Los Angeles Politics Hotsheet for Tuesday
Politicians are scared out of their gourd that Jerry Brown is going to shut down the CRA and all their shady projects. Problem is, a lot of the money local pols need to run come out of those projects. Jerry Brown's people at least are honest and saying they don't buy the crap from Jose Huizar or Antonio Villaraigosa that CRA projects create any real jobs.
It failed once before when a judge ruled it unconstitutional. The city is trying again to shut down 140 medical marijuana dispensaries under yet another law.
You can bet LA's politicians want to serve up historic Olvera Street to developers and raise the rent on the existing small merchants. Imagine Crate and Barrel next to the Avila Adobe.
Councilman Eric Garcetti is renting out a home he owns in Elysian Heights; it can be yours for only $4,500 a month. How does a City Councilman afford a home that goes for $4,500 a month. Oh, that's how.
With the retirement of Greig Smith and the possibility of Janice Hahn going to Congress, LA's City Council will be devoid of Anglo Protestants. The LA Weekly takes note of a dominant Jewish-Latino alliance in Los Angeles shutting out all others. Still the Weekly gets a few facts wrong, there are three not two African Americans on the Council (and Jan Perry can count double as Black and Jewish), Dennis Zine is not Jewish (he's Lebanese) and while most of the rest of the Clowncil is either Jewish or Latino, CMs Rosendahl and Krekorian are note. And then there's the Type O Blood of ethnicities, President Eric Garcetti who can claim being not only both Latino and Jewish but Italian.
Labels: CRA, eric garcetti, Governor Jerry Brown, la weekly, medical marijuana, olvera street
Posted by Michael Higby @ 3/15/2011 12:01:00 AM
9 Comments:
I thought you were all hot & heavy for eMeg? Finally seeing the light?
Let's see; we stop cleanig up blight in Los Angeles City so that our prison guards can get pensions based upon salaries of @ $200,000 a year.
Did I get that right?
Or, maybe so our Assemblymembers and Senators can "check in" Friday mornings, then fly home for the weekend (on us) and then fly back (on us) and "check in" on Monday evening again.
That way, they get paid for four days of no work. Is that right?
Or, should they use the CRA money to fund the B.S. Commissions that pay FORMER legislators $110,000 a year for one or two days work a month?
I suggest we should just let the state go the equivalent of bankrupt, so we can re-negotiate all public union contracts. If the employees want to quit, so be it. There are lots of others who will step forward to be employed at the newer, less cushy rates and pensions.
We need to look to Wisonsin and Ohio to see how it is done, then do it.
If the present electeds won't do it, they will, in time, be replaced by those who will do it.
Just ask Russ Feingold and the other former Wisconsin and Ohio electeds. The people will be heard.
Time for all those crap weasels to be thrown off the gravy train. My God, they are set to slash education funding by 25% and these damned pols are still operating like business as usual.
I don't know of one person who doesn't support the Gov in getting rid of the CRA. Since we're all disappointed in the elections and the fact we're stuck with these morons on council, click on this link to get a huge laugh. This will show you why our City is in the toliet
http://www.dailynews.com/ci_17607631?IADID=Search-www.dailynews.com-www.dailynews.com
The CRA repeal pays off more in the long term than the short term, and is like pouring a little bleach on city hall. A lot of people I speak to who know about CRA think this is just over $1.5B and a not a huge deal. But the long term debt and interest expense reductions is a big deal.
With that said, I don't know how much more fight Brown has in him on this.
The wealthy special interest groups (developers, unions, rich kids looking to build a stadium etc.) with a lot on the line will continue to go at him hard. And with deep pockets, who knows what stink they can raise.
In the end, the only way this gets done is through a compromise with unions.
CA will get shafted by the unions or continue to get shafted by the CRA system.
As our last governor learned, a fight with unions is a fight to the political death. Unless Brown's ready, and has the stomach, to slay the dragon he will lose.
With the retirement of Greig Smith and the possibility of Janice Hahn going to Congress, LA's City Council will be devoid of Anglo Protestants.
NOONE CARES!
Why does it have to be about race, and not abilities and qualifications?
Someone looked for "affirmative action" to get honkies back in office?
(I'm a "white" guy, and I DON'T CARE!!!)
Not that the election is over, devolve back into race-baiting.
Some things are just SO particular.
Poster child for CRA abuse: Las Villas Restaurant project (which now sits in Lincoln Heights as a hole in the ground on North Broadway) - Two hoochies get mega bucks from CRA to build a restaurant, yet neither have ANY experience in the food industry.
Tax payer money waste at it's best.
INVESTIGATE AND AUDIT CRA. WHERE IS THE MONEY? WHERE ARE THE PROJECTS AND WHAT IS THE OUTCOME? WHAT DO THE STATISTICS SAY? ARE THERE ANY STATS AVAILABLE TO SEE HOW THESE PROJECTS/DEVELOPMENTS CREATE JOBS? IT'S ALL BS AND OUR CURRENT LEADERS ARE STEALING FROM US.
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