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Labels: Ron Kaye, s.l.a.p., saving l.a. project
Posted by solomon @ 7/11/2008 06:25:00 AM
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This is bullshit. Again they're making this political. They want to create a Citizen's Oversight Committee yet the people like the Mayor who get to appoint the people and council people will be the same bullshit, corrupt idiots just like the ones on the Neighborhood Commissioners.
If the measure is placed on the November ballot, it will require a two- thirds vote for approval.
A Citizens Advisory Oversight Committee would also be established. That panel would be comprised of nine members -- four appointed by the mayor, three appointed by the city council president, one by the police chief, and one by the chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on Gang Violence and Youth Development.
The mayor's appointees would have to be representatives of the San Fernando Valley, South Los Angeles, the Westside and the Eastside. Gang-related crimes affect every part of the city, Hahn said.
"When we talk to voters all over Los Angeles the two things on everybody's minds are traffic and gangs. Everyone is feeling like Los Angeles is not the livable city that it could be as long as we have the grip of gangs," Hahn said.
For those of you who like reading between the lines to find the invisible hand manipulating the content on blogs, check out Roderick's screed this morning attacking Kaye, who coincidentally, posted a critical critique of Roderick's profile of David Nahai in LA Magazine -- just like Roderick does to other writers all the time.
Roderick is so pissed off at Kaye and his fellow travelers -- Steve Lopez, Sandra Tsing Loh, the Jewish Journal and those crazy AM radio hosts (McIntyre?) -- that he can't contain it to one post. He needed two adds.
Now check out who gets a blow job in the preceeding post. Gee, it's Ace Smith. Maybe it's just a coincidence. Or maybe Smith wants nothing to do with Kaye screwing around with his candidates for the next year and was whispering in Kevin's ear. Better to squash that annoying bug early.
The last thing Ace wants to do is prepare Antonio to debate Kaye.
Clinton's man in California a pro at digging up dirt
Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has turned to Averell "Ace" Smith -- who earned his stripes as one of the nation's most feared political opposition researchers -- to steer her campaign in California.
Smith, 48, is genteel, soft-spoken and bespectacled -- but also is the epitome of a take-no-prisoners political operative who has built a reputation as a dogged researcher and, more recently, a winning California campaign manager, political allies and opponents agree.
"I've seen him walk into a room, and the opposition candidate will literally start mumbling," said former Democratic strategist Clint Reilly, who has run campaigns for U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and former Democratic state Treasurer Kathleen Brown and has worked with Smith. "They're just totally terrified with his presence."
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Smith, 48, surprised California political veterans by jumping from the role of top political researcher to the role of campaign manager during Antonio Villaraigosa's successful 2005 run for mayor of Los Angeles against then-incumbent James Hahn.
Villaraigosa credits Smith with making the "biggest difference" in the campaign's message in what became a landslide victory.
"He's single-minded in his focus, intensely disciplined and loyal," Villaraigosa said of Smith, who remains a trusted adviser. "He loves politics and thrives in the heat of battle ... (and) has an incredible intensity level. He comes to play the game, and he works from the first minute to the last."
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It was a bare-knuckled strategy that marked the race for Villaraigosa, a candidate whose first try at the mayor's office in Los Angeles was derailed by intensely personal attacks from Hahn that included a famous TV ad featuring a grainy image of Villaraigosa and a crack pipe.
Sean Clegg, a former SCN partner who is now Villaraigosa's deputy mayor for communications, said Smith was fearless about fighting back for his client in the rematch. He said he was skeptical when Smith unearthed "an obscure billing scandal in the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power" and predicted -- correctly, it turned out -- that it would have a corrosive effect on Hahn's support.
"He saw the power of that issue because Antonio ran a race centered on the issues of ethics and trust,'' Clegg said.
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