Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Friday
The Enterprise Report runs a piece that claims that two LAPD officers allegedly left instructions that should they be killed in the line of duty they did not want Mayor Villaraigosa to appear nor speak at their memorial services. Villaraigosa showed up and spoke anyway. According to the report Officer Landon Dorris killed while investigating a traffic accident and Officer Spree Desha killed in the Chatsworth Metrolink crash had allegedly both indicated in a form reportedly used by LAPD to allow officers to leave instructions following their deathsthat the Mayor was not welcome at their funerals. Both the LAPD and the Mayor's office would not comment on the matter.
Still too close to call in the race for the 6th District LAUSD Board of Education seat. Former San Fernando Mayor and protege of Council Member Richard Alarcon and Mayor Villaraigosa Nury Martinez was about 500 votes up on former LAUSD teacher and current CSUN lecturer Louis Pugliese. Thousands of provisional and absentee ballots remain to be counted which could have an impact on the race's final outcome.
On the City Council agenda for Friday: A events fee waiver for a "Beauty and the Beast" event at the cost of $13,000 to be absorbed by the City. Also, discussion of a program for "car sharing." Car sharing is sort of a system of short term car rental that can be used, for example, by users of public transit. Sounds like a great idea but it's one for private enterprise to handle, responding to a market need, not a program for the City to run, screw up and skim funds to favored folks. Makes me think of the DWP's awesome electric scooter program.
More fallout from the tragic Metrolink crash in Chatsworth last September. Metrolink has fired two supervisors following revelations that engineer Robert Sanchez allegedly regularly allowed teenaged friends to ride in the engineer's cab and would send hundreds of text messages while operating trains. We reported in December that an inside source had told us that top Metrolink was official was allgedly dismissed after reportedly showing up intoxicated to meetings. We may very well be scratching the surface of a culture of apparent mismangement at the railroad; an organization that has the most fatalities of any commuter railroad in the US.
Local pundits are apparently suprised that Jack Weiss only received 36% of the vote in Tuesday's election for City Attorney, forcing him into a runoff with opponent Carmen Trutanich. Jaime A. Regalado, executive director of the Edmund G. "Pat" Brown Institute of Public Affairs at Cal State L.A. told the Times "It's a blow -- there's no way around that. He had the most money, the most mailers and definitely the most TV time." Frankly I'm surprised he performed as well as he did. Prior to the election some insiders were putting Weiss at 31% and were even discussing the possibility he would not make the run-off.
He's not saying that he is, but if Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is planning to run for Governor he has his first donor lined up. Downtown Central City Blogger Don Garza says he's saving his money for that race.
It was one thing that the City stealthily raised parking meter fees and cut back on parking hours hampering businesses and others all over Los Angeles. Now over-aggressive DOT parking officers are writing tickets for motorits before the meter even expires. One North Hollywood patron of a local gym was ticketed 52 minutes into her parking hour by an officer who claimed she must have fed the meter - except she has proof from the gym of her arrival and departure.
The Times profiles Dearden's Department Stores which have been around for 100 years and is one of LA's oldest businesses. The recession is having some impact on the retailer but in it's history has weathered not only recessions but depressions, wars and disco by consistently remaking itself and providing excellent service to their customers.
Patrick Range McDonald's great LA Weekly article about LA's $300,000 a year City Council members makes a Denver journo realize the Mile High's City Council is nowhere near as bad as locals assumed. When Patrick wrote that the LA City Council "assiduously avoids its actual job: dealing with overarching issues, such as traffic, a chronic lack of parks, and overdevelopment, which have residents fuming," Lisa Jones of the Denver City Hall Examiner asked "Why aren't citizens rebelling?" Good question Lisa, you might read a little bit here. But the revolution is brewing; has had it's first victory and is rolling on to the next battles.
And finally, the folks at the NoOnMeasure B Twitter page said they went to Pink's to order a Mayor Villaraigosa dog but the legendary stand said was apparently out of them. The dog named for the Mayor is only served 11% of the time.
Still too close to call in the race for the 6th District LAUSD Board of Education seat. Former San Fernando Mayor and protege of Council Member Richard Alarcon and Mayor Villaraigosa Nury Martinez was about 500 votes up on former LAUSD teacher and current CSUN lecturer Louis Pugliese. Thousands of provisional and absentee ballots remain to be counted which could have an impact on the race's final outcome.
