The Morning Scandalous Briefs on the Los Angeles Political Machine for Tuesday

Former "Scandalous Employees International Union" (SEIU) Local 6434 General Manager Tyrone Freeman, joins the likes of Martin Ludlow, Arnelle Grajeda, and the late Alejandro Stephens as "LA Poster Brothers and Sisters" of Union Corruption.

Los Angeles County Board of Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas favorite former SEIU General Manager Tyrone Freeman.

Happy bloggin Tuesday to everyone as we share tales of scandalous misconduct, this A.M., from the various branches of the Los Angeles Political Machine.

We start with a political friend of nervous LA County Board of Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, former SEIU Local 6434 General Manager Tyrone Freeman. "Brother Tyrone" was sentence yesterday to 33 months on the license plate assembly line (without union wages) in Federal Lockup for defrauding union coffers for his, family and crony's self enrichment. Yet, what went completely unreported in the "Old Gray Collectivist Hag on Spring Street" (LA Times) missive regarding the "Brother Tyrone" sentencing, was the aborted scheme to raise the dues of the poorest of union members he represented, to finance the LA County Board of Supervisor Campaign of Mark Ridley-Thomas against CD 8 City Councilman Bernard Parks. We ponder whether Freeman in his next 33 months in the Federal Pen, will sing a tune of campaign finance misdeeds, in return for less time?  

** Is anyone within the LAUSD Educational Establishment surprise that now School Board President Richard Vladovic, would be the subject of a Verbal and Sexual Harassment Complaint (which he denies for the record)? During his first campaign for the LAUSD District 7 Seat, we posted here stories of the self-proclaimed, "Dr. Death's" proclivities to be a verbal hot head during his Administrator employment with LAUSD and the Covina School District. Maybe that was why he barely beat admired Administrator Neal Kleiner by a 53-47% margin? It was, and Kleiner would of won if UTLA had fiscally supported him. 

** The "University of Scandalous Conduct" (USC) continues its repugnant corporate behavior with that latest expose that the "Four Year Community College on Figueroa" (** along with President Barack "H" Obama's Occidental College), underreported sexual assaults on their respective campuses. The fact that USC would not follow up and properly report sexual assaults, is not surprising, considering its aborted raping of sacred and historic green space at Hazard Park. 

** Port of Los Angeles Director Geraldine Knatz is the first former Mayor Antonio Villar hold-over Department Head to be sent out the door, as she is forced out, whoops, resigns as its first female Port Director. Jack Humphreville in a superb blog missive at "MSNBC CityWatch", lamented on the failed leadership at the Port of LA under Knatz and the urgent need for change as a widen Panama Canal (in 2014) threatens the port's standing within the Pacific Rim.

Your thoughts ..............

Scott Johnson in CD 14