Los Angeles Politics Hotsheet for Monday
Embattled City Clowncilman Jose Huizar comes up with a couple of doozys in the waning days of his Council career. One is a multi-million boondoggle to build a streetcar downtown, one that would be built by forcing many immigrant owned businesses to pony up "assessments." The other is to seize control of the troubled City of Vernon and attach it to Los Angeles. If this were to happen Los Angeles would have to assume Vernon's debt of nearly $1 billion and face the possibility that most of Vernon's major businesses would flee to avoid being subject to Los Angeles onerous tax and regulatory nightmares.
The Daily News endorses Stephen Box over incumbent Councilman Tom LeBong for CD4
The Mayor thought he had a great idea to sell off the City's parking garages to generate some fast cash. No one is interested.
Labels: bernard parks, betty pleasant, Forescee Hogan-Rowles, IBEW, jan perry, Jose Huizar, mayor antonio villaraigosa, parking garages, stephen box, Tom LeBong
Posted by Michael Higby @ 2/14/2011 12:01:00 AM
21 Comments:
Parks runs the budget committee with a steady hand; he should be re-elected and Mark Ridley-Thomas needs to get out of LA City politics.
Pigby,
Fuck you.
Tom LaBonge
Is that pronounced "foreskin"? NO wonder he has no Jewish backing.
Said it before, Higby and I'll say it again. . .
You know less about the realities of life in CD14 than you know about nuclear fission, and so your occasional forays in, to spel Rud Spit at banging his out-of-tune gown are laughable, at best.
I imagine most of what you know is filtered through that same bile duct of a human that posts illiterati here regularly.
Consider the sour.
Huizar will easily win another term and Mayor Sam's will continue to be the self-toxic dump for the Eastside's mini-minority of kvetchers and malcontents - for another four years. Wallowing in their self-imposed misery while the district improves and gains more political clout, even during a recession.
Guaranteed.
Take that legacy with you through life, please.
(I already have my request in for a "Huizar 2015" - third term lawn sign).
Meanwhile, Rudy Rich will be less rich and more embarrased by his inability to even surpass one-third of the votes in a two-way race. He'll never be happy again running tiny restaurants, and will probably be on "non-Celebrity Rehab" with Dr. Drew by next year.
Wow, that comment
While Huizar may favor the takeover of Vernon, the only official action he's taken on the motion before a committee he's a part of was to pass it along to his peers to consider.
Why is that a problem?
Isn't allowing the full city council to discuss something recommended by staff exactly what the lone member of the PLUM committee to show up that day should do?
If it had been a different single member of the committee there that day -- one who'd been opposed to it, and they'd of quashed it in committee (if a single member can even do that), my guess is you'd be cheering them for making a "good" (but totalitarian) decision.
No good, democratic deed goes unpunished here.
Girl, correction:
Wow, asenine comment.
Huizar will win, you can't beat the unions and about $1 million to get 6,000 votes - unless your Nick Pacheco.
But Huizar, like Villar, will forever be tainted. It's hard to shake off the lazy moniker if you don't get busy.
So enjoy your victory, the community will live on and Huizar and Villar can eventually retire into AEG's payroll.
Like Villar, Huizar had all the potential and he squandered it.
FYI - it's nuclear fussion that isn't understood, nuclear fission is the simple splitting of an atom that produces nuclear waste. Nuclear fusion does not produce waste.
Isn't it kind of Turd-jillo to spin for Huizar for FREE?
Or is he?
Is it true that Vernon has a $200 million reserve?
12:07
"it's nuclear fussion that isn't understood"
(There's no such thing as nuclear "fussion" - except perhaps in Red Spot's head).
BTW, it really doesn't matter which way you spell them, the reference was being equated to Higby's understanding and ability to analyze anything related to life in CD14.
He understands nuclear fision, fusion, AND "fussion" all better than he has any real take on what goes on over here.
You apparently have a lightly better understanding, since you acknowledge that Huizar will beat Rudy Rich -- although the "why" isn't in your ability to comprehend past bitter filters.
Huizar would win this election if the labor unions sat on their hands, because he's perceived by most voters in the district as doing a good job.