On the City Council agenda for Friday: A events fee waiver for a "Beauty and the Beast" event at the cost of $13,000 to be absorbed by the City. Also, discussion of a program for "car sharing." Car sharing is sort of a system of short term car rental that can be used, for example, by users of public transit. Sounds like a great idea but it's one for private enterprise to handle, responding to a market need, not a program for the City to run, screw up and skim funds to favored folks. Makes me think of the DWP's awesome electric scooter program.
More fallout from the tragic Metrolink crash in Chatsworth last September. Metrolink has fired two supervisors following revelations that engineer Robert Sanchez allegedly regularly allowed teenaged friends to ride in the engineer's cab and would send hundreds of text messages while operating trains. We reported in December that an inside source had told us that top Metrolink was official was allgedly dismissed after reportedly showing up intoxicated to meetings. We may very well be scratching the surface of a culture of apparent mismangement at the railroad; an organization that has the most fatalities of any commuter railroad in the US.
Local pundits are apparently suprised that Jack Weiss only received 36% of the vote in Tuesday's election for City Attorney, forcing him into a runoff with opponent Carmen Trutanich. Jaime A. Regalado, executive director of the Edmund G. "Pat" Brown Institute of Public Affairs at Cal State L.A. told the Times "It's a blow -- there's no way around that. He had the most money, the most mailers and definitely the most TV time." Frankly I'm surprised he performed as well as he did. Prior to the election some insiders were putting Weiss at 31% and were even discussing the possibility he would not make the run-off.
He's not saying that he is, but if Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is planning to run for Governor he has his first donor lined up. Downtown Central City Blogger Don Garza says he's saving his money for that race.
It was one thing that the City stealthily raised parking meter fees and cut back on parking hours hampering businesses and others all over Los Angeles. Now over-aggressive DOT parking officers are writing tickets for motorits before the meter even expires. One North Hollywood patron of a local gym was ticketed 52 minutes into her parking hour by an officer who claimed she must have fed the meter - except she has proof from the gym of her arrival and departure.
The Times profiles Dearden's Department Stores which have been around for 100 years and is one of LA's oldest businesses. The recession is having some impact on the retailer but in it's history has weathered not only recessions but depressions, wars and disco by consistently remaking itself and providing excellent service to their customers.
Patrick Range McDonald's great LA Weekly article about LA's $300,000 a year City Council members makes a Denver journo realize the Mile High's City Council is nowhere near as bad as locals assumed. When Patrick wrote that the LA City Council "assiduously avoids its actual job: dealing with overarching issues, such as traffic, a chronic lack of parks, and overdevelopment, which have residents fuming," Lisa Jones of the Denver City Hall Examiner asked "Why aren't citizens rebelling?" Good question Lisa, you might read a little bit here. But the revolution is brewing; has had it's first victory and is rolling on to the next battles.
And finally, the folks at the NoOnMeasure B Twitter page said they went to Pink's to order a Mayor Villaraigosa dog but the legendary stand said was apparently out of them. The dog named for the Mayor is only served 11% of the time.
Labels: car sharing, dwp, event waivers, lapd, lausd, louis pugliese, mayor antonio villaraigosa, metrolink train crash, nury martinez
Posted by Michael Higby @ 3/06/2009 02:00:00 AM
56 Comments:
Thank You Michael for posting the facts. Yes, LAPD officers hate this Mayor.He LIED and got re-elected lying saying he was responsible for the crime drop. Ask any officer on the street and they will tell you they don't want this Mayor at their funerals. He has no shame, morals or class to show up uninvited because he's an arrogant son of a bitch who is not sensitive to anyone's feelings during a tragedy. You watch his sorry ass show up to Deputy Chief Kenny Garner's funeral Monday. Officers have stated they will BOOO his ass out. Kenny couldn't stand this Mayor. I say everyone should start booing the Mayor wherever he goes to send him a strong message.
Sad, just sad, that Viva La Raza holds the officers that protect this city and his nibs in such low regard as to not obey their final wishes.
