Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Tuesday
Despite the protests of NIMBYs, the City of Beverly Hills has approved a developer's $500 million project to bring the Waldorf-Astoria to the former hometown of Jed Clampett. Opponents plan to gather enough signatures to put a referendum on the ballot to overturn the Council's decision.Normally, you see stained concrete and dripping ooze when you stare out the windows at the tunnel walls of the Metro Red Line subway, but the MTA has an idea for the tunnels near the Universal City Station - project trailers for upcoming motion pictures on the walls that riders can watch as they speed 800 feet under the Santa Monicas at 70 miles an hour. The cash strapped agency estimates it will earn several hundred thousand dollars from the scheme. Still, we're sure that Jill Stewart or Observing Anglos in the distant Westside will have an issue with it.
I missed it and so did Franklin Avenue. An LA Times piece on former LA City Mayors that gives a hat tip not only to the old, dead Republican Mayor but to the Sister City itself.
Miley Cyrus is only 15 but she's sure she knows what 21 - 25 year olds go through. The Hannah Montana star said of bad girls Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan, "Everyone has their time. And I think most 21- to 25-year-olds go through this kind of thing. Basically, they're being normal 21-year-olds, especially Lindsay (Lohan)."
Labels: beverly hills, britney spears, jed clampett, jill stewart, Lindsey Lohan, mayor sam yorty, metro red line, miley cyrus, mta, nimby
Posted by Michael Higby @ 5/13/2008 03:00:00 AM
16 Comments:
Higby, there are clearly times when the fat tissue migrates up to cloud your teeny tiny brain, like your utter stupidity when it comes to the billboard issue. Guess you live in such a dreary, dull industrial wasteland up there in NoHo, you can't imagine what it's like to live in a carefully maintained area where you don't want ugly images ruining your buildings, roads and blinding you with light 24/7. You obviously don't know Times Square from a quiet residential brownstone street, ticky tacky industrial blight from Rue St. Honore or the Champs Elysee, (No, that's not a cheap take-out French dip sandwich.)
And only the dullest pea in the pod can equate some gritty underground subway wall with those areas, fighting blight, from a company that won't follow the law and even pay for its illegal billboards. But hey, your fellow Dull Bulb Rocktard got elected by them and keeps getting paid $ off, so you're clearly glad.
Why don't you make Rocktard your Mascot for the blog? He's fitting.
While the advert on subway sounds like a moneymaker in theory, when I ride the subway it's generally filled with illegal immigrants sleeping on their way to their next jobs....so, not sure who is going to watch these trailers then run out to pay god knows how much to watch a first run movie. Maybe the message on the projector should be about how to overthrow the corrupt Mexican government, so these people can stop coming over here in droves? Yeah, that's the ticket.
Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen (throws down two cards and picks up two more):
Sots, did you know that there are some sharp card players amongst you? (Winces as he looks at cards) In fact, this very day I happened upon some City employees playing cards at their place of employment. (Folds) When I inquired as to how often these chaps get together and play cards, the reply was "whenever the boss isn't around, which is a lot of the time...." (Walks away from card game) Don't believe me do you? Well then, see for yourself. There's a certain City landscaping crew that plays a daily game of cards between the hours of 8:00am and 10:00am, and then again between 2:00pm adn 4:00pm. (Whispers) Rumour has it that there's a rather large pot of money to be won at the afternoon card game the Friday before the long weekend. Only don't play with the sots from a certain deputy mayor's office for they have been known to cheat, savvy?
As Jack Sparrow masturbates with poker players Jill Stewart is posting hateful screeds against Mayor Sam.
Yet another wonderful day in the blog world!
Who is Jill Stewart by the way? Kevin Roderick on estrogen?
Jill Stewart's self professed most brilliant move was recognizing Zuma Dogg as a "journalist."
Who's Jackson Greene, Mayor Sam Mascot Rocktard's even dumber twin? Pro-billboard blight by Slimy Corporations who put up illegal, ugly and 7-story billboards all over the city refusing to pay or take them down, suing the city because all they have to do is buy Rocktard an election and a party?
Then blame the evil westsiders protecting their city and investment, and Jill Stewart and company at the weekly, for shining a light on this and on putting up Section 8, low-income projects in the same areas, against community opposition?
No wonder Jackson Greene and Higby look to zuma and his ragtag army of ADD, hard to look at and listen to, nuisances as their heroes. Just the type for MS.
This just in from North Carolina: North Carolina Community Colleges will no longer admit illegals!
Bravo, North Carolina!
Yahoo news reports, biggest ever ICE bust just happened in Ohio. Problem is, as places like that, Arizona and Denver stop giving illegals benefits intended for citizens, they're all coming HERE to Sr. Reyes, Huizar, Cardenas and Alarcon, blessed at state level by Nunez (adios!), and MeCHa Gil Cedillo -- who's dumber than the others even, and actually marched on May 1st shouting with his illegals in a sea of Mexican and Che Guevera communist flags.
