Vacation Hot Sheet
BREAKING: City Council quorum was lost today when Mike Hunt: African American Klansman and jackass-at-large refused to remove his white sheet during public comment. Unfortunate that Mr. Hunt appears to have gotten exactly what he wanted with his stupid behavior. He's apparently done this before.
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Mayor Sam is on vacation, leaving us burros alone to play with the toy while he's gone.
Yesterday the City Council approved allowing a section of Van Nuys to become part of Sherman Oaks with only Huizar and Cardenas opposing the motion. LAist blogger Steven Rosenberg, now finding himself a resident of Sherman Oaks, doesn't feel too positive about the controversial switch.
LA County Supervisor Antonovich wants the Los Angeles Opera to discontinue the Ring Festival L.A. planned for next year. Antonovich wants Wagner's pieces replaced, calling Richard Wagner a “Nazi composer.” That the Third Reich usurped a great deal of Wagner's Norse mythology and symbolism for their own propaganda is not in question. The question is whether the adoption of someone's work by an entity should permanently taint or label the work. Wagner himself was hardly a Nazi by definition, having died in 1883.
City planning commissioners are stumping for a renewal of their influential and manipulative positions today in council. How many of them are relatives of councilmembers, high profile developers, union leaders? These guys just passed major new electronic billboards for the Convention Center during the City's moratorium on new billboards, ticking off the new City Attorney. Do you think they should be reappointed?
Judging by the number of people berating the City Council for paying for the Michael Jackson event, the public is still pissed off at the Mayor for his perceived arrogance regarding who should pay for the City's huge public safety response. Who do you think should pay for it? The Los Angeles Business Journal is taking a poll.
Cindy Miscikowski returns to the City loony bin with her appointment to the Harbor Commission. Good? Bad? Deja vu?
Nominations are open for the "Bloggin 5150 Troll" award. Your pick?
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Mayor Sam is on vacation, leaving us burros alone to play with the toy while he's gone.Yesterday the City Council approved allowing a section of Van Nuys to become part of Sherman Oaks with only Huizar and Cardenas opposing the motion. LAist blogger Steven Rosenberg, now finding himself a resident of Sherman Oaks, doesn't feel too positive about the controversial switch.
LA County Supervisor Antonovich wants the Los Angeles Opera to discontinue the Ring Festival L.A. planned for next year. Antonovich wants Wagner's pieces replaced, calling Richard Wagner a “Nazi composer.” That the Third Reich usurped a great deal of Wagner's Norse mythology and symbolism for their own propaganda is not in question. The question is whether the adoption of someone's work by an entity should permanently taint or label the work. Wagner himself was hardly a Nazi by definition, having died in 1883.
City planning commissioners are stumping for a renewal of their influential and manipulative positions today in council. How many of them are relatives of councilmembers, high profile developers, union leaders? These guys just passed major new electronic billboards for the Convention Center during the City's moratorium on new billboards, ticking off the new City Attorney. Do you think they should be reappointed?
Judging by the number of people berating the City Council for paying for the Michael Jackson event, the public is still pissed off at the Mayor for his perceived arrogance regarding who should pay for the City's huge public safety response. Who do you think should pay for it? The Los Angeles Business Journal is taking a poll.
Cindy Miscikowski returns to the City loony bin with her appointment to the Harbor Commission. Good? Bad? Deja vu?
Nominations are open for the "Bloggin 5150 Troll" award. Your pick?
Labels: billboards, bloggin 5150 troll, mayor sam, michael jackson, mike antonovich, mike hunt, planning commision, richard wagner
Posted by Petra Fried in the City @ 7/15/2009 10:08:00 AM
54 Comments:
Do we think the CRA commissioners should be reappointed because they angered the city attorney? He's an a-hole and proved it once again, Miss Kool-Aid sucking PetraFried.
When Rosendahl raised this issue in council today they pointed out they were volunteers, that Trutanich had given them no compelling reason to postpone whereas they were under some deadline expiring in 2 days, and that as volunteers with no staff OR salary or lawyers to defend themselves or perks, unlike his huge salary and perks and THOUSANDS of attorneys and staff, his last paragraph especially threatening them was out of line.