I'm voting for Nury, if only to show that Mayor Sam's pick of Pugliese was wrong, too.
Where's the scoreboad for YOUR picks, Mayor Sam?
Maybe you can post one, without providing excuses about why things went wrong with your picks. On the Mayor, you were wrong. On Controller, you were wrong.
And so on.
I can only imagine how the LAPD officer's family must have felt knowing their loved one didn't want the Mayor at the funeral and without regard there Antonio is speaking.
.....At issue are copies of a form held in the officers' files, called a “15.7,” that enables officers to spell-out specific requests should they be killed in the line of duty. Law enforcement sources inside and outside the LAPD said officers Landon Dorris, killed in while investigating a traffic accident in 2006, and officer Spree Desha, killed in last year's Metrolink collision in Chatsworth, had both made written requests that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa not appear or speak at their funerals.
Villaraigosa spoke at both funerals, according to news accounts, and the Mayor's office declined to comment for this story.
The Enterprise Report numerous officers requested Parks be barred from their funerals if they died on the job.
7:51, I'm voting for Nury, if only to show that Mayor Sam's pick of Pugliese was wrong, too.
Did you mean "voted for" instead of "voting for" because that election's done?
That might be an important thing to be "wrong" about.
What an SOB! Villagrossa treats our law enforcement officers like shit, and then assaults them in death! It's too bad the families of these fallen officers did not call their fellow police brothers to keep Villar away from the funeral! I would have called SWAT to keep Villar away!
Villagrossa and Bratton are TRAITORS to our police force...we all remember MacArthur Park and how they blamed our own officers for the actions of criminal illegal aliens! You don't get any lower than that!!!
We ALL hate Villagrossa!
Let's see if the local media does anything with this story in the Enterprise Report. LA Slimes and Daily News rapidly going out of business because of power of internet. WE got more info on elections on blogs all over then the damn local news coverage who basically were all bias on reporting the gang banger Mayor. New York Times going after LA Slimes readers at reduced cost. They are starting to report on LA issues.
Dear Idiot,
I VOTED FOR Nury, because I know that Higby doesn't know what he's talking about.
But if there are future elections, runoffs, et al, I will be VOTING FOR whatever side Higby isn't on.
Get it? Dumbass? Get it?
Does "Pinks" also have an
80 FAKE NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH-Dog
in honor of Hizzoner?
Maybe they should. They could advertise it as both fat-free and ZERO calories (because, of course, it's INVISIBLE!)
Not to mention, the invisible mustard stains never show on your tie.
Okay, as long as it's come up -- I want it officially on the record somewhere that if I'm killed in the line of blogging (hit by flying keyboard keys or irradiated by my outdated CTR), I do NOT want Mayor Sam attending my funeral, coming to see me at the hospital, identifying my remains at the morgue, or even posting a eulogy.
Period.
OH, and if it can be arranged, I'd also like to have that guy "Chief Parker" from the old days buried six-feet UNDERNEATH me at Forest Lawn - and that's even if he's NOT dead yet. (That yahoo created more G-D messes for me to clean up last time around. . . criminy sakes).
If Antonio is so hated, why didn't LAPD come out in force and vote against him?
Not one officer spoke out against him. Not one City Council spoke out against him.
Where's the hate?
7:51 - Election Day for Nury voters is this coming Tuesday. I am sorry to hear you don't agree with how I will vote (uh, voted).
11:06 you are just absolutely stunning in your commentary. Keep it alive. You can hate me now but you can't hate me forever.
I figured the Mayor V wiener should be served in a Mirthala bun.
zd is quite a character.
he said he wouldn't come to city council any more. that was on election night.
but then he showed up on wednesday.
i guess he couldn't stay away, because he came to city council today too.
imagine nobody's surprise today when zd said he might make a public comment, but will no longer speak on an agenda item.
does anyone have a guess what zd did just a few minutes later? he SPOKE ON AN AGENDA ITEM!
higby, your boy has no shame. he can't stay away. he is compelled to come to city council, even on days when he swears he won't show up.
then when he says he won't speak on agenda items, he does the opposite!
you've gotta love this guy, but he is a total addict. addicted to the limelight and thrill of shouting into microphones.
does zd believe that the recount is going to usher him into the mayor's job?
