Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Monday
OVER THE WEEKENDParents of a teenager allegedly murdered by an illegal alien will go to City Hall on Tuesday to call for support of Jamiel's Law, rolling back Special Order 40 protection for illegal alien criminals.
Rumors abuzz that a Latina from a Central California Coast Fishwrap of Record could be the next editor of the Daily News.
Saturday evening I had the opportunity to warm up the crowd and introduce KABC's John Phillips who was the emcee for the California Jaycees Foundation's Outstanding Young Californian Awards. Among the winners was Council President Eric Garcetti. Councilman Garcetti was nice enough to come and introduce himself to me; it was my first opportunity meeting him. Though Garcetti has pursued some things I absolutely disagree with, he is certainly the brightest person on the Council.
In Sunday's Daily News, KABC's Doug McIntyre offers his view on the sad story of the murder of Jamiel Shaw and the need to pass Jamiel's Law.
A great piece from Joe B. on how Los Angeles shanghaied Sunland-Tujunga to become part of the City of Angels.
LA POLITICS
We've told you before that Zev Yaroslavsky is running for Mayor on an anti-development platform. Marc Haefele takes a look at the Fifth District County Supervisor from a pro-Villaraigosa point of view. Zev still says he's not running. Yet.
Despite the City Clowncil's goofy ban on murder, a lot of people got shot and some were killed this weekend in the Valley. A total of 13 shootings were logged citywide. I guess the criminals didn't get the Clowncil's memo. If the Mayor and Chief Bratton want to keep putting their head in the sands on at least one of the issues driving crime, they can. But the chickens will come home to roost.
CALIFORNIA POLITICS
More support for Stuart Waldman. The Assembly candidate reports an endorsement from the 179,000 member AFSCME (AFL-CIO) California PEOPLE. This follows endorsements for the 40th AD Democratic candidate from a number of firefighter unions.
Immigrations and Custom Enforcement agents have arrested about 50 illegal aliens working in various Los Angeles area warehouses. No word on if the employers were sanctioned.
Looks like Absolut Vodka supports the reconquista. No wonder I only drink Grey Goose, Ketel One and occasionally, the cheap shit, UV.
BLOGS-LA-PHERE
If you miss your daily dose of Joseph Mailander, don't fret. You can catch Joe at his new blog, Street-Hassle and still get all your early morning hotsheets and Sunday Mimosas. In the recent Mimosa outing, Mailander exposes the usual bullshit that runs through LA. Also, there's links to the surviving better halfs of the legendary Martini Republic. It appears the best the dum dums visiting Street-Hassle can do is attack Joe's photos. Keep trying guys.
Labels: doug mcintyre, eric garcetti, illegal immigration, Jamiel's Law, john phillips, joseph mailander, Los Angeles City Council, mayor antonio villaraigosa, OYC, stuart waldman, sunland-tujunga, zev yaroslavsky
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 4/07/2008 12:12:00 AM
54 Comments:
For someone so bright, Garcetti sure is responsible for some very foolish and irresponsible policy.
Well spoken maybe. However I would not give him bright.
Mailander's blog is good. It's so good that Zuma Dogg is stealing stories from him.
Zuma spins that he quit Mayor Sam. I heard that he was voted off the blog by all the bloggers including Mailander.
Higby, how long are you going to let Homeless Dave lie about your blog and promote himself on your site?
Go to bed Bart. It's late. Lay off Zuma for the night.
More racism.
or alger. he did that with zuma too all the time bashing him and calling him names. higby those posts make us want zuma to post here more so that those bashers don't win. you should go to bed also at 1 am.
Eric is very smart, yet I agree about some foolish policy. I think he just wants to please everybody. He is nice to the point of total dweeb, so he is probably bright but socially stunted and therefore, easily swayed.
Who is Bart?
Garcetti once published a very interesting book. Does anyone know where it can be purchased?
12:51 AM,
After all of this time is it still important to you who left who.
I assure you the decision to leave was mine. But O.K., buddy. I was voted off. (Feel better.)
Little ole' ZD was kicked off and left high and dry. YOU WON!
Meanwhile, you got Mayor Sam sucking up to Eric Garcetti now, so I think we see what has happened to this blog.
When you have Mayor Sam kissing Garcetti's ass, this whole blog is upside down and Mayor Sam has his head up his ass.
And you can say I am "stealing" from Mailander. I think he considers it helping to promote his new blog, that he has thanked me for.
I really don't know what more I could have done to roll out the carpet for Joe on my blog.
Have fun reading Garcetti kiss-ass fluff on this blog.
The blog is doing great, and everyone is saying how it is better than ever!
"Forget about DWP rate increases?"
Here's to maximum racism on Mayor Scam's blog!
Probably he means Bart Reed from the north valley. He's the only Bart that I can think of who is an activist.