Even bald idiot Zine backed off -- Trutanich made an ass of himself yet again for PR and soundbites.
Even Ron Kaye and Doug agreed this morning that his "grandstanding" on the Jackson issue and blasting the CRA like this was disappointing at best, while the Daily News rightly criticized him today for not keeping his campaign pledge to ignore the lawsuit about letting the Controller audit any office incl his at her discretion.
"Inviting" her in is NOT the point -- it's one thing to do that now when it's Rocky's mess still there, but the DN and even these two other Kool-Aid drinkers admit it's about the principle. What about a year or two or three down the line, after he's spending money and raising flags?
Yeah sure, let's randomly fire anyone Nooch gets pissed off at because he's out of line, great. Frankly he's showing he's in it for the PR and partisan vendetta, and Petra's showing what a dense, propaganda farce this is for the Nooch. (With Higby doubling as his PR shill "Foxy Lady" some say.)
Trutanich has enough P R hacks still out there, including his manager John Thomas and "head of ethics and corruption" David Berger STILL trashing Weiss to James all the time, worried he'll turn up soon and vowing to prevent it. What an unprofessional, partisan, vengeful bunch of hacks.
Huizar and Cardenas voted against the "Sherman Oaks" shift because they bought into the opposition's characterization that the move was racially motivated, because one of the "SO" designation supporters had used the term "complexion" in reference to the matchup -- and most likely there was some underlying racism, in the mind of at least one promoter.
But then, if you opposed everything that came before City Council because one side or the other had someone intolerant in their ranks, you could pretty much be assured that City Council would ned up tabling EVERY action before it.
(Yeah, but now I'm thinking. . . is that necessarily a BAD thing -- City Council never taking any action?)
Maybe that would actually be a "stimulus" program in and of itself.
Mucho anger from 11:14, aka the rrrrresident Bloggin 5150 Troll. Maybe you need another hobby. Say, playing in traffic?
Is Foxy Lady really Higby or a paid operative for Trutanich under a new name? I'd be disappointed if Higby has given up even the slightest pretense of trying to be impartial. Is Higby really out of the loop, or just a keyboard away?
Okay, truth be told, the dude behind the "Parque" viking mask posts anoymously here perhaps more often than in this guise.
And, I've been called, among many other things, both a mayoral staffer and a CD14 staffer (the latter being the future former) -- by those who don't understand sarcasm and innuendo -- and a "hater" -- by some rabid girly types who "FEEL" everything, and "think" seldom.
SO, maybe consider this confession a self-nomination for "Bloggin 5150 Troll"?
Which raises the age-old psychology question/Catch 22, if you KNOW you're 5150, doesn't that actually prove you're not?
We need to change the City Charter
for the good of the people. All city commissioners should be ELECTED. Regardless of if they are volunteers or Paid, they have much to gain from their positions. It's been proven that many of them are unethica, have much to gain financially and owe their allegiance to their appointer.
11:29 means: Let's keep this to what it is, the anti-Antonio site where we can vent among like-minded people and if you don't like it, go play in the freeway, find your own blog.
Parque! How Wagnerian of you to pop up just now! We will definitely accept self-nominated 5150s. No problem if one multiple personality nominates the rest.
11:33, MS is long gone on vacation. Kool-aid sucker Petra is your AM moderator. Besides, MS is now a Twitter addict. We've lost him to the call of the Tweet.
Police commissioner reappointment in Clowncil today brings out that at least 15 LAPD officers assigned to LAX are being paid from the General Fund. (Cost over $1 million.)
Not a single comment on the Times blog supports Antonovich, some 20 against, which is kind of unusual since the blog has been skewing more conservative, more like the Daily News. Shows what an utter clown Antonovich is.
I like the comment that says we might as well ban all Fords, since Ford was an anti-semite, except in the days of Hitler while Wagner lived 100 years earlier.
Council lost quorum because of some guy wearing a hood? HUH?
Nice to have you again Parque!!General Fund gets millions transferred from the trash fee hike so that makes sense for LAPD. That is not the correct amount though. Someone needs to put Mike Hunt in a therapy hospital. Going around wearing a KKK hood makes him look like an immature, mental idiot.