Higby at 12:20
I"relish" the play on words, but my guess is (from his stature and incessant need to overcompensate), that it would take TWO, maybe even three weiners to fill that bun. . .
Sorta like Vienna sausages, but this time, "Villar" cocktail weenies.
same difference. whatever higby picks, I am voting against. it's funny how a fat person will nitpick (or is that nitwit?) when it comes to someone else's grammar, but never zooma dog's or his own grammar.
the other day, Tugboat Higby used the word "drug" as a verb. didn't hear the greasy blogger utter a word about that when it was pointed out to him. what a maroon!
shove your endorsement.
Maroon! We know who wrote that!
It's interesting how this guy can't discuss issues but finds his best strategy is delivering ad hominem attacks on me and others.
And he thinks we should vote for him!
I always love the part when a blogger or site host "identifies" the source of a critical post as a well-known nemesis. I believe these "identifications" are always wrong.
THIS IS HOW OUR Policeman should have been honored. They offer their lieves every day.
The honor for the policeman should not have been sullied not some unwelcomed ass taking the front row and speaking about nothing he knows. Villa stay away!
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 6:58 AM
Subject: Fw:
Navy Petty Officer Mike Monsoor
Navy Petty Officer Mike Monsoor
PO2 (EOD2) (Explosive Ordnance Disposal)
Mike Monsoor, a Navy EOD Technician, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor
posthumously for jumping on a grenade in Iraq, giving his life to save his fellow Seals.
(Notice: Mike was not a Navy SEAL, he was EOD. He gave his life to save a group of Navy SEALS.)
During Mike Monsoor's funeral in San Diego, as his coffin was being moved from the hearseto the grave site at Ft. Rosecrans National
Cemetery , SEAL's were lined up on both sides of the pallbearers route forming a column of two's,
with the coffin moving up the center. As Mike's coffin passed, each SEAL, having removed his
gold Trident from his uniform, slapped it down embedding the Trident in the wooden coffin.
The slaps were audible from across the cemetery; by the time the coffin arrived grave side, it looked as though it had a gold inlay from all the Tridents pinned to it.
This was a fitting send-off for a warrior hero.
This should be front-page news instead of the crap we see every day.
Since the media won't make this news,
I choose to make it news by forwarding it .
I am very proud of our military. If you are proud too, please pass this on. If not then rest assured that these fine men and women of our military, all military including the police, will continue to serve and protect.
Zuma went to City Hall today?
I guess its hard to quit cold turkey.
I am deeply offended by the Mayor's complete lack of respect for the final wishes of our men and women in uniform.
How completely base and no-class the Face of Los Angeles is...
WHERE WERE THESE COPS WHEN BRATTON WAS PITCHING TONY V. SEEMS ODD THIS COMES OUT AFTER THIS ELECTION. I'M SURE THERE ARE OTHER COPS WHO DON'T LIKE TONY OR BRATTON LET'S HERE IT GUYS!!! DON'T HOLD IT IN!! LET US KNOW!!GIVE US THE WHY!!
245pm, yes he was at city hall today and wednesday.
that's not even him disappearing gradually! he hasn't missed a day yet.
oh and HIGBY, get this: z'dog finally took off that ridiculous black suit and blue shirt. how long will it be before he starts clamoring for photo ops with the freshly elected?
yea, yea, z'dog is staying in the house! can't break away! yea, yea! he loves city hall and can't give it up.
12:05pm You obviously don't know how the LAPD is. Bitter Bernie was hated by the officers and yet you didn't see any officers protest or speak out for fear of losing their jobs. Sadly, that's still the case. However, officers did show their disapproval and word is spreading Officers are can't stand Antonio they may start booing him if he goes near them again in front of the media. Officers did it when Bitter Bernie showed up they BOOED LOUDLY AGAINST HIM. Bratton is next in line to get his ass booed if he continues to align himself with the Cholo Mayor. The campaign against this Mayor is unbelievable. I've never seen anything like it in the city. The Neighborhood Councils are gearing up.
