Los Angeles Politics Hotsheet for Thursday
Dopey Los Angles City Clowncil Members found yet another potential landmine in it's goofy boycott of Arizona's SB1070: They would have to end SuperShuttle service at LAX because the popular airport transport service has an office in Arizona. The Council voted for now to ignore that fact and let the shuttles run. Oh and continue to pay the city over a million dollars in fees.
By way of Griffith Park Wayist we learn that Anthem Blue Cross CEO Leslie Margolin is resigning. Anthem came under fire earlier in the year for allegedly raising rates on cancer patients. Bonus points if you can remember the recent State Assembly candidate who benefited from a nearly $100K independent expenditure from Anthem Blue Cross?
Time for me and JoeB to have the last laugh. It's official Phil Jennerjahn announces that the goofy effort to recall Mayor Villaraigosa has failed. Phil blames the economy saying political fundraisers aren't doing well. That flies in the face of last Saturday's Clean Sweep kick-off turned out 200 locals in the heat and raised several thousand dollars. It's all about organization Phil.
Don't tell Carmen Trutanich but the City of Oakland has approved a plan to allow four industrial pot growing facilities to locate within the East Bay's city's limits. Hundreds of applicants will compete for the license to one of the four spots with the hope of becoming the "Silicon Valley of weed." Speaking of Trutanich looks like Walter Moore, who is currently the target of a jihad by Villaraigosa flunky Mike Trujillo, is on his a jihad of his own against the City Attorney.
Members of one of Mayor Villaraigosa's favorite unions, UNITE HERE, plans to shut down traffic during rush hour Thursday evening on Sunset Blvd in West Hollywood. The union is pissed off that hotel janitors are not paid the same wage as computer programmers. If that's on your commute, plan an alternate route.
Filmmaker Shawn Nee has produced a short documentary that tells the sad tale of an elderly gay man whose partner died and the man lost his home because Social Security does not recognize domestic partnerships.
Labels: carmen trutanich, Gay Marriage, goofy boycott, goofy recall, mayor antonio villaraigosa, medical marijuana, Mike Trujillo, phil jennerjahn, unite here, walter moore
Posted by Michael Higby @ 7/22/2010 02:00:00 AM
29 Comments:
No Higby,
The last laugh on Phil Jennerjahn is ALL of ours, because I'm one of thos people who called it from the get-go.
I knew Phil Jennerjahn was a LIFE loser way back the day after the Mayor's race. This IDIOT came back to City Council and WHINED LIKE A PUSSY. He said something about re-examining his life, and find other pursuits.
But the MORON kept coming back with idiotic idea after idiotic idea.
Phil may be 43 years old, but he behaves like an impetuous child EVERY time he opens his trap. "SMASH EVIL?" Fuck you, Phil. There may be bad, even lousy or stupid politicians. But they're not evil because they don't agree with you.
You Phil, lack maturity.
Your ongoing attacks on Steven Box because he may or may not have a religious belief different from yours is a sign that you are an ATTENTION WHORE, whoh has too much idle time on your hands.
My take on Phil is this. He grew up in the midwest, in a nice family where he was never told he had to GROW UP. Since the family obviously has money, he NEVER HAD TO WORK. And if you don't have to work, and you never have to grow up, you end up as an immature middle-aged man like Phil Jennerjahn.
The fact that Phil thinks there's going to be any better result with ANOTHER recall is a sign that he is not only immature, but stupid.
Ron Kaye, as you stated, drew a big crowd, in the heat, when many people are on vacation. It's something you don't have Phil, called RESPECT.
To borrow this blog's phrase, "NOONE" trusts or respects an immature middle aged guy, Phil.
That's why Zuma dogg is struggling. He is a funny entertainer with some good ideas. But ultimately, people aren't going to back, support, or trust an immature middle aged man. I can't say for sure, but I think Zuma Dogg has some emotional problems to excuse his behavior.
What's your excuse, Phil?
The video of the gay guy who wants his boyfriend's Social Security benefits doesn't deal with the true issue at hand. He is NOT ENTITLED to those benefits.
