Krekorian's Tantrum: A True Diva Moment
Editor's Note: Phil was originally asked to provide a verifiable source for this incident. Until he does so it is the position of the Mayor Sam blog that this report is speculation only and has not been verified. We have received the following statement from the Krekorian campaign denying this incident: "Paul had to turn in a pair of forms to get his nominating papers and have them approved by Ethics: the Form 700 and the Declaration of Intent to run for office. The handbook never said it had to be turned in simultaneously (they said it could be turned in the next day), though the Clerk's office did say they required both at the same time. Paul didn't have his Form 700 filled out, but he got it done and that's why we got our petition in late. That's it. They never did any favors for us and Paul was nothing less than professional."
Word is circulating back to Mayor Sam about a disturbing incident that happened early in the special election campaign for the vacant seat in City Council District 2. It appears that Burbank Assemblyman Paul Krekorian threw a major temper tantrum in the City Clerk's office when he was denied the right to get his nominating petitions. On top of that he demanded the City Clerk use a ballot designation for his position that really actually does not exist. "San Fernando Valley Assemblymember?"? It sounds awfully suspicious.
Sources say that Krekorian also threw his weight around during his hissy fit...as if to say to City Clerk employees.."Don't you know who I am.??" It is unclear if he used those exact words, but it was clear that Paul Krekorian was letting them know he was an important elected official who had to catch a flight back to Sacramento very soon. In Pauls twisted vision, the City Clerk employees were there to serve him.
The problem with his paperwork was that Paul had not completed his official Ethics training with the City. Paul had not run for a City position before (because he lives in Burbank) and was not familiar with this requirement. Paul was upset that not getting his nominating papers would put him behind schedule with this latest, ambitious run for office. Paul threw his weight around. He mentioned that he was an elected official, a State Assembly Member. Paul mentioned that he had a flight to catch back to Sacramento and "didn't have time for this!.." .
When the City Clerks came back with the answer that Paul would not be allowed to get his paperwork that day, Krekorian was apoplectic. Angry and frustrated by his inability to get exactly what he wanted when he wanted it , Krekorian let loose with a burst of profanities. The exact words were heard by several witnesses, who said that the torrent included several uses of the "F bomb". Eventually, this tactic appears to have worked. Browbeaten and fatigued City Clerk employees allowed Krekorian to take his oath and get his papers, in direct circumvention of the rules.
Things we learned from this story:
1) Paul Krekorian has an explosive temper.
2)Paul Krekorian believes his government position entitles him to special treatment.
3) Paul Krekorian does not mind bending or breaking the rules to get what he wants.
4) Paul Krekorian will treat other government employees poorly if they are not at his same pay grade.
Now, I ask CD 2 voters...is this really the man you want in power in your district for the next 14 years?
PS.. Krekorian's camp is welcome to deny this if they want.
(Disclaimer: Phil Jennerjahn has endorsed Christine Essel in the CD 2 special election.)
Posted by Phil Jennerjahn @ 10/25/2009 01:10:00 PM
55 Comments:
Oh, give us a break, Phil. Surely, you can find something a bit better than taking hearsay and using it as a ploy to derail CD2 voters in thinking that all candidates for office aren't human.
Even if he did lose his temper, let's hope he will do the same thing when it comes to standing up for CD2 when he is at council.
I'd much prefer a bully. Then at least you know where he/she comes from.
Sounds like CD-2 will be getting somebody who will fit right into the City Council culture- AEG's Leiweke's style used here as "Exhibit A" for one method of resolving matters immediately instead of waiting for clarification by a judge.
I expect there's lots of assorted temper tantrums thrown by electeds- but this one was not kept in-house. More dangerous than these emotional boil-overs is the deliberate and controlled deceptions that the polticians plan that doesn't coincide with constituent interests, the hypocrisy witnessed only by their staffers who aren't about to end their job-security by leaking the info.
If Krekorian acknowedges the incident, it would only be after lots of consulting time spent to try to spin it to his advantage, if that's possible.