I use to love reading CityWatch until someone sent me an e-mail and I almost fell off my chair. I can't believe they have no idea what a corrupt organization Homeboy Industries is. Is CityWatch Media Group the same one giving Father Gang Banger Boyle an award? Say it aint so!! This corrupt Father Boyle protects gang bangers, refuses to testify and ignores subpoenas, is in denial his gangbangers are actively committing felonies in the neighborhoods and has everyone fooled except the people who live in the area that know better. How the hell can CityWatch be that naive not to know? Any officer will tell you this is one of the most corrupt organizations in LA.
Don't compare Bratton to Bernie. LAPD cops love Bratton. He defends his cops and they know he's got their backs.
2:55Pm it's called "conduct unbecoming an officer" that's the reason copers hold back and don't go out on a limb protesting. Copers hate this mayor and he knows it and his security detail will even tell you. They get tired of babysitting an immature, narcisistic idiot.
"...They get tired of babysitting an immature, narcisistic idiot."
Yeah I'm damn sick of Tom LeBong too. Bet the park rangers are too.
3:39 PM said...
The campaign against this Mayor is unbelievable. I've never seen anything like it in the city. The Neighborhood Councils are gearing up.
The "campaign" to take Villar out was supposed to be The Election. It's over. Where were they?
WTF is a Coper? An individual who voted for Craig X. Rubin?
March 06, 2009 6:28 PM
Thanks for the laugh. I was wondering the same thing. Just what is a coper?
First of all, I didn't say that I wasn't going to city council meetings anymore. I said I hope to spend LESS TIME at city hall.
To the person who said it's hard to quit "cold turkey" -- YOU ARE RIGHT ABOUT THAT, overall, no matter how much or little time I want to spend.
I have been trying to stop ALL TOGETHER for a couple years.
But it's tough to walk away, when people stop me all day and tell me they appreciate it at such an intense level. And that is the "energy" that has been dragging me to chambers against my will for the better part of three years.
There are people that are going to try and help me continue to do what I do, but with more support...
Because I would like to continue at full blast, as I have, but I really can't.
So hopefully, I'll show up for public comments -- to deliver the messages to the public that I chose to address, but I have to get out of the business of being the "fraud, waste and abuse" ticker tape, taking phone calls and listening to everyone's issues round the clock.
I'm still stuck in my car, and can't re-couperate to where I can focus on that stuff now.
However, it's true that right after I said I wasn't going to speak on agenda items anymore (cause sitting throught the meetings, after general public comments burns up hours a day), that I immediately spoke on an agenda item.
That's because I didn't even have time to leave yet, and it was something I wanted to weigh in on from a personal level, as an individual. Which is different that when I have been doing it on behalf of the community (being the voice of people who cannot attend).
AND I DID ADDRESS THE ISSUE, by saying, "I know I just said I'm not going to speak on agenda items anymore, but I'm a politician, that was a campaign promise, and I'm already breaking it.
And the chambers busted up. So don't trip too hard. There are no 100% hard and fast rules here.
Overall, after completing a three year day, I GOTTA get out of the day to day grind of sitting through the entire meetings to speak on agenda items. And when I do speak, I'm going to be speaking my own thoughts, instead of carrying the responsibility of representing every one else's issues.
I DID MY TIME. Now, I must also add, that I do not want to stop doing what I have been doing with the pedal to the medal. It's not like I need a break, or want to do something else. People are trying to work on some things that may allow me to be able to support myself, while I do this.
For one, I gotta get out of my car. It's not about the sleeping in the car, it's about being on the streets with no where to sit down, or work, or relax, and it compounds itself.
AND, I gotta eat everyday and be able to drive around, and not be stuck in an area for days cause of gas money. I've been functioning on about 10%-20% of what I could be doing, out there. But I guess it's been a lot.
Meanwhile, with 46,000 votes still to be counted, I'll end up with about 10,000. So it hit me, Villaraigosa pissed me off, and I voted against him 10,000 times.
Cause at the end of the day, I may have a big image out there, or whatever, but I never spent a penny to achieve it, so I'm just one voter who the mayor pissed off so much that I voted against him 10,000 times!!! ZD's voice is 10,000 times louder than your average voters!!! DON'T PISS ME OFF! (LOL!)
yea, yea, z'dog is staying in the house! can't break away! yea, yea! he loves city hall and can't give it up.
