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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Cut and Paste Briefs on the Los Angeles Political Scene for Tuesday

The Telepromptive President of the United States (TOTUS) Barack H. Obama has lefted the City of Los Angeles.
This after flying into town in the forlorn hope of saving the political career of California's Junior Senator Barbara Boxer, who is going to face the hardest re-election challenge for her Senate seat.
No word if TOTUS met with Mayor Antonio Parkervillar during his brief money-raising venture to Los Angeles, but in the 9:00 AM KFI 640 Newscast, City Council President Eric Gartraitor, was heard pushing the Measure R "30 to 10" Proposal which would use an Federal Loan Guarantee, to compact the 30 years of transit projects paid for by Measure R tax money, into a 10 year time period. It seems from Gartraitor's comments, that he he some quality time with TOTUS via his Twitter, to discuss this scheme.
One interesting print media observation of TOTUS's brief Los Angeles visit, came via the Old Gray Hag on Spring Street aka LA Times "Top of the Ticket" Blog Writer Andrew Malcolm.
The good news for California Democrats is that their hero President Obama is returning to the Golden state this afternoon.
The bad news is once again they'll have to hand over big money to see or hear him.
Common Californians -- including the
increasing 12.6% of whom are now unemployed -- will be unable to hear the president address the economy or mounting fears over his healthcare bill and its costs because his announced events on this West Coast trip Monday are political and closed to all but donors.
These cynical comments about TOTUS, earned Malcolm some uberattention from the West LA Blogger known as the "Westside White Guy", who is known well for outing the journalistic doings of those minute number of Times writers, who dare go against the elitist, left of center leanings of the likes of Tim Rutten, Jim Rainey, George Skelton, Michael Hiltzik and others.
OTHER NEWS:
** Mayor Antonio Parkervillar will preempt CD 14 Councilman Jose Huizar's "State of Boyle Heights" Speech, with his own today at 4:00 PM, on the "State of Los Angeles". One of the more newsworthy elements of his telepromptive, ahh, speech, will be the number of future layoffs that he will propose. Hint? Think triple digits..... and by the way, will LAUSD School Board President Monica Garcia be leading the cheering section?
** Memo to current political office holders. Your chance to claim unemployment when you get defeated in your next election cycle, is being closed with SB 1211, authored by State Senators Gloria Romero and Bob Dutton.
** Ron Kaye has the details on the workings of the "Clean Sweep Campaign", which is an endeavor of a "diverse group of Los Angeles community activists" ( ** with no apologies to the myopic "WWG"), to bring reforms to 200 Spring Street, with like-minded candidates for City Council. Here is the platform, which is still a work in progress.
LA CLEAN SWEEP PLATFORM
1. CLEAN UP CITY HALL -- We need a change of leadership. The failure of our leaders is clear to everyone, We need tough penalties and enforcement of ethics law violations and immediate and full disclosure of campaign contributions and interests even as new leaders develop reforms, including clean money campaign financing that break the power of special interests. The Department of Water and Power Commission, Community Redevelopment Agency and other commissions must have independence free of political control. All city agencies, task forces and Council committees must have representatives appointed by Neighborhood Councils. Transparency, openness, public access to all documents must be enacted under an open access law.
2. FIX THE BUDGET -- Spending must be brought under control for the benefit of the city's 4 million residents and hundreds of thousands of businesses. Salaries of city officials must be reduced along with Council and mayoral staffing, slush funds and office holder accounts eliminated. Adjustments must be made to the employee wage and pension system. Tax, rate and fee policies must be restructured to create a healthy economic environment.
3. FOCUS ON CORE SERVICES -- The focus of city government must be on basic services that benefit the whole community, not as a jobs and patronage programs. Protection of police and fire services and infrastructure. Parks, libraries, street maintenance, integrated planning to preserve neighborhood health, enforcement of building codes and fair share of city services are paramount. Services provided by city staff must be cost-effective with those of the private sector.
4. POWER SHARING -- Elect City Council members who put the interests of the whole city ahead of any special interest. Empower Neighborhood Councils to make the first decisions on all local development issues. Create a commission to develop a plan for a borough system of government. Establish that a key function of city government is to encourage public participation and treat all people with respect and courtesy.
Wonder how Mayor Parkervillar and the current City Council, will comment about these steps to clean up their ethical transgressions?
** BTW, that "three month" DWP rate increase approved by the shady actions of City Council President Eric Gartraitor?? Haha, it is looking like the DWP Commission punked the ratepayers again.
** Ooooppps!! I almost forgot to mention this. On the subject of Hahahahaha, wonder how that press event on the south side of City Hall is going, regarding the "total recall" of one Mayor Antonio Parkervillar?
** 11:00 AM update on the South Lawn proceedings via the Daily News.
A handful of former candidates and grassroots activists launched a recall drive today against Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Former mayoral candidates Walter Moore and Phil Jennerjahn and David Hernandez,, along with former City Council candidate Augusto Bisani are among the proponents of the effort.
Aides to Villaraigosa said he would have no comment
Even Deputy Mayor for Spin, Matt Szabo, knows when no words are warranted.
Your thoughts......
Scott Johnson in CD 14

