Los Angeles Politics Hotsheet for Thursday
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How do LA's politicians such as Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa sell more influence than the law allows? By creating special committees dedicated to pet causes that special interests who wish to curry favor with the Mayor and other electeds can drop big bucks to. The Center for Governmental Studies released a study that shows Villaraigosa controlled committees and raised and spent millions for various efforts of the Mayor.
Making the case that LA City government is indeed riddled with fraud, waste and abuse is Ron Kaye's "Clean Sweep" campaign which kicks off Saturday in North Hollywood (yay!). Clean Sweep, birthed out of the Saving LA Project seeks to identify, train and support candidates for next year's City Council to boot entrenched incumebents and finally turn around the way LA does business. Kaye, the movement's spiritual leader, says "We need new leaders that will bring us together and work for the common good."
If there is a current incumbent that Clean Sweep might want to consider supporting that would be Council Member Paul Krekorian who received a good six month "report card" from the Daily News. So far Krekorian has impressed his constituents through careful attention to their issues and by doing things like voting to oppose LA's silly lawsuit against Arizona, fighting DWP rate increases, advocating against a truck driving school in Lopez Canyon and significantly reducing his Council office expenses compared to other members. In the meantime blogger/gadfly Phil Jennerjahn finally jumps the shark in seeking to boot Krekorian whom Jennerjahn says - despite everything I just told you - is a "budget destroying socialist (and probably a freedom hating liberal and dangerous enemy of free speech). Jennerjahn seems to think his only hope is to recruit former candidate Augusto Bisani to challenge Krekorian in March. It doesn't get more fun that that folks.
Can you believe it? The Metro Blue Line is now 20 years old. Militant Angeleno has video he shot on opening day, July 14th, 1990 as well as some news clips from the time. Lots of nostalgia! For the 90s!
Labels: fraud waste and abuse, LA Clean Sweep Platform, mayor antonio villaraigosa, metro blue line, paul krekorian, phil jennerjahn, Ron Kaye
Posted by Michael Higby @ 7/15/2010 02:00:00 AM
20 Comments:
Very excited by Clean Sweep and I think Mr. Kaye's heart is in the right place.
Please, please, please, don't choose another fat, old white guy as a candidate who is going to carpet-bomb the electorate with his ill-gotten cash.
The Bearded Box, Jabberwock and LaBonge Bob Squarehead should pledge to limit their campaign spending to under a hundred grand.
Any more is obscene, immoral and mirrors what's going on in City Hall.
If anyone wonders if Phil Jennerjoke is out of touch, insensitive and a total moron, here is what he wrote yesterday about Zuma Dogg, who claims to be penniless and starving.
"Zuma Dogg? ZD is living the good life in a rent-free pad down by the beach in Venice."
YEAH, PHIL, ZUMA DOGG'S HUNGER AND POVERTY IS THE "GOOD LIFE." YOU'RE A FUCKING MORON. TRY LIVING LIKE ZUMA DOGG DOES AND SEE HOW YOU LIKE IT. YOU'RE NOT JUST A FUCKING MORON, YOU'RE A DIPSHIT AND AN ASSHOLE. "NOONE" IS GOING TO TRUST YOUR JUDGEMENT ON FUTURE CANDIDATES.
Higby,
Can you please prohibit Red Spot from posting over your morning Hot sheet until after 3pm?
He is constantly posting legthy novels in the late morning or early afternoon, and it's bothersome to have to scroll past it.
It would't hurt if he was forced to use spellcheck, too. If he does't, the ban his ass.
I'm pretty sure Box can promise to keep his pending under one grand.
I remember the year the Blue Line open, on the buses they did a survey inviting riders to comment about how the buses could be more effective. The best recommendations were invited downtown by the RTD/MTA and Nick Patsaouras presided over an event honoring--unbelievably--people who rode the buses. They gave them lunch and a goodie bag and a month pass.
It was a great event, with community working with authority working with activists (for instance, Laura Lake was one of the presiders). Some of the recommendations presented were really good, and some had even been implemented before the event.
That kind of event, that kind of dialog is almost unimaginable now, in this climate where everyone only seems to live to vilify someone else.
Phil who seems to make a hobby of running for office obviously doesn't get that people don't take him seriously. He doesn't work so does his wife support him? I never heard of him before he ran for Mayor but he needs to seek therapy seriously because no mature responsible grown man behaves this irrationally and I'm not making a joke.
All the people who ran for CD2 will support Paul Krekorian next year.
If Bisani wants to remain a non-joke he will get far away from Phil and not run against Krekorian.
Higby:
Please check your facts on Krekorian's voting record - once again you've made 2 more errors!