The problem is, something about me...when i know there is free media time...if i don't use it, i feel it's like throwing away free commerical time, in essense. People pay a lot of money to get the word out on TV through 30 second commercials. So to me, it's like throwing away seven minutes of free commercial time on tv, each day.
I had a problem the day I found out you could air your own half hour show on public access.
I said, "WHAT, I can say and do whatever I want, and they HAVE to air it? Hell yeah!" And i went years without missing a week.
It's the treadmill, y'all. Then you throw in the fact that I've been hit with an emotional avalanche of amazing comments from people, telling me how much my efforts have meant and they hope I keep going...and it IS tough to stop.
So like I said, it doesn't have to be all or none. Hopefully, I can back it off, even if I just head over for public comment, and leave after that.
Now go get your own life, and stop commenting on mine from the peanut gallery.
Remember, it's comments like yours that keeps me going back against my will, just cause I don't want to let council off the hook. PLEASE STOP. I WANT TO STOP. But you'll make me cranky, and I'll end up showing up for another year in a row, you crybaby losers.
ZD, I don't think the person is challenging your desire.
But you did say that you either finally made the break, or something to that effect, that you were done coming to city council.
I don't want to bother and get your exact comment, but it was a nice thing you posted, but that you said you were making a break, or that you finally saw the light, that you can't beat city hall, so to speak.
You are great and I for one appreciate everything you do. I hope you continue coming to city council regularly and speaking for the whole thing.
Have you noticed that you also make the other commentators better? You sure do. And you inspire the others. Keep it going!
Higby posts: "On the City Council agenda for Friday: A events fee waiver for a "Beauty and the Beast" event at the cost of $13,000 to be absorbed by the City."
I have not listened to the Council tapes on these fee waivers, so maybe the following question has been answered.
Has the city done a cost/benefit analysis to determine if the revenue/business that comes in from these events is worth the fees that are waived?
Officer Landon Dorris came to the LAPD in 2003 after serving with the CHP. Officer Spree Desha started her career with the LAPD in 2001.
Both officers started with LAPD years before Antonio Villaraigosa became mayor.
The 15.7 form is filled out by officers when they initially join the force and then placed in a file to collect dust.
The bullshit and lies that are created and perpetuated on this blog can be amusing and usually harmless. But for you to promote the notion that not one, but two LAPD officers altered their 15.7 forms years after they joined the force when villaraigosa became mayor in order to add an additional stipulation regarding his attendance at their possible funerals is irresponsible and repugnant.
You shame their memories and prove once again the moronic dialogue of this site.
12:13 you're wrong.
My father is an officer and several of his buddies have amended their forms after they watched Villaraigosa at Randall Simmons funeral and after they found his friends were against naming the high school for Randy because they wanted to name it after a Latino instead. They are just disgusted by the Mayor.
People change their forms all the time, you know nothing.
Zuma Dog, we love you! Don't let the "mouths' get to you. You are better than they are. I wonder how many of them actually show up at city hall!
The oppoaite of love is not hate, it is apathy.
People really don't give a rat's ass if you go to city council, or not.
Because a few losers cheer you on doesn't mean you speak for the community, it means you represent a few losers.
That's the sum and substance of it, Saltsburg. You lead a meaningless existence and try to justify it because a few other fools commend you for it.
If you were worth a sou, you would find a way to make some money, make yourself presentable, and get someone to hire you to take up serious issues.
They won't because, you can't.
Addiction to anything is a disaster, whether it is drugs, booze, chocolate or cigarettes, or even City Council meetings.
Go get a life.
My son is an officer-in-training and he said he would be honored to have the mayor speak at his funeral should he die on duty or even not on duty. He said he hasn't learned about that option yet and isn't sure it's true. He said the other guys training definitely like the mayor.
Definitely Antonio has his spies reading this blog and posting. Officers change their 15.7 all the time and have done so and will continue especially because they do not want a gang banger Mayor who they can't stand at their funerals. Officers know Villaraigosa is a hard core ACLU liberal who supports gang members like Father Boyle and his gangsters who continue to committ crimes and he protects. At SWAT Officer Randy Simmons funeral when Antonio got up to speak there was barely an applause and you could hear the mumblings from all the officers in the audience. They cringed at him speaking.
