Saturday Special Hotsheet
Old Bank Building in Highland Park - Photo by Mayor SamThe Daily News asks "Wasn't the last trash fee increase supposed to pay for new cops?" Yes, it was. They also accuse the Mayor of lying. Wow. The Mayor lie? Unbelievable. Yes, the Mayor lies.
Speaking of more lies from your elected officials, you knew about the DWP rate hikes the Clowncil pretended to be against and then voted for a week later. What you don't know about are secret DWP surcharges that can be passed onto you with no notice on a regular basis. These surcharges are even more than the rate increase.
Not believing Chief Bratton's "Culver City" spin, the troops are defying their leader. The Los Angeles Police Protective League has come out against his stand in favor of Special Order 40 and is supporting Councilman Dennis Zine's watered down version of Jamiel's Law. It's a baby step and a bit in the wrong direction, but it's a start nonetheless.
Billionaire investor Ed Roski announced his plans Friday for a new football stadium for Los Angeles, this one on land he owns in the City of Industry. Though there is no team slated for the stadium, local pols are still pursuing the dream of an NFL team at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and state legislators are vowing no public funds, Roski's going to go ahead anyway.
If you went to law school and have big time student loans to pay, you might consider becoming an attorney for Britney Spears. In the last month she's spent $375K for lawyers in her child support case, almost as much as in her conservatorship hearings and a weekly retainer of $10,000 to her court appointed lawyer.
Labels: britney spears, chief william bratton, dennis zine, dwp rate hike, ed roski, Jamiel's Law, los angeles memorial coliseum, mayor antonio villaraigosa, nfl, trash tax
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 4/19/2008 05:00:00 AM
14 Comments:
Shocking LAT has an excellent section devoted to many top people's opinion on Special Issue 40 from law enforcement to community advocates.
40 on 40
Prominent Angelenos and Southern Californians sound off about policing, illegal immigrants and the LAPD.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-40on40,0,1095713,full.story
Trash Fee- when the trash fee was planned last year, it started with a graduated rate scale covering , I think 5 yrs for full cost recovery. What Mayor Idiot is doing is moving up the rate increases by a couple year jump, for full cost recovery. Amazing that during a time of ëconomic deficits"that spending is increasing. The Mayor stated recently that crime is lower that in the 1950s, so why do we need more cops? Comparing NY cop nnumbers with LA is ridiculous, NY is a dense inner city, LA is 90 % residential sprawl with little crime. Move more cops to e LA and Mid city, and you wont need more cops.
One of my old comments continues to be shown correct. The politicians first priority is to stay in office by any means.
The the next is to get money to throw around to ensure that first priority.
Thirdly, work on MAXIMIZING that money to throw around by raising taxes, fees, assessments or anything to generate cash.
I add this now to that observation:
A non-priority or at the other end of the spectrum- very clearly- is NOT to do things in a frugal, unselfish manner as our fiduciaries in government.
This is true for all levels of politicians, elected and appointed.
They are shameless and without morals in personal and public life. Maybe that's what makes it easy for them to be soft on crime.
CD-14 observation.
Mayor Sam,
Everyone says the Council motion is "watered down" compared to Jamiel's Law as authored by Walter Moore.
You know I am kinda critical of council but I don't see why people think Council's motion is watered down?
Hate to be defending something by Coucnil vs Walter...but Walter's just looks like a "plan to make a plan". (N0 specifics), while Council's motion are actual instructions and ready to go on day one.
So if someone can clarify, lemme know...I hope people are not just supporting one of these motions based on who the author is. ZD uses a "blind taste test". try it.k
In the 40 on SP40, Darryl Gates says that when he implemented the order 30 years ago, the city and climate were very different: neither the public nor the country (wasn't that liberal idiot Jimmy Carter, who's not putting the nail in the coffin of his career by treating terrorists Hamas as equal partners in a "peace" process) cared much about illegal immigration. There was illegal crime then, he says, but nothing like now.
Now the community and feds demand enforcing the laws, and the city should be doing "everything it can" to fight the gang problems, and starting with illegals is a start.
The media should play this up. Bratton, the MExican politicians are always citing Gates as the source of the order and it has to stop. (Ironic, that Gates was turned into the Devil after Rodney King, which he wasn't personally responsible for, but now the cops at Ofc. Simmons' funeral gave him a huge ovation -- a slap to Bratton.)