Glad Celeste Fremon thinks the way I do and says so on blog,
.....I DO have a slight problem with Summer Night Lights being painted as the main reason for a drop in crime in those target areas during those months since I suspect that has more to do with the fact that the 14 areas are flooded with cops during the SNL hours
THIS IS A BULLSHIT PROGRAM ANTONIO STOLE THE IDEA FROM CONNIE RICE WHO STARTED YEARS AGO. STUPID ASS MEDIA DOESN'T REPORT THAT. IT NOTHING MORE THEN HAVING ENOUGH COPS AT A PARK. TAKE THE COPS AWAY AND NO PROGRAM. VILLAGE IDIOT JEFF CARR IS ALSO LYING SAYING GRYD GANG PROGRAM WAS HIS IDEA....NOT!!!!! ITS AN LAPD PROGRAM STARTED YEARS AGO BEFORE HIS SORRY ASS CAME TO LA. GO BACK TO WASHINGTON YOU MORON.
Zine wouldn't let Hunt speak with the hood, then Dion hemmed and hawed unable to issue an opinion, Eric said he had the right to speak with the hood though it was offensive, but Zine said so many councilmembers were offended by it they'd walked out and lost the quorum so it was all moot in the end.
What a bunch of idiots. Did Zine overstep his bounds? The hood was offensive but since when does Zine think he's making up law as he goes along? Oh yeah since always. At least his paparazzi law went nowhere before it could cost all kinds of lawsuits.
09-1562 Perry-Alarcon
MOTION
The Department of Transportation is currently in the process of replacing traffic signal
light bulbs with LED lights at over 4,000 intersections on a phased decommission schedule in
order to avoid random equipment failure. Many of these traffic signal light bulbs are still in
operating condition but all are currently being discarded in landfills. A reuse opportunity for the decommissioned traffic signal light bulbs was identified in Tijuana, Mexico via the Califomia-
Mexico liaison at the California Integrated Waste Management Board in Sacramento.
The Office of Council District Nine (9) has received a request to donate six hundred
decommissioned traffic signal light bulbs to the City of Tijuana, Mexico. The City has recently declared six hundred traffic signal light bulbs surplus items that could fulfill this request.
On November 28,2006 (C.F. 04-1822), the Council adopted amendments to the Los
Angeles Administrative Code (LAAC) Sec. 22.547 (Donation of Surplus City Equipment), including a provision to enable the sale of surplus equipment at less than current market value to
any individual, organization or government if discarding/recycling/transporting such equipment is more costly than the potential loss of resale revenue from a market value sale. An example of such equipment is e-waste. Therefore, the City of Tijuana, is eligible for this below market value
sale of surplus equipment, and there are no other unfilled requests at this time for this type of equipment.
I THEREFORE MOVE that the City Council:
1. Find that the City of Tijuana, Mexico is eligible to purchase six hundred decommissioned
traffic signal light bulbs at below market value ($1.00) in accordance with LAAC Sec.
22.547 (Donation of Surplus City Equipment), as amended by the Council on November 28, 2006 (C.F. 04-1822), inasmuch as discarding/recycling/transporting the surplus equipment produces a net financial cost to the City which can be documented.
2. Request the City Attorney to expedite preparation of the appropriate documents to
effectuate the sale and transfer of the above identified surplus equipment at below market
value to the City of Tijuana, Mexico.
3. Instruct the City Clerk to inform the City of Tijuana, Mexico [William Yu Cong, Director
of the International Affairs Department, 401 B. Street, Suite 800, San Diego, CA 92101,
(619) 699-1996] that the surplus traffic signal light bulbs must be claimed within 60 days
from the date of Council approval of the request, at which time it will revert to the City's
surplus equipment pool for disposal by the Department of General Services.
WHO IS MIKE HUNT?
Besides an idiot, that is.
I do think Hunt behaved very badly and offensively, but how is this different from zuma dogg and matt wearing masks that were intended to be offensive and they claimed were "protected speech?" They should fine them all for waste of council time and taxpayer dollars.
I nominate Mike Hunt for 5150 Troll. Hes fucking nuts.
LA Slimes..Alex Padilla named chairman of Gavin Newsom campaign
How things have changed! Guess Gavin is looking for those Latino voters. Sorry Alex, Jerry Brown has more of a solid base with Latinos in California then little, boy toy Metrosexual Gavin.
