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Comments as posted here at Mayor Sam. Citizen reports on Villar's "Snake Oil Budget Show"
Interesting Red Spot didn't post what a joke last night's budget town hall was with gang banger mayor. It wasn't about the city budget but all about LAUSD. Teachers and students crammed the place yelling and carrying signs. It was the most out of control meeting ever. You couldn't hear him talk cause of the yelling "don't lay off teachers" Only one station channel 9 showed up. The gang banger has lost his luster. It was so hostile there is now word about walk outs and riots.
May 05, 2009 6:58 AM
This on the Cynthia Ibarra Appointment to the Board of Relocation Appeals.
Charter Section 501(d) Qualifications.
(1) No person shall be appointed to a Charter created commission who is not a registered voter of the City. This requirement shall also apply to standing commissions created by ordinance that are advisory to, or manage, a department or office, or perform regulatory functions. This requirement does not apply to commissioners who are elected or who serve ex officio.
(2) No person who is required by ordinance to be registered as a lobbyist shall be appointed to a commission whose members are required to file financial disclosure statements pursuant to the California Political Reform Act.
May 06, 2009 8:39 AM
This from Joseph Mailander on the "OLD GRAY HAG ON SPRING STREET" recent endorsements.
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.
May 04, 2009 9:58 AM
This about Parke Skelton.
I'm not a doubter about Parke - it takes a genius to get a dumbass like Antonio elected. I only question his scorched earth policy against his opponents. Often with a mightier than thou attitude even if his opponents are more progressive than his candidate. This is especially true with his Latino candidates. And his fundraising prowess have made it virtually impossible for any real grass root opposition - kind of ironic isn't Parke? But history is the great equalizer to those left by the side of the road. History that will dictate that the quality of life in those communites represented by all "his minority candidates" didn't really improve under Parke.
May 04, 2009 10:35 AM
........and lastly from "G".
THESE PEOPLE ON THE COUNCIL ARE JERKS AND WERE BIGGER JERKS FOR NOT VOTING THEM OUT!!! ANYONE IS BETTER THAN THESE PEOPLE!!
May 05, 2009 5:34 PM
Your thoughts and open thread............
Labels: Mayor Sam Readers
Posted by Red Spot in CD 14 @ 5/06/2009 08:48:00 AM
11 Comments:
From the Capitol Weekly, 4/23/09, list of 100 top power brokers in California
Parke Skelton, SG&A Campaigns
Unlike other campaign consultants, Parke Skelton does not revel in the Sacramento power game. The Los Angeles-based Skelton is still an ideologue in a cynic’s business, taking on mostly progressive candidates and pushing back against business-friendly Democrats. His firm advises Speaker Karen Bass and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villariagosa, but for years, Skelton has relatively quietly gone about his business of taking on “good Democrats” as clients and winning political races.
Open Thread:
LA City Budget --
The City Clowncil voted to begin eliminating positions on the rolls.
Problem is, if taken to the maximum discussed, this will aleviate something like $80 mill of what is now nearly a $1 bill deficit.
So the Mayor and Clowncil take it out solely on the employees when, in fact, they are completely responsible for the situation we're in.
I say, let's take it out on them. Recall Villaraitardo, AlarCON, and "Controller" Greuel to begin with.
hey dum dum red spunk, you can't figure out if Bob Greene is Rob Green.
do a little effort and ur effort won't seem as sloppy as it currently is.
maybe you should find out what this person usually goes by and how they spell it. and if ur took lazy to do that, at least misspell it consistently. dum dum.
Maybe Mailander was having a Red Spot moment ??
Maybe Mailander was having a Red Spot moment ??It's Internet comments at MayorSam, not the freaking Rosetta Stone. If he weren't on KPFK, I would have forgotten he's even there.
But the bottom line is, he gets to pose questions directly to the Mayor, and ordinary citizens like you and I don't. Judging from the editorial columns I read, I'd say some people there have largely squandered their privilege. If you don't like the way I spell Rob Greene, tell him to write more stand-alone opinions and fewer head-in-sand-under-cover editorials.
Rob Greene is an immature random jerk who spouts off knee-jerk anti- establishment no matter what, and he's one of the reasons no one takes the editorials or Times seriously. Anymore. Even if they once did.
Whoever he endorses is going down. No Galperin (nice guy though), no Vahedi, no Trutanich. Just watch.
As for the props and measures, a blind squirrel gets a nut once in a while, but it don't take no diviner or tea leaf reader to see which way this batch is heading. Even Mother Theresa would have a hard time getting the people to tax themselves more right now.
Is that Capitol Weekly article you keep posting suppose to influence anyone's opinion about Parke?
Idealogues don't master the art of deceit.
Maybe if Parke took on a "business friendly" Democrat there could be economic democracy as well as a political democracy in those blighted communities that Parke targets. Villraigosa, Huizar, Reyes, Chu, Weis - none of these guys know the first thing about economic development but hey, at least they are politcally progressive. Making them "good democrats" in Parke's eyes. And lately the future of these blighted communites rests in those same eyes.
Rumors are rampant around City Hall that Building and Safety GM Andrew Adelman is abou to be canned; he has been seen many times at public events (most recently the LA Political Roast) drunk out of his mind...and even worse...groping any woman within 3 feet of his clamy hands! Rumors are that since he is a "lawsuit waiting to happen" the Mayor has had enough and that Andrew will be gone by June. Several women have complained...
Garcetti has known about Edelman and his harrassing of women for a long time...but has done nada about it!!
Hi, I am new to this board. Is Andrew Adelman the portly Persian man I see around City Hall? He seems like a flirt.
Adelman is a freaking idiot and should be fired ASAP.
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