Zuma Dogg Kicks Off Campaign
This old, dead Republican Mayor hasn't said who he is supporting yet for Mayor in 2009 but two recent articles (here and here) by Zuma Dogg at his blog are among some of the most systematic and compelling arguments I've heard from a candidate in some time.
Speaking as prosecutor, with LA's power structure and the status quo as defendants, Zuma Dogg paints a picture of a City government that is inefficient and wasteful at best or fradulent and corrupt at worst, a government that seeks to benefit itself and its special interest supporters with half-baked but expensive solutions to pressing needs that don't really solve the problem they attempt to address and a government that defrauds the voters and residentry by pitching mislabeled proposals seemingly to fix things that are broken but are nothing more than shells for further shadiness.
Labels: 2009 mayoral election, zuma dogg
Posted by Michael Higby @ 12/08/2008 04:00:00 AM
18 Comments:
Say what you want about Zuma but at least he's had the guts to speak out on the corrupt morons we have running this city. Out city looks like a 3rd world country. Taxpayers dollars have been mishandled by these bafoons, we have NO LEADERSHIP, and they are doing back room deals by passing OUR VOICE. Zuma may not win but you have to at least give him credit for trying.
Less than 25% of the voting populace will vote next March. We must remember what the present administration has done to us and our property. Remember Jamiel when you vote; remember how many people get services and they are not citizens, remember when you lost your job, everything stopped when YOU stoped getting paid unemployment money, remember that all of your neighbors, received rent, food, cash "FOR THE ANCHOR CHILDREN, remember how much money went to the people in the orange shirts who were hired for Home Depot. Remember in March all of the things that you learned about this administration in the last three years. VOTE FOR ZUMA DOGG1
Michael,
THANKS! Really glad you feel that way. And Heather, thanks, too.
Where the hell is Red Spot? How come the only people writing for MS these days is Higby and Joe B? Did Ed Head get scared off by Mailander's post?
Get serious!
Is this a joke? Zuma Dogg for Mayor?
I saw Zuma Dogg getting signatures and it is true a lot of people know who he is.
Although I doubt your success against a well funded incumbent I applaud your tenacity.
That being said, I think that whoever wins this election will not only Not change a damned thing, but he or she will continue to run the city in a slovenly manner as all previous elected officials.
Good luck nonetheless.
I wonder who will pick up the gauntlet when and if ZD starts scurrying around City Hall.
11:59am,
why do you assume I would change? I hope that wouldn't be the case. but yeah, if I did make it into office, of course there would be the need for someone to keep zd transparent and the same.
Zuma Dogg,
As Mayor, we would be holding you just as accountable as we have with the last two mayors.
So no worries there! :)
Dude, you can't remain unchanged once you take office. Thats the nature of the beast. Do you honestly believe that if you were in office you would never have to accommodate someone who left a bad taste in your mouth? Not saying thats what AV does or that you would, either. But come on, politics is a nasty business.
I don't think that you would be able to remain completely unbiased if you held public office. But hey, you may be the exception to the rule.
Of course it is a joke, a cruel joke, perpetrated by Mayor Sam on a helpless fool who doesn't even know his own real name.
Zuma Dogg = Dave Elliott = Dave Saltzburg
Which one, or all will be running?
There are laws, you know, about usig your own name when running for office.
Same for your true address.
Throw your money away, but don't worry, it will go right to Starbucks, MTA or Union Oil.
Scam on, Dave...
Trujillo are you guys really bugged by Zuma Dogg?
3:58pm, i know there is a difference between an advocate/activist and someone actually in office.
i don't want to shut the city down, and i am already learning, as candidate for mayor, a lot of different groups and causes want to talk to me for an endorsement, and then you have to consider their main issue.
and as soon as one group endorses you, it could piss off another group. so i understand it's tough.
but in radio i was known as the guy who couldn't be bought off...and hopefully the groups that want to endorse me, will do so because i will end up helping them at the big picture level (a better community) and not because i promise the farm.
SUMMARY: I'm sure once I take office, I will find out it's not as easy to live in a world of activist perfection, but I do think that I'll be much less inclined to cave in and maybe i wont' cave in at all.
If the critics of ZD here were up on things as they think they are, they would already have known that he qualified to run nearly a week ago.
And if they don't want to vote for him, what's there big solution? Put Tony Villar into Term Two for the big meltdown? That's the real joke. (Got to be staffers.)
I think Zuma Dogg would be be way more than able to be mayor- and from Tony's first term experience, you can see that the city has been on autopilot for most of the time, until he comes back into town to eff it up more that his City Council has, but with his personal touch.
I really think ZD has more knowledge of the issues that are important to the city, unlike Tony- although Tony knows more about the waste, abuse and fraud first-hand from the other side of the fence.
Another Zuma supporter in CD-14
It almost might be worth it to elect the jerk, just to see how he deals with other loudmouthed, idiotic, smelly rag-tag fools who want their three minutes of TV time, etc.
No, on second thought, it wouldn't be worth it...my friends from other cities would laugh us out of existence for having our version of Al Franken (aka Stuart Smalley) for a figurehead.
12:03am- You already have that.
From w/i cd-14
No Zuma, you wouldn't have to sell out exactly.
All you have to do is what you think is the RIGHT THING.
I don't even care if you take money as long as when that person asks you for something you don't do it because they gave you money. You do it or don't do it BECAUSE IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
That's the secret Zuma Dogg. Now go get votes!
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