Even Riordan, who sidesteps the ego battle between Zine and Bratton, says that cops won't ask about legal status even when there's a known gangbanger in their sights, because they'll be accused of racism from the top brass and city "leaders" (read, Mexicans). We've seen that kind of blind racist attack here on this blog over and over, calling Walter Moore and anyone who doesn't support illegal gangmembers over victims "racist."
Reyes' comments are sickening and blind, as are Cedillo's and of every Mexican State Assemblyman -- they work for Mexico, and want the illegals here so that when they get Obama to legalize them in his first few months, as they've gotten him to promise, they'll be "voters," adding their voices against "anglos" and national opinion.
Esai Morales is the most disgusting by even blaming the U. S. for Mexico's failures, saying Mexicans wouldn't be coming if America hadn't pushed NAFTA on them. Yeah, like their shithole country was such a success in previous decades, the whole century, in fact.
It's a corrupt oligarcy which wants to send their illiterate, communist masses and representatives like Reyes and Alarcon to America. They don't want these masses moving into their better neighborhoods, like Reyes wants them to do in L A.
Every single Mexican interviewed, spews the outmoded lie that SP40 encourages cooperation with cops and fights crime. The cops know that's a LIE, which is why their union the Protective League wants to give them the right to question suspects about legal status, in public opposition to Bratton.
It's the cholos flaunting themselves in the face of impotent cops, and terrorizing the public even the kids and schools, that's the real fear of the other illegals as well as citizens. SP40 just makes the cops too fearful and gives the Mexican politicians and Bratton ammunition to intimidate them. As one interviewee says, "We want to tie the hands of the criminals, not the cops."
Nice post.
I think it's weird, how little our own citizens want to know about the City they live in.
Yesterday, I was talking to a journalism student in one of our local programs. The student said, almost as a boast, that she never read the LATimes. I gave her a stern look and she was offended.
But tell me: how can you be a journalism student and not read the local newspaper? Are my expectations too high?
Support Jamiel's Law!!!!
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From what I can see the Daily News never reported that the Police Protective League is going against Bratton and has endorsed Zine's motion on SP40.
Has anyone noticed that the articles never mention illegal status any more since the new Latina editor took over?
The mayor will announce Monday that he is cutting the budgets of the neighborhood councils.
Hey 1:59, has the new Latina editor even started yet?
The expectation is not too high, JM. It is only a reasonable thing to do, especially for a student who is developing his/her skills.
So a student NEEDS to read the LAT, the primary newspaper in the area, if only to see what is done and to see what is wrong with the reporting and so on. How can you compare anything with anything ELSE without doing that? Relying on a 3rd-hand opinion of the LAT won't do if you want to be responsible in the task.
You would be working virtually in an intellectual vacuum. It would be like trying to weigh thngs in a no-gravity condition otherwise. Accurate measures would not be possible.
You need to see at least examples of what NOT to do, and occasionally, something that is done well. In this sense, the LAT is a very important newspaper to read.
This lack of prep or general intelligence gleaned from reading the old-fashioned papers reminds me of a pet peeve about reporters in general.
Ever notice how they always put the subject's age (if person refuses, they'll say something like, "appears to be..." but they usually fish until they get it), while almost NEVER giving their own ages, and the women NEVER do. Their bios, their bylines, even if OpEds, always carefully avoid giving age, grad dates, anything that gives them away. They're SO VAIN but SO NOSY.
It would actually be more useful to know their age, their approx. years of experience etc., than that of every person they write about, even if it's a witness or whatever. Some people keep there ages from their neighbors, and why not, or do the old-fashioned custom and lie, why not if they can get away with it? You can sort of guess about a reporter if their photo shows up, but they're often old -- Patt Morrison's is about a decade old.
The notion that a reporter has the obligation to report every personal detail about anyone they write about is just wrong, and a double standard. When a stupid, young and inexperienced "reporter" pries and opines, it's only worse. This seems to be some of what's been happening against Hillary.
Forget reading the local newspapers. View the cable network shows like CNN, Lou Dobbs, Fox, and the rest and you get more of an insight about what's going on in LA then reading the local trash.
The LA Times is pure bullshit compared to the Daily News. If you really, truly want local news, you cannot depend on the Times for sure.
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