"OLD GRAY HAG" endorses Trutanich, Vahedi, and Pearlman
The "OLD GRAY HAG ON SPRING STREET" has bestowed its editorial blessings on Carmen Trutanich, David Vehadi and Nancy Pearlman for the elective offices of City Attorney, City Council District 5 and Los Angeles Community College District Office 6 respectively.Excerpts below and links to full editorials.
Carmen Trutanich for City Attorney
Trutanich has represented alleged polluters, and that's a good thing: The city of Los Angeles is one of the nation's biggest polluters, and taxpayers need someone who knows his way through the regulatory process to ensure that cleanups can move forward while penalties remain manageable. But he also was a groundbreaking environmental prosecutor, building up experience and know-how that would serve the city well in its aspirations to become cleaner and greener.
David Vehadi for City Council
Vahedi is often portrayed, for good and for ill, as the outsider candidate. He makes much of the fact that he hasn't held elective office before, although he did run four years ago in an unsuccessful bid to unseat Councilman Jack Weiss. But for an outsider, Vahedi impresses with his encyclopedic knowledge of even the most obscure zoning regulations, Environmental Quality Act provisions and parking policies. He is among the breed of homeowner activists who can match wits and quote Municipal Code passages with any elected official or bureaucrat.
Nancy Pearlman for LACCD Board of Trustees
Yet Pearlman is the stronger candidate of the two. Nakahiro, a lawyer who grew up in Boyle Heights, is an energetic and likable community activist, but he has yet to develop a deep understanding of the community colleges and a well-honed agenda for improving them. Pressed in a meeting with The Times' editorial board for details on what the district needed most, Nakahiro responded that students should understand the governing board's role at the colleges. In truth, most college students care little about such matters; they rightly want to know whether they can land a spot in an over-enrolled class, how to get academic help when they're floundering and why the prices of textbooks are so high.
Your thoughts..........
Labels: carmen trutanich, david vahedi, Los Angeles Times, Nancy Pearlman
Posted by Red Spot in CD 14 @ 5/04/2009 08:53:00 AM
41 Comments:
My thoughts? I don't know if Rob Greene got it right and Newton capitulated, or Newton got it right and Bob Green capitulated. I suspect the latter. But whatever happened, they got it right. Good job by an editorial page that has widely missed recently.
Three years ago, I began severely criticizing the Times editorial page. I said it should criticize elites and be the voice of the people, rather than vice versa. These endorsements reflect that sentiment. It's about time.
Joseph, your point is well taken. Weiss's represents elitists, nobody else.
Have you seen the report of his illegal fundraiser last Monday? It was held in a $16M Beverly Hills mansion behind locked gates. Weiss took campaign donations in the presence of the co-host, Kelly Candaele - a mayoral appointee. It's illegal for a city appointee to engage in political fundraising, and Jack know it because he voted for that law. Jack also voted to appoint Candaele. Can anyone think of any reason why Jack decided to take the money and run? How about that he usually doesn't get caught until after the election.
But this time, Joseph, the LA Times called the Mayor's Office the day after the illegal fundraiser and asked why a city appointee was fundraising for Weiss. Within 4 hours Candaele 'resigned,' and Ace Smith issued a statement saying the illegal donations would be returned.
The Times did their job in outing Weiss. Weiss has no defense and given his all round condemnation of Trutanich for defending criminals, one wonders whether Weiss will have to defend himself in this matter.
Well done LA Times
I like the feel of print as much as film. Be kind to the old folks.
All the hype about NRA and pollution missed...underlying legal principle is that future conflict is limited to the same attorney, same client, and largely the same facts...
I think they got it right...
1A and 1B and 1F too.
Who the fuck is David Vehadi?
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Don't be fooled by this late morning 5:45am post. I;ve been up since 4:45am, but my computer is on the fritz, so it took an hour just to get signed on, and i have to hold the screen with one hand while I type with the other. My cell phone charger broke so I have NO contact with the outside world now, AND AM COMPLEtely broke and fucking so hungry I am shaky and it's not even 6 FUCKING AM YET. So that's it's people. IT'S FUCKING OVER!!!
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10:55, read Chemerinsky's opinion 5/1 which proves you wrong and cites why, as well as documents that when challenged to support his stonewalling, Trutanich gave alleged Calif. code that he either totally misinterpreted or misrepresented because it was irrelevant (he lied or was ignorant, in other words).