(If he wasn't the voters would be up in arms, and would turn out in record numbers to unseat him - even with a unqualified opponent like Martinez).
The minimalistic turnout four years ago was for teh same reason... no reason to change, and no one really worth changing TO (in that case, Alvin "DOH" Parra), who very appropriately is now ENDORSING Rudy Rich.
Fitting!
Nick Pacheco, with $290K (2005) - 26 percent of the vote.
Alvin Parra, with $120K (2007) - 29 percent (+3)
Rudy Martinez, with $300K? (2011) - (will) = 32 percent (also, +3)
There seems to be a pattern there. Unfortunately for the haters, the erosion of Huizar's support at that rate would take another 6-7 terms in office, and he'll be termed out long before that.
(NEXT... ?)
1:30
There is such a thing as nuclear fusion - Huizar should know about it, the primary study of it is a the Plasma Physices Lab at Princeton University, where Einstein taught. http://www.pppl.gov/projects/pages/tftr.html
Be careful about those labor unions sitting ontheir hands, they did in 1999 and Pacheco won. Martinez has the money and obviously a wounded Huizar to win, but he has no field. No way to counteract Skelton's negative mail that is coming.
The only consolation the community has is that when a true community grass roots candidate comes along again, it doesn't matter how much money or special interests get behind the papi chulo candidate. Rudy isn't such a candidate, but they're coming.
3:54
DOLT, you TYPED "FUSSION" with two "SS" not one.
THAT's what there is NO... no "fussion".
People as illiterate as that shouldn't even be allowed to mention Princeton, (of even LACC).
(Reed Spit, if you're gonna play, at least don your dunce cap and stop being anonymous.)
Huizar is better than a "grass roots" candidate. He's a product of the commmunity that did well, worked hard, got ahead, and didn't produce a criminal record along the way (so he could "boo hoo" in public about how he "learned" from being a drain on society's law enforcemet resources).
He's the type of success story we SHOULD be promoting to our young people... take advantage of your FIRST chances. Stay in school, work hard keep your nose clean, and come back and help make the old home town better.
Before the whole world became the type of cynics that keep this blog moving, that's what we did promote to young people.
Huizar is "the type of success story we SHOULD be promoting to our young people"
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Huizar had every chance to be a true Grass Roots leader, in the mold of the early Gloria Molina. He was there at Nick's surprise victory party in 1999 - when everyone else was at Griego's. He could have inherited the community Grass Roots operation that got both Gloria and Nick into their respective offices.
And you don't have to be highly educated to be a leader, Gloria proved that. But it does help, Nick and Ed Roybal proved that.
Huizar turned his back on true Grass Roots activism to go for the easy "campaign" money when he got into the School Board and was mismanaging a multi billion dollar bond. It's hard to ignore the Cordobda Corps or TELACU's or Broads when you are a poor kid from the barrio - Tony Villar proved that.
Huizar went the easy route - which will prove to be his undoing - because he is lazy. There won't be any buildings or schools named after Huizar. Unless the theme of the building is "what could have been."
8:15
Yeah, how's that "undoing" been going so far?
Four landslide elections, soon to be five?
And for some really ODD reason - probably because it true - he is very highly regarded by the majority of people in the district, who also believe he works very hard for them.
And it's only ever on hate-filled, out-of-touch blogs like this, and toxic Westside media points, like the L.A. Weakly where anyone would even begin to suggest he's "lazy."
Stay out of touch, stay hateful, stay toxic, remain in the minority.
Enjoy.
And there are going to be buildings named after Nick Pacheco?
7:11
Actually the Boyle Heights Technology Institute was orignally named after Nick Pacheco. Antonio changed the name after he came in to his reign.
7:11
I believe once the money laundering of Rudy's campaign funds are completely investigated, they'll be naming one of the twin tower prisons after Tricky Nicky.
NO MORE PARKS,NO MORE LABONGE,NO MORE ENGLANDER, NO MORE WESSON. JUST TO NAME 4. LA DON'T BRING ABOUT TOTAL BANKRUPTCY TO THIS CITY. YOU WON'T LIKE IT, DON'T MAKE ME SAY I TOLD YOU SO! DON'T BE FOOLS AGAIN!
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