Clowncil to Vote on Mayor's Budget Today
Today the Los Angeles City Council holds its final (sic) hearing and votes on the Mayor's proposed budget. The budget has a deficit of roughly $500 million to negotiate in cuts, consolidations, and layoffs to most City departments. DWP is being used as the de facto dumping ground for displaced employees, as well as a magic funding source for many of those amazing Clowncil "Hey - we found some money we didn't know we had!" moments.Since the Mayor has based his budget on a number of unlikely scenarios, most reasonable humans know that the real deficit is closer to $1 billion. Any bets on when the City runs out of money and reopens the budget issue?
The City Budget hearing is item 20 on today's council agenda in case you are following the meeting this morning.
UPDATE: An excellent public comment on the budget demands a 25% pay cut for Councilmembers and the Mayor, a reduction to 2 staff cars and 5 staffers ea. An excellent suggestion based in a LA Weekly article! Let's have a little 'shared sacrifice' from the Clowncil!
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Posted by Petra Fried in the City @ 5/27/2009 10:25:00 AM
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Let the plans for Recall and Citizen's initiative to revise transparency elements of the City Charter begin!
Is that why Huizar's former chief of staff ended up at DWP? Dumping ground for displaced employees? Funny!
didn't they say last week there was going to be a moritorium on special event waivers? Why would this cost so much?
MOTION (HUIZAR - LABONGE) relative to declaring the Third Annual Boyle Heights
Technology Center Community Awards Gala on May 29, 2009 a Special Event (fees and
costs absorbed by the City = $13,322).
11;20, I didn't quite mean it that way. The Mayor's "deadwood" speech pissed me off, too. But yeah, that IS funny!
11:21, moratorium starts July 1 (see agenda item 21 today)
Alarcon wants to put Section 8 housing in communities who "don't carry their fare share."
Garcetti is saying that the Citys affordable houing plan WORKS. Scolding neighborhoods who dont want this stuff in their area. A total rant.
Fuck Garcetti. Build it next to YOUR house, asshole! Until then, STFU.
Council seems to live in a parallel universe. Reducing the number of staffers and city cars is a terrific idea -- a real no brainer. LA Weekly mentioned the Council's $1 million dollar budget. If each member returned at least half of that they could still have money left over for their fancy scrolls and staff parties.
I luv it when a clowncilperson says that there are many mistruths and bad information out there. But then they don't address any of it. Reyes is doing that on inclusionary housing item right now. snore zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
i do not thing they will vote on a budget today cause it is 12:45 an tehy havent talked about it yet
Don Culo and the Homies
A blog to expose the Republicans, the Gavachos in the L.A. EastSide, Robber Barons, Walter Moore, Mike Higby, Gava Joe and Mary Cummins. Our Mexican Raza needs to expose how the Republicans and the Gavachos are the cause of all our problems. Bush is the Devil !!!! The Republicans and LAPD created gangs in Los Angeles. A shout out to the carnales Big Sniper, Ghost, Flaco, Vago and Troops. These carnales are firme vatos and original homies from the varrio.
1:00PM What a delightfully fresh perspective you have. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. I've translated some of your words and phrases (sadly, my public school did not do a very good job in teaching Spanish), and I believe that what you said was that all your homies will get along just fine in jail when the biggest financial corruption trial is over. I am right in assuming 'homie' refers to the way y'all get along in jail?
it's funny listening to council and these assholes have the nerve to ask the pension boards questions about ethics like Wendy Greuel.
Is Jack Weiss in the Chamber?
It's even funnier to listen to Zuma Dogg rant and claim that he and his "sources" uncovered the mess.
He's just the conduit.
A stinkie conduit.
I don't get why people move away from Mexico because it's a disaster, then try to make L.A. just like Mexico. Do they think the same failed policies will work if they apply them at a different latitude?
walter have you visted this blog
http://donculo-rants.blogspot.com/
they talk about you alot.
Tom LaBonge aksing about "how to decipher this here" worrying about how to decide budget priorities. Between firing people and fixing streets and sewers and cops.
Who's more painfully illiterate, him or Reyes?
Dumbest, Reyes, laBonge, Perry or Rosendahl?
Who wastes the most time, Rosendahl or Hahn?
Biggest dandy, Rosendahl or Parks?
Ugliest baldie, Rosendahl or Zine?
I visited it once, which was more than enough for a lifetime.
too funny walter
walter you should try this blog
http://stillnoscriptsworld.blogspot.com/
Walter Moore 2:36
Wonderful point!!!!
XOXOXO
Can Phil Gendergone please tell us what he does for a living?
If you've been a party clown, that's fine. But what do you do for a living now?
And what is the deal with your high pitched voice?
Wacko's Loony Anonymousa grooms him for a crushing defeat in 2010. Hey you two get a room.
Could that be Walter jealous of Phil @ 509?
Nope, it's not him.
I keep asking what phil does for a living, and you keep thinking it's walter.
Guess again. I'll tell you as soon as phil responds with the answer.
Guess again?
Mary no one on MS cares what Phil does to earn an honest living. He's not suing the city and he's not covering up representing billboard companies. Not like you and Wacko. If Phil is a birthday clown or a chimney sweep, that's what it is. He's an honest man who served in the military with a good message. And why aren't you happy? Why are you still blogging? You got your city money, no one has any respect for you, so disappear.
And why doe Reyes say "mistruths" instead of simply "lies" which would be a real word, at least. ANd yes, he should confront those, not just allude to them- because maybe they just happened to be correctly stated and not lies at all.
The other thing about Reyes' complaint about lack of "affordable housing" (that stll is not literally "affordable" by most people, but just a lower market price, i.e., a classification that was created) since he had a lot to do with the conditions by approving and encouraging so much development that replaced existing housing? Was the outcome some kind of a surprise to him?
Maybe he was too busy counting his campaign money.
These guys speak so much crap that when they do occassionally say something worthwhile it's buried in all their verbal manure and becomes simply wasted verbiage, the fallout of their unending blather.
observing in L.A.
In a speech published in the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal in 2002, Judge Sotomayor offered her own interpretation of this jurisprudence. "Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases," she declared. "I am . . . not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, . . . there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."
Here lies the problem.
The problem with what?
Wouldn't it depend on what case she was discussing? I agree with that statement she made. That was way taken out of. As of course, is to be expected when the other party gets to name a Supreme Court Justice.
And there is no universal definition of wise. I agree with that.
"I am . . . not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, . . . there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."A commenter posted, "The problem with what?
Wouldn't it depend on what case she was discussing? I agree with that statement she made. That was way taken out of. As of course, is to be expected when the other party gets to name a Supreme Court Justice.
And there is no universal definition of wise. I agree with that."Let me explain something to you. The judge's statement is very prejudicial. Because in today's world, there is also no "universal definition" of man or woman, for that matter (ie) transgenders.
It's certain that the judge values the experience of prejudice vs. not. She believes that one's life experience of prejudice is valuable in a judge's decision making process. It may be the case that it is a valuable experience!!! But, this judge, deep down, clearly does not believe that a "white man"'s experience has an equal value with a "brown woman"'s prejudiced experience. She's a bigot.
Sorry about the thread drift.
Let's make it very clear so that the dums dums can understand. Look carefully at the bolded words.
In a speech published in the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal in 2002, Judge Sotomayor offered her own interpretation of this jurisprudence. "Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases," she declared. "I am . . . not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, . . . there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."
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