Outtakes and "Cut and Paste" from CD 14
Nick Pacheco is still a big, fat zero!!!That is a big, fat zero for no ethics violations
Our former "Bloggin Mentor" Joseph Mailander has commentary at the "HASSEL ON THE STREETS" regarding ethics fines involving contributers to the re-election campaign of the "COUNCILMAN LAST SEEN AS JOSE HUIZAR".
"Rubalcava is a former DWP Board Commission chair, well-known to followers of City politics; Amy Forbes, a Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher mainstay and land use attorney, repped Lilian Disney's interests through the building of the Disney Hall along with GDC nabob Ron Gother. Forbes was also on the board of the Los Angeles Conservancy in the early nineties and advised LA developer Robertson Properties on a co-acquisition with the LAUSD in 2003, when Huizar was still LAUSD prez."
Trivia question, who was hit with 31 counts of ethics violations for his 2003 City Council Race??
From "LA Curb", Oscar De La Hoya has walked away for the second and final time?, from a deal to buy the historic Sears Tower on Soto and Olympic.
El Sereno resident and comadre of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Maria Elena Durazo will tour the "Holy Land" when the latest installment of "Travels with Villar" takes to the air. "WWG" has this take,
"Maria Elena Durazo, executive secretary of the County Labor Federation, will join Mayor Villaraigosa and his coterie of city employees and Jewish community leaders on the trip to Israel that begins today. Durazo is neither an elected official nor a Jewish leader, nor will she ever be an expert on airport security or whatever other reason the mayor gives for the trip. But she is the most powerful labor official in town, a national co-chair of the Obama campaign, and a confidante of Villaraigosa's. She also went along on the mayoral junket to Asia in 2006. Today's junketeers as reported by new City Hall reporter Phil Willon in the Times and Rick Orlov in the Daily News, whose lists don't completely agree:"
The "Bloggin Mentor" has his take on the Times coverage of Mayor's trip
In "Northern Boyle Heights", the "Four year community college on Fig." is moving forward with their plans to develope a "Biotech Park". This could be the seed that grows into the proposed Biotech Corridor along Valley Blvd. What effects this has on the surrounding communities is yet to be seen. but be sure that Mayor Sam award winner, David Galaviz will be front and center.
....and in closing, sad, sad news out of "Pueblo de Sereno". The coffee house for the collective, progressive community and the location of "alleged meetings", is relocating to Cypress Park.
Antigua Coffee House's lease is not being renew, we will dedicated a exclusive thread to the demise of the progressive meeting place in El Sereno.
Labels: "COUNCILMAN LAST SEEN AS JOSE HUIZAR", Antigua Coffee Shop, David Galaviz, joseph mailander, Maria Elena Durazo, mayor antonio villaraigosa, nick pacheco, Oscar De La Hoya, Street Hassle, usc
Posted by Red Spot in CD 14 @ 6/11/2008 09:24:00 AM
20 Comments:
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Where's my commission?
Dude, word to the wise, a 'coffee house' is not a 'coffee shop'.
The coffee house people get real bent out of shape when you mix those up.
Starbucks is the archetype 'coffee house'
Denny's is a 'coffee shop'.
At a coffee house, you get reamed for 4 times what the brew is actually worth, but you can stick around half the morning working on the great American screenplay, even though you told your day-job boss you were out on sales calls.
At a coffee shop, you can't really stick around - but you can get 'stuck' there because they used a dirty rag to wipe the fetid boysenberry syrup off the table when you arrived.
Pacheco may not have had actual ethics violations, but he didn't help his image in that area during his last two campaigns with his choice of advisors.
He clunge loyally to seedy characters like Mt. Washington's John Edwards, always lurking in the back even at community groups where Edwards was public enemy #1, like some hulking festering sore, and paid hush money from campaign funds to the likes of ex-felon Art Pulido to do sign-posting even though people of goodwill all around Pacheco warned him that it played right into the otherwise unwarranted charges of his being unethical.
