Tuesday Hotsheet for Very Important People
Very Important PersonSan Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom was spotted over the weekend honeymooning in Malibu with wife Jennifer Siebel and former Gray Davis political consultant Garry South. As the trio enjoyed a romantic afternoon espresso and gazed longingly upon one another, Inspector Zuma Dogg approached and noticed that Newsom’s 18.7–foot, 2.8–ton GMC Yukon XL (EPA Estimated MPG 12 city/17 hwy) was parked illegally in the red curb zone reserved for emergency personnel.
Long story short, Newsom’s S.U.V. was promptly relocated to the Starbucks parking lot where mere mortals are requested to park, and ZD’s videotaped encounter was picked up by the San Francisco Chronicle. Story and videos here and here. So much for buying local, treading light, or even obeying the law… that’s three strikes for Gavin—the same man who recently floated imposing monster fines on people who fail to properly sort their garbage. What is it with California mayors and their trash tax fetishes?
Our Dear Leader Mayor Sam has launched an effort to draft former Daily News editor, Ron Kaye to challenge Councilmember Wendy Greuel for city controller. Kaye would bring passion and street cred to the table. Plus, he would campaign to serve as the taxpayers’ watchdog not having just participated in turning the city’s largest-ever budget surplus into the largest-ever budget deficit.
Speaking of which, Rick Orlov is reporting that current City Controller Laura Chick is promising a decision by Thanksgiving Day on her next move. It’s been widely speculated that Chick will move to Studio City and run for the city council seat to be vacated by Wendy Greuel assuming Wendy wins the controller job. Elections are now formalities.
In other news, L.A.P.D. will soon step up enforcement of anti-dumping laws in South Los Angeles, Santa Monica is considering an initiative that would limit commercial growth through 2024, and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger—California’s last fiscal hope, blow-upper of the boxes—is floating a one–percent sales tax increase to plug his leaky budget. If the M.T.A.’s half-percent sales tax is also approved, the combination would raise L.A. County’s sales tax to 9.75%. Schwarzenegger calls the tax “temporary;” says after four years it would be lowered below its current rate. If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
Labels: arnold schwarzenegger, gavin newsom, laura chick, Ron Kaye, wendy greuel, zuma dogg
Posted by solomon @ 8/05/2008 08:00:00 AM
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Ron Kaye has this scoop.
Superintendent David Brewer and the school toasted their unanimous agreement on a deeply flawed $7 billion bond issue last week with champagne at the Pacific Dining Car but already they are facing criticism that they must have been drunk when they planned it.
In a devastating interview last night on Which Way L.A.? on KCRW , Warren Olney got school board President Monica Garcia to admit the bond issue was more than doubled "without a plan" because Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa had a poll that indicated he could get it passed.
As Garcia put it, "He wanted us to put more than paint on the buildings" -- in other words, for the kids to live in the same style he's become accustomed to.
Among the many things wrong with the bond plan is that $2 billion in spending is not even specified which should require it to need approval by two-thirds of voters instead of 55 percent if it only contained money for specific construction and equipment.
Caprice Young, head of the state charter school movement, and A.J. Duffy, head of LA.'s teachers union, both condemned the bond plan and left open whether they will support it on the November ballot but the real criticism came from Connie Rice, the civil rights lawyer who heads the Bond Oversight Committee.
"I have no confidence in the superintendent and the leadership of the district," she said, noting that "circuses are run better than this." I can only assume she means the animals are actually trained to do what they do and this board and superintendent have no training at all for what they're doing.
Simply amazing.......
Zumma Dogg is the greatest public servant in Southern California!!! He does more for the citizens than the boneheads who are paid to serve the public.
Let's go Zumma haters. Blog away dum dums. (Sorry Mayor Sam for stealing your line).
Laura Chick wants to carpetbag into CD2 and STILL no audit of LA Bridges in sight.
What are you smoking?
All you do with a post like that is to encourage the retard, homeless, jobless wastrel to run around sticking his large nose into everyone else's business.
He has no life, thus he lives for the few crumbs like the one you just threw him.
Tell us, what great feat is it to videotape an illegally parked car?
Hell, come on down to CD 14; they tow them away around here at the drop of a hat so they can screw us poor workers for hundreds of dollars if we make a mistake.
Why doesn't he just get a real job and make somemoney, say like Zanhiser or Orlov, or others who do it properly?
No, this stinking hulk wanders in an out of places where people who have hygene congregate and stinks up the place, both literally and musically.
Go to San Francisco, ZD, they'll love you there and you'll fit right in.
We need new leaders in the political field. Not the same ones moving around from one position to another.
The real question here on the LAUSD situation is "How much damage can MONICA GARCIA, while leading the rest of the Board, inflict upon for Los Angeles?"
At first glance, MONICA GARCIA's view of things, as presented by her quotes, rivals that of Yogi Berra. However, Yogi Berra's unusual presentation of thought, demonstrated by his memorable quotes were odd but still decipherable and entertaining.
GARCIA's thought is puzzling but is neither decipherable nor clearly entertaining.
GARCIA presents lots of irony in the simple statements she's made, especially with most of the criticisms she's stated. Just too ripe to leave alone, but I will.
90041 view.
Thank you 9:30 a.m. You took the bait...hook, line and sinker! That was too easy!!!
I might add that Zumma got way more attention from the San Francisco Chronicle than he got here.
Gavin has achieved levels of sleaze Antonio can only wish for. From www.insidethesfpd.com:
...Does anyone remember when the “Gav-Trotter”, Dr. “G” made a fool of himself when he thought it would be cool to get down with the homies at Westpoint/Middlepoint housing development and partake in a little hoop with the bruthas? All the while he was mixin’ it up and gettin’ his swish on, a body was burning inside of a nearby vehicle, and somehow his three point attempt made front page news but the charred corpse hardly made the ink.
How about the time when his honor, the Gavinator, actually took advantage of a drug induced addict and seduced her, probably in one of the City Hall offices, while her husband was busy trying to assist his wife’s lover in reducing the Police Department’s morale to an all time low with the Videogate press conference strategy. Wow, what a great role model and leader huh?
Does anyone know whether or not Gavy has ceased drinking altogether? Did he succeed in his Delancy Street program, and if so, don’t you think it would be appropriate for him to share this momentous occasion with his constituency?
9:30 a.m., The last time I checked, this was still a free country. Trying to restrict the dissemination of opinions because you disagree presents new dangers of its own.
It might not be hard to imagine how things like that could be turned around on you.
What are you doing besides complaining?
Gavin would be a terrible Governor!
San Francisco is a Sanctuary City for gangs under his leadership.
Do we want a Sanctuary State for gangs under his leadership too?
Yes on Gavin Newsom for Guv.
Yes on CA becoming a sanctuary State. Yes on the fence built that would surround the State. Yes on the acid-filled moat to run deep and hot outside the fence. Yes to the gunships that would patrol the fence. Yes to the "shoot on sight" mandate for any fenceclimbers.
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