When you dress like a fucking moron in a white hood KKK outfit expecting people to listen to what you have to say then you have to be a mental case. I don't support the blacks on council cause they are all bad but I thought it was horrible for Mike Hunt to do this. Mike is definitely mentally unstable because a grown adult especially black man would not even think of doing that.
Smith is totally wrong to tell LAPD they have to keep letting retired members wear LAPD-look alike uniforms for movie shoots.
Those guys are not part of the LAPD chain of command, which is taken very seriously as it should be.
If anything went wrong, it would be the LAPD's and city's image at stake and potentially liable for allowing the mistaken identity.
Smith says there have been no complaints but that's not true - lots of people complain about the lack of professionalism but maybe haven't filed lawsuits for injury. There are intangible costs to loss of image when you see a bunch of saggy old guys sitting around in LAPD uniforms, even if they're nice and friendly.
This does not hurt the film industry - they're being hurt by a lack of tax incentives and perks that other states have. No one stays or leaves because of the uniform.
All LAPD and the Chief said is they want a uniform distinguished from LAPD, they're not interfering in who is hired or anything else.
If they don't want security guard uniforms, they can make one up.
Then there was the issue of LAX police, should LAPD be stationed there. That's a closer call but Koretz was uninformed when he said it was a duplication of efforts: from what I've read the 15 or so anti-terror LAPD cops stationed there have had specialized training and are answerable to the LAPD chain of command. There is often MORE duplication of effort and cost to have 2 separate agencies or depts. than one, especially when it comes to issues of who's responsible in case of a problem or crisis. The fact that two separate agencies have to co-ordinate preparations for example would seem to be a duplication of efforts and costs.
The argument of Koretz etc. seems to fly against advice on saving money in the city by consolidating depts. and chains of command.
(That duplication and waste is even truer at County level where it was recently reported that two heads of similar depts. didn't even know the other one existed! Why did the media stop posting reporters to monitor the Supes? They say they can't afford it anymore but then they need an independent Controller responsible to us like the city has -- the County Controller is hired and fired by the Supervisors which is absurd.)
Bad choice by Newsome; Alex doesn't even have a wife he can screw.
If memory recalls correctly, that's what happened to his last campaign manager/chair, wasn't it?
Welcome to California politics.
We suck.
I’m just wondering what takes precedent.
1. Protecting someone’s constitutional right, freedom of speech, or
2. While exercising the freedom of speech that person’s costume offends some of America’s highest paid politicos.
Tuesday, July 14 Mr. Hunt appeared before the Los Angeles Police Commission. Mr. Hunt, with the same costume worn at chambers, spoke during public comment and none of the commissioners appeared to be offended or interrupted Mr. Hunt, possibly because they are attorney’s and understand the U.S. Constitution.
City's moratorium on New Billboards ??????
THIS IS A FRAUD. NEW BILLBOARDS ARE GOING UP IN TUJUNGA, AT THIS INSTANT.
THE COMPLICIT AND TRAITOR SUNLAND/TUJUNGA NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL ARE TO BLAME, SINCE WENDY GREUEL HAS CONVENIENTLY RUN FROM THE SCENE.
What say you, JOE B.????? Do you need pics of the monstrosities?????
@ Parque Esqueleto,
No, go back to Psyc 101 class, or Don't Pass Go, Don't Collect $200, Go Directly to Jail.
You can be psychotic and also know that you're psychotic, but regardless you still don't know which is real and which is not.
You should know that, you sicko.
6:08-
The STNC has absolutely no control on billboards going up in Sunland-Tujunga. Remember, they only have advisory powers to the City of Los Angeles. I also think calling them complicit and traitors demonstrates how little you understand about the NC system and City Gov't at large.
I suggest you take your complaint up with the City Attorney if you feel a billboard is going up illegally.
All new billboards require a permit and are a project. All projects must be presented to the Neighborhood Councils. STNC knows that these billboards are being illicitly installed.
Have you ever tried to present something to the City Attorney. You must first go through the Neighborhood Prosecutor.
Your request stops there, QED.
If you speak at the Sunland Tujunga NEighborhood COuncil you're talking to the walls.
