Morning Briefs on the Los Angeles Political Machine for Hump Day

Our Morning Briefs for Hump Day BREAKS NO RIBS in offering up this gentle update regarding Assemblyman Matt Dababneh's proclivities to cross party lines in seeking "interactions in the course of dialog (broad terms)".

Noted Sacramento "Cross Party Lines Engager" 45th AD Assemblyman Matt Dababneh.

Do Redheads ribs break easier than Blondes or Brunettes, allegedly?

Note to 45th Assembly District Assemblyman Matt "former Shermanator" Dababneh, your proclivities to seek out "cross party lines interactions in the course of dialog" is all the rage among your fellow West San Fernando Valley Democratic Party Activists.

Whether your "interactions" were with fellow Democrats, Republicans, Blondes, Brunettes or a Red Head (wink, wink), the amount of emails and blog-stimulating "Clickety Clicks" compel us to put on our journalistic hatin seeking out comment for attribution.

For the record, we made a series of phone calls to a certain Republican Assembly Member Office (initials B.M.) to seek confirmation whether the basis for fellow "Shermanator", now 43 AD Assemblyman "Slobo Mikey" Gatto's "BREAK A RIB HAZING", had to do with Assemblyman Dababneh's "interactions" with a staffer.

As of this morning, no comment has been forthcoming ........., maybe the same course of action, that should of been taken by Assemblyman Gatto, in uttering his locker room jock talk that demeans women, allegedly?

** As the tragic saga of Ferguson, Missouri continues its grip on both Old and New Media, LAPD Officer and Professor of Homeland Security at Colorado Tech University Sunil Dutta, keyboards an Op Ed as self, printed in the Washington Post regarding the Officer-involved shooting of Michael Brown from a "blunt cop perspective" as excerpted below .........

Even though it might sound harsh and impolitic, here is the bottom line: if you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. Don’t argue with me, don’t call me names, don’t tell me that I can’t stop you, don’t say I’m a racist pig, don’t threaten that you’ll sue me and take away my badge. Don’t scream at me that you pay my salary, and don’t even think of aggressively walking towards me. Most field stops are complete in minutes. How difficult is it to cooperate for that long?

** LAPD Chief Charlie Beck is dealing with his LA version of Ferguson via the officer-involved shooting of Ezell Ford as he faces the community's wrath over the death of the mentally-ill man. Chief Beck is strictly limiting releasing information on the incident as the department seeks for testimony from eyewitnesses.

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

Scott Johnson in CD 14