Los Angeles Politics Hotsheet for Wednesday
There are things we know we don't know, ...and then our head explodes.
Quite possibly the greatest 10 minutes of Talking Head television was made back in 2008 when local right-wing radio hothead, Kevin James, made an appearance on Chris Matthews' MSNBC show to bag on then candidate Barack Obama. As this classic clip aptly demonstrates, Kevin James was completely eviscerated. Not so much by Matthews, but by his own lack of basic historical knowledge. Since that appearance, Kevin James has seen his KRLA radio show moved later and later into the evening to the point that it now begins in the dead zone at midnight.
So, with nothing left to lose, this exploding potato-head had a Jennerjahn moment yesterday and will announce his candidacy for Mayor of Los Angeles on Wednesday on the steps outside LA City Hall at 10am.
Well, at least it will be an entertaining campaign.
"Kevin, when you're in a hole, stop digging." -Mark Green
You know it's not going well when your own wife and your maid are signing the petition to recall you from office. Such is the case of Wisconsin State Senator Randy Hopper (R-Fond du Lac) who apparently dumped his wife for a 25 year old female lobbyist and is now illegally not residing in his own district. Sen. Randy Hopper (I swear that's his real name) is a close associate of union busting Governor Scott Walker.
The hoarding has begun in the U.S as Americans have cleared the shelves of anti-radiation Potassium Iodide.
The potassium iodide panic is, of course, in response to the Japanese nuclear meltdown. The online suppliers are out of stock and back ordered as well with some sites posting "No Longer Accepting Orders". C'mon, it's just a little radiation people, right?
Thousands descend on Sacramento to urge support of Gov. Brown's budget and for a ballot vote on tax extensions.
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| Nope, no climate change in here. |
From the Department of Nitwits- A House Republican Committee in Washington refuses to leave their state of denial and unanimously votes to deny reality. The committee voted against three amendments acknowledging the science of climate change. The amendments were introduced during debate over a Republican bill to bar the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
Labels: Gov jerry brown, kevin james, Republican Nitwits
Posted by Unknown @ 3/16/2011 12:00:00 AM
43 Comments:
HA! Classic! What an idiot Kevin is.
All I had to do is read the first line of this post to know who posted it.
The attack/lap dogs are out early.
Excelent, Joe!
By "a Phil Jennerjahn moment" are you saying that it's when someone is DELIRIOUS and running for office because they've failed at everything else in life; are envious of the power and money of elected officials; and run for office, no matter how many times they previously ran and came in dead last?
Does this include someone who got 10,000 votes less than a homeless man in one of those races; someone who said he raised $200,000 in Recall City Hall funds, only to later say that NONE of it came in, and then suddenly had enough cash on-hand to rent a "sweet" Mustang and enter the $10,000 World Series of Poker, and then when challenged to explain how he got money, without a stable job, tried to suggest he only entered a satellite?
If that's what you mean, nod yes. If not, that's okay, since Kevin hasn't run for office before and, unlike Phil, DID finish law school.
Excellent post.
8:59's comment is probably the funniest damn thing I think I've ever read on this blog in a long while.
But you forgot a couple of things, like Phil not getting ONE signature for his Congressional petition. Not one signature in two hours! That's all it took to get Phil Jennerjahn to quit. So he is also a quitter on Day One of that dopey campaign, and he quit on his own Recall City Hall THE FIRST DAY, since "NOONE" showed up for his press conference. If you remember, Phil, poseur that he is, posed with sunglasses on a darkly overcast day.
Thanks Joe!
I thought it was very funny when Michael Higby said that "Phil never complains about comments. Not even once," even though he regularly deletes comments.
I don't know Michael, but I'm thinking that has to do with Higby being born again, and he thinks God would want him to protect stupid Phil.
Uh, Higby, there is no God. Stop believing in fairy tales.
Kevin James...
"The Great Snide Hope"
Well, I guess we pretty much know what this blog-for-hire (or at least a blog willing to be "obsessed" by one futile effort endlessly) -- will be about for the next 1.5 years or so...
