Morning Briefs on the Los Angeles Political Machine for Thursday

The retrial of former CD 2/7 City Clowncil Central Committee Member Richard "The Zorro Marxist" AlarCON and wife, begins today as the LA County District Attorney's Office of Public Integrity seeks a conviction on both for Voter Fraud.

The Booking Photos of former CD 2/7 City Clowncil Central Committee Member Richard "The Zorro Marxist" AlarCON and wife Flora Monte del Oca AlarCON.

Its Judgment Time, Part Two for the former CD 2/7 City Clowncil Central Committee Member Richard "The Zorro Marxist" AlarCON and wife.

As new CD 7 City Clowncil Central Committee Member Felipe "Mini Padilla" Fuentes awaits his moment to become the next Clowncil Central Committee General Secretary/President, the AlarCONs have been awaiting the LA County District Attorney's Office of Public Integrity second and last chance to prosecute the duo on Voter Fraud charges.

Observers close to the AlarCON Family have notice in recent months that the former CD 2/7 Clowncil Central Committee Member, has lost weight and exhibited melancholy behavior (especially after losing his Michael Trujillo-consulted Assembly bid) as the days to his next appointed time of justice, ticked away to today.

** The weeks-long silence from CD 14 City Clowncil Central Committee Member Jose Huizar, regarding the fire bombings of African-American Families within the Ramona Gardens Housing Development, ended yesterday as the Princeton Graduate, with law enforcement officials, announced an $100,000 Reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of the suspects.

** For those who follow the Twitter pronouncements of CD 14 Clowncil Central Committee Communications Director Rick Coca, whoops, we meant Clowncil Central Committee Member Jose Huizar, will notice the regular supportive twitting of noted Land Use Attorney Ben Reznik (of the dubious Elephant Hill Deal). In a classic "Do as I Say, Don't Do as I Do Moment", Reznik is crying foul about a rival developer's payoff for support on a Century City Development as Bill "The Westside White Guy Emeritus" Boyarsky muses for "West LA Observed" ......

These payments, although long a dubious part of the developer-homeowner association relationship, are legal. Nobody is alleging wrongdoing. But they have become an issue in a fight over JMB Realty’s proposed 37-story Century City office building at Constellation Boulevard and Avenue of the Stars. Attorney Benjamin Reznik, who represents rival Century City property owner J.P. Morgan and the Beverlywood Homeowners Association, complained to the City Planning Commission of the conduct of four other homeowner groups who support the high rise.
He’s unhappy with JMB paying, as reported by the Los Angeles Times, $7.25 million to an organization, Friends of West L.A. for distribution to local civic institutions. Friends of West L.A. is composed of the Tract 7260 organization, California Country Club Homes Assn. Cheviot Hills Homeowners Assn. and Westwood Homeowners Assn. The associations have dropped their opposition to the project, angering homeowner groups that still oppose it.

......, meanwhile, the taxpayers are stuck with paying off the loan on a inflated-price land swindle.

** Lastly, Downtown News Editor and reigning "Scribe of Wit" Jon Regardie was channeling the poetic proclivities of the likes of the Princeton Graduate and his City Clowncil Central Committee Comrades as we excerpt below .........

Why Me?

By José Huizar

You think ruling a fiefdom is easy?

Nay sir, nay ma’am.

You do not know my burden.

You do not understand the 14th.

You do not know what it is like

   To have a $125 million streetcar

   Zoom up to $328 million.

You do not know what it is like

   To have your car go boom-crash

   Into another car,

   And to have the city attorney

   Settle the case for $185,000.

You do not know what it is like

   To back the wrong horse 

   In the mayor’s race.

You do not know what it feels like

   To have the new mayor

   Hang out with Jay-Z

   And plan a giant concert

   In your council district.

You do not know what it is like

   To have a consensual relationship

   With Francine Godoy

   And to get sued

   Because of it.

Why me?

Yet, despite all of this,

You do not know what it is like

   To know that

   You will still skate to a third term

In next March’s election.

Maybe me isn’t so bad.  

........, did Huizar mention that he went to Princeton in that long-wind rant?   

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

Scott Johnson in CD 14