Danielle Bologna, what a Lady!
If you missed it, you missed something powerful! Hundreds of people came together! A special thank you goes out to all the people who stood with us today!
Doug McIntyre and his staff did a great job! From beginning to the end, it was great! Thank you Doug and the entire 790-KABC family! Thank you for bringing our families together and bringing all the people together! Who knew it would take, "talk radio", to save lives?
I think every person on earth should meet, Danielle Bologna! She's remarkable! She truly is! I have been sitting here trying to write about today and the connection our families had, but I can't. Danielle and Frank are a blessing to our lives. It's too overwhelming right now. It's been a very emotional day! I will post pictures of the event tomorrow.
I can tell you that our families united within seconds of meeting! It was so perfect because Doug introduced us and then let us talk and cry in private. It was more than a press conference for our families. It's more than just a story. It's so sad and yet it's rewarding, because illegal alien gangbangers are on the way out!
Posted by Althea R. Shaw @ 8/07/2008 05:10:00 PM
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Is Councilmember Weiss missing in action?
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at City Council
After it was declared that City Council had a Quorum, 13 members present, Council President Garcetti said everyone who is expected except Mr. Weiss. Please make your way down.
Garcetti took up Item No. 9 “An ordinance amending Section 66.41 of Article 6.1, of the Los Angeles Municipal Code, "Solid Waste Collection, Recycling and Disposal Fee," to set the Single-Family Dwelling and Multiple-Family Dwelling charges through July 1, 2009.” Once the hearing was over 13members voted yes, including Councilmember Weiss, but Mr. Weiss was nowhere to be seen.
Immediately thereafter, Garcetti took Item No. 6 “PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE REPORT relative to the appointment of Mr. Richard A. Roupoli to the Los Angeles County Emergency Preparedness Commission” and recognized Mr. Weiss, Chair of Public Safety Committee, but Weiss was nowhere to be seen. Garcetti said we’ll wait for Mr. Weiss for just a moment. Garcetti proceeded with the hearing without Mr. Weiss. A confirmation vote was taken, but Mr. Weiss did not vote because as the previous item he was nowhere to be seen.
This obsessive-compulsive just cut and pasted the identical thing at RonKaye's blog and elsewhere -- got a pea in your knickers about Weiss? Unless you're working for an opponent I can't imagine what possesses people like you to get so petty and personal about a local official...WEIRD.
It isn't weird to criticize Jack (@$$) Weiss. He is a candidate for Citywide office next year.
You don't have to be 'working for an opponent' to be concerned about his conduct. Voters deserve to know the truth !!
Are you one of his staff members - paid to defend him ????
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My heart bleeds for Mrs. Balogna, but she should be seeking redress in San Francisco. Instead, she and her brother in law were fed a bunch of ignorant misinformation by Doug McIntyre and his colleagues. Frank was therefore making utterly nonsensical comments and accusations.
If you wonder why the major media, which is required to separate slander and baseless PR- getting ops from information didn't cover this more, blame McIntyre and his know-nothings. Shame on them, using the Balognas this way.
12:40- easy to spin and slam the efforts of others that don't match your own agenda.
No amount of spin erases Weiss' clumsy involvement. He should have moved the motion to city council right away, and but I suspect he was "instructed" to stall as much as possible and "take one for the team."
The Times and others work on a give-and-take basis a lot when it comes to politicians- and I wonder how much more of the "on the take part" is involved lately- but the L.A. Times continue to rightfully earn the reputation for non- coverage of local matters. The Times winds up doing about as well as the the t.v. news, or more aptly described, "info-tainment news."
Weiss' aide, at the Westwood ribbon-cutting for the first diagonal cross-walk in the city(like Old Town Pasadena has had for years), made a statement to KABC's Sandy Wells that "we want what everybody wants" when asked about the handling of the Zine motion by Weiss. And note that the crowd yesterday was not their to cheer Weiss' stall game.
Also in Westwood with Jack was Mayor Tony V., aka Weiss' campaign manager for his 2009 city attorney run. There's your baseless p.r. ops with the master of these.