Did anyone check his file for "completeness" as to requirements for filing? If he complied with the Ethics material, it should show by a document. Interesting that the shortcoming originally was based on an "ethics" matter- maybe this is one area that instruction here as a prerequisite to filing was not planned simply as busy-work. They hit paydirt with Paul Krekorian.
in cd-14
What we have learned from Phil Jennerjahn.
1. Phil is pathetic and posts stories without checking sources or validity.
2. Phil's writing reads like an 8th grade level of education.
3. Phil is the worst and most slanderous blogger Mayor Sam has ever used.
4. Phil is bringing this blog down to new lows of sleaziness.
This story is as true as the FACT that PHIL has intercourse with Farm animals every day. He enjoys the extra long tools of the Horse in side of him. Most enjoyable is when the horse fills Phil up with urine and then Phil leaks urine for the rest of the day. (This is truly a sight to see! It can also explains the smell) Phil has become a part of the Shaftel Co-Op so the it will hurt less and feel better.
PS.. Phil's camp is welcome to deny this if they want.
Disclaimer: Phil Jennerjahn has endorsed Christine Essel in the CD 2 special election.
Disclaimer: I support a persons right to be gay with there horse. If and only if the horse enjoys it too.
I think Phil needs a new source.
Anyone who has ever run for office or been to the city clerk's office (as you should know Phil) to pull and/or file their papers would know that it is virtually impossible to simply overhear this alleged rant in this tiny office and then care enough to repeat it. They are so used to busy candidates coming in and "throwing tantrums" that it's ridiculous to think they would repeat it.
Even if your source is correct, it's way better to have a tantrum-thrower than it is to have a smiling robot like Essel in there, nodding her head like a bobble head while the lobbyists tell her how to vote because she would be confused and not know what to do.
Her stance on planning issues and neighborhood councils added to the people who currently support/endorse her and you've got yourselves a world of trouble as do the rest of the residents of the City of LA who will be dependent on her vote.
Let her stay 20 miles away in Hollywood and let Paul move 2 miles away so he can spend more time with his kids.
Don't tell me this is what Jennerjerkoff has been hinting at. The expose he's been working on. OMG what a moron if he thinks this is relevant or even true. As is typical with Jennerjerk, he manufactures, distorts and misrepresents. Doesn't even know what diva means. It doesn't apply to a male, you idiot. Maybe he was thinking of the downtown insider diva from the westside, Chris E$$el.
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If this is a ploy to distract from Ed$$el's fundraiser by Armenian genocide deniers. Won't work! Blood money is blood money and she has that stain on her hands now.
And guess it's too hard for Jennerjerk to find issues that matter in CD2 to fault Krekorian on so must resort to the sleaze, as usual. IT'S ABOUT THE ISSUES, STUPID!! Something you nor Ed$$el know the first thing about. So crawl back under your rock and take your poison with you.
Nobody cares Phil! Everyone gets mad dealing with government office workers. This makes Paul look like a regular Joe and you further to look like a jackass Phil!
Essel's campaign is out of money and getting no donations other than from hate groups.
Expect more desperation and free work from Six Flags Magic Mountain cotton candy seller Phil Jennerjahn.
The story is true. But, his behavior is no different than Tim Lewickie, Jan Perry and others who throw tantrums in City Hall when they can't get their way.
by the way, anyone see Steve Lopez's collum today where he mentioned that Tim Lewickeie and his wife dontated $2,000 to Carmen Trutanich only to have Carmen Trutanich send the money back.
At least we know of one politician who can't be bought.
Who's your source Sheftel and David Hernandez?
They and Phil are beginning to look like Essel's hit squad.
I don't know if it's true, and honestly - I don't care.
Krekorian is the better candidate of the two.
Hacopian, shouldn't you be at home designing second-rate mail pieces or documents designed to look like official government mailers to target recent Armenian emigres?
Admit it, if this story is true, which it probably is, then Crack-Whore-Ian has earned the nickname that 79 of his Assembly colleagues call him behind his back.
