Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Wednesday
If there is a tipping point for the City's controversial practice of offering special event fee waivers - that is covering the costs of traffic control, police, trash, etc. for events held in the City, history may show that it was Tuesday when the Council approved over $3K in waivers for something called :"Dyke Day." Many gays and lesbians were offended at the approval of an event that many feel includes a derogatory term; many other Angelenos were offended that Tuesday the Council approved another $75K in the waivers at a time when Los Angeles may be facing bankruptycy. The word of "Dyke Day" kicked up quite the meme in the blogs-LA-phere with coverage at LAist and RonKayeLA.
The Beckford Elementary School Parents Blog gives a good blow by blow of the scene from Tuesday's LA Unified Board of Education meeting where teachers' union members and other activtists were on hand to protest planned teacher layoffs. The District will send layoff notices to about 9,000 employees as a precautionary measure should the LAUSD actually have to reduce staff later this year.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is leading the pack in the number of people who are following his micro-blogging "tweets" on the Twitter service. Newsom has over 43,000 followers while potential opponent Mayor Villaraigosa has just 798. Your favorite old, dead Republican Mayor has 48 followers and I'm not even running for office.
We send our best wishes to Downtown Central City East Blogger Don Garza. As you may know Don has been living and blogging from Skid Row for several years and has experienced health problems due to his living situation. Don now has an opportunity to create a blog design firm and had his first presentation Tuesday. Good luck to Don who not only wants to earn a living but use the resources his business will provide him to help the homeless. That's not only admirable, it's the way things should be.
Franklin Avenue reports on a new local digital channel for New York City created by NBC, "New York Non-Stop." Of course comes the usual whine "Why don't we have this in LA?" But, as even the Franklins note, LA does have an NBC digital station, the excellent KNBC News Raw. The station is able to use the expanded time it has to cover imporant issues in-depth and has recently produced well-done reporting on the nonsense at City Hall and outshone all the local media in covering the recent elections. On the other hand, New York Non-Stop is the usual namby-pamby crap seen on shows like "2 on the Town" or "Eye on LA" that covers what yuppies had for dinner or some artist that is building the Mona Lisa out of trash. Nice stuff, but we already have that programming.
And finally, Valley Doll says she's heard a rumor that a member of the City Council we all know and love may have knocked up their "partner." Congrats on the coming bundle of joy!
The Beckford Elementary School Parents Blog gives a good blow by blow of the scene from Tuesday's LA Unified Board of Education meeting where teachers' union members and other activtists were on hand to protest planned teacher layoffs. The District will send layoff notices to about 9,000 employees as a precautionary measure should the LAUSD actually have to reduce staff later this year.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is leading the pack in the number of people who are following his micro-blogging "tweets" on the Twitter service. Newsom has over 43,000 followers while potential opponent Mayor Villaraigosa has just 798. Your favorite old, dead Republican Mayor has 48 followers and I'm not even running for office.
We send our best wishes to Downtown Central City East Blogger Don Garza. As you may know Don has been living and blogging from Skid Row for several years and has experienced health problems due to his living situation. Don now has an opportunity to create a blog design firm and had his first presentation Tuesday. Good luck to Don who not only wants to earn a living but use the resources his business will provide him to help the homeless. That's not only admirable, it's the way things should be.
Franklin Avenue reports on a new local digital channel for New York City created by NBC, "New York Non-Stop." Of course comes the usual whine "Why don't we have this in LA?" But, as even the Franklins note, LA does have an NBC digital station, the excellent KNBC News Raw. The station is able to use the expanded time it has to cover imporant issues in-depth and has recently produced well-done reporting on the nonsense at City Hall and outshone all the local media in covering the recent elections. On the other hand, New York Non-Stop is the usual namby-pamby crap seen on shows like "2 on the Town" or "Eye on LA" that covers what yuppies had for dinner or some artist that is building the Mona Lisa out of trash. Nice stuff, but we already have that programming.
