Los Angeles Politics Hotsheet for Wednesday
The biggest threat to the LA oligarchy since Tom Bradley busted up the Committee of 25, Rudy Martinez, has opened his first campaign office.
Newly minted Council candidate Frank Sheftel gets ribbed a little by the LA Weekly. What gives? Also props to Mayor Sam blogger Scott Johnson whose run down of the lot gets a hat tip from the Weekly. (Who give us high honor by declaring we're even snarkier than the Weekly gang!) Who knew?
Former Mayor Sam blogger and community activist Althea Shaw has announced she is running for the CD10 spot held by former Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson. Sufficiently tied into LA's moneyed power cabal (unions and developers) Wesson is formidable even if one can not recall one thing he has done. That being said if Althea can find the right campaign consultant and tap into a source of money from those oppose illegal immigration - she could build the right organization - coupled with grassroots energy - to give Wesson a run for his special interest money.
If you didn't file in time to run for LA City Council you can always move to Bell and run there. Should be some openings.
The County of LA has enacted a ban on plastic bags based on all the junk science and alarmism while following the heels of a report that shows reusable grocery store bags may be even more damaging to the environment. But Zev needs a legacy! The bottom line is this is more Socialist nanny statism wrought by liberals who think you're too stupid and they must tell you how to live your life. When are you losers going to wise and tell them to go to hell?
The LA Chamber of Commerce is pushing a plan to "solve" homelessness by implementing a network of permanent halfway houses for the homeless that would be "integrated" into existing family neighborhoods. Not sure if this is something that work or not but I can see the usual folks just loving homeless shelters right in their residential hoods.
The Franklin Avenue Blog takes a trip to the 99 Cents Store. Among the items of note are 99 cent alcoholic beverages and a wipe for bald guys.
Newly minted Council candidate Frank Sheftel gets ribbed a little by the LA Weekly. What gives? Also props to Mayor Sam blogger Scott Johnson whose run down of the lot gets a hat tip from the Weekly. (Who give us high honor by declaring we're even snarkier than the Weekly gang!) Who knew?
Former Mayor Sam blogger and community activist Althea Shaw has announced she is running for the CD10 spot held by former Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson. Sufficiently tied into LA's moneyed power cabal (unions and developers) Wesson is formidable even if one can not recall one thing he has done. That being said if Althea can find the right campaign consultant and tap into a source of money from those oppose illegal immigration - she could build the right organization - coupled with grassroots energy - to give Wesson a run for his special interest money.
If you didn't file in time to run for LA City Council you can always move to Bell and run there. Should be some openings.
The County of LA has enacted a ban on plastic bags based on all the junk science and alarmism while following the heels of a report that shows reusable grocery store bags may be even more damaging to the environment. But Zev needs a legacy! The bottom line is this is more Socialist nanny statism wrought by liberals who think you're too stupid and they must tell you how to live your life. When are you losers going to wise and tell them to go to hell?
The LA Chamber of Commerce is pushing a plan to "solve" homelessness by implementing a network of permanent halfway houses for the homeless that would be "integrated" into existing family neighborhoods. Not sure if this is something that work or not but I can see the usual folks just loving homeless shelters right in their residential hoods.
The Franklin Avenue Blog takes a trip to the 99 Cents Store. Among the items of note are 99 cent alcoholic beverages and a wipe for bald guys.
Labels: 99 cent store, althea shaw, city of bell, frank sheftel, franklin avenue, homeless, plastic bags, Rudy Martinez, zev yaroslavsky
Posted by Michael Higby @ 11/17/2010 12:01:00 AM
31 Comments:
You can bet the Huizar immature bloggers will attack instead of speak to the issues. I heard many organizations in CD14 were at Mr. Martinez's Opening. The bottom line is residents are sick and tired of how their communities have been destroyed and how they have been ignored for years. One very prominent businessman said "I haven't seen Huizar since he got into office, but watch him come see me now that he's running." That's the sentiment around the district. Huizar has failed with accomplishments and all anyone has to do is look at his record in City Hall as a lazy "do nothing" as the LA Weekly reported. Huizar is also responsible for the marijuana shops along with Garcetti and Reyes for allowing them to get out of control early on.
Now that his office is open the next step is some made up accusation by Parke Skelton to derail Rudy's campaign.
8:00am, or some false accusation or claim by Red Spot.
It's not like it doesn't happen REGULARLY.
Well lookie here, Huizzy hire himself a blogger/ campaign manager.