No wonder he is supported behind the scenes by so many of Mayor Villaraigosa's people. He too thinks he is above the law.
Say what you will about Phil Jennerjahn, but at least he has the guts to stand up for what he believes in.
Unlike Mike Higby, who claims to be a Libertarian. But is supporting the most Liberal (99% rating) of liberal Sacramento Big Spenders.
Mike Higby, who claims to have issues with Villaraigosa's governance, yet backs a guy whose staff all come from Villaraigosa, and who practices the same ethnic politics. ("Vote for me simply because I am one of you.") Which has no place in modern LA.
Mike Higby, who obviously was so picked on in his childhood and early adulthood that he backs a candidate based on the staff being nice to him, because that is such a rarity. They want to spend California into the third world? Hey, but they're NICE to me. They want to steal votes with illegal tactics? But they're NICE to me.
Phil purports to be a pragmatic conservative, and we have no reason to doubt him. He has seen through the Paul "Give Everything to the Unions" Krekorian.
Phil will not reward a Sacramento reject with a huge pay raise on our city council.
Phil sees that Krekorian will do anything for his own base, but doesn't give a darn about good governance.
Higby makes a joke about losing everything he's worked for because all LA thinks he got paid off here. Gee, ya think?
(Now watch, Hacopian will post some dumb Hacopian joke about, "Higby, get back to work, or I'll cancel the check.")
But when all LA says you have regressed, that your credibility is gone, and that you are what should disturb you more: a hypocrite, inconsistent with your purported beliefs, well, you ought to listen.
At least Phil is consistent and ethical, and we applaud that.
Is that a corpse or a zombie in hat photo?
Mayor Sam, Throw National Enquirer Phil off this blog! Please!
This can't be Phil's big story. But even if it is,
Don't worry, Shallman is working on a big story on Krekorian and his staff, both campaign and governmental.
That is why Shallman is so self-assured about victory. Shallman knows that his reputation as a consultant is on the line.
When it comes out, sayonara Paul.
Phil, I'm disappointed that this article is all you can come up with. I saw you at City Council Friday and I was really looking forward to an unbiased report by you regarding AEG's LA Live and our City Attorney and City Council's positon regarding their request for permits for their On and Off Site Signs. You had both sides of the story right there!It could have been a meaningful and accurate story for you. I was there to speak on behalf of my community regarding the Police issue and not as a Reporter. Mary Benson and I were there together as well as many other community members and we could have given you some ideas on how we thought the issue could be resolved for a win-win for everyone, but, you didn't ask. You missed a great opportunity for a better story that more people will care about rather than the one you just posted. Billboards are a big issue in this city!
Next, on MayorSam, we crack researchers at the Krekorian campaign will reveal:
That Chris Essel has associated herself (at some debate, we think), with a guy who is half-German. His name is...Paul Krekorian.
It must make Chris a Nazi sympathizer.
After that story fails to take hold, our crack researchers will reveal that Chris Essel took money from SEVERAL Anti-Prop 8 activists. Therefore, we will tell you, Chris Essel must be gay!
Finally, we will reveal that Chris Essel showed up at a fundraiser where there were people from the Outer Mongolia consulate in the crowd, and therefore, that she is very questionable on human rights.
Sincerely yours,
Paul Krekorian
Eric Hacopian
Desperate Desperian
If this story is true, and it surely does have some truth in it, it is very interesting. On the one hand, to see the way Krekorian threw his weight around is disturbing. Nut on the other other hand, it's refreshing that he's not going to be ruled by meaningless technicalities - if that means he's a bully, then it kinda fits because I hear Los Angeles's other bully, Nooch, is going to endorse him.
Two people in City Hall that are not afraid to stand up to bullshit sounds like a little more of what we need in local government.
Jan Perry and Richard Alarcon made a lot of noise in council chambers on Friday, but that was because they had their gang buddies backing them. Real fighters don't need gangs behind them.