Or THE CODES 'DID NOT EXIST.' He even just made them up. Hoped his loud theatrics would fool voters.
Lots of other reasons given not to vote for Trutanich too. Opposite of what the Times' utterly unsubstantiated endorsement says. It's all clearly partisan, and an effort to claim what they perceive is the blue-collar conservative vote to make up for their lost readers. Instead they're only selling out one base in a losing and sure to fail effort to capture another.
Weiss and Koretz will win, because this time there will be a more city-wide turnout. Experience and proven open record of people who are on the side of the voters when it comes to the issues, over plans by those with no public record. Trutanich's dissembling and lies coming apart to reveal who he really is and what he's done disgust many people, and that's why they've made such vicious attacks against Weiss getting it out.
Though Vahedi at least has served on volunteer groups, and he and Koretz are much closer in many ways, but he's too beholden to angry retro NIMBYs.
For the love of Christ someone get Zuma into a shelter before it's too late
Zuma should look for help from those his ranting antics benefit, not those whose time he wastes daily with random attacks on them. he does the bidding of various groups, from Dan Wright to Trutanich supporters to numerous others, even Dennis Zine.
Red Sponge,
Why can't you spell David Vahedi's last name correctly and consistently? Are you slapping things together without thinking AGAIN?
City Council ruined Zuma's livelihood and now he's on the verge of death,sleeping on a park bench.
1230 I agree! but where does zuma plug in his computer in the park? in a tree knot? in the bench? in the woods? he has enough energy to shirek at erik garcetti and the others and every body there doesn't respect him. ha ha ha
higby should give him a hundred bucks every two weeks just for the clickety clicks he brings here.
Anonymous, 12:13
You refer to Weiss' "proven open record."
Please elaborate. What has Weiss accomplished for the City of Los Angeles in eight years as a councilmember?
The floor is yours.
Weiss was all about details of his record but you Trutanich fanatics, Zine the haters, don't listen and deny it even when it's documented.
So it's pointless to talk sense with you -- like Trutanich you just want him/ supporters to lay out details and shriek your dumb sound-bites to "refute" them. To distract from himself.
Weiss doesn't have to answer to a carpetbagging phony like Trutanich -- people not blinded by hate and their own cynically opportunistic ambition are listening and supporting him. And are very turned off by the real Trutanich.
Dear, dear 1 p.m., if there is one thing that Mr. Trutanich isn't and that's a carpetbagger. His family's positive presence in the Harbor area is so widespread and beloved in our community that it seems as though every other person we know is either a Trutanich, related to a Trutanich, goes to the same church with a Trutanich or has gone to school with a Trutanich. Mr. Trutanich's personal ties and assistance to many local charities is legend.
As far as his defense of those who have allegedly broken the law, I may not feel warm and fuzzy about a potential criminal, but I dearly love our Constitution and form of government that allow an individual legal representation in a court of law. I'm told that Mr. Trutanich is VERY, VERY GOOD at what he does. I enthusiastically look forward knowing what a fantastic job he will do in reforming the City Attorney's office and finally creating viable legal representation for our city. God, do we need him now!
Anonymous 1:00PM - Answer the question? What is Weiss's record? There isn't one is there?
Also, as you're are so consumed with taking the moral high ground with Jack Weiss (sic) please can we undecided voters who are not really sure about either candidate, have a clear concise answer as to why Jack Weiss attended an illegal fundraiser on Monday April 27?
Please explain why Weiss voted for LA Municipal Code 49.7.8 which makes it illegal for City employees, such as Commissioner Kelly Candaele, to hold political fundraisers, and then violated that law on Monday night?
Please explain why Weiss did not stop the illegal fundraiser - he was there with Candaele and he know Candaele was breaking the campaign finance law?
Please explain why Jack took the $20,000 raised at the illegal fundraiser instead of immediately returning it?
Please explain why it took the LA Times to break this story, why didn't Jack Weiss report his own misconduct?
No. All you will do is rag on about Trutanich. Here's the difference. The worst you can say about Trutanich is that he represents criminals. You cannot call him a criminal.
With Jack Weiss, however, his accepting the illegal campaign contributions is a violation of a law he voted for, concerning a city employee he voted to appoint. how do you excuse Weiss? He knew he was breaking the law? What - the law doesn't apply to Weiss? Is that it?
Kinda boxed in aren't you?