I have nothing against the gays. But it is not what NATURE intended. The proof is that our "plumbing" is geared to be with the opposite sex. Social Security is a public program that financially boosts THAT relationship OR a parental/child one.
Social Security is going down the tubes. The last thing it needs is a new wrinkle of applicants to pay. Unless you want to sink it further with yet another payout.
Yeah, yeah Higby. You and Joe B keep talking b.s. about things you know nothing about.
Clean Sweep.. 200 people times $20 Wow...
That's $4,000 Higby! Split between 7 Council races that will bankroll Clean Sweep candidates to the tune of $572 per candidate. They are on their way to victory RIGHT NOW!
We had a lot of people who were willing to donate FIFTY TIMES that amount to the Recall effort, but Nuch put them all out of business and ran them out of town. It ruined our plan.
I know Nuch is only doing what he feels is right, but he may have ended up saving Villaraigosas sorry ass without realizing it.
Dennis Zine has made it clear that the Clowns did not research the ramifications of the boycott, makes one wonder what else they pass without researching. Don't know what's worst, Congress passing laws they never read OR our CLOWNS passing ordinances without knowing what the outcome could be...
Also, Zine has made it clear that he voted for the ordinance to send a message...
Z- Man... I'm not laughing at you... I'm laughing because I'm embarrassed.
Looks like Phil won't get Clean Sweep's support.
By the way Phil there were people there who made additional contributions of $50, $100.
Did that first recall event you held make anywhere near $5K? Doubt it unless you guys were selling pot.
Now that the city, county and others have taken a stand to boycott AZ, they can not longer use the excuse that any issue is not within their juristicion.
627's comment may be the smartest, logical and most accurate thing I've ever read on this blog. It deserves an award. Phil deserves his THIRD straight Ass Clown award.
We had a lot of people who were willing to donate FIFTY TIMES that amount to the Recall effort, but Nuch put them all out of business and ran them out of town. It ruined our plan.
OK, you had a lot of people willing to donate $100,000 to your recall effort. But also, all of these would-be donors were among the several shops that have been shuttered to-date.
And then, rather than move on to Plan B, you whined about how unfair it was that someone interfered with Plan A.
Phil, will you please donate $100 a week on therapy? Just for twelve weeks or so. Please tell someone about this deep need for public attention that's so deep it flaunts your engagement with reality.
There are some underlying principles that guide the behavior of City Council.
1. "Stay in office"- that makes them ripe for corruption.
2. "Keep getting more money in your control to spend"- That is partly to help accomplish item 1. above. In the Council's hastily enacted boycott resolution, it's attempt to grab glory and chalk up more self-promotion had the predictably "bite you on the ass" effect of impinging on some significant cash flow sources related to Arizona.
And where there's money sources being dried up by following a boycott agenda, there's reflection and hypocrisy at work to make more and more exceptions.
City Council now is reacting to an outside Latino political group that doesn't have the same interests as the Council, and this flyaway service became a target. In the end, the council's eyes were opened by the negative impact on local jobs (and that's been shown as a priority when it comes to city positions, taking months to actual do some cuts- and then apply them to the libraries over political appointees and the glut of staffers).
The LAPD chief saved them from deciding on sending 4 officers to the Arizona site of a law enforcement conference. There was no money to be gained by it and public safety interests to them (and the chief) are outranked by political interests.
As long as there are political interests more important to officials, the outcomes will never really be about doing what is best for the city, but all about what's best for themselves. Same goes for the county supervisors. (and do they make Geritol anymore? Mark Ridley-Thomas could use a couple of shots of that. Just listen to his "slogan" sound bite on the plastic grocery bags restrictions and you'll find a sample of why.)
in CD-14.
You call that factual article a "jihad?" you idiot Michael Higby? The only "jihad" is the one YOU ran and orchestated FOR TRUTANICH over many months, against Weiss. Then, against Essel for Krekorian.
Essel is among those who gave Trutanich a "contribution" to the max. limit to help pay down his own campaign debt - even though unlike Weiss he took about $500,000 in public matching funds. Both Shallman clients, but while she ran supporting him and vice versa, she wasn't openly Republican so didn't get the support of the likes of you and Kevin James. THEN there you were slamming Gatto as all but a mobster, shilling for Ramani. You're still a biased fool, Higby, whose jihads made no sense even.