"PUMP KEVIN JAMES"
(Just like it was a platform for BASH JOSE HUIZAR for the last 6 months).
It was only last week, but remember how well THAT turned out?
I think it's fair to say that Mayor Sam's/Red Spot (and not Rudy Martinez's wealth), were principally responsible for the incumbent's share of last week's vote from 66 percent to 64.5 percent, versus 4 years ago.
Well now Jan Perry has officially jumped in, too. Well THERE goes Kevin James' hopes of retaining his south L.A. voters... all THREE of them.
Do you think Joe knows the difference between Neville Chamberlain and Wilt Chamberlain?
Jan Perry jumped in? Is that what that thud was?
Jan Perry jumped in? Is that what that thud was?
What's really interesting about Kevin James' announcement is that he has John Thomas as his campaign manager. Thomas is very, very connected to Rick Caruso, so it's highly likely that Caruso 1) is not going to run, and perhaps more importantly, 2) is going to $upport Kevin. In a race that will see the big money dems like Greuel, Zev and Beutner duking it out in the primary, it's highly likely that they will split the dem vote, thus leaving the only Rep in the field with a place in the run off - don't forget Walter Moore got what 26% of the vote with virtually no money, so James is assured of at least that much and probably a lot more, to give him a real shot at the run off. Kevin will make minced meat of opponent in the debates, and this time, the opponent won't be able to chicken out of the debate either. This is good for LA. Go Kevin!
I guess with Kevin James in the mayor's race, this delays the sequel for Paul Blart: Mall Cop.
While Kevin James has NO business running for mayor, it would fair to say most people who use Neville Chamberlain as that example and who don't teach modern history for a living couldn't pin down which event leading up to WWII happened when, and what Chamberlain's exact role in it was... what he "did wrong."
What Matthews, in his typical revisionist history "gotcha" moment is trying to pull off is to say that the Munich Agreement, giving Germany the right to annex the Czech Sudetenland was the specific "act" of appeasement.
But there wasn't any one single action of Neville C.'s short term as PM that branded him forever the poster child for "appeasement", but an overall policy to avoid conflict at all costs even if you have to sell out allies and cede the territory of other countries behind their backs. By all accounts, if Britain had started out dealing with Hitler at the beginning of Chamberlain's term with an "abide by the Versailles treaty...or ELSE" policy, and told him there was nothing more to "discuss" ... WWII would have never happened.
Hitler's knew his newly created, untrained armies were far inferior to any one of the major powers of Europe up until that point (England, France, even Czechoslovakia itself), and it became known later that his own generals would have refused to obey any commands to march into another sovereign state. (Some were waiting for just such an opportunity to overthrown the dictator. Their plans were also sold down the river by Chamberlain's "negotiations.")
British appeasement -- under Chamberlaisn -- in the late 1930s was an overall policy and not one act, in 1938, or any year.
Yes, Jan Perry has jumped in.
Ladies and gentlemen, the crazy train has left the station.
there ws another L.A. d.j. that was moved further and further in to the night. But unline James, this guy has a huge following and some ver notable accomplishments. Rodney on the ROQ, kevin certianly is not - check out the Mayor of the Sunset Strip because eventhough Kevin is not Rodney, I think they will end up the same at the end- broke. But Rodney willbe broke and loved, can't say that about Kevin.
If nothing else, this is certainly the end of Clean Sweep as an organization. KJ's announcement also makes clear that quite a few of the CW people were in it hoping to make their own political careers. They should have gone off to their respective political parties if that's what they really wanted to do.
Higby, are you going to let your ex-favorite drinking partner blogger continue to make veiled snips at Kevin James' sexuality?
