This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I'm an ex-mayor. Los Angeles is a magnet for people from all over the world. Some of them run for public office. Inevitably some of them stray from the golden rule and rule for those that have the gold. That's when I go to work. My name is Yorty. I'm a dead pol.
Too much work, not enough Mayor Sam. So it's Open Thread for Thursday.Labels: open threads
Posted by Petra Fried in the City @ 7/16/2009 08:44:00 AM
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What do folks think about LA's cannabis infused air?
http://www.laweekly.com/2009-07-16/news/los-angeles-reefer-revolution/
I think we should tax the living shit out of it.
Read this shit!! Are these fools on city council on another planet? These assholes are getting us deeper in a hole spending as if there isn't any financial crisis. $75,000 for a bunch of illegal alien crap and they will have corporate sponsors. I thought there was a moritorim on special event waivers. THIS IS BULLSHITTT!$^(&((* this is as bad as the Jackson bullshit!
08-2219-S2
MOTION (GARCETTI - PERRY - HUIZAR) relative to funding for this year’s City celebration of El Grito.TRANSFER $75,000 in the El Grito line item in the General City Purposes Fund No. 100/56, to the General Services Trust Fund No. 843/40, Account No. 28F to pay for various costs associated with this year’s City celebration of El Grito. Tuesday, September 15, 2009
!!!!Come Celebrate El Grito
L.A.'s ulitmate "Latino Power" B2B VIP Gala is available for corporate sponsorship and exhibiting,Private VIP Gala with L.A. City Council & Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, televised public ceremony with live musical performances from Top Latin Stars
COPE went open in the CD 2 race.
Essel lost COPE while having Maria Elena's staff whipping delegates for her, AV's folks working the phones and IBEW's support.
Not a good sign for billboard queen.
AV's "folks" are also working Paul Krekorians campaign and Tamar Galatzan's.
Do your research "12:00pm" Mayor is staying neutral.
Tamar, Paul and Chris are all close to the Mayor and his agenda, they likely use "rhetoric" to appease the racists in CD2 but rest assured LA. CD2 is a victory for the Mayor already.
Calm down.
Everyone should help in the CD2 race no matter where they live to help anyone but the Antonio candidate gets in. Antonio is the kiss of death. Where are all the pussy council members on AEG issue? Balless men around the horse shoe. Ask the candidates would they ignore the tax payers of the city? Is Zuma running?
Half of the COPE board has interests that are 100% controlled in Sacto
The fact that a guy in Assembly Leadership couldn't do better than barely blocking Essel, who was unknown back in March, shows how weak Krekorian is compared to the average Sacramento pol
For example Koretz won COPE easily.
Many Los Angeles City Worker positions are filled in this same manner...
SOTOMAYOR AN "AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BABY", WITH LOWER THAN EXPECTED SCORES
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/us/politics/11judge.html
New York Times
Politics
Videos Shed New Light on Sotomayor’s Positions
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
Published: June 10, 2009
WASHINGTON — Judge Sonia Sotomayor once described herself as “a product of affirmative action” who was admitted to two Ivy League schools despite scoring lower on standardized tests than many classmates, which she attributed to “cultural biases” that are “built into testing.”
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Those comments were among a trove of videos dating back nearly 25 years that shed new light on Judge Sotomayor’s views. She provided the videos to the Senate Judiciary Committee last week as it prepares for her Supreme Court confirmation hearing next month.
The clips include lengthy remarks about her experiences as an “affirmative action baby” whose lower test scores were overlooked by admissions committees at Princeton University and Yale Law School because, she said, she is Hispanic and had grown up in poor circumstances.
“If we had gone through the traditional numbers route of those institutions, it would have been highly questionable if I would have been accepted,” she said on a panel of three female judges from New York who were discussing women in the judiciary. The video is dated “early 1990s” in Senate records.
Her comments came in the context of explaining why she thought it was “critical that we promote diversity” by appointing more women and members of minorities as judges, and they provoked objections among other panelists who pointed out that she had graduated summa cum laude from Princeton and been an editor on Yale’s law journal.
But Judge Sotomayor insisted that her test scores were sub-par — “though not so far off the mark that I wasn’t able to succeed at those institutions.” Her scores have not been made public.
“With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates,” she said. “And that’s been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that. There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.”
Judge Sotomayor’s approach to affirmative action has been the subject of intense scrutiny. Conservatives have criticized her remarks in speeches that her personal experiences will influence her judging, and they have focused on her vote to uphold a decision by New Haven to throw out results from a firefighters’ exam because not enough members of minorities scored well.
In the program, Judge Sotomayor also rejected the proposition that minorities must become advocates of “selection by merit alone.” She said diversity improved the legal system — like having a Hispanic judge in a case where a litigant and his family is Hispanic, and who can translate what is happening into Spanish.
“Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means, and in any context, whether it’s judicial or otherwise, I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system,” she said, adding, “I think it brings to the system more of a sense of fairness when these litigants see people like myself on the bench.”
Judge Sotomayor also mentioned her personal involvement in challenging testing in a 1994 interview. Reflecting on her 12 years on the board of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund before she became a judge, she recalled helping change its policy focus from voting rights and bilingual education to economic issues, like “cases attacking civil service testing and issues of union admissions.”
