April's "NC Face-to-Watch"
Pacoima Neighborhood Council president Veronica Padilla was named to the North Valley Area Planning Commission last week by Tony Villar, making Ms. Padilla our choice for the April 'NC Face-to-Watch'.
If your response to Ms. Padilla's appointment is "Who?", then you're not alone. Less than a year ago, Ms. Padilla wasn't even active in the PNC. But she's been very busy since taking the presidency away from controversial board member Jorge Quezada. She's really spiffed up the published image of a neighborhood council that's had its share of serious internal conflict .... pretty much like any other NC in the City .... and she's already managed to catch the roving eye of Tony Villar himself. Rumor has it that the new Commission member actually bears a resemblance to Villar's most visible paramour, Mirthala Salinas, but if you want to judge this for yourself, you'll have to go to the next PNC meeting since Padilla has virtually no Internet presence -- or City presence for that matter -- prior to jumping in at the PNC top. Even her photo is missing from the PNC's web site.
As of yesterday, Padilla hasn't disclosed anything to the PNC Board about her appointment. If she remains as the PNC president, such an appointment would make her hearing anything on the PNC board related to land use a major ethics issue. This probably explains why Quezada has been conspicuously sticking close to this rising star.
If your response to Ms. Padilla's appointment is "Who?", then you're not alone. Less than a year ago, Ms. Padilla wasn't even active in the PNC. But she's been very busy since taking the presidency away from controversial board member Jorge Quezada. She's really spiffed up the published image of a neighborhood council that's had its share of serious internal conflict .... pretty much like any other NC in the City .... and she's already managed to catch the roving eye of Tony Villar himself. Rumor has it that the new Commission member actually bears a resemblance to Villar's most visible paramour, Mirthala Salinas, but if you want to judge this for yourself, you'll have to go to the next PNC meeting since Padilla has virtually no Internet presence -- or City presence for that matter -- prior to jumping in at the PNC top. Even her photo is missing from the PNC's web site.
As of yesterday, Padilla hasn't disclosed anything to the PNC Board about her appointment. If she remains as the PNC president, such an appointment would make her hearing anything on the PNC board related to land use a major ethics issue. This probably explains why Quezada has been conspicuously sticking close to this rising star.
Labels: antonio villaragiosa jr, Jorge Quezada, Pacoima Neighborhood Council, Tony Villar, Veronica Padilla
Posted by Anonymous @ 4/17/2008 08:25:00 AM
21 Comments:
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Pissed off white man on JM's blog;
. The subject is trying to remain distinguished and in maintaining the decorum JM demands. His posts are the usual open borders rant we've come to expect. He still grabs any chance to express his belief that the invaders are "innocent, hard working families wishing no harm and willing to assimilate. Our studies to date have found to the contrary. The Mexican youth have strong tendencies to gather in packs like a weaker species. They apply inked signs under their skin of their affiliations and also spray paint their neighborhoods with the same symbols. They have much animosity for the African cultured immigrants, maybe because they were here long before the mexicans came, and there's resistance to the peaceful assimilation. At any rate it's a foregone conclusion that the southern tide won't be stopped. The people flee a corrupt country that's run by greed and malice.. Unfortunately they arrive with the mexican mindset that declares that they be thieves and crooked cheaters. So it has finalized itself with what we have here. The kindly nature, the big brother attitude, the aid and comfort that americans have for every stray that gets dropped on her porch has finally signalled her downfall.. We're broke, borrowing from the freakin asians, and swirling around the toilet waiting for the big sucking flush.. Fucking mexicans can have it! You'll always have these gasbag blowholes spouting their rhetorical english. these dq self-avowed prophets. They go with the territory, poorly trained, but rise to the top because the field of talent is so sparse.. Face it. mexico is a third world country that has never been capable of supporting its itinerant populace.. In 50 years American textbooks will have chapters dedicated to artists who decorated their neighborhoods with their primitive murals and rudimentary "artworks".. Tastes change. People may appreciate the simple minded offerings of retrogressed thinking.. The masters, the europeans, and ancient works of the asians will be shuffled to the rear as these frog people and their "raza" has its moment in the sun.. Who knew "back now" that the illegal invaders knew exactly what they were doing as they "reconquered" the west.. Unfortunately they only won damaged goods.. the spoils of their pissy little war are spoiled!! Thank You Neighbor!
Whoa! Strangeness @ 11:25. Proceed with caution./
pissed off white man @11:25 says
"Fucking mexicans can have it!"
OK I'm only half Mexican, but can I have San Diego?
Pissed off white man - what???
The pissed off white man, makes me wonder why is Los Angeles the "Gang Capital of the World"?
The Mayor wants to keep taxing, anyone with a few dollars in their pocket to fund more Hug-A-Thug programs?
Who are the majority of gang members, where are some of the gang members coming from?
What is the common demoninator is this problem?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/homicidereport/
that's had its share of serious internal conflict .... pretty much like any other NC in the City
That's a nice, glib throwaway comment that both shows ignorance and does harm to most of the 1500 or so volunteers who are giving away serious portions of their adult lives to help L.A. improve, and who seldom have "serious internal conflict" - but do occasionally disagree with their peers on the direction their communities are headed, and do it with respect and reason.