I THINK THAT KEVIN WILL RAISE ISSUES THESE OTHER CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR WILL SMOOTH OVER AT YOUR EXPENSE. WILL SEE WHAT HE HAS TO SAY FIRST. AS FAR AS CLEAN SWEEP BEING DONE. I DON'T LIKE THE WAY IT'S RUN AND WHO IS MAKING DECISIONS AND WHO IS NOT,BUT IF I HAD TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCILS,DONE AND CLEAN SWEEP, I CHOOSE CLEAN SWEEP BY A LANDSLIDE. THE PUBLIC NEEDS TO BE ENGAGED IN THE PROCESS THE NC'S HAVE DELIBRATELY FAILED AT ANY TRUE OUTREACH THEY HAVE DIRECT TIES TO OUR CITY OFFICIALS WHICH MEANS THEY HAVE THEIR BACKS. YOU WILL SEE NO REFORM AS LONG AS THIS ARRANGEMENT EXISTS, PERIOD! NO CANDIDATES RAN LAST ELECTION BECAUSE THEIR WAS NO CLEAN SWEEP GIVING THEM HOPE. THE PROBLEM IS THAT 80% OF REGISTERED VOTES DIDN'T. UNDERSTAND THAT.
Due to Kevin James getting in there is already pressure on some of the lesser Democrats such as Jan Perry and Alex Padilla to get out. They would prefer Wendy and Garcetti at most.
They know James can get the 45 or so of the James-Zuma Dogg-Clean Sweep coalition so with 4-5 Democrats in the race, plus Beutner, it does not help.
Their only hope is that Caruso gets in and peels off some Republican money from Kevin. Caruso does not have the fire in the belly to run. Makes more sense for him to puppetmaster James.
6:20
"They know James can get the 45 or so of the James-Zuma Dogg-Clean Sweep coalition"
By that, you MUST mean 45 votes, right? Maybe 45 homes?
Or it that a typo... maybe you meant 4-5 PERCENT of the total vote?
Were you hiding under a rock last week when the very BEST any of the "LEAN" Sweep nominees (other than the incumbent Parks) could muster in any district was just over 30 percent -- and that was only in a 2-way race? Some got less than 5 percent.
There IS no large minority of contrarian conservative or libertarian or GOP or and coalition thereof (you name it) voters in L.A., and that's the mistake the "throw out the bums" ranters keep making. They keep standing in their little groups of 40-50 people believing most of the City thinks like they do.
NOPE, sorry, stupid mistake. They keep coming onto narrowly focused blogs like this one, and "dreaming" of a takeover.
1 in 3 votes, at BEST, citywide... ever. Most likely 1 in 4.
Don't set yourself up for a heart-rending loss... again.
I don't know where you think YOU live, but THIS is Los Angeles, CA.
You don't have to be Nostradamus to know already that the next mayor of the City of Los Angeles will be one of the current City Council members, or possibly someone who held that seat in the recent past and still has local recognition (like Greuel or Padilla).
No one else has the visibility, or can afford to create it - even given 23+ months. Attention to the race won't even reach any critical mass before Dec. 2012.
Any other players are deluded if they think that can change that outcome. And, anyone who gives them money to try needs to have their head examined.
From Regardie at LADN: "James ... said he expects to raise more than $3 million."
Hoooo, ha! Now that IS funny.
I needed a good laugh.
He's off by one decimal place at least; probably two.
There's only one way that this WON'T be a boring race.
Phil Jennerjoke needs to be in it.
The humor quotient in getting to razz a-hole Phil as he poses like a poseur, and comes to City Hall in daddy's suit and speaks in his soprano voice makes having to listen to him worthwhile.
I hope Phil keeps running for every office. Oh, wait a minute. He is already doing that! Ha ha ha, LOL, good one!
With 88% voted "yes" Miami-Dade County voters recalled its mayor on Tuesday.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/118064209.html
It's hilarious to see Phil Jennerjahn mocking Jan Perry's mayoral run.
As if he could get a TENTH of the votes, or donor dollars, that she will get.
Uh, Phil?
Ha ha ha
Lol
You stupid, feeble, dope.
Years of incompetence by Tony V and the Clowncil has resulted in businesses and jobs being chased out with endless taxes and regulations. The City is on the brink of a Fiscal catastrophe or a Bankruptcy. But Blogger Joe uses a less than stellar performance on a cable channel bit a few years ago to as an argument against a guy who touts a policy of small government and fiscal restraint. Of course I think Kevin is a licensed attorney unlike the current guy who is a serial dater of Hot News Talent and also a Serial taker and fail the Bar Exam.
