Mayor Sam's CD2 Ramblings for a Sunday Afternoon
Truly anyone can start a blog. Paul Hatfield whose ownership of homes in Valley Village and Lake Tahoe has insipired yet another. Yet that doesn't mean the blog is accurate when he accuses me of being part of the Paul Krekorian "camp" and participating in a Krekorian ordered attack of controversial candidate Mary Benson. You may remember that Benson made a remark about the homeless at a recent candidate's forum some attendees found "cold" and distasteful. Hatfield's post is inaccurate in that Krekroian's campaign was not involved in the post. I was alerted to Benson's comments by Mayor Sam Blogger Phil Jennerjahn who attended the event. If anyone has read Phil's posts you can be certain Phil is far from being in Krekorian's "camp." Crybaby losers like Hatfield and Benson are so not ready for prime time no matter how much they hate developers.
Chris Essel, the one candidate that most of CD2 seems to be united in opposition to, is apparently doing lousy in capturing much local media attention. Only six results for Chris Essel pop up in Google News Search with the most recent story having run over a week ago. Essel does slightly better with blog coverage but almost all of it is negative and from the usual sources such as here, Ron Kaye, Zuma Dogg's blog, etc. Whoever is getting paid for PR at the Essel campaign may need to give a refund.
Besides serving as a neighborhood prosecutor and school board member Tamar Galatzan fancies herself a mechanic. In a recent interview with Streetsblog Los Angeles Trustee Tamar says her pressing issue for transportation in LA is to repair the "mechanical glitches and late arrivals" or LA's trains.
Labels: cd2 special election, Chris Essel, David "Zuma Dogg" Saltsburg, Mary Benson, paul hatfield, paul krekorian, streetsblog LA, tamar galatzan
Posted by Michael Higby @ 8/30/2009 04:24:00 PM
53 Comments:
This will change when Essel's tv campaign launches this week.
Sad but true. The only two candidates who would be bad - truly bad - for CD 2 are Essel and Galatzan.
Hatfield is way out of line here. He is attempting to make facts out of figments of his imagination.
Michael,
You are right about one thing...I am not in the Krekorian camp and I dread his possible victory more than I dreaded the victory of Paul Koretz in my own CD 5 election. Both are budget-destroying socialists who want to dictate the lifestyles of others. Dangerous men, indeed.
I think I alerted you to the fact that the candidates were a bit more acid-tongued at the VICA Social Cotillion, where 5 candidates were not invited to attend. Luckily, Tamar is married to one of the VICA members...so there was no chance she would be excluded.
I haven't been able to drag the whole video out yet...but the choicest part is now on my Facebook page....
http://www.facebook.com/philjennerjahn?ref=profile
what will change Jo? essel spending money on tv will be fantastic for tamar and krekorian. You dont win a race like this with tv ads.
Phil was the VICA event really called a "cotillion"?
That doesn't sound right to me.
With all due respect, it sounds either like that wasn't the way they branded the event, or you are using the word without really knowing what it means. A cotillion is a formal ball, often the venue for presenting debutantes.
How is the Vica event a cotillion? And who is the debutante they're presenting?
Higby, you were the one who blew Benson's comments into an attack on the homeless. I was not going to allow that to go unchallenged.
I will have more on the exchanes among the grassroots candidates later in the week.
By the way, I do enjoy your blog.
The blogs are the only way to get the scoop on what is happening locally.
Paul Hatfield
Right on joe!
yup, i was thinking the same thing about him too, but was never really certain. ha ha!
That's nothing but puffery, but you can believe it if you want.
What do you mean, phil?
Please, can you drop the crap and show the man some appreciation for a change?
Good analysis mayor sam.
Not on this end, believe me.
Anon @5:28
I know what the word means. I was using it as sarcasm.
"Sarcasm" is the use of irony to mock or to convey contempt.
I was ridiculing their "closed door" policy at VICA. Only the rich and powerful were invited.
Everyone else? Get lost!
I would never be a member of an organization that treated people this way.
Hatfield perhaps we learn why the McCoys were correct.
Anywaz its not an "attack" on Benson. Her comments were meant to be mean spirited and demonstrated she lost her cool because for whatever reason she was pissed off at Zuma Dogg. What happens if she's in Council and gets annoyed with Janice Hahn? Will she make a remark about her daddy?
Benson has shown herself to be bitter, angry and petty. People don't want that in their politicians. Why do you think Bob Dole isn't President today?
Contrast Benson with the ever classy and cool Joe Essavi.