The system is rigged.
BTW, you do remember that we have no Council representation in Tujunga, and no Council voice, at this time.
Hmm, that's funny, I have always been able to talk to the STNC and get things accomplished. I have also
been able to get the City Attorney to respond to issues. Perhaps it's in the way you communicate that your problem lies?
I have also
been able to get the City Attorney to respond to issues.
That's funny, Joe, I seem to recall that you didn't consider the City Attorney very responsive, especially the DRP:
http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2008/08/home-depot-drp-and-closed-door-meeting.html
http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2008/10/avis-ridley-thomas-home-depot-and-art.html
Yes, calling STNC "traitors" is harsh. I assumed that Tujungans would be against the concept of more visual clutter in the sky and against new billboards. I assumed the STNC is aware of the newly installed billboards.
Perhaps Tujungans like the newly installed, large billboards?
And Joe B., I appreciate your accomplishments regarding stopping HD. Truly, thanks.
The DRP, and the egos that run the program were the real problem. The City Attorney was complying with a Judges order. In many other instances, I have found the City Attorney's office to be very responsive.
If I had my way, and I'm sure the STNC would agree, everyone of those billboards on Foothill would be ripped down. There is a limit to what the STNC can do, there are only a limited number of activists to take on issues like this and frankly, we are spread pretty thin at the moment with the Verdugo Hills Golf Course and numerous other problems.
6:54 Thanks. It was an adventure I'll never forget.
so zuma dogg can act like a clown year after year under the guise of oppressed seeker of 1st Amendment rights, but michael hunt can't?
and lest you forget how many times zuma dogg tried to provoke, sometimes in front of children, by referring to him as "mike hunt, mike hunt, mike hunt." that's free speech, right? but not for mike himself?
Regarding KKK hooded Michael Hunt, L.A.P.D. should arrest him under the terrorist threat laws. Not only black people, but all people feel threatened by his display of asymmetrical horror. It is really amazing to me that no one factored this in.
It is mentally cruel to the senior citizen constituents who watch Channel 35 as well as children and other folks. I hope we do not see this individual dressed in his creepy costume again!
5150 Troll award goes to 11:14AM, the coolaide drinking Weiss supporter, for persistence, least original personal attacks, and basically re-hashing the same old boring, no traction accusations against Trutanich and Zine.
Jack Weiss's downfall should be celebrated as an annual public holiday in Los Angeles, much like the French celebrate Bastille Day. The dismal, roundly hated Weiss was quite literally thrown out office to the silent cheer of everyone in City Hall. Even Delgadillo got the grudging "attaboy" from the council, but nobody, I repeat, nobody gave a damn about Weiss's last day in office.
The little shit sneeked out of city hall and back to his hillside mansion without a letting the door hit him in the ass. The picture of Weiss fighting back the tears on election night in the street outside his "victory" party is priceless (see Berger's website) and the Jack Weiss Downfall video on You Tube is frankly the sweetest revenge that CD5 constituents could have asked for.
So 11:14AM, aka Ace Smith or Jacobsen or whoever you are (maybe the nut who said he votes in every election but did not vote for either Trutanich or Weisshole?), you really need this award because you don't get it do you? You lost. You lost, and y the way, did I say you lost?
Don't like losing? Here's the answer for you. Embrace a real candidate instead of trying to fool voters, democrats and republicans with phony lying sacks of shit. If the democrat party had any guts at all, they would have run a real candidate. Instead they pick that snothole Weiss because he terrorized them into supporting him.
Where are you now Jackass? How many of the fat cats who threw money at you are returning your calls now? Not happening for you is it? You are gone but not forgotten, and if you think you'll sneak your lying ass into LAX, it will be the straw that breaks the Mayor's back (heard from him recently?)
One thought for Jack - give AEG a call, maybe they'll hire you as a 'consultant' on billboards. I hear they're not getting very far with their plans for their latest digital monster billboard at Staples Center, and AEG did support your failed bid to be city attorney.
Regarding KKK hooded Michael Hunt, L.A.P.D. should arrest him under the terrorist threat laws.
Mr. Hunt's actions didn't meet the critiria of 422 PC, terrorist threat.