From the "stay at home blogger"
UPDATE: Huizar's campaign manager Michael Trujillo tells street-hassle, "Voters just got done with a tough election, the time will come where voters are ready to engage again in politics, but right now I am more concerned about mosquito bites than anything Rudy Martinez has to say."
makes you wonder if any of the candidates against Huizar is a "Deadman Walking"?
Some things never change.
"Huizzy hire himself"
Mosquito bites? Maybe he should hire rudy to redo his home to keep the mosquitoes out. What an assenine statement. But then again, Huizar and Parke hired him.
Does MEAT have a college degree?
Higby, Joe, Scott,
Do you guys have a fax #?
I have some campaign expose material that might be interesting to your stories.
Scott:
What is your highest level of education?
Oh yea?
Phil is a political consultant?
Color me surprised.
OMG, it's so fucking great.
Pelosi to remain on for Dems is the best news FOR THE REPUBLICANS!
Et tu, joe b?
Higby-
I posted this morning that Illinois Congressional District 8 today went to the Republican challenger.
Why didn't you post it?
Google it if you don't believe me.
What gives?
Here's a great reason why people won't vote for Huizar. The fact Huizar hired Trujillo shows he needs someone who is sneaky, evil and dirty. Trujillo lost the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and didn't he run Janice Hahn's campaign?
Clowncil puts DWP ratepayer advocate on ballot wasting money instead of just doing it themselves.
From Ron Kaye's blog.
It took all Garcetti's leverage as Council President to twist the arms of his weakest colleagues to win an-8-7 vote to pass a Charter amendment proposal for the March 8 ballot that is all but meaningless.
Remember who knuckled under: The indicted fefon RIchard Alarcon; Jose Huizar, Tom LaBonge and Herb Wesson, all frightened to death the IBEW will spend heavily to defeat in their re-election bids; the irrelevant Janice Hahn and Ed Reyes, and the duplicitous Dennis Zine.
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Nice attempt at a pre-emptive strike, 6:24 a.m. Sounds like "Rudy Rich" has some bloggers working for him, too??
It doesn't change the fact that he now has less than four months to go from being a complete unknown -- with absolutely no history of any kind of community activism in CD14 -- to garnering enough votes in an off-year election to unseat what is arguably one of the more popular elected leaders on the eastside (based on overhwelming landslides in his last two elections -- against BETTER known challengers, plus winning back-to-back LAUSD board races), to . . . at the very least, force a runoff.
Whether y'all like it or not, THAT is the main issue.
"Rudy who?"
"Where'd he come from?"
"What's he done (besides made himself rich)?"
"What does he know about the district?"
"What's he know about City government?"
"Why has he never done anything to benefit CD14 before now?"
Are these "immature" questions?
Sorry, but they're the main ones everyone who votes will want to know.
Somebody with some media training savvy needs to pull Mr. Martinez off in a corner and tell him to stop rubbing his hands together all the time he's talking.
It looks like the universal symbol for "I'm a greedy rich guy" - which may be cutting too close to home.
Rudy is a good guy. We can do a lot worse than him.
Go Rudy go, good speech. This race will be a barn burner.
Huizar is getting himself into gear now that there is a challenge to his office.
There is higher frequency of the "Jose Huizar Presents..." events that I suppose will continue to the March 2011 city election.
As an incumbent, their is a lot of mileage that Jose is able to get from hosting and co-sponsoring things very PROMINENTLY in numerous announcements and graphics posted that recently "The Eagle Rock Music Festival", the Northeast L.A. Veterans Day Parade," The Information Forum on Medical Marijuana, "Identity Theft" meeting, the "new" York Blvd. kickoff, and whatever else can be sponsored that doubles as campaign appearances.
You did not see Jose, keeping his usual low profile level of activity until there was a challenge to his CD-14 council seat.
I don't know what kind of accounting happens here but I do expect all financial stops to be pulled by Jose to put himself in front of the public with intensity that only is rivaled by Villaraigosa's own vanity.
Jose at least has his job as motivation but too bad it's our tax dollars that will fuel this new found urgency to present himself to the public.
This will give the illusion that he is actually doing useful work. I remember that Jack Weiss tried to activate his image right before he lost the City Attorney election, trying to look like he was a competent council member.
Look for more dollars to be furiously spent by him in this endeavor, and continuing until election day arrives.
Huizar's weasly Council vote in line with Garcetti on the Independent Rate Payer Advocate language amendments to effectively nullify the impact- in order to satisfy the IBEW's urging on this matter- will keep his record intact as favoring the special interests over the people of the city and will keep him receiving the benefit of the union campaign dollars.
in cd-14
Scott, the reason LA Weekly links to your blog is because no one reads theirs. They know you'll link to theirs if mentioned. But the blog is not the newspaper edition. You have way more readers than Weekly's blog.