Unless there's truth to rumors that this blog was paid by certain campaigns.
Walter Moore's Jihad against Trutanich is not based on any fundamental disagreement. Walter's just setting up the "Moore for City Attorney in 2013" campaign. Just watch.
Duhio's back.
Still no check from Hacopian.
Dammit.
Mayor Sam,
I posted a comment that you didn't approve. I think it was legitimate as hell.
I am concerned that Phil acknowledged receiving 50x what Ron raised this weekend. That's a WHOLE LOT MORE money than I ever expected Phil to get his hands on.
And since Phil has not delivered the goods, or even close, I wonder how this half-employed nitwit has $10,000 for the World Series of Poker.
How is that not a legitimate question to pose?
"Walter Moron" for City Attorney. Is that a joke? Who would support this two-time loser for anything?
He's in the pocket of more special interests than Jerk Weiss and Rocktard Delgadillo put together.
6:31, what are talking about? Males will stick their plumbing in anything that fits.
Idiot.
You can have laws that mimic human evolution and follow the millions of years kinds of time frames to develop, too, or you can have laws that follow modern behavior like human behavior since at least the time people first lived in groups.
Sheesh.
Had Walter Moore ran for city attorney to begin with he'd be better off.
he could have beat rocktard.
631 here. BOTTOM LINE: Social Security is for the worker, his or her spouse, and their children or other dependants.
It's not about sex. It's about THESE SPECIFIC relationships.
It's not about a homosexual thing. Sorry, but that isn't marriage BY DEFINITION. You can try to redefine marriage if you want, but the people have spoken. You need to respect what the people determined.
Nature intended a man to be with a woman and vice verse. Bastardize it all you want, but the plumbing of the human body proves my point. Anything else is deviant, although people should be free to do what they want. But it cannot change the meaning of Social Security or its intentions.
LOL re runnung for City Attorney. No way in hell.
And I don't have it in for Trutanich. I do think he should have refused to file briefs in an out-of-state lawsuit to which the City is not a party.
Also, just as I pointed out that Villaraigosa, Cardenas and Hahn have received valuable consideration from people and companies doing business with the City, I pointed out that he has done so, too.
I don't play favorites. I'm independent, so you don't get a "pass" on something just because you're in one party rather than another.
And when they do something good downtown, I point that out, too, like when Perry -- at first -- opposed DWP rate hikes, or more recently, with Parks and Rosendahl taking action on pension reform.
There's no hidden agenda. I'm not running for anything, and would pretty much have to be held at gunpoint to run again. I just want a little bit of sanity and integrity downtown is all.
Higby if you continue to allow Walter Moore to post here we will file a hate crime report with the City Human Relations Commission against you.
Dear Editor,
I am deeply OFFENDED by the GROSS mischaracterization of Walter Moore as a "two-time loser" in the blog, and I MAY never post here again.
(It has to have been moore than "TWO" times, right?)
Reed Sput can't spel.
1:01 p.m. apparently can't count!
(Remember when Mayor Sam's had "Wacko Walter" listed with the other extremist and/or racist gadfleas? I do. Those were the good ol' days at the Sister City).
NO SOCIAL SECURITY FOR BUTT BUDDIES OF HOMOSEXUALS!
THAT'S DEVIANT, AND SOCIAL SECURITY DOESN'T COVER DEVIANCE.
IF YOU DISAGREE, GO TO SS.GOV AND SHOW US WHERE IT SAYS THAT THEY DO COVER DEVIANTS DOING DEVIANCE.
UNRELATED TO THAT SUBJECT I AM A RECOVERING GAMBLING ADDICT AND PHIL'S IMMATURITY AND UNWILLINGNESS TO WORK HARD IS THE STEREOTYPICAL BEHAVIOR OF A COMPULSIVE GAMBLER. IF HE HAD ACCESS TO THE TYPE OF MONEY HE SAYS HE GOT FOR THE RECALL, BUT NEVER SENT OUT ANYTHING AS SIMPLE AS A MAILER, YOU SHOULD ASK HIM TO DETAIL WHERE THE MONEY WAS SPENT. I HAVE LITTLE DOUBT THAT HE USED RECALL MONEY TO GAMBLE.