ONLY when the media is pressured to report what's going on, to give voters and taxpayers a say in this kind of displacement of money for anti-American, ungrateful illegals, will the Mexicans feel any pressure.
The Daily News under Carolina Garcia is a sellout. Sure, they're blasting everyone in government with a heavy hammer, but never even distinguish "illegal" from legal immigrant, just talk about Latinos, immigrants, etc IF they do at all.
Montiel at the Housing Authority is up to no good again.
I hear he has been courting another housing development tenant to help get them on the HACLA Commission. Anything to get his yes people to back him up.
Lucille Hooper, side kick of Grape Street Betty Day, Janice Hahn's right hand (her other Chief of Staff). Remember them from the Fox 11 News expose?
Thats all we need are two Housing Development tenants (Maria Del Angel at Estrada is the other),
voting on a billion dollar budget that benefits them. Complete conflict of interest.
The two of them together probably could not even afford to own a car. What do they know about housing and budgets except that neither has one their own!!
3:32, your post is unclear, but if you have evidence linking Janice Hahn's Chief of staff to Betty Day AND to Montiel in Housing, and other shady dealings, email it to the Daily News and Times anon. I'm tired of these ignorant East and South L A types making decisions for the city, and looking like "good guys" doing "affordable housing" while fleecing the city with building and consulting contracts.
Reyes is behind that sort of thing too, one reason he wants to invade the westside with cheap projects for his illegals who've trashed their own neighborhoods. Patronage business for those otherwise unqualified to build a stucco hut in Mexico.
Why do the Westsiders and Jill Stuart care about billboards in other parts of the city or why do they care about movies on the tunnels of the subway in the valley? Mayor Sam has a point if the billboard is not in your neighborhood and the people want it why do the westsiders care?
I would like to see some verification of the people who "want" billboards in their neighborhoods. As one who was in Public Works the day that Jan Perry brought in her "people", that would have been both of them.
Those 2 people are now speaking for the neighborhood? Bull. I bet only 20 people knew about the meeting.
Every neighborhood has a right to its own look. Santa Monica Blvd. along Century City is the "Grand Avenue" of this city if there is one, and Clear Channel was required to remove its ugly billboards there as part of the beautification process. Now by sneaking in the back door through the rundown parts of town, persuading Jan Perry, Reyes and other dimmer bulbs that they're actually being generous to the poor, they're going to try to start an invasion again.
Against Council's and community orders, Rocktard gave them the right to put up upto 800 HUMONGOUS lighted billboards for a certain low fee, but they were required to comply with Community Plans, Zoning etc. and only go where they're allowed. PLUS that was only IF they paid a per billboard inspection fee of $300 for 11,000 or so they have up, AND remove some 4000 illegal one, AND give the city a list of all its locations so they can be monitored. Every other city does this.
But they've paid nothing, kept up the illegal ones and are putting up more, getting fools like Perry/Reyes to advocate for them, and they're suing the MTA still.
That's only a start...They want to move into the prime areas again, one or two steps at a sign. When we have the dullest electeds from the Third World areas dictating to the affluent parts of the city, giving into a company like this, we're in deep, deep trouble.
PLUS the 7-story lighted billboards in question along a freeway are a safety hazard: blinding vehicles as they race on the freeway, from directly next to the shoulder, blinking and looming. No one sane would put them there without at least 100' setbacks, as elsewhere.
The Beverly Hilton has been a dump for a long time, so it should be torn down.
My question is: why is a SAN DIEGO paper reporting on the new plans?
Where is the Times?
Oh, that's right, they are too busy not reporting on local government and news.
The Times reported on the Hilton project long ago, many times, old news, and check out the Bev Hills papers, ad nauseum.
The ones opposing fixing up a rundown hotel are the same kinds of old blue hairs that fought Century City developers redeveloping a complex that was not only rundown (but still extant, in the Hilton's case), but downright EMPTY AND IN BANKRUPTCY, THE "SHUTTERED SCHUBERT" as the press called it, the also bankrupt 3-screen theatre, bankrupt bank and deli, etc. There was NOTHING THERE and it was falling apart, the primest part of the city - but Tract 7260/ Mike Eveloff, Jay Handel (who's behind the lawsuit over P-O) and all the usual suspects who scuttled the REd Line from going west, the current Expo line, etc. -- decided to start a battle and recall over it, preferring that NO traffic to a bankrupt and falling apart facility, was better than ANY traffic to a top-notch one.
That's what's happening in Beverly Hills, deja vu all over again.
By the way, check out liberal leftie "sniper" Al Mittel's piece in L A CityBeat, calling the judge Toribio who is insisting the city needs an EIR for the P-O plan, is a braindead reactionary wihtout a plan, just like the judge who ruled that diamond lanes on the 10 in the 70-s were illegal. (Higby, you wanna write about the seventies, no one's posting on your silly videos and hots for Brooke Shields, talk about that.)
Al M thinks the city should sue the judge for the extra smog and disease created due to his delaying the thing for a year. don't know if it's a good idea, but you got some of the only cajones in town, Al M.
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