Friday Free for All
Jack Mc Grath interviews Austin Beutner
Part One
Part Two after the jump...
Part One
Part Two after the jump...
Labels: Austin Beutner, jack mcgrath
Posted by Michael Higby @ 2/25/2011 12:01:00 AM
17 Comments:
Carmen Trutanich looks like fair game for a Friday Free for All pasting, so here goes. According to Los Angeles Dragnet, Carmen the Clown has backed off his "aggressive stance" against the idiots who blocked Wilshire Blvd. to show their support for the DREAM Act.
The Clown got a drubbing from the LA Times, twice from his "Friend for Life" columnist Steve Lopez, and once from Tim Rutten who really questioned Trutanich's veracity over these people being "professional protesters" and claims that an ambulance was prevented from reaching a hospital in the 5 hours it took LAPD to figure out how to move the protesters.
Rutten's attack came as no surprise, but Lopez? Trutanich had been working hard to cultivate a buddy-buddy relationship with Lopez for ages and had even hosted Lopez at a bizarre experiment to let Lopez drive a cop car while under the influence of marijuana. How's that for male bonding?
But the knife in the back came from another of Trutanich's BFFs, KABC talkshow host Peter Tilden who, together with his liberal co-host Teressa Strasser, railed Trutanich for demanding jail time for the protesters. During the live on-air interview, Trutanich sounded downbeat and despondent as criticism after criticism was leveled against him for demanding jail time. Finally, Trutanich snapped and said "There's not gonna be any time!" as it must have been apparent to him that he was losing the argument.
Tilden was a few DUI Marijuana guinea pig with Lopez, and the fact that both of the Clown's media BFFs have turned on him, must be devastating.
Red Spot should post about the "Huizar enemies list" again - since he's just retreading old rants and bashes in the abscence of any new news.
Remember? That was going to SINK Jose... (except nearly all of the community leaders - plus OR minuses - are still endorsing Huizar.
What choice they got?
Ain't that a BITCH!
Latest financials show Huizar raised 2-1/2 times what Rudy not-so-Rich (anymore) and Jose has twice as much left to spend for the final 10-12 days.
IEs from the unions have also come in for Huizar.
It's a really complicated web regarding Huizar and who's behind him and why. Consider this. Huizar is a former deputy city attorney who has been making noises that he's going to run against Trutanich in 2013. Trutanich is already planning his exit strategy - bailing out for the DA's office because he knows he cannot beat Huizar in 2013 as Huizar will have organized labor behind him as well as the Latino community who previously supported Trutanich when there were no Latinos to support.
Trutanich really needs Rudy to win to put an end to the Huizar factor and secure him re-election. Trutanich is keen to run for DA but well aware of the negativity that will dog his campaign from a few of his former BFFs.
All round, let's have Huizar out and keep Trutanich in the City Attorney's Office where he's been the source of so many good stories.
It's a really complicated web regarding Huizar and who's behind him and why. Consider this. Huizar is a former deputy city attorney who has been making noises that he's going to run against Trutanich in 2013. Trutanich is already planning his exit strategy - bailing out for the DA's office because he knows he cannot beat Huizar in 2013 as Huizar will have organized labor behind him as well as the Latino community who previously supported Trutanich when there were no Latinos to support.
Trutanich really needs Rudy to win to put an end to the Huizar factor and secure him re-election. Trutanich is keen to run for DA but well aware of the negativity that will dog his campaign from a few of his former BFFs.
All round, let's have Huizar out and keep Trutanich in the City Attorney's Office where he's been the source of so many good stories.
Unions supporting Huizar? Another reason not to vote for him.
9:23
That's total bullshit. There's no way Jose is "making" those noises (and this is the same lame lie Alvin "DOH" Parra told 4 years ago - that he was going to run for a STATE house job in 2009).
But just for the sake of argument, let's say he does go for Trutanich's job.
He would have served 8 years as a councilmember - twice what Pacheco did, and four times what Villaraigosa did.
Just a few years ago many of the same people in the district who now bash Huizar regularly and support Rudy M. were saying that a CM SHOULD be limited to 8 years.... Soooooo.
What's the beef?
And, who'se to say losing as a CM rules out a run for City Attorney two years later, anyway.
Tony V. losing the Mayor's race to Hahn actually HELPED him beat Pacheco for CM two years later. The "sympathy" factor was a killer.
9:23
It's not complicated, at all.
If you ask community leaders who support Huizar why they do you'll get 2-3 basic replies (some even recorded a number of time in media reports).
- He's been there for our community.
- He's moved things along that were stuck in neutral under the last two councilmembers.
- His opponent doesn't seem to know what the district is about or offer any specifics of how he'll do a better job.
No way Jose (no pun) can beat Krekorian for CA.