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Sierra Club no likey Bart behaving this way.
Does anyone have the case number of the Federal Rico Lawsuit where Garcetti is named as a defendant?
Eric is very smart. He had his dad who sits on Ethics donate to his campaign and he got busted. Not very smart. And when you look at what he supports and votes for, again, not very smart. Neither is his "Smart Growth." There is no one smarter than a nefarious criminal. They are able to outsmart the system. You have to talk to me about Ethics, first before you talk to me about smart.
You know who looks smart to me? Greig Smith for the things he is mentioning at the council meetings over things like DWP and Las Lomas.
Let's take a review of some of “high-profile” racial killing of blacks by Mexican gangs in the Los Angeles area. Mayor VillaRaza can’t keep hiding the obviously huge Latino gang problem and the many racial killing by these gangs.
1) There was the Rico federal case against the Avenues gang in North East Los Angeles for killing blacks.
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/avenues-gang-members-meet-the-end-of-the-road/14162/
2) There was the Rico federal case against the Florencia-13 gang for killing blacks.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/me-gang5,0,2953603,full.story
3) There was the case of the 204st gang, in Harbor Gateway of killing many blacks. Including Cheryl Green.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/me-gang8,0,1532253.story
4) There was the recent prosecution of several Azusa-13 gang members targeting blacks in Azusa.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-azusa26mar26,1,7568812.story
5) There was the recent case of Duarte Eastside-13 and Monrovia gang killing blacks in Duarte and Monrovia.
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/02/04/metro/me-monrovia4
6) And the most recent murder of Jamiel Shaw by an 18th st gang member.
How much more proof do you need about this problem. And these are just the recent high-profile cases covered in the news.
Sorry, your Mayor VillaRaza turned me off and I cannot and will not read the rest of your drivel.
Mr. 2:01
I like the drivel, keep us informed, you should try Mayor VillaMugroso that also fits the Mayor.
Dear Mayor Sam Readers,
It is not these people's fault that they are forced to turn to a life a crime. These people come from families that come here to work hard. But they cannot even earn a decent wage at these jobs. We need to spend more money on things like scholarships and grants for education; extend unemployment benefits; provide free health care for those who cannot afford it; and fight for higher wages and fair and equal treatment for everyone living in this country. Maybe if you did some of this, you wouldn't have such overcrowded jails.
I know it sounds like I am running for office in Los Angeles with that platform, but I have not yet made that decision.
I guarantee you, if I didn't see weak spin like 12:51 AM, you wouldn't have seen any ZD on this comment section today.
But I can see I still need to keep checking in, cause it's important for you to make such comments on a thread that had nothing to do with any of that.
Don't you find it odd that you continue to obsess over me, after all this time?
So I'll be back to see what's up.
And are you aware of why it is important for City Hall to embrace Deming 14 Point philosophy. (Important if you want to reduce waste and increase efficiency and productivity.)
But since it is Monday, back to school day...let's me weigh-in on some ways parents can help do their part to help the school system better do their part:
Number one: If you are a parent, you probably shouldn't be blogging about Zuma Dogg at 2 in the morning.
Parents need to do more to better prepare their children to allow the schools to do their job of education.
Too much time is spent each day on discipline and basic skills and behavior problems that result from parental neglect.
Parents can help fix the school system without leaving home.
Simply accept and added level of responsibility and become active participants in their children’s lives. You can judge what a young kid says, and how they behave by the standards imposed on them by the parents. It’s tough to say "no" to your kids, when other parents say, "Yes", or don’t say anything at all, because the kids are left un-attended.
Too many parents think it is the schools and teachers job to instill dignity, respect and discipline into their kids. BUT IT IS NOT. That is the parents’ job. The schools job is to educate kids. Help fix LAUSD by fixing your kids, so the school can do its job. (Teach them how to read, write, add, etc.) Asking your kid, "How was school today? Did you do your homework?", is not taking responsibility for your child’s education.
I know it’s tough to be a parent to your kid, these days. The high cost of housing, taxes and gas makes it hard to make ends meet, and both parents (if there are even both parents at home) have to work long hours, and travel through long traffic-jammed commutes, for not enough pay, at the end of the day.
And at the end of that day, It’s much easier to say, "yes", than argue a long protracted battle over how late a kid can stay out, or how many hours they can use myspace, youtube, ipod, xbox, or even regular old TV. And it doesn’t help when other parents refuse to do a thing to help instill discipline, morals or standards in their kids.
But you must rise to the challenge and be the leaders and role models in your kids’ lives. Parents don't rely on the City to be your kids’ babysitters after school. Rely on each other. Spend more time talking to each other about after school activities. Do more for each other. Talk about what your kids are and are not allowed to say and do. Try and convince other parents to go along with the higher standard, so all the kids that play together lift each other up, instead of drag each other down.