Krekorian is half Scottish, not German. Not that it matters, just wanted to set that straight.
4:45 & 4:50, Jennerjahn ethical? Don't make me laugh. I know people who have been the target of his ill informed and outright lies. He doesn't check sources and manipulates to support his own bias. He doesn't know the first thing about ethics.
And personal attacks are not what people want from or about the candidates in this election. Talk issues, if you can! Who cares what additional gutter politics and mud slinging Shallman does. But then I guess he has little choice since he's working with a blank page with Chris Essel. She doesn't stand for anything, well maybe, business as usual which the voters won't swallow. Rather than the mud slinging, I dare Jennerjahn, Shallman, and the dope dealer Sheftel and his ilk to talk issues. You can't tear Krekorian down enough to get to Essel's low level. Krekorian can hold his head high based on the campaign he's run. Essel can't get her head high enough to get it out of the gutter or out of the mayor's ass, or the special interests & lobbyists, or downtown insiders, including the CAA, and then there's those pesky Armenian genocide deniers. Do ethics and blood money go hand in hand? Maybe our "ethical" guy Jennerjahn knows.
PHIL, DO YOU SEE NOW HOW YOUR CREDIBILITY IS TARNISHED BY FAILING TO TELL THE "WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH" WHEN YOU TRASHED THAT GUY'S REPUTATION?
You failed to correct YOUR mistake, and now YOUR credibility is in doubt.
Mayor Sam, do YOU now see how allowing Phil to get away with trashing that man's reputation and not forcing Phil to state that he told only half of the story is now leaking into the credibility of THIS story?
It's too bad that it took someone slamming your boy Kirkorian for you to do the right thing. Maybe now you'll do the right thing and force Phil to admit he fucked up when he trashed the guy and failed to admit that the man took corrective action and admit it was sent in error from the wrong email account.
Shame on you. Shame on both of you.
6:04 you need to move on. Phil told the truth. This guy admits he made a mistake. So HE DID DO WHAT PHIL SAID BUT HE"S SORRY SO THAT MAKES IT OK? Good Job Phil. You dont owe anyone an apology.
7:30=Phil Jennerjundice
No 730.
The man quickly realized that he made a mistake and corrected it WAY before idiot Phil found out about it.
But Phil didn't tell you about the finding out about the error quickly and rectifying it.
Phil did what's called an error of omission. Moreover, he SAID he would correct it, but never did. That's called making a promise and breaking it.
This is why Higby put a disclaimer on Phil's post today. It's all about credibility.
Shame on YOU for not knowing this, Mrs. Jenderfig
Is Trutanich really endorsing Paul or not, is someone just blowing smoke through their anterior region?
It's a fact that the Armenian-American law society of Glendale which supports Paul, just had a reception for Trutanich when Glendale isn't even in L A. (though they played it as an informational session), so let Paul come clean and declare where he stands. Seems he backed away from publicly associating with Trutanich after this last series of shenanigans, with him threatening and bullying everyone from officials to citizens, even Zine didn't support Trutanich when he started intimidating colleagues though he'd joined in hard and early in the AEG-bashing in July.
We need to know who's lined up where. Enough of Hacopian and Shallman sliming each other. We know THEY'RE both sleazebags, what about the candidates?
"Krekorian let loose with a burst of profanities"
No better proof that you are a liar.
I have known Paul for almost 20 years as a DPSV member in the Valley.
He has never been any thing but a gentleman, even when i supported his opponent in 2006.
If this what Essel has been reduced to then she will surely lose this election.
The more I hear about Nuch Trutanich, the more I like him.
The more I hear from Phil, the more I know he is immature and a liar.
I notice a strong tinge of anti-Armenian bigotry from all the Essel staffers-supporters posting here.
Where does all your hate come from? Your better off trying to win Armenian voters over to your side rather than calling them names.
What the hell do you gain by that.
Sometimes bad morals is also bad politics.
I don't live in CD2 and could care less who wins. But the Essel folks are no being very smart by throwing all this hate around.
