Outtakes from CD-14, The "Cut and Paste" Capital of Los Angeles.
Hola and TGIF, from the "Cut and Paste" Capital of Los Angeles, where 2011 cannot come soon enough.We start today's outtakes with an salient commentary from the political wit that is "Parque Esqueleto", this in light of Councilman Jose Huizar's latest challenge with ethics and supposed outburst during a National Night Out Event at Hollenbeck Police Station.
** NOW now, children, to be fair, no one is really allowed to fill the "Arthur Snyder (pre)Memorial Council Seat" - aka, CM for CD14 - unless they are currently under investigation, have been within 3 months of running, or are expected to be by the time they pass their first 100 days. It's a RULE, and it's how you make your bones, and prove you're "good" people. It's also your buy-in to being an "OC" ("old councilman") once you leave. One old guy actually has his ethics' case numbers tattooed on the inside of his eyelids, so he can smirk about beating them any time he likes.
(Name the last CM here that wasn't "under" investigation more often than not, and I'll show you a G-D CARPETBAGGER).
Not only do we expect (and respect) it here, we get VERY suspicious if someone in that position goes more than a year without someone laying legal paper on them.
Don't get me wrong, we know they're STILL doing something thats "technically" illegal, it just worries us if they're too smart -- for too long -- to get caught.
It's the councilmember's who don't get investigated that you REALLY have to worry about.
(There's even a little-known standing rule that the swearing-in ceremony when they first take office in CD14 doubles for the one during depositions. It saves TONS of time have them "stay" sworn in for the full 4 years).
No worries, Jose, they can't PROVE a damn thing! And, if they can, we'll make sure none of your failthful actually believe it.
August 05, 2009 2:39 PM
Now the News:
** One of CD-14's oldest piece of "political bounty" for the connected, has been a Commission Appointment to El Pueblo De Los Angeles.
For years, many have been appointed to oversee operations at the Cultural Landmark but yet controversy and dubious accounting have been a mainstay.
Now the Eastern Group Publications becomes the P.R. medium for Councilman Jose Huizar's efforts to bring financial sustainability to L.A. oldest cultural landmark.
** Many CD-14 "cut and paste" veterans surely remember ex. City Councilman Nick Pacheco's former campaign duo of Robert Urteaga and John Edwards. Now, Montebello Councilman Robert Urteaga and his consulting sidekick are embroil in a controversy over the hiring of the Montebello Police Chief, promises of endorsements, and add allegations of racism. And one wonders why Urteaga faces a Recall.
** Former "Ass Clown Award Winner", Eliot Sekuler is one conflicted insider who right now couldn't "spin" his emotions. His loyalties are no doubt connected to the insiders who will advance his and employer Universal Entertainment's agenda. But one still has to walk through the neighborhood and withstand the "virtual vendido label" associated with his support for the Autry National Center agenda.
Now Sekuler is having seconds thoughts about being the "Minister of Spin" for the Autry and the "Southwest Society of Connected Vendidos y Venditas" This in the wake of the stonewall stance of the Autry over discussing the future of the Southwest Museum.
** EGP Headline: "City and County May Consolidate Redevelopment Projects for BioMed Tech Sector". Guess who is front, center, behind close doors, and shilling day and night for this merger ?? Can you say USC lobbyist and former Lincoln Heights Neighborhood Council Czar, David Galaviz.
But surprise, surprise who is opposing this merger is none other than the Lincoln Heights Neighborhood Council under the new, positive and refreshing leadership of Elena Popp.
No word whether Galaviz will attempt to get his childhood friend Councilman Huizar to send General Services Police to silence Popp.
** Your thoughts and remember that there is always a "In Box" and "Out Box" in CD-14, as noted by ex. Councilman Art Snyder, Just what is in the respective boxes will cause speculation and investigations, right Huizar ??
Labels: "COUNCILMAN LAST SEEN AS JOSE HUIZAR", Art Snyder, Parque Esquleto
Posted by Red Spot in CD 14 @ 8/07/2009 05:00:00 AM
16 Comments:
You're still grammatically challenged Red Spooge!
"His loyalty are no doubt connected"
I'm sure that there are more, but I don't have that much time to root them all out!
Where the hell is Wendy? You can kiss that endorsement of Chris Essel goodbye when people get wind of this story. WHY ISN'T THE CITY COLLECTING? I BET THIS GUY HAS DONATED TO POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS
....one of the largest criminal tax fraud cases handled by the City Attorney’s office, Downtown-based parking lot owner Sohrab Sahab is facing a 150-year prison sentence following his Aug. 4 conviction on 295 criminal counts for pocketing an estimated $400,000 in taxes owed to the city.
Sahab,owner of Downtown-based Prestige Parking, is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 14 by Superior Court Judge Edmund Clarke. The firm operates 29 lots throughout the city. The company is listed as the top debtor in the city’s list of tax scofflaws, which is published by the Office of Finance. It shows that the company owes $65.1 million in parking occupancy tax, the extra 10% charged in parking lots that is supposed to go to the city.
The Eastern Group news article about Eliot Sekular being "troubled" about the Autry Board's refusal to negotiate a legal provision to assure future protection of the Southwest Museum is a hint that the Mayor's "Southwest Society" was the result of political hacks of the Northeast blindly doing the dirty work of the Mayor and Autry in the hopes of continuing political access to favors from the Mayor's office.