Helllooo Antonio spinner or should I say Ace "Hatchet Man" Smith the fact IS both officers dying requests on their 15.7 cards clearly stated they DIDN'T WAWT "MAYOR" speaking at their funerals. The sociopath Mayor Villaraigosa who has no conscious still showed up for the cameras.
Has the city done a cost/benefit analysis to determine if the revenue/business that comes in from these events is worth the fees that are waived?
It doesn't matter. The S.E. Fee is not a fiscal stimulus package.
Oftentimes officers say they don't want the mayor at their funerals to protect their families from the limelight when thier grieving. Its family privacy not politics. Cops support Villar because he supports them and Bratton. Most cops live outside the city and don't think about what kind of a mayor he is or Measure B. They like Villar as a strong supporter of their boss and LAPD. They appreciated his supporting them with Special Order 40. No LAPD cops wants ICE'S jobs.
The LAPD is 50% hispanic. Those policemen don't look at AV as a "chollo gangbanger". That's racism to the hispanic policemen.
"Officer Randy Simmons funeral when Antonio got up to speak there was barely an applause and you could hear the mumblings from all the officers in the audience"
The police offices and members of the church did applaud, very strongly, for Darrel Gates, prior Police Chief.
Cops always know the "good guys" from the "bad".
There might be a few cops who spend too much time reading blogs like this and the Daily News comments, where the same dozen or so scream about the "gangbanger mayor." (Two-faced Zine gives very mixed signals, "supporting" the Mayor and Bratton but pushing his own dumb-headed motion to pander to LAPL and try to set himself up as "the real LAPL pal." Watch him lobby for Chief's job when Bratton moves on. Lord help us.)
But most have the sense to know that he isn't who he was in his youth, that the change is part of who he is. Part of what makes him a real-life model for the gangbanger kids.
Most cops know that the Mayor and his "chief ally" Weiss are staunch in pushing to beef up LAPD while some others want to cut as part of the budget crisis. But most people agree, don't cure cops and fire -- without being able to walk the streets or feel assured someone will come when your house burns down, you've got nothing. He's taken political heat for raising the trash fee to do it; the whole council needs to cut across the board look under every nook and cranny for savings, not throw money at liberal causes now.
Bratton, Antonio, Garcetti and Weiss are among those who have connections to Obama now and have been able to bring back some money.
We deserve more, as Eric and Arnold and everyone say: dumb to send to Sacto and DC way more than we're going to get back, when we need and deserve OUR taxes most.
Maybe we need voters to rise to support our local leaders in that, instead of spending night and day figuring how they can tear them down to get untested nobodies in office who can't find the coffee maker for 2 more years.
Good spin Ace.
L.A says crime rate lowest since 1961
Daily News Wire Services
Jan 6, 2009
Crime in the city of Los Angeles continued to hit historic lows in 2008, a trend which Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and law enforcement officials today credited to more police officers and interagency relationships.
There were 381 murders in 2008, 15 fewer than the previous year, and the lowest number since 1969 when there were 377 homicides. New York and Chicago, in contrast, saw their murder rates increase in 2008.
"From the Valley to Boyle Heights, from West L.A. to South L.A., violence subsided in our neighborhoods. Gang crime continues to decline thanks to the remarkable work and the bravery of the men and women of the LAPD," Villaraigosa said.
Of those 381 murders, 161 occurred between 6 p.m. and midnight, while 94 occurred on a Saturday night or early Sunday morning, said Deputy Chief Charlie Beck. Summer, which officers typically expect to be the most violent time of year, was relatively calm. The 20 murders in July were the fewest number for the month since 1966. August and September numbers also hit almost 40-year lows.
About two-thirds of the murders took place on a sidewalk or in the street, and 85 percent of killings were committed with a gun. Most victims were killed by someone similar to them in age and ethnicity, Beck said. "These are consistent themes that we've seen over the past six years where, especially because about half of these homicides are gang- related, gangs tend to have the most territorial disputes with those most like them," Beck said There were fewer violent crimes than any other year since 1967 and the fewest number of property crimes since 1959. Overall crime was the lowest it has been since 1961.
