Radio Alert: Mayor Sam on the Air
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Posted by Michael Higby @ 8/11/2008 09:28:00 PM
Monday, August 11, 2008
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Hat's off to you, Mayor Sam, for catching the Mexican book fair boondoggle. As soon as I could, I spread the word to the people on my e-mail list. Anyone who wants to stay current on local politics had better check the Mayor Sam site daily -- at least.
God... have these LA city councilnuts lost their mind completely?
Higby, you sounded like a total cultural neanderthal on the show, as is fitting given Doug McIntyre's own simpleminded, damn the facts nature. (True to form, idiot Walter Moore is jumping on board without a clue too, and your blogging idiot zuma dogg jumped in at council, but that was perfect.)
The money is a federal grant to promote the work of American artists, in this case for arts groups and individuals to go to Guadalajara. As the Cultural Affairs rep said, it's just like sending artists to Paris a couple of years ago to promote LA arts -- if we didn't get the money, the county or another city would. It can't be used to fund local libraries, dummies -- the NEA funds have their own purposes.
But why not scream at the NEA for not funding local libraries instead -- true to the ignorant being led by greater fools as is your want in the Doug McIntyre/KABC (except Larry Elder/KFI/Ron Kaye (sadly) and Mayor Sam world... (1:00 is a case in point: jumping in to deride something that is NOT the case, following you clowns.)
The only thing I'd have liked to know is, WHY Guadalajara -- it's not Paris, and while Parisians need to be educated that LA isn't all gangs and Hollywood, but real art too, and it's a cultural capitol -- who cares about what they think in Guadalajara?
UNLESS it's an international festival exposing our artists to others around the world. But no one asked that -- Cardenas and Huizar got worked up at Mexico being dissed and singled out "as usual," Garcetti jumped in to add that Mexico is our biggest trading partner.
But how many rich Mexicans are going to come to LA to enjoy our "arts" -- don't they come here anyway, just because it's the closest "Western" (that's arguable) city to them, and they all have family connections? What NEW business or exposure are we getting? Could LA be spending this money to send artists to a country with a higher international cultural profile, which we're not already stuck in ties with?
But none of these questions were asked, because Higby and the rest of his companions in idiocy never got past their ignorance that this money could be used for libraries, and was somehow being spent BY LA instead of the federal government.
(And don't start telling the feds to cut funding for the NEA -- like your chief idiot screamers like Lush Rimbaugh do -- they already have cut it way down; if they cut it totally, all arts funding will be lost and once they cut out an ongoing budget item, it's next to impossible to get it back. Even you can't object to art in principle.)
Wow! The staffers are getting cranky! I guess they don't like it when Mayor Sam catches their scams to give tax dollars to cronies, and they like it even less when he's able to spread the word to taxpayers via radio!
City Hall sends our ambulances to Mexico. City Hall sends our tax dollars to Mexico. The only thing City Hall does not send to Mexico is Mexicans here illegally.
248 we understand all that and we reported all that.
We know it's federal money, blah, blah, blah.
It doesn't matter that it's Mexico. It could be going to Iowa, I don't care.
It's the principal of the matter. The City put a lot of effort into getting this grant. Olga Garay said she "won the jackpot."
And that's exactly how these people see it.
They think they're entitled to your money.
Promoting the arts is wonderful. I was a film/theatre major.
But the private sector has to support it.
And even if I believed that government should promote the arts, the last people I want responsible for that is the 15 (more or less) clowns running the City or any of those frustrated artists at DCA.
I know you still won't get it but I had to try.
The only thing I'd have liked to know is, WHY Guadalajara -- it's not Paris, and while Parisians need to be educated that LA isn't all gangs and Hollywood, but real art too, and it's a cultural capitol -- who cares about what they think in Guadalajara?
Your comments are inflammatory.
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