Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Monday
Supporters of the Los Angeles Zoo's efforts to keep on track the multi-million dollar effort to construct a controversial elephant exhibit thought that they had lost the battle and the votes needed on the City Council to keep the elephant pen from being shut down. Then a white knight in the form of Global Crossing founder and Wall Street rainmaker Gary Winnick came to their rescue. Winnick hired crisis management guru Mike Sitrick to turn it around for them. Sitrick who handled PR for Paris Hilton during her county jail days and Rush Limbaugh during his pill popping phase got right to work and, according to insiders, managed to turn Bill Rosendahl to the dark side bringing along Jose Huizar and Ed Reyes and securing the Zoo a win. The bill: tipsters say $250,000. Mayoral Candidate David "Zuma Dogg" Saltsburg will be interviewed by KABC Talkradio AM 790 host Doug McIntyre Monday at 9:30 a.m. By the way if any other Mayoral candidates want to send us over their media appearances we'll be glad to post them.
Lots of hand wringing by paperweight winners over the LA Times decision to axe it's "California" section and move local news to the main section. However Ron Kaye, a blogger who's actually run daily metropolitan papers, says that's not a bad thing. Kaye opines "The Times becoming a Los Angeles newspaper could be the best thing for the city. The community needs a powerful, credible voice to stand up for the common good, the greater good, to passionately tell the stories of who we are and how we could do better." In his hand wringing our favorite paperweight winner keeps making the claim that by getting rid of the California section, the Times can print its Calendar entertainment section at night, hence keeping it more newsy. However, Ed Padgett, a blogger who has actually printed a newspaper explains how the paper is actually printed. Folks this is the kind of reportage that wins Pulitzers.
The LA Weekly reports that Mayor Villaraigosa and Southern California Congressman Xavier Becerra apparently didn't rate invitations to President Obama's Superbowl party at the White House. But guess who did: Senator John McCain, but apparently the former Republican Presidential candidate was not able to make it.
From the weekend:
- Jasmyne Cannick on Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the Missing Councilmembers
- Candidate Adeena Bleich Stumps in CD5
Labels: bill rosendahl, david saltsburg, ed padgett, gary winnick, kabc, LA Times, Los Angeles Zoo, mayor antonio villaraigosa, mike sitrick, President Barack Obama, Ron Kaye, westside white guy
Posted by Michael Higby @ 2/02/2009 02:00:00 AM
5 Comments:
Tony Cardenas will be glad to learn of Winnick's dirty pool here.
Winnick's wife, Karen, is the Vice Chair of the LA Zoo Commission, and a strong advocate for keeping the exhibit at the Zoo.
Why not spend $250, 000 if you've got hundreds of millions and your wife wants something?
Hell, some guys just buy their wives a diamond or a car, or something, but with that kind of bucks, it must take a $50 Million gift to get her to really love you. If you can buy it for only $250,0000, it's a bargain, right?
Note to Mayor Sam and his BFF: That's why Mayor Villaraigosa will be re-elected in a landslide that will bury both BFF and WM. Money talks, and ...
"Controversial elephant exhibit"
Does that mean you, Mayor Sam?
Corruption at its best. Made the damn council morons look like a bunch of idiots caving in for money. Where are the Feds on this? Then you have the LA Times story by the great David Z that we all thought had given up how DWP Nahai knew for over a year about the Solar measure and kept it secret.
VIGNALI DRUG LORD is the reason Becerra and Villaraigosa didn't get invited to Obama Super Bowl. Notice Villaraigosa name was not even reported in LA Times governor race last week. Did Corina ever get her name back?
So who's in charge of the Mayor Sam fat jokes? Trujillo, Uli or someone else?
Unlike the source who provided, under the cloak of anonymity, erroneous information concerning our so-called bill for the work we did for GLAZA and the Zoo, I am making this post under my name. The reason: my information is accurate and I am willing to stand behind and be accountable for what I am posting.
All of our work for GLAZA and the Zoo was done as a donation-in-kind. And for the record, the fees and expenses which were incurred and then donated for this work didn't approach anywhere near $250,000.
Michael S. Sitrick,
Chairman & CEO
Sitrick And Company
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