Jan Perry and Friends stand up for CD 9 as is
Councilwoman Jan Perry and friends stand in support of the current CD 9 District. Photo by Hayley Fox of Blog Downtown.
CD City Councilwoman Jan Perry is marshaling her supporters for a fight to preserve the current incarnation of the council district. Perry and about forty of her constituents gathered for a mid-afternoon testimonial on the bleak future awaiting CD 9, if the the proposed city redistricting maps are made permanent.
Downtown Developer Tom Gilmore noted “You cannot fix or help any district by cutting it in half,” Gilmore said. “Our ability to work under one council district, our ability to work through the entitlement process, through the development process, work through the affordable housing issues that we have, work with our partners in Skid Row, Little Tokyo, the Arts District and South L.A. make the mighty Ninth mighty, indeed.” As reported in the City Maven.
Another bit of concern for for CD 9 Downtown boosters may be found in this brief passage by Ron Kaye in a post regarding the brewing blowback on the proposed redistricting maps. In the following paragraph, Kaye notes this about CD 14 Councilman Jose Huizar. "Bill Rosendahl called the maps an "outrageous case of gerrymandering," which was always the intent but not if it cost him Westchester or inflicted Tom LaBonge on Sherman Oaks and Encino or robbed Jan Perry of the big bucks from downtown developers to provide Jose Huizar with that plum even as rumors of his legal problems with the feds are heating up.
This should concern those in Downtown, especially in light of the recent Historic Downtown BID controversy involving the "black balling" of Executive Director candidate Roberto Saldana by Councilman Huizar, for merely speaking out against him during last springs CD 14 Elections. Those facts alone should give pause to those contemplating a future Downtown LA controlled by CD 14.
Your thoughts ..............
Scott Johnson in CD 14.
Downtown Developer Tom Gilmore noted “You cannot fix or help any district by cutting it in half,” Gilmore said. “Our ability to work under one council district, our ability to work through the entitlement process, through the development process, work through the affordable housing issues that we have, work with our partners in Skid Row, Little Tokyo, the Arts District and South L.A. make the mighty Ninth mighty, indeed.” As reported in the City Maven.
Another bit of concern for for CD 9 Downtown boosters may be found in this brief passage by Ron Kaye in a post regarding the brewing blowback on the proposed redistricting maps. In the following paragraph, Kaye notes this about CD 14 Councilman Jose Huizar. "Bill Rosendahl called the maps an "outrageous case of gerrymandering," which was always the intent but not if it cost him Westchester or inflicted Tom LaBonge on Sherman Oaks and Encino or robbed Jan Perry of the big bucks from downtown developers to provide Jose Huizar with that plum even as rumors of his legal problems with the feds are heating up.
This should concern those in Downtown, especially in light of the recent Historic Downtown BID controversy involving the "black balling" of Executive Director candidate Roberto Saldana by Councilman Huizar, for merely speaking out against him during last springs CD 14 Elections. Those facts alone should give pause to those contemplating a future Downtown LA controlled by CD 14.
Your thoughts ..............
Scott Johnson in CD 14.
Labels: "COUNCILMAN LAST SEEN AS JOSE HUIZAR, CD 9, DWP Jan Perry, Tom Gilmore
Posted by Red Spot in CD 14 @ 1/27/2012 05:36:00 AM
1 Comments:
I LOVE SEEING THESE KING MAKERS RUNNING AROUND WORRIED ABOUT THEIR POWER PLAY. THEY NEED THEIR NECKS YANKED. THE PEOPLE IN THESE COMMUNITIES HAVE BEEN ABUSED BY THEM AND PEOPLE LIKE THEM LONG ENOUGH. PERRY AND PARKS ARE BUT 2 EXAMPLES OF POLITIANS ASKING FOR YOUR OPINION THEN USING IT TO SELL YOU THEIR PLAN. THIS IS WHY THE CITY CONTINUES TO SUFFER LOST INCOME BAD COMMUNICATION AND JUST PLAIN APATHY BY THE VOTERS.
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