I've been told many in Benson's camp seriously winced when she made those remarks even though they've been trying to spin it as no big deal.
Phil, if you repeat the phrase over and over without even a hint of it being sarcasm, you run the risk of being misunderstood.
If you were successful in life, which you obviously aren't, you'd have a bit more j'ne sais quoi.
THAT wasn't sarcasm.
I don't think Higby said Mary Benson is Mmmary. Most people in local government know who Mmmary is. However both are tied to Walter Moore. That's the source of your confusion?
6:36 = Walter Moore.
Michael is right. Mary Benson has the same quirk as Walter Moore who personally attack Zuma Dogg and Phil Jennerjahn in a very immature way. This was what egged on the fight between Craig Rubin and Zooma Dogg.
637, you don't know what the heck you're talking about.
Higby deleted that comment he made about those comments being from Benson. THEN Higby wrote the following to clarify what he deleted.
Do us a favor and know what you're talking about when you write here! You are beginning to sound a lot like Phil Genderjane.
Here's Higby's corrected comment. He did this because MMMARY sent him an email correcting him about it.
Michael Higby said...
Oh - just in case anyone misunderstood - the Mary I was talking about, the one who makes comments about me, Zuma, Joe B, Valley Doll and others is not Mary Benson but Wacko Loon Mmmary who is well known to the City, LAPD, Council, etc. and who, for the most part gets most of her comments deleted on Mayor Sam and other blogs. She sometimes slips some through but she is often sloppy and slips up and uses the wrong email address or various sayings that out her.
All of the bloggers, candidates, investigators, etc are aware of her. Mostly we laugh at her.
But she is not Mary Benson.
August 28, 2009 8:53 PM
ZD is a catalyst for bad behavior.
How many times does he have to do it to prove it to you?
We have enough problems with our governance in LA without adding a child with ADD to the mix.
Can we get away from the buffoon and get back to reality?
Personally, I did not take it as an attack on "homeless" but an excuse as to why ZD has been able to immerse himself at the city council meetings and as a result has the experience and historic knowledge -- and she doesn't.
So my point was, it doesn't matter that I was willing make that sacrifice and as a result have what you do not and are making excuses over.
AND YEAH, when we weren't supposed to be "going after" the other candidates, why did Mary Benson have to open up her intro comments about herself by comparing herself to me? I mean, can't you even do one minute without having to drag me into it?
So yeah, I think the fact that people tell me I should start mentioning that I have BEEN there for the past three years, reading the agendas, speaking with people on both sides of the rope and across all the city departments; and spent the rest of the time round the clock digging deeper, just because I was intrigued and wanted to get to the bottom of things. So whether I ended up sleeping on the streets to be able to carry on for one more day: ALL THAT MATTERS IS ON SEPT 22nd, I HAVE SOMETHING MARY BENSON FEELS IS WORTH MOCKING AND MAKING EXCUSES FOR.
But it wasn't an attack on "homeless" per se, in my opinion. Right, Waldo?
Hatfield's blog is never accurate. It's a reflection of the bias of Hatfield who is a hit man with the objective of tearing down the top three candidates, particularly Paul Krekorian. Truth is a stranger to his Village to Village. He calls his rag a blog when he always has the last comment on everyone's posting in an attempt to justify his biased ramblings. No thanks! I'll take the McCoys over this Hatfield.
Mary Benson and Walter Moore go back over a decade. That's why they seem to have the same set of people skills.
Walter Moore "outs" himself with his mean spirited brilliance. Only one person any of us can think of who is that big of an ass.
So Wacko got Mmmary to email Michael and admit that she's the nutty poster, not Benson?
What a pair. Mmmary and Wacko, who next time can run on a laundry ticket.
I don't understand your post 6:44 PM.
How long has Mary Benson known Walter Moore? Ten years? Birds of a feather, as they say? I thought Mary just a nice lady from the area. But if she is linked to Walter Moore, forget it. Just not the right vibe.
10:15, Walter Moore's righthand man, city attorney candidate Berger, is now Trutanuch's righthand man as payback for continuing to attack on the campaign trail long after he lost the primary (on DA paid time, by the way), and he's even more fanatically rightwing than Walter.
The only difference between them is that Walter didn't jump onto anyone's wagon and do their dirty work for them. Much as I don't agree with Walter at least he's transparent about who he is and wasn't in it for some personal revenge or payback.
