tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post9009649089719446273..comments2024-01-13T00:27:20.813-08:00Comments on Mayor Sam's Sister City - Home of Los Angeles Politics: Krekorian Announces Endorsement by Mary Benson on Kevin James ShowMayor Samhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16280670018437708708noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-36613758249454487142009-10-31T12:01:03.005-07:002009-10-31T12:01:03.005-07:00Essel should have kept to her initial instincts an...Essel should have kept to her initial instincts and never gone on the show. Many of you are saying that just going on after James made fun of her with her own chicken soundtrack for months, showed she felt she needed to out of weakness, so she was cooked before she went. Shallman used James for his side with John Thomas who James respects very highly, but without Thomas and a Republican candidate who hates the mayor as much as they do, James has no loyalty to Shallman or his candidates. In fact James' whole strategy is to ferret out who's most likely to work against the mayor and slant in their favor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-44029098252162381902009-10-31T09:45:16.652-07:002009-10-31T09:45:16.652-07:00Re: Friday's radio debate: Essel was a nervou...Re: Friday's radio debate: Essel was a nervous wreck. She sounded like she was reading from a script (especially in the beginning). <br /><br />Here's what I keep thinking - how she said that she was "...never an advocate of SB1818..." yet she felt strong enough about it to put her name to a Central City newsletter. And this is a lady voters are going to trust to not backpedal on them? Spread the word. Essel can't be trusted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-4233762346247359132009-10-31T08:18:04.118-07:002009-10-31T08:18:04.118-07:00I agree with Rita, Kevin was totally fair and hand...I agree with Rita, Kevin was totally fair and handled the debate quite well. Of course everyone who lives on this blog is going to be listening and calling and they know the phone numbers (plus they're also on their website).<br /><br />Phil I think you have to accept that Essel was clearly shaken by the earlier news that Tamar had endorsed Paul and even more so when Paul dropped the bomb that Mary was supporting him. I don't blame her, I probably would be upset too. It threw her off her game and for the most part her performance was awful.<br /><br />You certainly can't blame Kevin or even Hacopian for that!Michael Higbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03229225335109401795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-52498207410809301382009-10-31T08:08:20.187-07:002009-10-31T08:08:20.187-07:00Don't forget about us over the hill that are p...Don't forget about us over the hill that are pulling for Paul. We're so fed up with the bastards in city hall we will help support Paul cause he's not a lapdog to Mayor or the idiots on city council. What a bunch of corrupt fools? Everyone is blasting them for yesterday's diaster and giving DWP thugs a raise and nothing for COPS. How screwed up is that? Those morons on council are the most hated in this city. There isn't one NC or group I know of that respects them. Let's get them recalled as a whole.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-49290985060786140772009-10-31T04:47:57.615-07:002009-10-31T04:47:57.615-07:00Phil-- Whaddaya mean "the show was a set-up f...Phil-- Whaddaya mean "the show was a set-up far as the call-ins go." I called in right B4 the caller Q&A, gave the screener my question and eventually got on-- there was no pre-planned set-up of questions AT ALL. Kevin doesn't work that way. And I think the Q&A further proved BOTH candidates' elitist, PC, self-serving agenda as well as their sheer ineptitude and mutual contempt for each other. "Both looking for houses in CD2"-- MY ASS!! Why don't they move in together and start a new reality TV show-- "Paul and Chris Plus Hate!" Sounds like a hit.mary whoopeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12605272738519195385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-80903580846596747622009-10-31T02:41:51.625-07:002009-10-31T02:41:51.625-07:00Well 11:50 PM,
We girls like to say it like this:...Well 11:50 PM,<br /><br />We girls like to say it like this: Councilmember Krekorian!<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />A Valley GirlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-40188701624419621872009-10-31T02:31:42.727-07:002009-10-31T02:31:42.727-07:00Of course. I knew she would. Nobody in their right...Of course. I knew she would. Nobody in their right mind (think Sheftel) would vote for or endorse Essel.<br /><br />Thanks Mary for going public. Now don't go rogue on us. Oh wait. You already did... ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-24994783394748127992009-10-31T00:07:28.867-07:002009-10-31T00:07:28.867-07:00I am sure the attacks on Mary are being prepared n...I am sure the attacks on Mary are being prepared now by the Essel folks.<br /><br />They are very consistent in their stupidity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-34946873657000576792009-10-31T00:05:58.961-07:002009-10-31T00:05:58.961-07:00Kevin James and Higby break more stories than the ...Kevin James and Higby break more stories than the LA Times.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-27518484504216453592009-10-31T00:04:45.146-07:002009-10-31T00:04:45.146-07:00From griffithparkwayist
Ouch