So that's ONE thing the community can do to fix the schools (besides reducing classroom size, paying teachers more so we can recruit new ones, after school programs, safer streets and other things that are out of your control):
Take on more responsibility to do the job you asked for when you had a kid. Be a mentor -- to your own kids. You cannot leave the job of raising your kids and teaching them responsibility and values needed to keep them in school, graduating and productive members of society we need them to be to a school system. That’s not THEIR job, it’s YOURS. Take on the challenge. It will be almost as enriching and rewarding of an experience as myspace or YouTube.
By city council taking a retreat, it allowed me to reflect on what I would have said at the retreat.
I think Councilmembers are missing out on a real opportunity to take the power of those City TV 35 cameras and use it for more than dog and pony show photo opportunities and campaign grandstanding. Councilmembers are sounding and looking like Top 40 deejays, during the grunge rock era. A little corny and no ones buying it.
So from here on out, in order to try and provide you with the example of the type of leadership talk that is needed to transform our community and help bring it out of the crisis; every time ZD steps to the mic, for general public comment (and whenever possible during agenda items, he hopes to use the opportunity to try and out Tony Robbins, Tony Robbins. In other words, try and use the two minutes to run a citywide hypnotherapy session that replaces old, un-empowering beliefs that preventing people from making the positive contributions we need as a community and replace them with the new, empowering beliefs. And once the viewers have been reframed to allow their subconscious mind to congruently communicate with their conscious mind, you eliminate the mixed signal you send to yourself and others. Then add a little emotion down the neuro-superhighway and you create the passion that drives you and triggers you into taking action.
And I challenge my media cast mates, all fifteen members of City Council and Mayor Villaraigosa to join me in the challenge.
Thank You,
Zuma Dogg
Public Advocate of the Community
Contact: ZumaDogg@gmail.com
Eric always wants to "compromise," to "find a middle position between mine and yours." Which gives the sense of listening but also, not a way to make social policy. Rosendahl is like that, too.
This is an abdication of a moral stand, like owning up to and dealing with the fact that illegals are murdering citizens (and fellow illegals) left and right. They've moved into the rest of the city as they've seen what cowards the leaders and police chief are, when it comes to dealing with them.
This is the case where being "P C" and being more concerned about kissing butt to the LaRaza Mexicans on the Council, is more important to him than doing the moral thing. (Eric is half-Mexican on his dad's sad, as he likes to point out, so he thinks that means he has to sell out the city to kiss butt to these radical leftist Mexicans who make no doubt about WHO they represent.)
There isn't one ethical council member. They have all proven to be a bunch of arrogant, selfish bastards taking advantage of hard working people's tax dollars. I would be ashamed to call any of them my parent.
I called it and now Mayor Cholo is going to have his State of City speech where???? THE POLICE ACADEMY. The low life asshole is using cops to toot his horn. David Z and Rick Orlov, Kerry and the rest please report that back in 2003 Villaraigosa was one who blocked a city 1/2 cent ballot measure to hire more police. Cops HATE Antonio cause he's against gang injunctions, supports illegals, rushed to judgement after MacArthur Park and he now has the damn nerve to use THEIR POLICE ACADEMY to pretend he's done something..COPS CAN'T STAND YOU ANTONIO
Poiliticians have no shame, and Mayor VillaMugroso has no shame or morals.
He would've cheated with his at the Police Academy.
I wonder how long before we have to lower the LAPD standards so our cops are like the Tijuana cops, fat and corrupt.
This is why we loved Ron Kaye at Daily News. The LA Slimes would never print these type of letters.
DWP rate boost no surprise
Re "Jacked up" (April 3):
Wow, what a surprise! The idiots on the Los Angeles City Council have once again allowed the Department of Water and Power to raise rates. Considering they pull money from the DWP revenues for the general fund, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out their decision long before they announce it.
As we have seen, the money never goes for what they say it is going for; instead, we read in the paper about some political fluff getting a big fat pay raise.
- DEBBIE GORDON, Woodland Hills
What to do
Re "Jacked up" (April 3)
There is no question that the council is ignoring the public, and has taken strong positions for special interests. But what can we do? Does anyone have ideas on how to deal with this bunch of sorry politicians? If so please speak up. - SION COLVIN, Woodland Hills
Escape to Burbank
Re "Jacked up" (April 3):
After seeing how the L.A. City Council treats its constituents - raising water and power rates after taking millions meant originally for infrastructure improvements - I thank God for giving me the smarts to move to Burbank. - PHILLIP BARTON,Burbank
Gang bangers didn't read the Council memo or read the newspapers on the 40 (why not 48 hr) no murder game? All they have to do is sign up for Council agendas to be emailed to their blackberries so they can read what is coming up each day, as they plan their drivebys sipping lattes at Starbucks. Stoopid!