"WHAT ALL THE CANDIDATES RUNNING AGAINST INCUMBENTS NEED TO DO TO HAVE A CHANCE OF WINNING IS" FIRST REALIZE THE LOCAL NEWSPAPERS,NEWS STATIONS, RADIO JOCKEY'S WILL BE OF LITTLE HELP. IN THE PAST THEY ALL LET THEIR COMPLAINS ABOUT THE CITY BE KNOWN BUT REFUSED TO EMPOWER OR GIVE VOICE TO OTHER CANDIDATES, SOME DEMOCRACY!, SOME NEWS COVERAGE!RIGHT!. DOUG MCINTIRE AND KEVIN JAMES ARE PART OF THIS HIPOCRITICAL BUNCH. YOU ALL NEED TO GET YOUR FACES IN THE PUBLIC EYE GO TO SUPERMARKETS, POST OFFICES , BEST BUY, COSTCO'S, ETC IN YOU AREA HAVE A BANNER OR TABLE AND MEET YOUR COMMUNITY TELL THEM YOUR BELIEFS GIVE THEM A BRIEF ONE PAGE SHEET ON WHY YOUR RUNNING GIVE YOUR PHONE NO, E-MAIL, WEBPAGE, GET YOUR FOOT IN THEIR DOOR. THE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL LEADERS ARE ALL SUPPORTING INCUMBENTS SO DON'T EXPECT MUCH FROM THEM. ALSO LA CLEAN SWEEP WILL BE HAVING DEBATES BE A PART OF THEM. THEY ARE GOING TO ENDORSE CANDIDATES THEY FEEL CAN WIN. ALL NON INCUMBENT CANDIDATES. DON'T EXPECT AVERAGE PEOPLE TO FIND YOU ONLINE YOU MUST FIND THEM , IT'S HARD WORK. IF YOU WANT TO BE HEARD YOU WILL DO WHAT I SUGGEST. KEEP IN MIND THE PRESS WILL ONLY TALK ABOUT THE TOP 2 CANDIDATES ONLY. ALSO GO TO ANY WOMENS CLUB , HOMEOWNERS CLUB, OR OTHER LARGE GATHERING INCLUDING CITY ISSUE MEETINGS (DWP,ZONING REFORM, PARKS MEETINGS) WE ALL NEED TO SUPPORT PUBLIC ACCESS TV WWW.FULLDISCLOSURE.NET GOOD LUCK!!
"in CD14"
Your post seems to indicate that the job of councilmembers is to spend all their time with the public -- in public situations, and that "keeping a low profile" is somehow wrong.
Could it possibly be that a large part of a job like that is attending City Council meetings, studying the issues being discussed at City council meetings, attending meetings of the various committees they're members of and chair, and preparing for those meetings. Not to mention the private meetings with individual constituents, their own staff -- to give them direction, and smaller groups that make up interest sectors within the district -- all of which mean they have a "low profile" when compared to mass public meetings?
Election time is the WORST time for officials (and for us in terms of getting work done), when they have to be out campaigning non-stop, reminding people of what they have done for the other 3.5 years of their term. Unlike our photo-op mayor, who can't do anything else, when we see "more" of our councilmembers in public, it means they're probably getting less real work for us done.
If you want someone who's main contribution to the district is keeping a "high profile" - then see if Tony Villar will take the job back once he's termed out as mayor.
That's ALL he ever did.
One can see MEAT approaching the same level of brilliance in the duo role of blogger/ campaign manager, as the late great ex. Montebello Councilman Robert Urteaga.
Nick will cringe when he reads this.
@ 1:50 PM
Oh yeah, "studying the issues". They all vote Yea for everything anyway whether they're in their seats or not. No studying necessary.
"Committee meetings"? Yeah, that's what Huizar was supposed to be doing on the marijuana shops. he did nothing but sit on his hands and let the situation run wild.
You must be talking about another council district - not CD 14.
Good afetrnoon MEAT,
Let the record reflect your past comment below shall we?
"We are pretty positive that we have over 65 per cent of the votes in the city," Trujillo revealed. This measure only needs a 50-per cent vote. "I will go on record by stating right now, that if we lose Measure B, I will never work in a political campaign in my life," Trujillo promised.
Mike, men of faith keep their word.
BTW, good try in deflecting for so long, what we knew would come true. But then it is Councilman Huizar who we need to focus on, not some supposed consulting wiz kid in search of a deadman walking candidate challenger, to end his counsulting losing streak.