Yes - Paul is smarter than the current City Hall "ilk". But, he did NOT vote against the Arizona boycott. Paul was conveniently ABSENT for the boycott vote. Check your facts. Also, while Paul did "advocate" against the Lopez Canyon truck driving school, when the issue came up for a vote, Paul was conveniently ABSENT again. Finally, as Kevin James pointed out on his show last night with the actual sound from the City Council meeting - while Paul "technically" voted against the DWP rate increase, he actually helped the rate increase pass by voting jointing Zine in "for the findings" during Garcetti's "Special No. 1" emergency agenda item to put the modified rate increase before the Council without committee hearings or public input. If Zine and Paul had voted "no" on the "findings" they could have kept the other wackos on the Council from even having the opportunity to vote on the rate increase for another 3 months. The two real champions in fighting against the rate increase were Perry and Parks -- believe it or not.
Check your facts Higby!
paul kirkorian speaks up less than virtually all of the other CMs. but now, he should be past whatever shyness he has.
Krekorian voted with all 14 of his peers to approve the new shelter gm. She is a dog breeder. You'll see how that pans out before too long.
Paul seems like a nice guy, but he does go along with the crowd, despite what Mayor Sam says.
All you dummies out there who think campaigns shouldn't spend money, how do you expect ur unknown candidates to get out to voters?
Cause like, just cus u and your 3 gadfly friends know who box or whoever is, i can assure you no one else in the district does. and one or two articles in la weekly won't change that, heck an article in the la times will barely make a dent.
they do however know who their current councilmember is, even if he/she is dumb as a brick, they'll vote for who they know. it's happened many times over.
Krekorian hasn't been tested in his own District concerning controversial land use issues, specifically a mega-project planned for the junction of the 405 and 101 Freeways.
The developer is a longtime self-funded entity who has designed a project which doesn't meet a governing land use law.
And, Krekorian made many promises to the Sherman Oaks community saying "no exceptions" to that land use law.
Will it be more of the same or not, Paul?
It's disappointing to find out that if the subject is Kerkorian, we have to wonder if Higby is being flat out honest with us, or if he'll tell it like it is. Filtering is never a good idea.
Wow, I checked out Phil's blog and he definitely did write, "Zuma Dogg? ZD is living the good life in a rent-free pad down by the beach in Venice."
I don't know what planet you grew up on Phil, but that's about as dumb a thing as you've ever written. WTF is your problem?
Don't even bother to try and delete it. I saw it, and so did some other commenter. WHAT IF SOMEONE READS YOUR STUPID COMMENT AND DECIDES TO NOT GIVE ZUMA A FEW BUCKS? WTF IS YOUR PROBLEM, AND WHAT IS IT THAT YOU THINK IS EASY ABOUT ZUMA'S POVERTY AND HUNGER?
I'm ashamed to even be in the same species as you. You're disgraceful.
Tom Labonge may be one of the dumbest angelenos, Phil, but even HE wouldn't be so stupid to write what you wrote.
You are now "semi known" for being a rude, insensitive bastard!
Phil is extremely cruel and misguided. Again.
Too bad Phil and Augusto hate Paul so much. Must be personal. Everyone else is supporting Paul.
I won't even CONSIDER anything that Phil put forth now. He is a cheap knock off of the type of gadfly that Zuma Dogg was.
It is a shame that Phil feels it necessary to degrade Zuma Dogg that way (by suggesting his living circumstances in any way is "the good life.")
2:06, WTF is YOUR problem, or are you Zuma Dogg? Phil's right he's got a free apartment with a mini- kitchenette and all he'd have to do is get odd jobs to put food in his stomach, with a kitchen frig he can make sandwiches or something easy and cheap, what kind of idiot can't scrape together literally a few bucks doing odd jobs? Rosendahl's office helped him get the pad under some government program but is ZDogg grateful? No.
Why doesn't he ask Trutanich who called him "the best thing that ever happened to me" according to Zuma's onw blog in his own words at Thanksgiving in 08? Promised him a job. Better not be on the city dime, unTrue's put enough dead weight there as payback already, but why not give him a job out of his own pocket to keep his promises? No, Zuma's just another idiot he used and threw under the bus after Laura Chick and those naive pro-medical week people like Don Duncan and ASA.
OR unTrue could just give him some bucks to anyway to pay him back for going to public comment day after day screaming on his behalf and making snotty YouTube's for him including with Denny Zine.
Going on radio shows like Jamss.
ZDogg says the unTrue found him too low-class to associate AFTER he didn't need him anymore, but he's no different than who he was before, only unTrue totally changed, the old Under the Bus You Go 180. (Hey, Jan Perry, guess you got put under there too, huh?)
dear moron who is still obsessed with ZDogg...i think the point phil was making is that ZD can't even think of running for cd2. this time, since he is now clearly living in CD2. and dont trip too hard on "the good life" tag...was just a fun little way of describing what most would consider a lifestyle based on free beach housing. JEEZE are you wrapped too tight. treat yourself to a massage.
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