Oh, and I'm going to be anonymous from now on, just like you 1:00 PM, I just want to spread a little nastiness and then hide. Maybe I should vote for Weiss...
2:23/ Berger/Rumpole, your obsession with envy and nastiness can only be one person harping on the same theme in a really vulgar way.
And as for Trutanich's extended family, as far as we know only the Nooch is running, not any extended relatives he may have in the Harbor City area. We all know there are lots of Dalmations/ Croatians there, half the town's names end in "ich." He himself did indeed carpet bag from Naples, Long Beach.
Berger, you're being paid to work by US TAXPAYERS in the D A's office, yet you waste our time and money ranting the same themes?
Who's your boss? Oh yeah, Steve Cooley. Doesn't make him look too good to allow this flagrantly partisan electioneering on our dime, does it?
LEAVE ZUMA DOGG ALONE!!!
Zuma dogg said "Leave my name off this blog. What do you care where I sleep. I do what I do when I want to do it and live the way I want. What is wrong with you emotional cripples?" April 29 , 7:08 PM
LEAVE ZUMA DOGG ALONE!!!
Weiss doesn't have to answer to a carpetbagging phony like Trutanich -- people not blinded by hate and their own cynically opportunistic ambition are listening and supporting him.I don't think even the candidates' mothers have that big an emotional stake in this race.
Hmm. I am still waiting for that list of Jack Weiss "accomplishments." Other than warming a seat at City council.
The "HAG" has endorsed Vehedi....
Nutrisystem, Jenny Craig, and Weight Watchers have endorsed Koretz,the bloated Marxist career pol. Has anyone noticed that the guy rarely puts his "mug" on his campaign mailers?
So we have Vahedi as a name-changing terrorist in disguise, who may be better suited as a planning deputy than big-picture guy sending out mailings featuring Marxist Koretz's big stomach and "bloated mug."
Meanwhile what Mailander from the Eastside (Echo Park or Silverlake or somewhere -- all the same once you get east of LaBrea) knows about westside politics and the level of knee-jerk vitriol and retro NIMBYism that passes for "activism" among Trutanich's cynically-co-opted base wouldn't fit into a Weight Watchers meal.
While I'm not thrilled with either of the Democratic party-endorsed candidates, the nasty, personal attacks of them by the vipers nest of "activists" will ensure I vote for both of them over Vahedi and the Nooch. That shows they have the guts to be independent despite these nasty "persuasions."
Is Red Spot
1. an old gray hag
or 2. Jose Aguilar
LA Daily Blog Feedburner Stats
Sunday, May 3, 2009
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Thanks to those who are doing the heavy lifting. At least it's not a COMPLETE waste. Last month at this time I was getting about 100-200 instead of 2,300.
IF ZUMA DOGG WANTS TO BE LEFT ALONE, WHY DOES HE CONTINUE TO POST ON THIS BLOG?
SORRY, STUPID. YOU CAN'T POST ON THE BLOG AND THEN DEMAND THAT PEOPLE NOT TALK ABOUT YOUR IDIOTIC COMMENTS, YOU HOMELESS WEENIE. GROW UP, BE A MAN AND GET A PAYING JOB. THEY WILL EVEN GIVE YOU HEALTH INSURANCE. BUT NO. YOU WANT TO KEEP COMING BACK. YOU SAID YOU WEREN'T COMING BACK AND WHERE WERE YOU THE DAY AFTER THE ELECTION? YOU COULDN'T STAY AWAY FOR ONE SINGLE DAY YOU HOMELESS, HAIRLESS VAGRANT, BEGGAR!
Michael, you should take down that comment at 12:04 that is a complete post from my blog. I took it down off my blog cause it makes some folks uncomfortable. What is the point of moving that over here, into this section. I mean, REALLY??? It's not like it's about CalPERS or LACERS or anything on this blog.
Zuma, why are you posting all of these meaningless statistics here if you want people to leave your name off of the blog?
You can't have it both ways. I dig what you do, but I am getting tired of hearing the complaining.
Anonymous 1:00PM and later.
You still haven't answered the question about Jack Weiss and the illegal fundraiser he participated in.
You realize that's a crime, don't you?
So why the personal attack on Berger/Rumpole? He's not even running in this race.
Can't you actually answer the question? It really must suck to be a partisan Weiss supporter and have to be confronted by your candidate's misconduct?