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city council and free speech
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Mike Hunt should be put in a mental institution. How crazy can you be to walk around wearing that crap and not think you are offending your own race. I'm sure the police commissioners like John Mack wanted to say something. BUT police commissioners are a lot more mature then the idiots on council who act like emotional bafoons. Smith is a wannabe Chief. He hates Bratton and Smith's constituents hate him. He caught slammed by all the NC's when he tried to cut their budgets. Retired cops only do traffic control on movie sets. PERIOD. They should NOT BE ALLOWED TO WEAR UNIFORM. Anything Smith is for everyone should be against.
Try burning a cross in front of Mike Hunt's house (if he has one) and see if it is a hate crime or not.
The outfit he wore is the equivalent of wearing a Nazi uniform (is that next?) and a swastika and saying "Heil Hitler". Is that free speech as well?
Where does it end?
And, why do we need to find out in our City Council meetings that are paid for by OUR taxes (not ZD's or Hunt's)?
I say, bar them and their antics permanently for their misbehavior and let them litigate it. Even if they win, we get some peace and quiet for a while.
11:27: so much hate and ignorance piled into one post late at night, you must be a very sad person.
This is hilarious our tax dollars paying for this shit. The Village Idiot Jeff Carr has posted a job ad posted on several job websites. Read the education requirements. Is it any wonder they have fools working the sham Summer Night Lights.
The Violence Intervention Program
Parent Advocate
Education: No requirement
Location: Los Angeles, California, 90031, United States
Posted by: The Violence Intervention Program
Job Category: Activism & Organizing
Sector: Nonprofit
Language(s): Spanish
Job posted on: July 14, 2009
Area of Focus: Family and Parenting, Health, Mental, Human Services
Type: Part time
Salary: $12/hour
Last day to apply: September 12, 2009
Last updated: July 15, 2009
Description:
The Ramona Gardens/Hollenbeck Gang Reduction and Youth Development (GRYD) project is a multi-agency collaborative of community organizations and school-based programs that will provide a comprehensive approach to addressing risk factors associated with gang involvement. This project is part of a citywide initiative of the Mayor’s office. The Violence Intervention Program, Barrio Action Youth and Family Center, and Legacy LA/Murchison Elementary are working together to deliver direct services in each of the three identified communities in the GRYD zone. The program aim is to reduce gang crime and violence and encourage youth success in Lincoln Heights, El Sereno and Ramona Gardens.
Parque,
Got a proposition for ya. e-me at your convenience. (email thru my profile) - Thnx
7:28 AM
The way that is written looks like they probably have somebody in mind and just fulfulling requirments.
Maybe Maria Del Angel?
6:17 p.m.
Tell that to Corporal Klinger!
Wagner's wife was a Nazi as were his children and he played a major role in promoting anti-semitism throughout Europe. A brilliant musician which maybe is all that should be remembered, but I certainly wouldn't be too negative about Antonovich's comments.
Wagner's wife was a Nazi as were his children and he played a major role in promoting anti-semitism throughout Europe. A brilliant musician which maybe is all that should be remembered, but I certainly wouldn't be too negative about Antonovich's comments.
Didn't Wagner's wife die way before the Nazis were even thought of?
nd lest you forget how many times zuma dogg tried to provoke, sometimes in front of children, by referring to him as "mike hunt, mike hunt, mike hunt."
You will NEVER produce that audio because I never did that. WENDY was the one caught saying it, and someone looped it on YouTube dummy.
nice speaking with you last week, though.
Well fuck all these people. Mike Hunt, you make me laugh. Hard.
11:01
How about not writing until you research?
Wagner DIED in 1893!
11:01pm = Antonovich Spin-Hole.
You are obviously math challenged, which is probably par for the course for a Spin-Hole. What Wagner's wife and/or children may have done do not make someone who died in 1883 a Nazi. It is NOT chronologically or historically possible. The end. Shut the fuck up.
The planning commission should be responsible to the people not the mayor in the pocket of developers. Jane Usher was the smartest, Mike (dumber than a toaster) Woo wouldn't know right from wrong if it was staring him in the face. While the city commissions are good in theory they are all in the pocket of the mayor (as expected) and bend over anytime he wants them to.
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