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Beelzebud
Mutineer
Minstrel Boy
Kingshakabobo
are no longer here!
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The truth never stopped Jim Alger from speaking. Funny that he thought people cared what he had to say. I think even Jim realizes now that noone even remembers him anymore let alone listening to him shape the landscape of the community. But at least Jim has his say in the comment sections of blogs as an anonymous poster. That carries a lot of weight.
Higby, tell us the truth about Homeless Dave. He's on here lying about Jim Alger who moved out of the area, I think.
Tell us the truth once and for all Higby. Did you fire Homeless Dave or did he quit? Did he up and leave or did you ask him to leave? Tell us the truth. No spin and no Homeless Dave spin.
Higby is no suck up to Eric Garcetti- or any other politican for that matter.
I was at the Jaycees Outstanding Young Californian dinner on Saturday night and it was Garcetti who went out his way to introduce himself to Higby.
Maybe the reason Mayor Sam is all giddy over Eric Garcetti is because it's the first time he met him.
I met him a bunch of times over an issue in my community and not all of us are so happy to see him anymore.
He's smart though. He knows all the right things to say to people who could simply never imagine that any human being could be so two faced.
And that's how he wins. He is just much more committed to getting his way, at any cost, than any everyday constituents could ever imagine. So they trust him and he keeps them on a string.
So that is pretty smart.
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jibim aljeers b da bizomb! heez da jimmy jam master. he b da man 4 sho, 4 sho. u c?
Don't be so hard on poor little Jim. He never would have been electable as a city councilman. He just doesn't have the presence needed. He doesn't come off as charismatic. Plus, he has a hot headed temper and that just doesn't fly.
Deletions must drive you nutzoid senor mayor. Here you jumped in coveting the position of Scribe and find you're elevated to Judge. Bummer.
And I mean that sincerely.
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1:00 -
Not anymore. We've implemented early our blog moderation program. Unfortunately that means getting voted off the island for some folks who like to comment here a lot but I hardly doubt very few of you of our thousands of readers will complain.
Stay tuned.
And I should say permanent program. We've been experimented the last month and come to some very strong conclusions. Ultimately blog moderation will afford more benefits (like higher quality of comments) than drawbacks. That's why we're doing it; not because of the long standing, frequent and constant private harassment from a very good handful of primadonna pussies.
I'm sorry to see now that the Sister City is a gated community all the Don Q, Don Culo, Drinking with Tony, Barf in the Hat et al nutbars all migrated over to Joe's blog. He may have to put up the gate too.
Don't worry with moderation we won't put up critical or even mean comments about us. We will. As long as they're interesting. But if its the usual nonsense that's been around here the last few months, it's not likely you will see it.
Again, I know no one is crying.
great job, nothing is wrong with a little moderation, i already see a big improvement.
Good afternoon Lord Mayor (tips hat):
Are you putting the gate up for us? (Whispers) Best lock up your rum and your daughters too, savvy?
I miss the Chief Faker and 80 fake neighborhood watches poster.
Mike Trujillo, when are Hillary & Co. going to dump you from the campaign?
When Ace and Mike turn a "MRS. BILL CLINTON" lead in N.C. into a landslide win for OBAMA.
Captain Jack,
If your team bathes regularly and behaves we will most definitely give you a ticket to the cotillion.
If you wish to re-direct that pipeline that was recently shut off, feel free to hook it to our bilge port.
Savvy?
You should know that if you check the "delete forever" box below the big one when you slay all those nasty comments, it won't leave all those bloodstains* on your page.. Censorship is always less painful kept on the down/low...
*grease stains
*roadkills
*deflated gasbags
Moderation is GREAT now the two Commeting CoCoNuts and Attention Whores will be kept away.
Good choice Mayor Sam
If Garcetti was bright he should have stayed in the private sector and made millions instead of settling for $180,000 a year.
Sam, if you will simply state by which means Dave Elliott left the building, it will put to bed our curiosity.
Not that I really care that much as to why (I'm just happy he's gone), but I am tired of all the commentary.
So, tell us in one sentence, then keep his sorry, longwinded rants off, and we can go back to ignoring him.
Thank you for your consideration.
Eric does not need to make millions; he is heir to a large fortune his mother inherited years ago.
Thus, he is likely to remain engaged in his chosen profession (politics) for quite some time.
If Obama is elected, look for Eric to have a major role in the new administration, as he is a longtime school mate and buddy of Barack's.
Laying off Zuma will occur when Zuma lays off this blog.
His has leeched off of it for a long time, and it is time to cut the ties. Totally.
Please don't leave Zuma. Let the leeches who are leeching off of your posts be the ones who leave with their boring, boring bashing of Zuma.
Moderation didn't make the go away.
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