No, you cannot and will not, you'll just keep smearing other people to try to deflect the attention from Weiss.
Well, it does seem that the media people at Fox and NBC (they did the Laundered Elections expose on Jack's last piece of illegality) will be focusing on this latest violation. So get ready with the spin.
If Vahedi is elected he will be the first non-Jew to serve in the CD5 seat since George Parkman Cronk in 1953. Unless I'm wrong and Cronk is not a gentile.
Meanwhile what Mailander from the Eastside (Echo Park or Silverlake or somewhere -- all the same once you get east of LaBrea) knows about westside politics and the level of knee-jerk vitriol and retro NIMBYism that passes for "activism" among Trutanich's cynically-co-opted base wouldn't fit into a Weight Watchers meal.That's pretty funny, Jackhandler. I'll remind you, though, that I interviewed both Zev and Laura Lake re NIMBY issues in 1989. Jane Usher too--she was in the Mayor's office, explaining why plans for a more pedestrian-friendly Westwood Boulevard were being botched.
Just what we need, a petty and vindictive Westside team in the City Attorney's office, getting hot over nothing at all.
What year was Weiss born?
Zooma Dogg stop telling higby what to do and stop being a crybaby. What goes on your blog does not count here.
Stop posting here altogether if you keep promising to go away you stanky idiot.
1204 is a hilarious post!
leave it up there higby.
it is original here now since you took it off of yours! sucker! hahahaha
Joe, quit while your behind -- each of your posts gets more "petty" and way out there, to use your word. Put away the Jack Daniels!
Next, you'll be telling us zuma dogg should run as a write-in for CD5!
Oh wait, he already told us that's not big enough a job for him, he needs a city-wide platform.
Wow! Some folks sent over some compelling email reading today. Probably nothing new, but I haven't seen it before:
From a long string of memos sent to ZumaDogg@Gmail.com (Some names have been slightly changed):
Last time I met and spoke with Dan (Lastname) was in February probably within days of the Schiffings court decision authorizing the deposition of Mr. Schiiffings. It seems though that Dan failed to inform his and/or Ms. Sticky’s lawyer of this rather telling meeting that took place in the World headquarters of HArden Realty, no doubt under the watchful eye of Mr. Shmurkle who is Mr. Clington’s recent business partner.
Wetherly Capital have a rather interesting selection of corporate clients who they “assist” in helping raising monies from institutions like CALPERS. I have no idea whether they have had any success in these particular efforts although Mr. Shmurkle threw a couple of million into the kitty when he got his first $200 million installment from CALPERS. I doubt whether Wetherly Capital even have the right licenses to be doing what they are doing butt then again these folks make the rules.
- Scene -
(I'm not sure whether I was supposed to post that excerpt, or not. Someone said, "Don't post this memo!" They didn't say anything about excerpts?)
I have no horse in this race, but I do think the Weiss team is getting really desperate.
Think about it--even the LA Times doesn't like Jack Weiss.
They have finally awakened to all the shenanigans at City Hall.
Bye, bye, Jack!!
There is a difference between me posting a comment, and someone copying and pasting entire posts from my blog in this comment section. But you probably can't differentiate.
Zuma, why are you posting all of these meaningless statistics here if you want people to leave your name off of the blog?
[Becasue I know when I post those stats it punishes the shady, AND YOU!]
You can't have it both ways. I dig what you do, but I am getting tired of hearing the complaining.
[Where's the complaining, besides people re-posting what I already took down, here? Mr. "I Dig What You Do But." Don't read my Twitter if you don't like it.
Are you friends with Mr. "I'm Not Opposed To Valley Teachers But"?
Maybe you know, Mr. "I'm No Fan of Jack Weiss But"]
Personally, I like Mr. "I'm Not Saying Your Crew Is Going To Be Indicted In Pension Scandal But."
And you can mention my name ANYTIME in context like this:
Those of you who know me from my political blogging elsewhere, know that I have immersed myself in politics these past couple years, and you hear a lot of things. (Deniro Voice: I heard things.) If you check the ZumaTimes.com website, you will see that these contacts allowed me to blog about the subprime mortgage crisis on May 5, 2007 -- predicting a bubble burst that would trigger a year long recession starting in November of '07.
Well basically, it happened to the day of the prediction if you check the headlines. And in October, sources recommended pulling out of the stock market entirely (mutual funds and all), because the market was going to start sinking first thing January '08. And we all know what happened.