In 2008, there were 786 rapes; 13,354 robberies; 11,993 aggravated assaults; 19,402 burglaries; 22,268 grand theft auto crimes; 29,870 thefts from vehicles; and 27,112 personal thefts.
Police Chief William Bratton believes crime will continue to decline in 2009 as more police officers are hired. When Bratton came on board six years ago, the LAPD had about 9,600 officers. Today, there are 9,854 officers.
"With those resources, we will be able to keep this city safer, despite the recession, in spite of the concerns of potentially tens of thousands of individuals who may be released from our prison system," Bratton said.
It's not a surprise that Jack Weiss such an underwhelming percentage of the vote. It'll be less of a surprise when Carmen Trutanich is our next City Attorney.
Nuch/ Nooch -- they know him both ways at USC -- was on speed-dial for Pete Carroll for years, the go-to guy when one of his jocks busted someone up or allegedly raped a girl in what's been called a "culture of thuggery" on the team -- anything goes as long as they win. Like him. (He quit that a few years ago when his daughter didn't get into the school -- typical pettiness and sense he was "owed.") The ways he tried to slime the female victims and turn his thugs into saints is typical nooch. His rep was at best "controversial." His other specialty: defending the worst environmental and gun violators, with similar ludicrously lying spin.
Saying "everyone deserves a lawyer" isn't good enough -- not when you run as an "environmental attorney" and portray one gang prosecution in your flashy ad -- from 86, while the last 20-25 years depending where you look (he lies about his record to make it seem much more recent) years are on the "dark side" for big bucks. Not good enough when you're supposed to represent the people, victims, against those types, and you're up against someone who's got the most solid record doing that his whole adult life as a lawyer, legislator and citizen.
No morals, no ethics, lie and do anything to get you way, and hope everyone's too dumb to do their research before it's too late -- that's how everyone knows nooch.
His tenure with Rocky in 05 will come out too, and why Cooley wants him in office so bad he's twisting arms and sliming Weiss in a way that's bizarre and crazily biased for a DA I(making announcements over 4-year-old long-dismissed issues to try to besmirth Antonio's name too -- he's got so much dirt, nothing but dirt and "controversy," he just hasn't been stress-tested yet. That and all his blatant lies about Weiss will now crash down on him fast. (There's SOOOO much more.) He's run a campaign of nothing but trying to slime his opponent on tv, mailers, web and in person -- it ain't gonna last, you phony.
Grin all you want to appear "Mr. Average Joe," too many know you.
The old NIMBYs who are trying to run him and Vahedi -- everyone knows who you are -- your phony slimeball is gonna be exposed.
On the crime stats, you know that the 50's had less city population.
The "rate" could drop and you can still have many more instances where bullets are flying and just more opportunities to be shot.
It's not safer to me if you have more opportunities to be victimized.
That's why they say, "Statistics don't lie, but liars use statistics."
Manipulation matters, like with forming the wording of questions used in polls so they will tilt things any way you want them to.
Question: Didthe Mayor hire a consultant to construct the wording of Prop. S, the phone tax, so as to obtain a "YES" vote?
OMG we have Ace "Hatchet Man" Smith You are in denial. LAPD copers hate this Mayor. They don't forget easily.Antonio came out blasting them to the media, about the May 1st incident that pissed them off. They haven't forgotten this Mayor never supported LAPD until he became Mayor and aligns himself with a popular Chief that Mayor Hahn chose not him for his own EGO. Antonio is going to run for Governor and wants to PRETEND he's supported by the rank and file and that's not the case. Officers know Antonio is best friends with Father Boyle who coddles his gang bangers and are still active assholes. People are letting it be known throughout the state the truth about this Mayor in LA. There is a big grass root movement and it started with No Measure B
I keep seeing this post about a "grassroots" movement to bring down the Mayor. It's one ex-felon who wanted a city job. This individual has been harassing the DNC about Antonio for 3 years, pretending that it's a "grassroots" movement. The DNC looked into it and found it to be sour grapes letters by a kook.
Still nobody has defined coper. I'm waiting.
I'm really waiting for the neighborhood councils to bring down anything. Come on guys, get a move on. What's the big hold up?
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