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32 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said:

PHIL CAN'T MAKE A PUBLIC COMMENT WITHOUT CAMPAIGNING FOR CONGRESS.

ANYWAYS, IT LOOKS LIKE THERE ARE 4,975 TOO FEW PEOPLE IN ATTENDANCE FOR PHIL TO GET THOSE 5,000 PETITIONS OUT.

FALLING SO DRASTICALLY BEHIND IN GETTING HIS "ARMY" OF SIGNATURE GATHERERS ON DAY ONE IS NOT A GOOD SIGN.

AND OH THE IRONY OF PHIL COMPLAINING ABOUT ANTONIO TRYING TO GET HIS PHOTO OUT TO EVERYONE. THIS FROM PHIL, WHO POSTS PHOTOS OF HIMSELF ON CHANNEL 11, AND DRAPED, ILLEGALLY, IN AN AMERICAN FLAG.

April 20, 2010 10:39 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Ch. 9 news sister of Ch. 2 led off with footage of the recall featuring Hernandez, Walter Moore nowhere in sight but some other goofy dude not Phil in a huge cowboy hat. Not a lot of people at all, showed one guy in a suit signing. Still, bad timing for him day of Obama's coming to town and his state of city speech. Doubt Ch. 5 will cover it.

But this is an expensive and stupid effort - unless an official has done something majorly criminal it's a misuse of process.

April 20, 2010 1:28 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

hey phil you fucking moron!

how many signatures did you get today? in order to make your target, you said you needed 2,000. how many do you have, and you can include yours, hernandez's, and walters!

better yet, how many people have your petitions now that it's underway?

you brought 5,000 of them to city hall with you? didnt look like 5,000 people in the audience. of the 25 people who were there, how many took petitions?

how are you going to get this to be a success if you are already thousands behind and have to rely on idiots walter and david?

are you doing this just to promote yourself for congress? that was the first thing outta your mouth! i bet it's the first thing in your heart, too. not the recall. just you you YOU you ass wipe!

April 20, 2010 2:05 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

I was there to gather signatures. Where were the recallistas?

Alfred E. Noone

April 20, 2010 2:51 PM  

Blogger Parque Esqueleto said:

The SOONER my lame-duck client, Tony V., leaves office, the better for me, me, ME!

I get to position him for his next gig, AND probably run the campaign of one of his wannabe suck-sessors.

(Not that a recall is ever going to happen, here! What a LAFF!).

In order for a recall to occur, you need a decent number of people to give a rat's patootie, and so far there haven't been enough services cut in the city that affect actual voters. Nor will there be for another couple years. About the time people really notice the dip in delivery, we'll have announced Tony's next job destination.

No, the 3+ loser-loonies of the "public comment" patrol, all decked out in their best Jacques Penne' suits and parading in front of Ch. 35 -- the only media they can be guaranteed access to -- couldn't hope to access enough valid L.A. signatures to force a recall of AV. Not if they had a million "Mayor Sam's" blogs to post their sour-grapes drivel on.

