Open Thread for New Year's Eve
Recap. Spin. Bloviate. Predict. Vomit. How was 2009?
Labels: 2009, open threads
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.
Labels: 2009, open threads
Labels: Ass Clown Awards 2009
Labels: Outtakes from CD 14
Labels: california election 2010, District Attorney Steve Cooley
Labels: griffith park wayist, KPFK, paul krekorian, stephen box, Tony Villar
Labels: children's museum, CRA, dorothy chandler pavillion, fox network, mayor antonio villaraigosa, patt morrison, time warner cable
Labels: betty pleasant, crime, doug mcintyre, fire safety, lafd, LAX, Mark Ridley Thomas, mayor antonio villaraigosa, mta, time warner cable
Labels: Chris Essel, city budget, paul hatfield, red light cameras, trader joes, wendy greuel
Labels: apple computer, bud ovrom, jack weiss, mayor antonio villaraigosa, michael jackson, mulholland terrace, paul hatfield, paul krekorian, simon cowell, the grinch, Tom LeBong, tribune company
Labels: brady westwater, griffith park, griffith park wayist, las lomas, mayor antonio villaraigosa, solar energy, Tom LeBong, toy district
Labels: LA city controller, paul hatfield
Labels: carmen trutanich, fraud waste and abuse, gail goldberg, granny flats, jane usher, la weekly, lawa, michael jackson, mulholland terrace, paul krekorian, zach behrens
Labels: eric garcetti, the grinch
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BILL ROSENDAHL: Alta Planning is reportedly one of the finest consulting groups in the world for bike planning. How is it that the City of Los Angeles kicked off the Draft Bike Plan process with Alta but did not incorporate the robust Bike Plan process that Portland used/is using to develop their own Bike Plan? For example in Portland Alta maintained eleven working groups, and they used community bike rides to engage and survey.
MICHELLE MOWERY: With all due respect the City of Portland is 450,000 people. It’s a homogeneous community that is very white, and very progressive with respect to transportation. They have a trolley system that works very well, as well as their transit overall. We are a very diverse, disjointed city of 4 million people. They are 30 years ahead of us in the development of their, well, they’re not quite 30, they’re more like 20 years ahead of us in the development of their bikeway. So we’re a step behind Portland in what we’re trying to do. Granted, several of us would like to see a lot of changes in the city happen very quickly, but again we have a very diverse city with a lot of needs.
Labels: bicyclists, bill rosendahl, la streetsblog, michelle mowrey
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Labels: Board of Supervisors, eric garcetti, here in van nuys, louis pugliese, medical marijuana, Ron Kaye
Labels: Autry Museum, jackie Autry, medical marijuana, Southwest Museum
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Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was leaving Saturday on a three-nation trip that includes attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
Villaraigosa's first stop on his fourth foreign trip since being sworn in for a second term is Berlin. He is expected to arrive today and attend a Sister City dinner.
Labels: junkets, mayor antonio villaraigosa, open threads
City Controller Wendy Greuel thinks the city should delay paying its bills and earn more interest on its money.
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With De Leon bowing out of the Speakership battle, this sets the stage for the openly gay, first-cousin of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to make history in Sacramento.
But as this battle ends, another may be looming for Perez. State Senator Gilbert "Gil" Cedillo has told anyone who would listen. in political circles, that he is definitely running for the 45th Assembly Seat.
This would set up a bruising and expensive inter-party battle between Perez and Cedillo, with possible state-wide implications.
For De Leon, this must be a bittersweet moment, after being the front-runner for Speaker, only to see his "ambitions and linkage" to former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, kill his chances to replicate the political ascention of his political mentor/soulmate.
Behind the scenes, the race appeared over shortly before Thanksgiving, when Villaraigosa hosted a private meeting of Perez, de Leon and former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, de Leon's childhood buddy and lifelong friend, Capitol officials said.
The session ended over a bottle of wine, officials said, with de Leon expected to become speaker and Perez targeted to run with no major Democratic opposition for the Senate seat of Cedillo, who has long coveted a move to the Assembly once he is termed out next year.
But De Leon's "ambitious drive" might of undone this Getty House conclave.
Many of his own Democratic colleagues felt that de Leon, chairman of the powerful Assembly Appropriations Committee, had not led committees focused on major policy issues and was not "up to the job" of speaker.
"Too many people believe that he didn't earn his stripes, that Fabian Nunez did all the heavy lifting for him," [Assemblyman] Torrico said.
For De Leon, he will most likely win re-election to his last term as the 46th District Assemblyman, while Perez faces the wrath of Gil Cedillo.
Thus, in time both De Leon and Perez may see their political aspirations denied, due to their respective political linkage/ baggage.
Your thoughts................
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Labels: AEG, carmen trutanich, dwp, grand avenue, jan perry, medical marijuana, Michael Jackson Memorial, paul krekorian, real estate, trish bautista
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