You regularly hear this kind of criminal generalization from people barely involved in the NC system, or from those unfortunate enough to be a part of one of the handlful of very more dysfunctional ones, or from the dozen or so gadflies whose main beef (if you trace it back) could best be described as "sour grapes" -- i.e., they didn't win a seat, or they lost on a key vote they cared a great deal about (and sometimes had personal stakes in).
In my 1/7th sector of L.A., as DONE defines it, there are about 12-13 NCs and the board members of 2-3 of them take turns sniping and sueing each other year after year (with occasional lulls).
The other 10-11 go about their business. Some focus on citywide dealings, some stick to issues close to home, and some mix it up.
Even in the much reported lists of grievances and nastiness released by DONE some months back (and repeated often annecdotally in newspapers) -- if you were able to unblind the lists, you'd find the same small number of NCs (a couple in each major area) responsible for nearly all of the squabbling -- just doing it over and over, year after year.
Saying the number of grievances and reports of "strife" suggests that "like any other NC" they're all at each other's throats is a bit like saying that LAPD answered 10,000 burglary calls last year, so there must be 10,000 burglars in L.A.
NO, there are just a few hundred going about it day after day, week after week, until they get caught.
And even in the groups that have had ongoing -- or even occasional "strife" -- please show me a church, a PTA, a jaycees type organization, or an HOA that doesn't have some "internal strife" in in recent history and I'll show you an organization with no new people involved, and the same clique of 3-4 people doing all the work -- all the while complaining about having no help. That's also likely to be a group accomplishing nothing at all -- and there's no "strife" because one small incestuous cabal makes all the decisions, does the same thing year after year (usually with declining results) and everyone else is either a "member" in name only, eventually leaves, or never joins in the first place.
POWM says
Ok the economy's semi-tanked, the great Land of Opportunity that drew all the immigrants of our past is running on diminished capacity temporarily, and it might be a nice time to declare a moratorium on the open wound that is leaking to the South. The one that keeps getting infected by all this bacteria that invades the flesh of this land we love, fought and died for. A lengthened break between rounds maybe?
Question:
is "Pissed off white man on JM's blog" actually Chief Bratton's pseudonym? Wow, finger out of the trigger guard, please, while you're on this blog.
Take a breath and apply wee bit of punctuation. Using Two periods? Substitute an "Enter" keystroke for that second period and my eyes will appreciate it soooo much more.
Pausing like that may be therapeutic for you. And don't forget- proper nouns need to be capitalized- "Mexican" and "English."
12:44: Your last sentence is the one true one, which describes my NC and most of them. And yes, it could be said of the old people who run many church committees, too. That's not a good thing.
Great post 11:25
Anonymous said...
Pissed off white man on JM's blog
etc, etc..
I checked out Mailander's blog and sure didn't see that nasty rant you cited as being over there..Are you sure you didn't compose that "beauty" , anonymous? Come on- you did, huh? That's just way twisted, dude..
I have seen the other side of the coin where Afro-Americans in power take advantage of others. At the Title I meetings in the Central District Afro-American parents have the control of those meetings. Dirty politics run rampant. The administrators are scare of those parents and give into their demands. The problem is that their demands are not to benefit all the students of Los Angeles but to benefit only those children that are Afro-Americans and their personal agendas. Many of them are church going people but their actions are very dark. Uncontrolled power causes insanity in every race just look around.
I am sure the "Pissed Off White Man" at 11:25, is really Don Quackers, who is trying to embarass and piss-off Mayor Sam again.
Don Quackers has been on a rant about Mayor Sam and Walter Moore over at Joe M's blog.
Don Quackers is one of Joe M,. readers who posts boring coment after boring comment. Don Quackers is Joe M.'s new friend , after he was booted off of this blog.
Don Quackers is a slippery snake, who can quickly shed a skin and transform himself into any character to get his much needed attention. Remember his other characters Santiago, Drinking With Tony, Hiroshi and others.
Charlie Chan, get over it already, donquixotephobia can be contagious
its don quixote,typical of him.
It's easy to see that Charlie Chan and the Pissed Off White Man are the same Anonymousa person. She also posted that the POWM was Bratton. This is all an inane coverup.
The POWM posted against Don Q who is Mexican. Don Q would never post a racist hate speech post like this or would Bratton. They're not racist against Mexicans.
Anonymousa has been having race hating spells like this on JM's blog and then she regrets it because everyone knows it's her. JM had to go to moderated comments.
Mayor Sam is disingenious to say he and JM have the same problem with wacky posters. Mayor Sam lets the hate speech flow. JM deletes it.
1:59
And again, another ignorant, criminal generalization -- based on experience with one (allegedly) dysfunctional NC -- or perhaps just posted by another "sour grapes" gadfly who lost a democratic vote.
The rule the ranters most often forget is that democracy is a numbers game, too. Just because you scream the loudest, or most often, doesn't mean you're right, that others are behind you, or you'll win.
Convince your peers (and not just the other four 51/50 gadflies who attend all the meetings), and then check back. You'll be amazed at how quickly people elected from the grass roots can change their tune when confronted with real numbers.
9:42 is Don Quixote again, the only person who defends this idiot is himself,its kind of sick to see him talk about himself to himself so much.
11:38 are you DQ's publicist or agent? Is DQ hiding under your bed? Do you sleep ok at night?
Your donquixotephobia is not only driving you nuts it's driving everybody else nut's. Take a chill pill homie.
its not driving anyone but you nuts don get over yourself and quit talking in the third person.
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