"Blah, blah, blah.."
"Blah, blah, blah... greenest city in America...blah, blah,blah.
"Blah, blah blah..... crime is down...blah, blah, blah."
(Hope nobody notices Parks is asleep behind me and Nuch keeps checking his watch)
Posted by Phil Jennerjahn @ 7/01/2009 04:33:00 PM
15 Comments:
Typical Republican smear tactic, clown boy.
You're right, Phil. That other Republican Trutanich is showing more disrespect after Villaraigosa was nice enough to break with precedent and let him gab, blab and boast at HIS inaugural. And like someone said on earlier post, even that other Republican Cooley took cheap nasty shots at Weiss and called this a "battle between darkness and light" very offensively, while Antonio was nice enough to not even mention the past and how they got there.
Class is all on one side here, as usual sad to say, Phillie my boy.
Anyway aren't you the pot calling the kettle black, with your long, long long partisan posts?
Nuch is checking his watch to make sure it's still there . . . "crime is down" -- like the price of SoCal real estate is down.
SOME, but not enough.
Now, THREE out of every 10 families here can afford to buy a home, instead of only TWO.
(That, and the clock is NOW officially ticking on all his blather about reforming the CA's office).
Years before we had a "teleprompter" president, we had the "uh, uh, uh . . . er, um" 1.4 GPA "index card" mayor.
Maybe Nuch just wanted to call attention to his watch, like he does to his car and all material things from his car to his suits to his house on a canal in Naples that he's always entered in holiday decorating contests until forced to carpetbag into the slums of San Pedro.
"I'm just the son of a poor cannery worker's son from San Pedro and grew up poor, boo-hoo, but now I'm rich enough to afford this special edition Rolex."
Blah, blah, blah (I just HATE Villaraigosa)
Blah, blah, blah (He supports everything I pretend to be against).
Blah, blah, blah (That should be ME up there - I finished in the Top 10).
-- Phil Johnandken
OK... Anon @ 7:28
I've answered this question before.
Villaraigosa. Sitting Mayor. Spent 3 million dollars. Of course I couldn't beat him. I didn't spend 1% of what he did.
Walter Moore. Ran for Mayor in 2005. Four year head start of being on talk radio and bashing Villaraigosa non-stop. Spent 300K.
Gordon Turner. Listed as "Deputy City Attorney", he was the only candidate who could say on the ballot that he already worked for the City in a position of trust. I knew that would earn him a lot of voters looking to vote for someone other than Villaraigosa.
I was still surprised by his results.
Zuma Dogg. I admit I was stunned by his fourth place finish. But he also had years of exposure at City Council and on local talk radio and an appearance on Howard Stern.
Good enough for 9000 votes.
Bruce Darian. Ran for Mayor in 2005, but only got about 500 votes. He really moved up a lot. I give him credit for his showing, especially when it seemed like he quit early in the campaign and stopped showing up for events.
David Hernandez. Had run for multiple offices in the last five years. Was a frequent name on the ballot. More well known in Republican political circles than I was.
I didn't like finishing behind Rubin, Harris, and Alvarez... but they had their own niche appeal to some people.
Last place definitely sucked.
Very disappointing.
But I started as an unknown and had only 100 days to campaign. I ended up getting 2,432 votes.
It's a start.
I still think I was the best candidate.
At least you didn't waste your money on hats and yard signs!
I wish the mayor had decided to keep some of the lighter material in his speech. Such as this that got red lined:
"So when Farrah Fawcett got to Heaven, St. Peter told her that because she had led such an exemplary life, he would grant her one wish immediately."
She said, "I wish that you could find a way to protect all the world's children."
Antonio Villaraigosa for DOG CATCHER!
VILLAR hasn't done a damn thing!
RECALL HIS ASS!
Phil,
Stop making excuses. You came in last place because you deserved to.
You are not a leader. You have never done anything to improve this City. Riding on the coattails of others does not count. I think you are a nice guy, but the best position for you is where you are now as the spokesman for the obsolete Westside Republicans.
Mayor Villaraigosa said his first term was “All About Me.” The second term is “All About Us”, but when the ceremony was over at the south lawn. He didn’t have the decency to greet the distinguished audience, constituents, that were left there waiting to congratulate the Mayor or at least take a picture with him. Actions are louder than words, speeches are meaningless.
City Attorney Trutanich and Councilmember Zine were the only two elected officials that cheerfully greeted constituents and made themselves available for photos.
45 minute speech? You know he didn't write it.
There is so much to pick apart in his speech, not only for what is included, but for what is not mentioned. Also he does seem to twist things to fit what he needs to shore up.
"And this year, more students were identified as 'gifted' and 'talented' at Partnership schools than ever before, proving that any child from any neighborhood can succeed if given the chance." That's an example of the distortions presented that don't ring true.
Lifting a few sentences from teachersfirst.com, it's the definitions that some speech writer overlooked.
"Working with a gifted student can be both a joy and a frustration. To understand why, we need to be clear about definitions. A gifted student is one whose intelligence - typically described as an IQ score resulting from one or more tests - is 130 or above. That is, giftedness is a measure of innate ability, not performance. The result is a paradox.
A motivated student who works hard, gets straight "A"s, and behaves well in class may not be gifted.
A student who doesn't perform well, is disruptive, and clowns around in class may well be gifted."
So that's exactly what was turned around for Tony's point, a small one, but it makes you wonder how many more liberties the take and what they simply lie about.
The more the Mayor talks, the more he digs himself deeper in the hole.
Education so far has not been something he's come through on, and has consumed much time, money and energy that would have been better applied working on proper city business and maybe we'd have been able to have avoided such a heavy impact as we see now with the city.
Tony's travelling did not help either. Maybe staying put will allow him to become more familiar with DETAILS that he so sorely lacks on many matters of city business. Pensions might be an area to learn as he admits to not being an expert on pensions.
He might have seen the costs to the city that early retirement creates, but then again, he's no expert. He's just trying not to lose union support by handling it with the best budget outcome as a private sector approach would have called for a direct and less costly approach.
Less costly is not his goal, of course.
It's ironic that Tony should be sworn in for his second term by his sister, a Superior Court judge, who might not have been noticed for that 2006 appointment if Tony was not elected Mayor first.
IN LA
Here we go again with the Mayor going after trying to fix the schools. Please someone kick his ass and tell him his job should be fixing the damn city FIRST. Stupid is as Stupid does and the moron doesn't have a chance in hell of doing anything to clean up the mess he's made to LA.
"Hope nobody notices: Parks is asleep behind me and Nuch keeps checking his watch!"
During Mayor Toilet Tony's speech (it starts around his talking 'green' city matters) when he is droning on and on, right behind him over his camera left shoulder (on citywide Channel 36 City TV cable access) a member of the Toilet Tony family falls asleep, wakes, falls asleep AGAIN and can't keep her eyes open to listen to her family role model.
Just HUGELY entertaining and reflextive LA voter reaction to Toilet Tony's babblings that has heard it all !@#$% before..
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