I agree, Paul Krekorian would make a fantastic City Attorney and I hope he runs. There's only one thing worse than having Trutanich stay on as CA, and that's having Huizar.
BTW, does anyone know when or how Huizar became a deputy city attorney? I know there's a story there somewhere ...
SO, you think grass roots Messiah Paul K. will pull a VILLARAIGOSA and jump ship after serving FAR less than one term on the City Council?
WHOA, can't wait to see the SPIN used to justify THAT, after putting the district through not only a SPECIAL election, to replace the last seat hopper, but then a year or so into his own FIRST term, he gets antsy and needs to MOVE ON again?
And he was only in the ASSEMBLY for 4 years?
Wow, he'd make Antonio look "settled".
Higby,
I'm pretty sure you STILL have yet to be correct about ANY race that involves a CD14 player.
Better give up before your batting average heads into the negative numbers.
Hmmm, a Latino vs. an Armenian, running for a citywide position in L.A. City?
I don't know, I think MAYBE someone's WAY out of touch it they think Krekorian is the "favorite" in a race like that.
HOW SAD is this commentary...
Finally having to come to grips with the fact that once again, Jose Huizar will waltz into office on March 8 - past another cardboard/cartoon candidate (propped up by an angry GOP mini-minority and his own dough), the Huizar bashers have already moved on to trying to "imagine" another race where Huizar COULD be beaten, even if it means making up something about where they "think" he'll try to run next.
This is some sort of "Fantasy Elected Officials" league for disgruntled political armchair quarterbacks, right?
"Hey Higby, hey Rid Spurt, who dya think would win in a match-up between SUPERMAN and Paul Krekorian?"
"Depends, which Superman? The old LEAP TALL BUILDINGS one, or the later fly-into-space-at-supersonic-speeds one (and does Paul have KRYPTONITE)?"
"OKAY, how about Bitter Bernie vs. Batman, if Batman couldn't use his utility belt!"
(PAAAAAAA-thetic!)
BUH-bye, Rudy Rich. The Huizar-haters have already shipped you back to Glendale in their minds and are looking for another option.
HOW SAD is this commentary...
Finally having to come to grips with the fact that once again, Jose Huizar will waltz into office on March 8 - past another cardboard/cartoon candidate (propped up by an angry GOP mini-minority and his own dough), the Huizar bashers have already moved on to trying to "imagine" another race where Huizar COULD be beaten, even if it means making up something about where they "think" he'll try to run next.
This is some sort of "Fantasy Elected Officials" league for disgruntled political armchair quarterbacks, right?
"Hey Higby, hey Rid Spurt, who dya think would win in a match-up between SUPERMAN and Paul Krekorian?"
"Depends, which Superman? The old LEAP TALL BUILDINGS one, or the later fly-into-space-at-supersonic-speeds one (and does Paul have KRYPTONITE)?"
"OKAY, how about Bitter Bernie vs. Batman, if Batman couldn't use his utility belt!"
(PAAAAAAA-thetic!)
BUH-bye, Rudy Rich. The Huizar-haters have already shipped you back to Glendale in their minds and started looking for another option, or maybe a "trade" for a future draft pick.
I don't think anyone who has served in LA City Hall deserves another position anywhere else. They should all be put to pasture ASAP. Allow someone else not so tainted a chance.
5:12 p.m.
Fortunately for the incumbents, people who think like you do are in the tiny minority.
Some try to call it apathy; most realize it's a relative satisfaction with existing City government. Most of the 15 keep their job term after term (until they WANT to go elsewhere) because they're doing "okay" in people's eyes... not "great" - but certainly not to the point that voters will line up behind the ranting yowling angry mini-hordes of (incredibly scary and not-always-right in the head) gadfleas that scream during public comment, write rambling ME manifestos for Citywatch, and hold rallies for a few hundred on some City Hall lawn, from time to time.
Cops are on the street, crime is down, power and water are running (costs some more - but, what doesn't?), trash gets picked up every week, potholes are filled - often enough, traffic moves slow as ever, but not much slower.
Could be a WHOLE lot worse.
How much did the illustrious "Clean Sweep LA" collect from its minions of grumpy, angry contrarians this cycle? Just enough to file IEs amounting to about $150-200 for each of their "endorsed" little "sweepers". More than enough to have no effect but make the rabid few believe something MIGHT just change a bit, for a few weeks in the fall.
What a joke. Not since the illustrious "five sleazy bar owners" in CD14 launched their legendy $99 campaign to recall CM Villaraigosa (just as he was running for mayor), has any revolution fallen so flat.
A WORD ABOUT BEUTNER . IF HE GETS A CHANCE TO BE MAYOR SAY GOOD BYE TO EIR'S SAME IS TRUE FOR GREUEL AND CARUSO.
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