The "Valley Greuel of Audits" has "Oh My God Moment" on Investigation Oversight
Will Los Angeles voters support a "Valley Greuel the Mayor Sequel" in 2013?
Oh My God!! Waste and corruption in city departments?
OH MY GOD! "The Valley Greuel" who daylights as the City Controller wants more investigated authority over fraud and waste in the City of Los Angeles. Totally, we get the idea that the Controller Office should have investigated powers to uncover waste and nefarious uses of Angelino tax dollars. Yet judging from the responses via the likes of the "Weekly Blond of Record" Jill Stewart and the "Daily Blogger of Fact" Ron Kaye, this latest "Valley Greuel's" pronouncement will go into the "cyberpile of name recognition exercises" that doubles for audits/press releases in the City Controller Office under her reign. But in the interest of giving the "Valley Greuel" the benefit of the doubt on her anti-waste crusade, we steer her fraud detector in the direction of a 20 acre hilltop in CD 14 known as Elephant Hill.
Some background for the "Valley Greuel", Longtime Northeast LA activist and now blogger Tony Butka has just posted his fourth and last part on the definitive history regarding the Elephant Hill Controversy. In simplistic terms, CD 14 City Councilman Jose Huizar needed an "open space accomplishment" to help with the green vote, in his bid for a second term as councilman. Thus, using questionable legal tactics and ignoring the advise of city personal, Huizar crafted a deal that paid the owner of the property $9.1 million dollars of barrow money to preserve Elephant Hill forever as open space.
But what the "Valley Greuel" should audit/investigate is how the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy could purchase 25% of the now city owned property for $500,000 dollars rounded off. This sweetheart deal to a client of a Councilman Huizar fundraiser (Attorney/lobbyist Ben Reznik), is a perfect proving ground to showcase how the "Valley Greuel" would use her new powers to make sure that this loan is repaid in full as promise by Councilman Huizar, with the same state dollars that SMMC is using to expand Joe Edmiston's land empire.
But judging from the "Valley Greuel's" past support of the likes of Councilman Huizar (and blocking transparency in the CLARTS Fund) and Mayor Antonio Villar, lets not put too much substance into the latest shallow pronouncement from the Valley Greuel who dreams "totally" of becoming mayor in 2013.
Your thoughts..............
Scott Johnson in CD 14
Labels: Controller wendy greuel, Elephant Hill
Posted by Red Spot in CD 14 @ 9/16/2011 10:15:00 AM
2 Comments:
LIKE I'VE BEEN SAYING WENDY GREUEL WILL NEVER DO A SERIOUS AUDIT THAT WILL EXPOSE ANY REAL CORRUPTION. SHE IS AUDITING BUT HER CALL TO CHANGE IS A JOKE! IT AMOUNTS TO WRITTEN LETTERS TO DEPARTMENT HEADS TO CLEAN UP THERE ACT WHICH NEVER HAPPENS! SIGN UP TO WENDY'S GOVERNMENT SITE AND READ THESE RESPONSES IT'S A LAUGH. SHE NEVER CAN SEEM TO AUDIT DWP,LAPD,LAUSD,OR THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS BUT SHE HAS A LOT OF EXCUSES FOR HER LACK OF ACTION. NO WE NEED PEOPLE WHO ARE SERIOUS ABOUT REALLY CLEANING UP DOWNTOWN NOT SOMEONE LIKE WENDY WHO PANDERS TO THE PUBLIC WITH FAKE PROMISES AND RESULTS.
The Van de Kamps Coalition is curious about the circumstances under which Wendy Greuel was asked by Los Angeles Community College District to "independently" investigate how a completely unqualified person was given a $3.25 million contract to act as the LACCD's watchdog Inspector General.
LACCD is obviously trying to get someone politically friendly who APPEARS to be independent but who has no power to subpoena records. Wendy Greuel would be LACCD's patsy if she tries to accept this position.
And given that Greuel had been criticized over the lack of substantive audits of the City of LA, her taking on an outside contract with LACCD to conduct an "independent" investigation will have an air of "political favor" for the Mayor's Office or LACCD construction contractors who have given generously to Greuel's campaign war chest for Mayor and other offices.
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