—goes on to say, “Chief Parks has enforced the law, and disciplined abusive police officers. He has adopted tougher policies to crack down on police corruption.”
The letter concludes by saying “Mark Ridley-Thomas has the courage to back Chief Bernard Parks—and he will stand up to the police officers trying to get rid of him.”
Also included in the mail piece was a news article from the Los Angeles Sentinel characterizing the PPL as “the police union vilified by the black community for what most regard as racist actions to remove police Chief Bernard Parks.”
The mailer reprinted the entire Los Angeles Times opinion editorial Ridley-Thomas wrote entitled, Parks Proved His Leadership. Ridley-Thomas says Parks is a “proven leader whose efforts to improve public safety have at the very least been hampered by the overbearing campaign by the Los Angeles Police Protective League to drive him out of office. The league’s ugly attacks on the chief only serve to undermine the very officers it claims to represent.”
In response to the League’s endorsement of Ridley-Thomas, Parks’ campaign consultant, John Shallman said, “Mark Ridley-Thomas has run for so many different political jobs, he apparently can’t keep track of his own campaign rhetoric. We prefer the Mark Ridley-Thomas who supported Bernard Parks for Chief and for City Council.
“The fact is Mark Ridley-Thomas has never put on a uniform, worn a badge, carried a weapon and he has never risked his life on the streets fighting violent gang members or drug dealers. Bernard Parks dedicated 38 years of his life fighting crime. We’re confident that the brave police officers who live and work in the 2nd District will support a professional crime fighter--not a professional politician to be their next Supervisor."
At the Officer Simmon memorial Gates got more applause than Parks.
That says a lot for me. Maybe Gates should run?
There is a reason why Parks was fired. He was a BAD chief. He's also a BAD councilman. The police hated working for him.
The best thing that district can do is back, campaign and vote for Ridley-Thomas.
Being a cop has nothing to do with being a legislator. Being a bad cop, a bad chief and a bad councilman has everything to do with it.
Get rid of Parks.
Ridley-Thomas should play scenes from Parks on the City Council, during the recent budget debates, not only insisting that he could swipe the trash-fee-for cops into the general fund, but dragging Karen Sisson through a choreographed charade to get her to say that it would be "illegal" to designate that trash tax for cops only, or any specific use, other than anything the council, i.e., Bernie wanted.
That may be too sophisticated for some of the voters, but the press will pick it up, and the public will at least get that integrity means nothing to Parks, or keeping his word to the taxpayers who were sold the trash tax (and Prop S) that way.
Parks is starting to play the game all over again over Prop S, and is set to battle the Mayor over reducing police overtime and the 3-12 rule. Again...
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