Double Haiku: Where's Rocky?
Esq. Delgadillo.Lays low for rest of his term.
Keeps car keys from wife.
Stole from the City.
Lied about his scholarship.
Still better than Weiss.
Labels: jack weiss, rocky delgadillo
Posted by Shelby York @ 8/14/2008 08:40:00 AM
15 Comments:
Where's Rocky? He's suing Laura Chick for overstepping her charter mandate.
I'd say that's something other than "business as usual". When was the last time one elected city official in L.A. sued another?
Yes, heaven forbid that the City Attorney's office have any accoutability.
You've got to admit he's showing that he's got some balls. The woman has emasculated every other politician in City Hall. (The sisterhood, of course, wouldn't dare criticize her.) Given the history of the Fleishman Hillard scandal, which Jill Stewart pointed out this week of LAWeekly web site, it's amazing he actually pointed out in his complaint that he used her office to screw Hahn during the last election. That's exactly what the people who wrote the charter were afraid of.
oops ....that she used her office.
Chick should have looked into Rocky;s shady dealings with ClearChannel/CBS Outdoors years ago. Because they gave him a full half million $$$$ in his race for CA against a billboard blight activist, plastering his mug all over the city for free, he's undermined the Council's billboard ordinance at every turn so that now, they've gotten the permission to put up 800 giant LED things illegally too and there's nothing our Councilmembers can do about it.
The Council passed an ordinance in 2002 requiring all billboard co's to pay for each one and keep a list available for review of locations. When they objected (they didn't "buy" Rocky for this, they thought) Rocky cut in HALF the fees per billboard AND gave them the rights to replace 800 of them with 7-story high fully lighted monsters.
Jan Perry and Ed Reyes, two shining lights of the Council, were happy to help make things worse by forcing the Council to approve a couple of the things in a newly created "billboard district" in her area, because they promised her a few bucks towards a park (while they're suing the County/MTA about enforcing the billboard ordinances, nice guys that they are).
When the city sued recently, the courts said that because the ordinance has been violated for so long by this one pair of companies, other companies can't be held more accountable -- so we've got the only big city that's got rampant billboards. Now the Council has to draft another ordinance to try again.
Besides the visual ugliness, LA's losing hundreds of millions annually in billboard fees.
Jill Stewart and Christine Pelisek documented this, the Times has written about it... All Rocky's gotten was some public scolding for being shameless about accepting more freebies from ClearChannel. Chick should investigate this scam.
Excellent Haiku.
Lays truth bare while teaches.
Less is indeed more.
P.S. to 10:38: ClearChannel/CBS are paying nada for some 4000 illegal billboards, not even the half the aount that Rocky cut it down to, and haven't kept a list. Even the Weekly sued them to get one; now a private citizen group is going around trying to document them and get them to pay up. Instead, other companies are copying them with a "if he's getting away with it, we can to!"
Rocky's not just stupid, he's been working FOR the billboard companies.
Retarded Haiku
Ignorant and arrogant
LA's always are
City attorney is supposed to be accountable to US! Not some pre-campaigning city council candidate who's not getting her share of the press in any other way.
Read the charter - read the lawsuit.
Chick can perform FINANCIAL audits of the CA and other elected officials, through her office, which is the kind of accountability we should expect from a CONTROLLER (number cruncher). She CAN'T perform "performance audits" of anything but city DEPARTMENTS.
Mayor, City Attorney, City Councilmembers are not "departments."
Who the hell made her our HUMAN RESOURCES guru for other elected officials? We grade out elected official's performance -- in a little tradition called ELECTIONS, or did you forget.
How about we make Chick ACCOUNTABLE to the city charter she's sworn to uphold, NOT to her own ambitions to get and keep another 6-figure city job after being termed out.
I'll guaran-damn-tee you, that if she's elected to city council, and the next controller decides to performance audit HER (which would be the same thing), she'd plant her foot up there backside even faster for over=stepping authority just the same way she is now.
Please don't start inundating with the haiku's again. It makes this blog barely readable.
11:44, you get what you pay for.
11:40, you're wrong. Mayor and City Attorney are City Departments. Get your facts straight!
1:08 p.m.
Yes, "insider" (meaning you sweep which floors at night?) you often hear them referred to as the "Mayor's Department" and the "City Attorney's Department".
Maybe next time you come back late from lunch you should take a deep breath before trying to think or post, moron.
There's a very specific, legal reason they're called OFFICES (OFFICE OF THE MAYOR, etc.) and not "departments." AND, there's a reason the city charter identifies them very specifically as one, or the other, but never both. You also NEVER hear of the Planning OFFICE, or the Building & Safety OFFICE (because THEY are departments, headed by people appointed by the mayor -- NOT elected by us).
Read the lawsuit filed, if the words aren't too big, "insider." Even the CON-Troller doesn't try to say they're departments. No, she's trying to improvise other definitions, like "the attorney's that handle just this one area are 'departments' within the CA's OFFICE. She weasels words worse than an attorney.
What is this BS about Ron Kaye for Controller?
On what planet?
Under what controlled medication?
Wasn't he one of the top dogs that ran the Daily News into near-bankruptcy, so it had to be fire-saled to the lowest bidder.
It hasn't been the same since. It's less of a real paper today than when it was the "Van Nuys News & Green Sheet" 30+ years ago. That one actually gave the old, sturdy L.A. Times and the Herald Examiner a run for their money in the Valley.
1:58, I work in City Hall. I know City Departments. You obviously have never known City Departments. "Office of..." and "Department of/on..." has the same context.
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