Does the Human Relations Commission even still exist? I thought Antonio cut that one out to save money.
OH YEAH, I remember now, it was merged with "Animal Services" -- to become the HumanE Relations Commission.
Makes sense, right? Kids in school now are taught we're all just "animals" -- meat sacks with slightly better communication skills.
". . .with slightly better communication skills." -- except Red Spot in CD14, of course.
Wacko, most of us who don't drag our knuckles on the ground LOL-ed the WHOLE time, BOTH times you were running for Mayor, too.
I KNOW YOUR ALL ARE GETTING A LAUGH ON THE RECALL THE MAYOR. BUT TONY AND THE REST STILL NEED TO BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE. RON KAYE STILL IS PULLING 200 PEOPLE WE NEED 50,000 PEOPLE TO ACHIEVE CHANGE MINIMUM. SO THEIRS A LOT MORE OUTREACH TO BE DONE. THAT'S WHY I SUGGESTED A SITE THAT WOULD HELP EVERY STACKHOLDER VOTE BY WAY OF PETITIONS TO GET THE NUMBERS TO BACK UP WHAT PEOPLE IN THIS TOWN WANT AND NEED. THIS SITE COULD BE USED TO GATHER NAMES ,E-MAIL ADDRESS , PHONE NO SO THEY WOULD BE IN THE LOOP WHEN ENENTS ARE ORGANIZED THROUGHOUT THE CITY. THE NUMBERS YOU COULD ACHIEVE WOULD ENABLE RECALLS,CHANGES TO LAWS , AUDIT DEMANDS, ETC. ANYONE COULD GENERATE A PETITION OR RECALL AND COULD ALSO ORGANIZE TO STOP DEVOLOPERS AND DWP RATE HIKES ETC. AS FAR AS THIS BOYCOTT. I FOR ONE WAS AT THE SUPERVISOR MEETING TRYING TO GET THEM TO STAY OUT OF THAT BOYCOTT. BOTH ANTONIVICH AND KNABE WERE AGAINST IT, THOMAS WAS HIRT BECAUSE HIS COMMUNITY TOLD HIM THE TRUTH ABOUT THE PROBLEMS IN HIS DISTRICT AND HE USED THAT TO VOTE FOR THE BOYCOTT. NO WONDER HE SPENDS MILLIONS ON HIS OFFICE BUILDING AND LITTLE IN HIS COMMUNITY. see you tube board of supervisors
p.s. RON KAYE NEEDS TO GO TO UNIVERSITIES THROUGHOUT LOS ANGELES AND GET YOUTH SUPPORT BY HAVING MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES TO EXPLAIN WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN. THIS WOULD GET A YOUNGER CROWD INVOLVED IN THE MOVEMENT. OF COURSE THE VALLEY IS A HOT SPOT FOR RECRUITMENT. CHURCHES, LIBRARIES,AND NEWSPAPERS COULD BE USED TO DIRECT PEOPLE TO SITES AND EVENTS. IT'S CALLED ORGANIZING, THE MEXICANS HAVE.
6:31
You are a sicko- attributing gender alone to body parts- what you profanely call "plumbing." What a slob.
Social Security was set up as just that-social security. One major argument for SS was that the state limits what is ours by,(in your word,)"NATURE" and therefore owes some compensation. No one or group is exclusively "entitled" to Jack Shit. Not even you.
If you don't like that the state owes everyone some compensation, some "entitlement," then get me back to the "state of nature", give me the land that would be my birthright, don't tread on me and, oh yeah, bring me that stick over there so me and my boyfriend can whip your sorry ass.
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Hee hee, some days this blog has better punchlines than Jay Leno.
The stupidity of the people posting here! Ron Kaye may have attracted only 200 people to that meeting, but a lot of us are behind him, and will show up when needed. The moneys will also pour in when we have credible people to support. I'd encourage all people who want to change this city to run for offices. The power of the people will be behind you. Don't be discouraged by idiots with too much time on their hands blogging away.
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(Geez, there should be a exam where you have to prove minimal intelligence in order to buy a computer.)
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