How can Sekular say he left the Friends of the Southwest Museum Coalition to help form the Autry's "Southwest Society" when the Coalition became "too rigid" in its position? The Coalition is the only organization that has demonstrated consistency throughout this process.
The Coalition's position, that it still holds today, was written by Sekular himself. I was at the public meeting where Sekular announced that the Mount Washington Association had passed a motion calling for a legal enforceable commitment of the Autry and they were urging the Coalition and other groups to do the same. All of that happened when Sekular was on board and demanding the legally enforceable commitment from Autry from 2005 to September 2007 -- when he participated in the Mayor/Autry announcement that the "Southwest Society" would raise funds to restore the Southwest Museum and convert it to a cultural/education center.
It was Sekular who chose his own political connection to the Mayor over his own community when he publicly declared that the best the community could hope for was the Autry's 2007 "memo to Huizar" saying they intended to maintain two rooms of the Southwest Museum as a space exhibiting the collections of the Southwest Museum. Sekular wrote a piece in the local Boulevard Sentinel declaring the position he wrote, one demanding a legally binding commitment, was suddenly the "too rigid" position of the Friends of the Southwest Museum Coalition.
Sekular very publicly showed the Northeast community what a political turncoat he was. He chose preserving his political link to the Mayor's office over what he could have only known was a position that would allow the Autry to walk away with the Southwest's Collection and sell the National Register site. Sekular's former position was one that would let Autry destroy the Southwest Museum --and he knew it.
Sekular and others like him who gave their names to the Southwest Society betrayed their own community. They have no further credibility. He now says the Southwest Society is going to meet to consider what to do about Autry now refusing the accept a legally binding agreement that Sekular most recently claimed was not needed to "trust" the Autry to carry out.
Now the Autry has been revealed to Huizar and the Mayor as the group of liars they have been all along. Sekular is left looking suddenly "concerned" that the Autry will not agree to a legal commitment to protect the Southwest Museum -- the very same legal commitment the Mayor and Eliot Sekular were willing to ignore just a couple of months ago.
The Southwest Society has no credible basis to continue to speak out on this issue. He and the Southwest Society should declare themselves no longer supporting the Autry.
And new info on the woman from Steven's Steak House. I hear she got let go.
42,000 more to go before we hit 2,000,000 clickety clicks!
Red Spot is exempt from a spolling check. He wouldn't be Red Spot without all his Red Spotisms.
Re: Eliot Sekular, don't forget to follow the Autry's money, too. The Autry is the biggest contributor to Lummis Day, Sekular's personal "love-fest" to the late SW Museum founder, whose legacy now stands cuckolded by these two organizations -- the Autry and the "SW Society."
This is the annual event Sekular started the same year he led a "funeral" for the SW Museum to protest Autry's plans. It's supposed to promote multiculturalism, a la Lummis, but gets its biggest financial support from Autry.
How amusing is that? Autry is intentionally trying to move the museum collection to a "better" neighborhood (read that exactly as you think it means = less "multi", more "mono").
Sekular's been bought and paid for - twice, now. Autry owns his community activism. The only thing "worrisome" to him is being exposed as a naive fool for trusting Autry in the first place.
That Parque - funny, but usually right on target at the same time. It took Snyder until his 2nd of 3rd full term before people really figured out what a crook he was, because he always Robin-hooded some of the graft back into the community. The new guys get caught so much faster.
At first I thought Parque's use of the term "fail-thful" to refer to the Huizarist bands was a typo.
More and more it makes sense.
Amazing the merry-go-round of personalities here. It hasn't been that many years since two people from difefrent parts of this post (Eliott Sekuler and John Edwards) were heading up opposing groups locked in a yearlong battle over where the neighborhood council boundaries were going to be in Mount Washington, and whether Edwards could prove his downslope shack wasn't within them.
Edwards did. He is, unfortunately, a better spinner of half-truths than Eliot.
Has anyone noticed that the Southwest Society's website is owned by Autry National Center?
The Southwest Society is bought and paid for by the Autry. Sekuler says that the Southwest Society is now going to meet to figure out what to do about Autry's "troubling" refusal to accept a legally enforceable condition to assure the Southwest Museum will remain open.
So I wonder: If that really tough monitoring of Autry promises by Eliot Sekuler et al. (Jenny Caruso, Suzanne Lummis, etc.) results in the Southwest Society calling upon the Autry to agree to Huizar's requested legally enforceable condition -- who exactly is going to make the Autry put such an announcement on the Autry's own Southwest Society website?
The Southwest Society was all set to sell their own community down the river. Everyone knows it. The Mayor and Huizar can give the Southwest Society no credibility in the Northeast now.
PEOPLE KEEP PICKING LEADERS FROM THE SAME WATER HOLES. YOU'LL ALWAYS HAVE NONSENCE AT CITY HALL.
Steven"s Steak House Woman is?
tan, tan, tan .......
more to come
Steven Steakhouse
Alatorre + Moret hangout
Where the hell is Wendy? You can kiss that endorsement of Chris Essel goodbye when people get wind of this story. WHY ISN'T THE CITY COLLECTING? I BET THIS GUY HAS DONATED TO POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS
--the person who posted this assumes too much. i hope you do not bet in vegas.
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