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4:40 pm- Who in the city took the Law School Admissions Test to get hired by the city?
Maybe the LSAT should be used for city hiring to get a different level of employee.
3:22
Your very mistaken.
This thing was wired for Chris before she got in the race.
Paid political staff in the County Fed have been working the list for months and telling half the world she will win the COPE endorsement.
Instead they got their asses handed to them.
If the union is behind Chris Essel, she will win in a waltz, because money talks and BS walks.
Did any of you geniuses notice what happened in the recent Supervisoral race? The union came in with millions and millions for Ridley-Thomas and door knockers in the streets and they buried ernard Parks, the Chosen one, by Yvonne Burke, Maxine Waters and the usual political power brokers in the area.
The unions are feeling their oats, so watch the money, folks and you will see the result before election night.
It will be the Armenian money versus the union money. Me, I'll bet on the latter. Not enough Armenians to walk the streets and contribute multiple millions in an I.E.
Put your money on Essel, and your trust in Marie Elena Durazo.
5:56 PM
As an IATSE rep, I got about 20 phones calls from Chris and her staff (one of which is still on contract with the County Fed, so much for neutrality!). Even though all our locals pledged to vote for her, two of our local's broke ranks and supported Paul.
If all our locals and the Laborers had supported Paul, he would have gotten the 2/3's voted for the COPE endorsement.
Labor endorsements are good for poop in CD2.
What the hell happened to democracy and the will of the people? I hope you all get the shock of you lives. Down with both PK amd CE who are part of this corupt political system. Who needs them!
Labor endorsements are good for poop. You just don't realize how you're being influenced by them and what they're paying for.
Even if the average CD 2 resident isn't pro-union, we've seen them all be stupid and believe the media hype (bought and paid for with union money) and guess what, that poop starts smelling pretty good in CD 2.
Someone asked where the democracy was. They don't get that it's where the money is. Learn it.
Out of the 12,000 or so who will vote in the CD2 race, it's a given that more than half are totally fed up with insider politics. See the data from the last election where Villaraigosa did not even pull a majority, and labor-backed Nury Martinez got just 39% compared to Pugliese's 61%.
And don't forget about measure B- only 35% support here. Both the AV and measure B loss also included the Sherman Oaks/Studio City crowd!
What all this means for the "big three" is that they're not so big after all and will each be fighting to their death for about 2000 votes each. The only way to change that is to take votes from the other "community" candidates, but any smear campaign against Essavi, Benson, Pugliese, et al., will just piss us off. If any of those can pull 2000 votes, this will be interesting.
The runoff will be hilarious when Tamar comes-a-courtin' Zuma Dogg.
Phil J.,
How many of the 240,000 recall signatures do you have?
This doesn't even count all the extra sigs you'll need to cover the illegal sigs.
How come your recall antonio website that you've blown some money on isn't up and ready?
One could get the impression that you're not doing a darn thing about it.
Everybody could get that impression.
dumbass.
Yo! 8:32
What's the matter with you, calling someone a "dumbass?" My Uncle Nick woulda' given you a good slap upside the head if he were here.
I'd think you were a bully, picking on someone because you think they're a loser, so it's OK,(but it's not), but being that you are anonymous and harmless, I guess you're not even a bully.
Well maybe you're a sissy-bully.
If you want to communicate with Phil, why don't you join facebook or get his email address?
Labor endorsements may not be worth much, but the Independent Expenditures are worth big dollars.
Just ask Bernard Parks what they are worth, or Mark Ridley-Thomas.
Ten-Twelve million for a Supervisor's seat; hell, Chris ought to get at least a mmillion and that will blow out everyone in CD2.
Tamar is better off dropping out now before she is totally embarrassed in the primary.
Essel wins the whole ball of wax in the primary; just watch.
You are all forgetting one thing? Press, once its out Chris Essel or any other Antonio clown is running the media will have a field day when the negative press starts. Why did Chis just move into the district, with her experience what has she done around the city but stay within the gates of Paramount for years, what is her position on taxpayers paying for Jackson funeral and what the Mayor has said disrespecting taxpayers.....
Disrespecting taxpayers is bad; but that means it is OK to diss ZD and/or his evil twin, Mike Hunt.
11:09
Young Su: Is that you?
Come of and spin your BS some place else.
There will be no Labor IE for Chris, COPE went open, SEIU is with Paul and IBEW also open.
No one else in Labor can fund a serious IE.
9:51-- I saw this being passed today (on ch. 35) and my first thought was, "Huh? Didn't the council already allocate $125,000 for 'El Grito' (the STUPID BOGUS UNAMERICAN illegal alien fest celebrating the exact same 'victory' that Sink-hole De Mayo celebrates)a coupla months ago?" They did it in 2 incriments. First they passed a motion for the usual (groan) $75,000, then a couple weeks later they allocated another $50,000, bringing the total to $125,000. So NOW, w/ yet another $75,000, the grand total for El Greet-o comes to $200,000?? If so, the city council slimebags MUST be getting some kinda "kick-back!"
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