"Hacopian, shouldn't you be at home designing second-rate mail pieces or documents designed to look like official government mailers to target recent Armenian emigres?"
4:33
You post the same crap every day, if you have any proof then you should post the samples.
Kerkorian "alleged" comments remind me of something Gene Kelly once said. He said: "How can a genius like me be surrounded by so many idiots?"
If this story is true, why is it being reported 4 months after the fact?
With all the blabber mouths at the Clerks office, half the world would have know about this in 5 minutes.
Don't worry, Shallman is working on a big story on Krekorian and his staff, both campaign and governmental.
That is why Shallman is so self-assured about victory. Shallman knows that his reputation as a consultant is on the line.
When it comes out, sayonara Paul.
4:50
Again your full of shit, if there was a "big story" Shallman would have used it in the primary so Essel would finish first rather than losing the primary.
"Now, I ask CD 2 voters...is this really the man you want in power in your district for the next 14 years?"
Jennderdoodle
Not I ask CD 2 voters... is the women you want in power:
A- Is backed by AV.
B- Does not know two things about the district.
C- Will be a stool pigeon for AEG.
D- Raises money from Genocide Deniers.
E- Raised a quarter million dollars from lobbyists and developers.
F- Sent out our Film jobs out of California.
G- Supports SB 1818.
H- Supported by the developer whores in the CCA.
I- Thinks there is plenty of parking on Ventura Blvd.
J- Endorsed by every councilperson whose IQ does not hit the three digits.
K- Endorsed by Janice Hahn whose IQ does not hit the double digits.
L- Is endorsed by that AV loving senile old drunk Dick Riordan.
should i go on Jennderdoodle? Or did you get the %#@* point.
I have heard that Essel has bought a dead peasant insurance policy on every voter living North of Victory Blvd.
My mothers bosses, sisters, husbands, best man heard this from a home less guy in a soup kitchen.
That is good enough for me.
Phil making $9.78 an hour selling cotton candy at Six Flags can now make $15 an hour blogging for Essel who is out of money, out of time, out of hope and out of town.
"the Mayor Sam blog that this report is speculation only and has not been verified." --as posted on today.
mayor sam should say this about all the non-verified nonsense it posts.
what a waste of a post.
even if true, big deal. Like no one has ever been pissed off dealing with the idiots who work in these offices.
if this what Essels campaign has been reduced to, good luck the last couple of weeks.
I am officially boycotting this blog until Phil is done and gone.
It says to me Paul never should have been in the election. Others were denied who didn't follow the process in this election and in others.
Phil, stop trying to pretend like you're important or that anyone cares what you have to say. You're so upset that no one wants you as part of the establishment ties your panties in a knot and give you that much more impetus to try and defame anyone who actually has a real, legitimate voice at the table. The fact that YOU wrote this makes me want to go an vote for Krekorian that much more.
Nina Roual, are you kidding?
You say you were there as well as many other community members and could have given you some ideas to Phil on how you thought the issue could be resolved for a win-win for everyone, but, he didn't ask? He missed a great opportunity for a better story that more people will care about rather than the one you just posted?
Nina, why didn't you go up to Phil and ask mention something to him? Aren't you the writer of your own newspaper? Why didn't you type something up and send it over to Mayor Sam or Phil?
And just because you may have had some good input on a billboard story that you feel Phil is required to cover, doesn't mean that this story should go uncovered.
The billboards were covered everywhere. This is the stuff that you don't read everywhere else what Phil says kind of confirms what I thought about Krekorian anyway.
Hey Phil, can you believe elected officials are supposed to try and please people like Nina? No wonder the city is in a mess.
Shallman has done a good job of manipulating reporters like Maeve Reston to ignore Essel going to the holocaust denial event. Mayor Sam is correct when he writes that Frank Sheftel should speak up on Essel's involvement in this organization. His silence is immoral.
When it revolves around genocide and holocaust no matter the race of the victim we say NEVER AGAIN!