Your friend,
Scott
Here's a brief transcript of the first and all following CD14 debates in the months to come.
Rudy: "I will do dis, dat, and the other 'ting"
Jose: "City law prohibits you from doing 'dis', 'dat' is handled by the state, and there's no money in the City for the 'other 'ting'".
Rudy: "Err, um, then I'll change the City law so I can do 'dis'".
Jose: "You'll need the support of at least 10 of the other incumbents to change that law."
Rudy: "Okay, never mind, I'll just give all the homeless people free sushi, instead. That's something I know something about."
Hey MEAT, I hear Rudy has the "coyote" that brought Huizee over on his payroll. How do you think that will play in Eagle Rock?
1:50 p.m.: Recall that the PLUM committee- Chair Ed Reyes, with CM Jose Huizar and CM Jack Weiss- was the one to handle the applications for Med Marijuana dispensaries after the "moratorium" (aka, the ICO = "interim control ordinance) became effective in 2007.
How many applications did they handle before the public complained because of all the pot shops springing up? NONE
So when Jose took credit for taking on this task it was long overdue- a huge impact from the neglect by the PLUM committee's inaction. See the L.A. Weekly's article on just how much work they did and what depth of research was undertaken in this task.
The follow up by Jose to end the "hardship exemption" actually spurred a glut of applications and new MMDs opening to get in under the wire after hearing Jose's plans to make his motion. Unintended consequences but nevertheless in his lap.
So Jose tries to take credit for spearheding the remedial action- but his remedial action was the result of no-action for years in PLUM by Jose and his cohorts.
This is one of many examples of the "low profile" that really meant "no profile" and "inaccessibiiity" for the CM.
And as others noted, there kinds of things that you bring up as the ongoing duties are really not happening. The "done deal" conditions replace any actual thought processes that might be expected in public comment and discussions before a vote on nearly every motion.
AND that automatic voting setup used by the council members as the L.A. Times revealed about six months back is still operating to give automatic "YES" votes. Lately, Garcetti has been correcting votes when a CM has not been present or a rare "NO" vote is made.
CD-14 and the rest of the CDs need new people in office- these incumbents and staffers have used up term after term to literally drive down the quality of life for all but themselves and their friends.
in cd-14
Could it possibly be that a large part of a job like that is attending City Council meetings"
LOL this is hilarious being that Huizar was one of the city council members who didn't show up and Garcetti had to cancel a meeting because of him and 4 others. This is a new day in CD14. Constitutents have a big surprise for Huizar something along the lines of the City of Bell. Just remember Huizar didn't represent the people by pushing a bullshit, lie in Measure B, he voted to give DWP a raise when no one else got one. He was one of 8 to quell the strong ballot language of DWP rate payer advocate, he's responsible for the out of control marijuana shops that bring crime and homicides into communities, he just voted to place re open more pot shops just to make money and tax them endangering public safety, he named a corner on 7th & Broadway after the Delijani Iranian Family who donated to his campaign, is sneakingly helping them buy a garage in downtown LA all without any community input, Huizar has been MIA in the district for years and now he decides to "come out." TOO LATE. Hey, MEAT respond to those points if you can without lying. All it will take is the negative bad publicity on Huizar's record and you won't need money to beat him
You don't need millions of dollars to win an election example Meg Whitman and $160 MILLION. YOu need to be on the side of the People and be their voice. Huizar could attend as many events as he wants to and constituents are asking "where have you been>" He's putting his face on every banner he could cause in all the years he's been in office, "no one knows who he is." Huizar already has many organizations against him and all it takes is one good hit piece into his corruption which everyone knows about but the media fails to report. It will come out about all the back door dealings downtown. Usnig LAUSD is stupid given the fact of their corruption and Huizar did nothing for the overcrowding at Roosevelt. Huizar's vote in Favor of DWP will really piss off the people. Huizar has many seniors in his district
Somebody with some media training savvy needs to pull Mr. Martinez off in a corner and tell him to stop rubbing his hands together all the time he's talking.
It looks like the universal symbol for "I'm a greedy rich guy" - which may be cutting too close to home.
10:42 AM
I absolutely agree with you 10:42, not only does he give himself away by his hand gestures and inability to stop kicking the air while he speaks because he knows that he's vomiting a load of lies, he looks so out of his element in that video, it is definitely a BIG challenge for someone with his intellectual limitations and poor knowledge of local government to attempt to convey any message of substance. At least he's not afraid to make a fool of himself each time, I'll give him that much, better luck next time!
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