I suspect the delay had something to do with the open hostility between Zine and Bratton -- never mind Bitter Bernie and Bratton, those two are fast friends by comparison. Zine's been bashing Bratton in public, maybe carrying water for his friend and Bratton rival D A Cooley (who's the only law enforcement official who's shunned every forum on gang bangers or responding to national terror threats, that Bratton's organized).
Bratton told Zine he'd educate him on how SO40 already allows for cooperation with ICE for suspects, just not random stops of those who maybe "look like" illegals (lawsuits in the making there, on profiling claims), but Zine's kept publicly dissing him on it, supporting oppponents and the rightwing Republican radio types. Plus battling Bratton on the paparazzi law -- and without Bratton's support, whatever Zine's tried to accomplish with his grandstanding is DOA.
On top of that, the City Attorney's office has opined that Jamiel's Law and Zine's "toothless, watered down version" are likely unconstitutional, so even if the Council pushed it through, would be sued and likely lose.
So Zine's been continuing to push for his "motion" even though Bratton and the City Attorney oppose it as redundant or unconstitutional -- while everyone's waiting on Bratton to complete what "clarifications" it needs and present it to the Police Commission, which wants to review all policy changes because of the Consent Decree. (Like over the financial disclosure debates.)
And finally, it's really a matter of federal law if the debate is going to be include all law enforcement as it pertains to the illegal immigration issue and felonies.
It's far from the "simple as can be" matter fool Walter Moore and Zine keep claiming it is, and misleading the poor Shaws it is. Their law IF passed would be thrown out and not enforced from the get-go. Bratton's right: Zine IS grandstanding on a number of issues these days...really behaving oddly.
(From the way he whined he was going to daddy, the Mayor and Police Commission, over Bratton last week, I wonder if Zine even understands what he's been doing.)
With all the drama and depts. to coordinate, October isn't that much time -- even if the Shaws have been misled to believe the issue can be debated and solved with a snap by that whiny Walter and McIntyre.
No one said it was going to be solved immediately. The question was really more like, "When would they start any open discussions?"
The possibility of the law being decided as unconstitutional is not a certainty. Everything is subject to interpretation and there hasn't been any narrowing of the possible bases for a determination. Is the law (and any particular version is not specified other than the text in Moore's version) claimed to be unconstitutional on its face or as applied?
Nothing is final, many variables remain, and everything is subject to interpretation, but the DELAYS now are the indicators of the attitude that elected and appointed officials are displaying very openly. While they claim to want to address the gang problems and profess a commitment to making the city safer, their silence tells a different story.
No one even comments on this subject of all the council members other than Zine. I'd take that over the political sandbagging alternative that the other so-called leaders follow. Doing nothing is what they are good at. If they would apply that approach to their propensity to spend we might be better off fiscally.
It is all about politics. Survival of the citizenry of Los Angeles will always be subordinated to the survival of the politician’s career. At least we can try out new politicians when the opportunity arises, and if we are lucky, they may want to work for the public’s welfare instead of their own. We already know what these guys do.
An L.A. constituent
Besides the constitutional issue of profiling (you know the ACLU, MExican= American LEgal Defense Fund, and black groups would sue, claiming they're being discriminatingagainst)d youths who "look like" the "might be" in gangs, there's the issue that if law enforcement wanted to avoid possible charges of profiling, they'd have to check everyone's ID's for legal status. (The only exceptions include gang injunctions which give cops an excuse to question those who might be in gangs -- one main reason to have injunctions.)
How'd you like to have to carry around your passport here in America, and be prepared to show it to cops or sheriffs, at any time? Sounds like the worst dictatorships to me. But it's that or have the LAPD, Sheriffs and city be open to accusations of singling people out for being Latino, black, or looking a certain way: a heavy judgment call to lay on a beat cop.
The airports are dealing with this issue by making everyone from babies to old people with walkers, virtually undress at security and subject to being patted down. But even they don't require you to show your citizenship status for local travel -- as jamiel's Law would require of everyone. We've lost so many of our privacy protections since 9/11, do we want our local cops to act like the KGB?
These are among the constitutional issues that simpletons like Walter Moore or Doug McIntyre haven't thought of and are giving the Shaws a naive view of what's involved.
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