I don't think he or Benson were/ are ready for primetime, lack the experience and composure to leap from nowhere to that level of visibility. But so was/ is Tooch and he's a whole nasty kettle of fish and long-time inside dealings with the CA and DA offices -- so don't be a hypocrite and just jump on Walter and Mary. And since when does a client necessarily share the politics of her lawyer?
10:25 PM, The client shares the politics of her lawyer when HE ENDORSES HER.
I make a distinction between Mary Benson/Wacko Moore and David Berger.
Just because Walter endorsed David for City Attorney doesn't mean Mr. Berger is a Wacko Walter Ya-hoo. David may have been pushing the Anti-Villaraigosa bandwagon with Moore, but Berger has something Walter never had. LAUSD doesn't have any either this summer. And for you Texas grads, the word is "class."
10:57 PM Do you mean Berger Rumpole? Who attacked Jack Weiss here with no mercy or facts? He is like LAUSD. Classless. Can't wait till the ball gets rolling to file Ethics charges against that scumbag.
You are suffering from short-term memory loss, 10:57. Berger is hillbilly cracker, worse than Walter. Go back and look at this man's posts on MS. Nuff said.
Hilarious (sad) that Berger wants to now disassociate himself from Wacko Walter and Mary Cummins. Too late, pal!
BREAKING NEWS....
DA's Public Integrity Division is set to open file on Galatzan tomorrow am regarding illegal mailings. Apparently LAUSD parents filed complaint last week with DA, Ethics and FPPC and are planning to serve recall notice on Tamar at SOHA debate.
Uh Ethics and FPPC would not initiate a recall. That would have to come from voters. The last post must be from the empty Essel vessels.
Berger did us all a great public service in outing Jack Weiss.
11:05 said Berger "... attacked Jack Weiss here with no mercy or facts"
I agree, Berger had no mercy for Weisshole, and he shouldn't have any mercy for the most disliked morally corrupt elitist liberal democrat in LA politics.
But as for 'no facts,' I do not agree. There was no shortage of facts surrounding Weiss's shady ethics, and I'm glad that someone had the guts to out Weiss.
Weiss was responsible for his own downfall. It was Weiss who took and then refused to return illegal money laundered campaign contributions, or was KNBC's "Laundered Elections" not a fact?
It was Weiss who stood by watching City Pension Commissioner Kelly Candaele collect illegal campaign contributions at the Beverly Hills fundraiser, or was Candaele's resignation not a fact?
It was Weiss who scorned his constituents by not showing up for debates, or was that not a fact?
It was the LA Times who called Jack Weiss "Unfit" for the position of City Attorney, or was that not a fact?
What's with 11:05 and all her anti-Berger/Moore stuff? Are you people still sore that Jack Weiss got thrown out on his ass? Were you one of the lonely folks at Canters Deli on election night who missed Jackass creeping out the back door when his downfall was sealed?
Is 11:05 the tasteless individual who posted that classless YouTube video about the downfall of Jack Weiss hoping someone would notice and blame Berger for it?
Come out, come out, whoever you are.
Galatzan will not be recalled because she will not win. She will be tarred with the same brush of corruption and unethical conduct as her mentor Jack Weiss.
11:59 is definitely a Shallman for Essel campaign dirty tricks effort.
First of all, with Berger Rumpole heading up the "public integrity division" and given his performance as being Target Numero Uno for a REAL Ethics investigation, if he is stupid enough to try it (and his ego suggests yes), Tamar's people will nail him. WAY overdue.
As for the rest, IF some alleged "LAUSD parents" did as claimed, let me take a wild guess what comes next. Based on his dirty tricks playbook for the Nooch.
Shallman and Co. lie in wait with video and knowing reporters are on hand, they'll feign indignation and demand that David Zahnizer or Maeve Reston AND Rick Orlov write "constituents critize Galatzan" hit pieces, so they can have their say calling her corrupt and so forth.
They'll put the planned video all over YouTube, RonKaye, his OurLA.org, Hatfield's blog, even probably the now-lazy and lost-his-critical faculties Orlov. Worked the last time with these lazy-ass "reporters" and opinion editors.
But NOW if Tamar's as smart as she looks, she'll be ready to expose this whole dirty deck of cards and make it come tumbling down on their heads, starting with Berger- Rumpole. Who admitted from the start that he only ran and took his current job to exact revenge. And THEN it will go all the way back and back. Now that they're IN office, not just playing dirty to slime their way in, they're way over their heads.