But, please KEEP trying, boys. Double the elections; double my fees! I win, either way.

I couldn't be MORE pleased!

April 20, 2010 3:07 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Phil just posted on Facebook they now have one completed page filled out! There are five lines for signatures on a page. So they have Phil, Walter, Hernandez, Sheftel's mom and Bisani. Way to go Phil!

April 20, 2010 4:11 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

No mention at all of the recall on Channel 7 news but they have a lot of Villaraigosa doing the state of the city speech. Poor dopey Phil.

April 20, 2010 4:11 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Phil, it's 4:20pm.

Maybe you should follow suit you fucking MO-ron! Go visit Sheftel's pot farm you retard!

April 20, 2010 4:23 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

It must be killing Phil that Villaraigosa is getting all this time on air to lie while no one is paying any attention to the recall. his only signatures are his crew. Way to go Phil!

April 20, 2010 4:33 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

phil just called godaddy.com to try and get his money for the domain back!

April 20, 2010 4:36 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

I AGREE WITH 433PM!

THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE PHIL'S "COMING OUT PARTY" TO LAUNCH HIS CONGRESSIONAL RUN.

VILLARAIGOSA IS GETTING 100% OF THE ATTN AND IT'S NOT FOR THE RECALL. IT'S FOR WHATEVER HE IS SAYING IN HIS SPEECH. HE'S GOT THE STAGE, AND MORON PHIL DOESNT.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A MORON AND HIS IDIOT CREW DONT HAVE A PROPER PLAN OF ATTACK ON A HIGH PROFILE DAY FOR THE MAYOR.

PHIL SQUANDERED ALL OF HIS TIME WRITING ABOUT WISCONSIN HOCKEY, RICK PERRY OF TEXAS, AND ABOUT MICHELLE BACHMANN. PHIL WENT TO A CONVENTION, TOOK PHOTOS OF HIMSELF IN FRONT OF THE CAPITOL, AND DESIGNING DOPEY BUSINESS CARDS.

THAT TIME SHOULD HAVE BEEN SPENT ON A PLAN OF EXECUTION FOR THE RECALL, AND PHIL YOU FRITTERED IT AWAY!

YOU FRITTERER, YOU ARE NOW 1,995 SIGNATURES BEHIND SCHEDULE!

April 20, 2010 4:36 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Wow, I thought Augusto Bisani was cool...now he's with these losers? HE was the one we've been waiting for.

April 20, 2010 4:39 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Villaraigosa is waxing about his grandfather and childhood when he should be talking finance.

Why weren't you prepared to attack this phil, david and Walter?

Where is your plan?

Where is your army of signature gatherers?

Let's see your plan? Something other than "We need _______ people gathering ______ signatures for the next _______ days."

THAT'S NOT A PLAN YOU FUCKING IDIOTS! LISTEN TO VILLARAIGOSA RAMBLE RIGHT NOW! WHERE IS YOUR FUCKING PLAN!!!!

I POSTED CONSTANTLY ON YOUR BLOG PHIL AND URGED YOU TO MAKE A FORMAL PLAN! YOU DIDN'T DO IT! AND NOW LOOK HOW FOOLISH YOU LOOK WITH 4,995 PETITIONS UNCIRCULATED!

YOU CAN'T EVEN TELL US HOW MANY VOLUNTEERS YOU HAVE!!!! YOU ARE A COMPLETE AND UTTER FAILURE!!! GO BACK TO WISCONSIN YOU FUCKING BADGER!

April 20, 2010 4:39 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

phil, where is the media coverage you guaranteed!?!?

April 20, 2010 4:40 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

lol. i am genuinely embarrassed for phil

April 20, 2010 4:40 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Antonio is rambling, and Phil could've made a better effort.

April 20, 2010 4:42 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Here is Phil's petition form. http://recallcityhall.org/4th%20Draft%20Petition_Approved.pdf

It only has five lines. Two whole pages for five lines? What a waste of paper and money!

No plan! Morons!

Phil has really blown it for someone who could actually recall the Mayor.