And finally, Valley Doll says she's heard a rumor that a member of the City Council we all know and love may have knocked up their "partner." Congrats on the coming bundle of joy!
Labels: don garza, dyke day, fee waivers, franklin avenue, gavin newsom, knbc, lausd layoffs, mayor antonio villaraigosa, twitter, valley doll
Posted by Michael Higby @ 3/11/2009 02:00:00 AM
9 Comments:
Special event waivers are nothing more then political paybacks to people who help donate to politicans campaigns. Where is Walter when we need him? He could have filed a public record document to find out how much these past 5 trips to Washington the Mayor has taken and cost to tax payers in this horrible economic time. You have his entourage, security detail, pr people, assistants then add this trip Huizar, Greuel, Garcetti, Monica Garcia. How did this last trip cost and where's the media reporting it? they report he's gone again.
if you don't like the fee waivers being granted by city council, then you should have worked harder to get a better quality councilmember.
we're stuck with what we've got.
11:00 a.m.
"Where is Walter when we need him?"
Maybe you didn't get the message. . . you're in the small minority. By an overwhelming vote 3/4 of the Angelenos that cared enough to vote said WE DON'T WANT OR NEED WACKO WALTER.
Wake up and smell the reality!
Less people wanted Wacko for mayor than Jimmy Hahn; less people wanted Wacko for mayor than Bob Hertzberger; less people wanted him for mayor than pretty much EVERY DAMN second-place finisher in recent city electoral history.
What part of "GO AWAY, WACKO" -- for the SECOND DAMN TIME, don't you silly people understand.
Write his name in next time, see if I care, just PLEASE don't make me listen to any more of his WHINEY, simpering radio spots. I wore our the buttons changes channels on my conservative talk radio shows the last years just trying to get away from the SIMPLISTIC, silly pandering and self-promotion.
Wacko is where he should have been, years ago... off the grid of L.A. politics and back living in the Ozzie & Harriet-ville he created for himself in his head.
Don't both him. Next, he's going to run for mayor of Pleasantville, -- before it was colorized (or "colored"), or course.
Walter Moore got less votes than Sarah Palin in Wasilla!
To all you lazy ass Walter haters at least he had the balls to get up off his butt and speak out and DO SOMETHING. Its always the lazy, crybabies who post negative statements that haven't done shit for their city. The Mayor should be very worried about the Valley who should break apart from LA. The Mayor's performance numbers are at all time low. Newsom and Brown have their people out and about in Los Angeles taking advantage of all the negative media on the Mayor's re-election. Go get them Ace or did he go to Washington too?
That payback thing of 11:00 has a good train of thought...Let's think about this...
Fees are put in place to pay or at least offset the city cost of such events (security, traffic control, trash, etc...). But with so many waivers really it doesn't seem the city cares about the actual money. What they care about is controlling what events are allowed for public consumption. Essentially it is a way of government backhandly funding the activities of whatever special interests groups those in power want to promote. Look, as humans it's nice to have social and civic celebrations, but I don't think its right for the politicians to avoid having to say no to groups by using the fee waiver process as a defacto system to weed out and censor what they want or don't want to see.
Oh Walter can't do jack for us.
But what I want to know is what happened at the LAUSD meeting?? I'm guessing nothing since I'm not reading about it anywhere. Was it a big snore? See, Zuma doesn't make it and nothing happens.
So who is pregnant? Alarcon just got married but she was already pregnant and just had the baby. Am I so far behind in news that I don't know who has a partner that they got pregnant? Isn't Eric the only one with a partner? Is Amy pregnant?
Did Jose sneak out with a staffer? Because his wife will cut those testicles. She is one jealous woman, but that wouldn't be a "partner". I'm lost.
Newsom likes to tweet and twitter because he's a twit
COMPLAINERS ARE NEVER IN SHORT SUPPLY IN THIS TOWN, YOU HAVE TO FIND BETTER TARGETS, THEY LEAN TOWARDS CITY HALL. MAYBE YOU'LL HIT SOMETHING IF YOU AIM BETTER.
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