When Tony Villar was Speaker - the 2nd most powerful man in the state - his mismanagement led to the financial meltdown of the state and the eventual recall of the "most" powerful man in the state. Now the same is going to happen to L.A.. This is what happend when we elected a 1.8 GPA dumbass. With Tony's legacy, the next mayor will be a hero because anyhting is better than now.
"8:59's comment is probably the funniest damn thing I think I've ever read on this blog in a long while."
I concur.
March 16, 2011 10:30 AM wrote:
"Uh, Higby, there is no God. Stop believing in fairy tales."
How do you know?
12:45
It's up to the believers to prove that God does exist, not the other way around.
I'm still waiting for the proof.
Exactly what kind of ARROGANCE makes someone think they can work 3HOURS a day, just TALKING and actually doing nothing, and qualify as L.A.'s mayor?
(But enough about Antonio, this thread is supposed to be about Kevin James.)
Oh, YOU thought...? Ah, I can see the confusion.
Okay, then just to keep them from getting confused in the future - James works 3 hours each NIGHT.
11:22 You say "work 3 hours a day" when you mean "on the air 3 hours a day."
And then you miss the fact that James works during the day, but like most things posted on this thread, it's another bashing day.
For some real contrast, think about this:
The one who works 3 hours a day, sometimes even on city business, is Mayor Villaraigosa.
L.A. resident/ and FORMER villaraigosa supporter.
12:24
You're either a remedial reader, or you have no sense of humor. The previous poster WAS bashing on Tony Villar...
You just didn't GET it!
A LOT OF YOU SOUND LOST IN THE JUNGLE! RICK CARUSO WILL SELL YOU DOWN THE RIVER AS WILL ALL THE OTHER INCUMBENT TYPES GIVING THEM MONEY OR YOUR VOTE IS LIKE PUTTING A GUN TO YOUR HEAD AND PULLING THE TRIGGER WITH THE SAME RESULT. STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES! KEEP PADDLING OVER THE CLIFF EINSTEINS!
March 17, 2011 8:52 AM
"It's up to the believers to prove that God does exist, not the other way around.
I'm still waiting for the proof."
I beg to differ. That goes both ways. It's up to believers to prove and non-believers to disprove.
To believe God does not exist takes faith, much like those who believe God exists.
It takes no faith to know that god is a primitive concept used by early societies to explain their world. Please, it's 2011. Keep your myths out of society and government.
"Anonymous said...
It takes no faith to know that god is a primitive concept used by early societies to explain their world. Please, it's 2011. Keep your myths out of society and government.
March 17, 2011 8:02 PM"
Please tell me where the myth is? Where in my comments do I state a belief except that I say to disbelieve is a belief? On this particular question, a researcher would more likely be "agnostic" because that would be an acknowledgement that neither side of the question has provided the necessary evidence to be fact, as in theory versus hypothesis. So, to state that God does not exist as though it's fact is to have a belief, a faith. And, as to your comment that "it takes no faith to know that god is a primitive concept," those words were not used in the initial comment. The comment states "There is no God." That is an objective statement, not a speculation/hypothesis. Nowhere do I deny it as primitive concept.
Perhaps the shifting of the comment from "There is no God" to a " god is a primitive concept" is an acknowledgement that the initial comment was faith based.
Oh, and I was not the person who initially brought God into this comment section. I merely replied to someone (you?) who did. And, my comment is not one of "is there/isn't there" it's one of word usage which is very much part of society and government. Loopholes in laws rely on word usage. Ditto with society.
"There is no God."
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/faith
2. belief that is not based on proof: He had faith that the hypothesis would be substantiated by fact.
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I asked for proof that there is no God. It was not provided. Therefore, the comment is a faith based comment.
Prove there is a tooth fairy. I rest my case.
Prove there is not a tooth fairy.
To believe or not believe-both are a matter of faith.
I rest my case.
I'm debating someone that believes in the tooth fairy. Case closed.
"I'm debating someone that believes in the tooth fairy."
Bring it on!!!
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