April 20, 2010 4:43 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Phil should have talked about his Grandfather.

April 20, 2010 4:48 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

FROM A FRIEND AT KCBS/KCAL

"Phil is calling all the newsrooms around the city, and not realizing that chs 2 and 9 are the SAME COMPANY!

He is demanding "equal time," even though equal time rules do not apply to this situation."

April 20, 2010 4:51 PM  

Blogger Red Spot in CD 14 said:

Grandpa Pete would do a better job of balencing the budget.

April 20, 2010 4:52 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Red Spot,

Grandpa Pete also knew that it's not spelled "b-a-l-e-n-c-i-n-g."

You're dumber than a guy from 90 years ago!

April 20, 2010 4:53 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

A whole hour of Channel 7 News and no mention of Phil's recall. They did cover what's up on Dancing With the Stars.

April 20, 2010 4:57 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Phil Jennerjahn We already have our first COMPLETED petition for the RECALL of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. One down . . .
2 hours ago via Facebook for iPhone

April 20, 2010 4:58 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Only Phil would schedule his recall kickoff on the same day as Villar's state of the city and the start of a big storm.

April 20, 2010 4:59 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Ch 2 just did a short story on the recall. No mention of Phil. Just David Hernandez and some scraggling looking cowboy. So much for his Congressional campaign.

April 20, 2010 5:04 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Remember when Phil said that he didn't think Zuma Dogg would get many votes for Mayor and that Phil had a better chance to win than Walter or Zuma?

April 20, 2010 5:05 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

THE WORST THING ABOUT PHIL IS THAT HIS TRYING TO MAKE THIS RECALL ABOUT HIM, AND FAILING TO GET OUT OF THE GATE IS THAT IT DISSUADED A LEGITIMATE RECALL EFFORT FROM BEING LAUNCHED BY SOMEONE ELSE.

IN SHORT, PHIL CEMENTED VILLARAIGOSA'S ABILITY TO KEEP HIS JOB BY PUSHING AWAY A GENUINE, LEGITIMATE AND POSSIBLE RECALL BY SOMEONE ELSE.

WE CAN THANK MR. HIGBY FOR BRING PHIL UP FROM THE DEPTHS OF NOWHERE-LAND, AND GIVING HIM A PLATFORM.

THANKS A LOT HIGBY!

April 20, 2010 5:05 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

This morning on KNBC's morning news, they said that the recall was the brainchild of the guy who came in second in the mayor's race (ie Walter).

No mention of Phil
No mention of David
No mention of Walter by name.

This was all about Phil trying to create a career for himself to justify to his mama why he left Wisconsin and not to get a job at Jennerjahn Machine, where even a fool like Phil could make a comfy living and have a nice family life. Phil took his limited mental abilities and came to L.A. to try and be famous, and thus his self-serving ways to draw attn to himself.

Who else but an unemployed "entertainer" like Phil would have time to go to city hall and spend public comment time with homeless vaygrants like zuma dogg and matt o'dowd.

April 20, 2010 5:08 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

I just called a friend at KABC, and phil is calling there too demanding equal time.

PHIL, EQUAL TIME RULES DO NOT APPLY TO THIS SITUATION! STOP PESTERING THE CITY'S NEWSROOMS!

ACCEPT DEFEAT, AGAIN, AND G'AWAY!

April 20, 2010 5:11 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

"I'm gonna show you all and you'll be very very sorry you weren't nice to me!"

P.Jennerjahn
Yesterday

April 20, 2010 5:11 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Why did you bottlecap this great discussion Red Spot?

Do you think Roderick couldl've waited until tomorrow?

All of these funny and interesting posts, and what do you do? Bottlecap it? You brought it to a screeching halt.

I no longer want Phil for Ass Clown this year. Red Spot is an eaerly leading candidate. Besides, phil can't win anything but ass clown anymore. He won last year too. Now it's red spots turn.

April 20, 2010 5:32 PM  

Blogger Red Spot in CD 14 said:

Are you channeling your inner-Phil?

It is easy to scroll down to this post.

April 20, 2010 6:10 PM  

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