People will forgive you ethics violations like taking too much money from one contributor, etc. - those you can easily blame on slip-shod staff work. But being a horribly bad judge of character sticks with you and can be even more harmful than the formal charges you might later be cleared of.
Well, well, a Southwest Society member sighting.
Question about the Mayor's City junket, number (???)- Just who is picking up the tab for the non-elected people?
If Durazo, a private person, has her travel expenses paid by the city , what is the justification "officially"? And WHO decides? I believe it's being someone who helps keep the top dog in office, now and in the future, all official b.s. aside.
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10:40am: About using the terminology, "ex-felon", unless and until the conviction is legally "erased", he would still be a "felon" by virtue of the conviction. He could be an "ex-con" by being out of prison, but he's still a felon, subject to whatever legal restrictions go with that.
I don't see any 10:40 am comment.
Coffee House, Coffee Shop, what does it matter, Get Out.
Coffee was horrible there anyway.
Oh hell, I see Southwest Society members all the time, what's this about a "sighting" like it was rare.
Okay, it's true - they don't REALLY want to talk about the Northeast L.A. "Museum Formerly Known as Southwest" - but they're out there, for sure.
And, just wait until Tony's V's re-election campaign kicks in again in a few months, and you won't be able to avoid seeing Secret Southwest Society Socialites anywhere you go. They'll be in front of your eyes like hallucinations in the desert if someone had filled your canteen with LCD-tinged Kool-Aid at that last oasis.
Don't forget that Antonio Villar has another compadre that sits on the public works commission. CYNTHIA RUIZ
Word around city hall and the people at the public works building at broadway is her direct staff and department employees think she's a big liar just like her compadre. She lies all the time and to your face. Liar Liar Liar! Just like Antonio Villar.
Even the bureau directors can't stand her but bow down to her becaue they have to because she's so close to Antonio Villar
For 1:22pm post:
"10:40am" reference should have been decoded to read "11:27am" - still very close, less than an hour off.
Since USC built their med school campus in Boyle Heights in the 1950's, the area has turned into cholo/illegal immigrant/gangbanger-ville. Not hard to imagine why this Biotech Park thing is having trouble getting off the ground.
Anyone else heard the rumor than the Metro Golden Line's 'Southwest Museum Station' is going to be renamed for Jackie Autry?
'Mrs. the Late Gene Autry Station' - does has a nice ring to it.
You pervs have such a man crush on Galaviz it is pathetic.
Don't forget Pacheco's tarnished golden boy, Robert Urteaga, who was behind some nasty hits on Villaraigosa and Huizar that went well beyond politics as usual.
Antonio Vil-LIAR?
Why is Urteaga tarnished? Last I checked he's running the City of Montebello, scaring the shit out of the Calderons and winning elections - handidly. Some tarnish.
I think the poster had Urteaga confused with Pacheco's old buddy lawyer who mailed out those nasty private fliers in 2003 accusing council opponent Villaraigosa of being someone who would cheat on his wife (with another woman) and on the 14th district (by not staying in that office and just using it as a stepping stone to become mayor).
SHAME on that Tony V. critic, on both counts.
How could he be so wrong.
Mayor V. is a committed family man who LOVES his wife would never do ANYTHING to embarrass or shame her, and who served CD14 well for TWO FULL TERMS on council just as he PROMISED before being FORCED to run for mayor to defeat the EVIL James Hahn (who's now in prison for his CORRUPT practices in office).
This is what I read in all the mailers, anyway. And sometimes on this blog.
(A city council term is 1 year, right?)
Even if it was dude, and I appreciate the sarcasm, Councilmember Villar stopped working for CD14 the same day he started running for Mayor in July 2003, which was also the same day he was sworn in as the CD14 CM.
He continued to collect a six-figure salary for two years while he was campaigning to be mayor, but that was just to keep the taxpayers' money from going to waste.
He's not only a committed famly man and public servant, he's frugal with other people's money.
.....and don,t forget, a Republican to boot!!
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