We also learned that this would cause a big problem in the credit derivatives and bond insurance market. This next shoe, ready to drop, is scheduled to drop in February of '08 (like, next week), when all these derivative options come due, and if you think we had some down 200-300 this past month...
Well, that was just the little wave warning you that the Tsunami is coming. And it ain't gonna be a one week -- or one month sell off. We have already seen things that haven't happened in 70 years, or so. Some things have NEVER happened. You see people who have traded for 20-50 years saying they have never seen a week like last week.
So Bush can try to keep things propped up by visiting the oil sheiks and asking for a break, fiscal stimulus packages, bond insurance bail out talk (even though there wasn't any real talk) -- and the Fed can cut half a point: BUT THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO KEEP THE MARKET ARTIFICIALLY PROPPED UP WHEN THE SUBPRIME AND DERIVATIVE MARKETS END UP BEING MUCH WORSE THAN ANYONE WAS LEADING ON TO.
When people start walking away from their homes (since they now owe more than they are worth, once those teaser sub prime rates jump to market rate), banks will not only be stuck with all these homes -- they won't be able to sell them, either. (And they won't be taking in all this money, while the homes sink in value.)
People will be later and later on their credit card payments -- and many will simply walk away from those payments, too.
And when these derivative futures come due, it will be like what happened when everyone options were due last week, and everyone was caught short, and we saw a huge sell-off including all the good and profitable stocks to cover the losses on the others.
Bond insurers will be out of business, and we are already starting to see the leaks in the dam start to sprout water this past week.
Here's something I would like a news reporter to look into:
With the market down big this year, and bond insurers about to lose their AAA rating and will end up bankrupt in no time (more on that later) --
I wonder if any of this is having an effect on the City's LACER pension retirement fund. I know they like to play riskier investments than ZD would ever be taking for a pension fund.
Could be a real disaster. I have NO idea, I was just wondering as I thought about the bond insurer/subprime/etc mess, knowing how LACER invests.
January 29, 2008
HOLY SCHNIKIES AM I GOOD! I mean REALLY! You GOTTA be kidding me. I pulled that out of my ass! It wasn't even inside sources...THEN!
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Zuma has nothing but time on his hands . .. I wonder how many of the views he's bragging about are his own.
And Zuma, if you don't want your name on this blog, stay away.
Zuma, ALL you do is whine, bitch, complain, call people names, and insult them. {that is when you aren't bragging }
It's already old and annoying.
So shut the fuck up already!
MAKE me shut up!
Longtime Los Angeles City Councilmember and CURRENT City Attorney candidate Jack Weiss' wife, Leslie Kautz (Aka: Leslie Kautz-Weiss) was (is?) an investment pension advisor for the Metro Transit Authority (MTA) employee pension fund.
There is an L.A. Superior Court lawsuit from July 31, 2001 (case # BC255110) filed by MTA against the pension investment house that lost $17 million; with Leslie Kautz named as a third party.
Kautz was represented by Mannatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP (Los Angeles, CA 90064) in the case. AND GUESS WHAT...Jack Weiss, for some reason, shows OUTGOING expenditures on the LA City Ethics website to Mannatt, Phelps & Phillip (and I've already added up over $100,000 from what I see here) -- as recently as 2008 and March 31st 2009...FOR LEGAL DEFENSE!!! (Hummana, hummana, hummana!) WHOSE LEGAL DEFENSE???
AND NOW, that Zuma Dogg has unraveled this whole LACERS pension scandal (See SEC investigation), the whole thing looks like a bunch of people have to get Jack elected as City Attorney to try and keep as much of this mess from being exposed by the NEXT city attorney.
By the way, the city attorney election is Tuesday, May 19th. Carmen Trutanich is the OTHER guy running.
ZUMA REALLY GETS UNDER YOUR SKIN!!. MY GOD! SHOWS HOW SCARED PEOPLE IN CITY HALL GET. FOR YOU "WEISS SUPPORTERS" I'M STILL WAITING TO HEAR ANYTHING THAT "WEISS" HAS DONE OR WILL DO AS DISTRICT ATTORNEY. HOPEFULLY SOME OF THE COMMENTS CAME FROM HIS MOUTH NOT MADE UP BY PEOPLE WHO DIG HIM!! IS ANYONE VOTING FOR "TINA PARK" FOR LAUCC I HERE SHE'S GOOD.
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