We do not understand the attacks on Eric Hacopian. Everyone in the business universally likes Eric and knows him as a nice guy. Shallman is hated by all the consultants.
Phil, give up.
I heard about this tantrum when it first happened from someone in the clerks office. It was really said as more of a "wow this guys pretty pissed off" rather then "oh what a jerk" . We all have bad days, apparently this was Krekorians turn. And others are right, this just proves he's human. But it does present the question of honesty. If he just acknowledged he had a bit of a meltdown, but no one was hurt I might accept that. And life goes on. But denying it is deceptive. Does the clerk have security cameras? Let's review the tapes and see what really happened. I guess Krekorian is now saddled with the "tantrum denier" name.
As a member of a Neighborhood Council I took the ethics test on line, passed and that was it. Mr. Cry Baby Krekorian could use some of his "valuble" time on the plane to take the test on a laptop. His attitude on this incident if correct has cemented my thinking that he is the wrong person for any job that involves the public, not even a greeter at Wal Mart.
Paul's candidacy papers and Obama's birth certificate illustrate the shady side of our culture.
Neither one of them should be in public office.
Phil's a dope, but that doesn't make Chris a dope.
I'm voting for her despite Phil, not because of him.
Good question. Why isn't Sheftel raising concerns about Essel's association with an organization officially on the record as denying the holocaust?
Mayor Sam has done a little research on what actually happened here.
You might say we found the Zapruder Film.
Stay tuned.
Higby and Krekorian can say whatever they want and deny whatever they want.
I have my information from two people who were there when it happened. They asked to remain anonymous so I will respect their request. It helps with future sources.
I believe them because;
1) This event happened months ago when Krekorian was just one of ten candidates, so it wasn't a big deal at that time. The story made its way around political circles here in LA. Others have heard about it.
2) The people involved had no reason to lie when re-telling this story months ago.
3) If they were going to make up something dirty about Krekorian, this seems like too odd of a thing to make up.
There are too many facts here that dictate that it did happen.
They also told me you can go to the City Clerk and see that Krekorians papers are dated in the wrong order.
Are those enough facts for Mayor Sam readers?
Jennderdoodle: Essel/AV lap dog
Personally I don't care for either of these candidates and frankly am hoping Shallman goes back to the primordial slimepool he crawled out of, too bad Essel - but Hacopian's awful too, trying to make a big thing of her going to a Turkish- American event while playing up the Armenian ethnic "victim" issue. He tries to make out all Turks as somehow evil and tainted with genocide. NONE OF THAT IS HELPFUL TO VOTERS.
HOWEVER this whole "diva moment" is a pitifully lame excuse to attack the guy, when we all know who frustrating it can be to deal with bureaucratic incompetence.
The guy had a plane to catch - whether as an Assemblyman or whether he were a businessman or some guy going home for the weekend, doesn't matter. Of course he wanted to settle the issue then and there, and some clerk wanting to be sure to be out of there well before 5 didn't cut it. So WHAT?
Phil those people need to come forward fast because I believe I have found the smoking gun that contradicts two major portions of your story.
12:05 Why don't you I.D. yourself?
As I explained to Mr. Jennerjohn, who was apparently there as a reporter because he asked what Mary and we were doing there, I told him I was there to speak on behalf of our communities regarding the LAPD. I was not there as a Reporter. We had no further contact from that point forward.
If you want a report about the Friday City Council Meeting, you can watch it on the L.A. City Website where you will get accurate information about what transpired on that issue.
It looks like I made a small error on this story.
My sources said Paul Krekorian TRIED to bully and browbeat the City Clerk people into giving him his nomination papers without completing his ethics training.
I misunderstood and thought they said he DID bully and browbeat the City Clerks into giving him his nomination papers without doing his ethics training.
Small error but big difference in results.
This is what happens when you try to report on a story from four months ago.
I am sorry for the mistake and any misunderstandings it might have caused.
The rest of the story...about Paul being a jerk.. that part is correct.
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