Wow, Berger at 12:54 is outdoing himself now. Not just distancing himself from Walter Moore but from himself, pretending someone else made "that classless video," to frame him. You mean, like the Jews blew up the World Trade Towers to frame some Muslim jihadists?
I told you I hate to call the posters retards, but look at the recall post. It was babbling by a nobody who doesn't know the protocol.
Good work getting the Berger-Rumpole/Mary Cummnins/Nuch/Walter Moore blogging team out for Mmmary Benson and Hedges.
Whether it's Essel's campaigners or not doing the posting against Galatzan, her mailers were unseemly. Nothing has previously been mailed from her in her tenure with the LAUSD and then three within five days as the ballots were being mailed to voters? Not kosher, Galatzan. Parents of LAUSD students should be outraged for such an expenditure. This is money better placed in the classroom rather than self promotion during a campaign.
10:28, I am NOT personally involved in this race and don't live in CD2 but as a matter of principle don't like to see misinformation going around. The money for these mailers seems to come from some personal account NOT money that "could be used for kids in the classroom," wasn't it left over from her LAUSD campaign?
Whatever, it was explained in the Times article but I don't remember. I think the account had money left over and they decided to use it now - maybe you don't like the coincidence, but it's not illegal in any way. But Shallman continuously asserting it is, and getting Reston to write an attack piece about it just so he can get in his "Tamar is corrupt!" quote, and generate a negative article on her, is typical Shallman strategy, which the former, experienced Times scribes wouldn't have fallen for.
This is sort of like how Rumpole/ Berger and the whole Nuch wacko spin team keeps harping on some Jack Weiss past campaign finance issues even though the Times explained why the Ethics Commission said it's a NON-issue.
OR how Krekorian is sending out mailings saying the Cirque du Soleil money should have been used for public safety, knowing full well that it was federal HUD money which could only go for specific issues like this. (Maybe it could have still gone to a better cause but NOT to the general fund and if Krekorian can't see that, after years on Assembly, he isn't smart enough to be a councilmember.)
NOT to equate this with the level of dirt of the Shallman. At least Paul's people don't send his supporters out to do public attacks on opponents at debates or the city council, film it for YouTube, Ron Kaye, the usual suspects, and then harangue the gullible press into writing a "Constitutents Criticize - Name Your Victim" hit piece.
Or paying for some small Homeowner Group with a gripe to take out full-page "grass roots" ads, but denying your connection and pretending they have $100,000 for such an ad. Knowing your friends at the TImes won't investigate who really paid for an ad in their own paper. (Let's see if Essel's "fans" start doing this stuff against those who DO have a public service record, Tamar and Paul.)
Most voters pay little or no attn to this stuff and the campaigns know intentionally confusing soundbites often do their dirty work. We shouldn't reward them.
Why post to this blogspot if the censoring filter only allows (in a very Stalinist way) only correct-speak according to the whimsical predilection of the "Owner"
Let's stop posting here, folks and dry this place up - after all - we are on water restrictions.
Adding up my unposted items: 10 or 12.
What a waste of bandwidth - this is a shill screed.
The Loon at 516 said..."Let's stop posting here, folks and dry this place up."
Dry up, Loon.
If Walter Moore was running for City Council, he probably thinks he would be in the Big 4. But it would have been the Other 8. Walter must not have much business anymore because he sure does spend an incessant amount of time posting here on this blog anonymously. He's turned into a degenerate loser since he lost the mayoral election. People sure wasted their money on that one. But when you donate to someone's campaign, I guess you can't control on how and where the money is spent. And just because you are hateful and angry doesn't mean you know how to effectively spend campaign money. Oh well. Maybe next time. NO, there won't BE a next time for Mr. Moore. He's off into footnote land.
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Will the LAUSD parents (referenced in a post here) file their complaint against Tamar (if they haven't last week) with DA, CA, Ethics Commission and the FPPC?
Will the same LAUSD parents serve their promised recall notice on Tamar at the SOHA debate tomorrow, September 1, 2009?
Whether or not the service on Tamar is real, to engage in ad hominum attacks is to marginalize and commit violence against those who seek the truth over those who run this blog. Read some Parker Palmer.
This violence reflects well on the degradation of political dialog into cultism, like the behavior Republicans share with mental hospital patients and scientologists.
"Dems Move To Right,The Right Moves to Mental Hospital" - Bill Maher.
It's more important for this blog owner to win the argument by shouting down (censoring) comments which run counter to the blog owners correct-speak.
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These know-nothings belong to the birthers and tea party set.
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