Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Thursday
Guess who's a blogger now! None other than your favorite Police Chief turned Councilman turned Supervisor candidate, "Bitter" Bernie Parks! The candidate unveiled his new blog last week and today features a post entitled Ridley-Thomas Flip-Flops...Again. The Councilman's Chief of Staff and son Bernard Parks, Jr. told me that Bernie writes his own email blasts but I don't know if he's writing his own blog posts. Blog away Bernie!Alan Mittelstaedt writing at CityBeat (not Citywatch) essentially makes the case that if we worried about public corruption as we do about taco trucks (or silly debates about giant houses) we could see more of the types of indictments such as that of Bell Gardens City Councilman Mario Beltran announced by District Attorney Steve Cooley last week.
Here's one for the books. All four candiates for Judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court Office Number 84 have been rated not qualified by the County Bar. Pat Connolly, “Criminal Gang Prosecutor”; John “Johnny” Gutierrez, “Administrative Law Judge”; Bob Henry, “Prosecutor Deputy Attorney-General”; and Lori-Ann C. Jones, “Superior Court Commissioner.” are all running for the seat being vacated by Judge Gibson Lee, who opted not to run.
The Daily News opines on a big bi-partisan rip-off. MAYOR POLLOVILLAR, the KENNEDY REPUBLICAN and the CHILD FORMERLY KNOWN AS DUBYA want you to pay tolls for the privilege of driving on the freeways your tax dollars paid for. With $4 a gallon gas who can afford more?
Apparently homosexual men are as interested in Britney Spears as us breeder guys are. A gay blogger reports that the former teen diva has been awarded extended visitation rights to see the two sons she produced with former husband Kevin Federline.
Labels: arnold schwarzenegger, Bitter Bernie, britney spears, District Attorney Steve Cooley, Mario Beltran, Mark Ridley Thomas, mayor antonio villaraigosa, Mayor Sam's Hotsheet, president bush, taco trucks
Posted by Michael Higby @ 5/08/2008 03:00:00 AM
6 Comments:
your gaysocialites.com link requires email and other personal info to "vote" and get confid. info on the candidates. YUK
OH NO HE DIDENT!
Parks’ campaign consultant, John Shallman said, “Mark Ridley-Thomas is a serial flip flopper. He has three names and two faces. . .
LMAO
Parks' blog is just a dumping ground for press releases.
These candidates for Superior Court judge will probably "fly under the radar" as far as most voters are concerned, but there are concerns with the past conduct of each as far as affecting qualifications for the job.
The first two on the linked information sheet really don't need to be in a judging capacity. I would add in "lacking essential judicial temperament" to sum it up for these two.
Some may like the idea of "get tough", hanging judges, but Jones, a current commissioner was so embedded in her former prosecutor role that she gave out jail terms in traffic court for jaywalkers and tried to apply contempt of court charges for failure to pay fines. I don't think elevating her to judge is a wise choice.
You might say, "not my problem- I don't break the law" but you never know what simple act will boomerang on you, qualify as violation of a law and set in motion your travels through the judicial system. Read the linked item on the candidates yourself and you may find that the "hold your nose and vote" approach applies for this position.
It is interesting that only the first of Parks' posts contained a comment. That was posted less than an hour after the first item was posted and it was one of those Jim Alger-type supportive comments written as if it came from someone else.
Either Parks isn't allowing comments to be posted or nobody cares to comment.
Villar doesn't like toll roads any more than the rest of us. But he and the other MTA boardmembers are so desperate for federal highway money that they're willing to allow themselves to be blackmailed by the Bush privatization ideologues. They vote to try toll lanes if that's the only way they can have a shot at the $300 million-plus dollars.
We can only hope that a democratic president beginning next year will stop at least some of this folly and spend federal gas taxes to support transit and other projects that will get people out of cars rather than make them pay more to stay in them.
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