John Shallman'...From griffithparkwayist<br /><br />Ouch<br /><br /><br /><br />John Shallman's strategy over these past few months to get Chris Essel a nice job with a nice salary has been fairly cynical at best.<br /><br />First, he has his candidate denounce Kevin James as a racist so she could opt out of a debate before the primary (by the way, she'll be appearing on his show at 9 p.m. tonight after a sudden change of heart indicating she knows how far down she is).<br /><br />Then, in a move that looked like pure desperation to many observers, sniffing an opportunity to racially polarize the district at the expense of its considerable but minoritized Armenian population, he gave Essel the green light to attend a fundraiser hosted by folks with ties to pro Turkish causes.<br /><br />And now for the jewel in his princess's tiara...<br /><br />John Shallman tries to claw the eyes out of former opponent Tamar Galatzan on Chris Essel's behalf.<br /><br /> “Christine Essel never asked for Tamar Galatzan’s endorsement. Instead, she asked her to think about supporting a plan to break up the largest and most dysfunctional school district in America,” Essel spokesman John Shallman said. “Unfortunately, Tamar wouldn’t even consider it. Now she’s trying to protect the bloated LAUSD bureaucracy by issuing a political endorsement of a fellow professional politician who opposes district reform.” <br /><br /><br />What any of this has to do with the race in CD2 is very hard to understand, especially in the context of Chris Essel's inability even to name a single school in the District at a pre-primary debate.<br /><br />Originally a City Hall denizen who found favor among both Liberals and Lite Republicans like his former client Bob Hertzberg, Shallman was always held at arm's length by City Hall subsequent to 2005, and outraged the city when he put Laura Chick's name on a Meausre R (term limits extention) support flyer in 2006---a measure Chick in fact opposed. Then he found a Republican rehab project in Long Beach named Carmen Trutanich and won a race in which Trutanich crusaded against City Hall--with the considerable help of John Thomas, a kind of right-wing Mike Trujillo wunderkind whose family is well connected to Republicans and also development money. (Unfortunately for the city, Trutanich forgot how to stop crusading against City Hall once he occupied it; like a punchdrunk boxer, he kept throwing uppercuts at Shallman's phantoms long after his manager left ringside.)<br /><br />Now Shallman has found a new bottom with the Essel campaign--and fairly blown Essel's chances of a comeback in a single bitter press release. Once thinking that the vote would split favorably along gender lines for whoever came out on top between Essel and Tamar Galatzan, Shallman, on hearing that the other woman in the race has endorsed Essel's opponent, now digs in and attacks the one endorsement his candidate needed to have a chance at victory.<br /><br />Shallman--who describes himself at Facebook as a political "liberal" and describes his religious views as "Jewish - conservative"--has always shied away from selling his candidates as cerebral people; it's the one persistent theme of his ideas on positioning. Hertzberg came off as a huggable lug in 2005--a lug definitely something he is not--and Trutanich of course came across as a street-wise lug whose lack of wisdom was masked to prospective endorsers by slick leave-behinds. But the aw-shucks style appears to be most at odds with Essel, who is indeed a bright and cerebral candidate, but hasn't had much opportunity to show it in the campaign, and has even been fairly stifled by Shallman, whom she is beholden to because of her campaign inexperience.<br /><br />One political consultant told yours truly of Shallman: "He doesn't seem to want to kill it like most managers do. He seems to want to do the worst while he hopes for the best and just barely make it across the finish line." It's now very doubtful that Essel will make it across, even though she has nearly twice as much money as her opponent Paul Krekorian does.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-34937278432164969322009-10-30T23:58:54.918-07:002009-10-30T23:58:54.918-07:00Read 10:49 a few times.
It gets funnier every tim...Read 10:49 a few times.<br /><br />It gets funnier every time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-65034211153597130542009-10-30T23:57:04.169-07:002009-10-30T23:57:04.169-07:00I voted for Mary in September, i wish she was in t...I voted for Mary in September, i wish she was in the runoff.<br /><br />But at this point i think Paul has to be the one. Essel is associated with all the wrong people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-38110657241832709942009-10-30T23:54:56.373-07:002009-10-30T23:54:56.373-07:00There is going to be a whole bunch of pissed off l...There is going to be a whole bunch of pissed off lobbyists on December 9th.<br /><br />All their money down the Essel rat hole.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-52428475477826969212009-10-30T23:53:29.186-07:002009-10-30T23:53:29.186-07:00So Paul has got Tamar and Benson.
And Essel has t...So Paul has got Tamar and Benson.<br /><br />And Essel has the homeless guy, willy wonka and the Italian guy who kept saying he does not know anything.<br /><br />Gee, i wonder who will win this race.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-1195963882302738892009-10-30T23:51:21.193-07:002009-10-30T23:51:21.193-07:00Pete Sanchez will be the next one to endorse Kreko...Pete Sanchez will be the next one to endorse Krekorian.<br /><br />You heard it here first folks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-87909567339485677322009-10-30T23:50:25.943-07:002009-10-30T23:50:25.943-07:00How do you say Councilman Krekorian.How do you say Councilman Krekorian.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-35149067903403484882009-10-30T23:49:57.525-07:002009-10-30T23:49:57.525-07:00Essel's folks where thinking they would spend ...Essel's folks where thinking they would spend the day bragging about the money they raised.<br /><br />Instead their whole campaign is falling apart, with one dumb decision following the next.<br /><br />Krekorian is playing them like a fiddle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-66549830363887304602009-10-30T23:47:58.970-07:002009-10-30T23:47:58.970-07:0010:49
Is a classic.
Just had it e-mailed to me....10:49<br /><br />Is a classic. <br /><br />Just had it e-mailed to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-26437122776104946062009-10-30T23:29:42.820-07:002009-10-30T23:29:42.820-07:00Wonder what AV is thinking now.
Plenty of folks m...Wonder what AV is thinking now.<br /><br />Plenty of folks must be getting yelled at right now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-26744067301770907022009-10-30T23:28:16.221-07:002009-10-30T23:28:16.221-07:00Benson is really beloved as a person who cares abo...Benson is really beloved as a person who cares about her community.<br /><br />All spin aside she is a great lady.<br /><br />I hope she can get Krekorian to pay attention to ST issues that Wendy has ignored for so long.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-14722186788742386072009-10-30T23:26:06.805-07:002009-10-30T23:26:06.805-07:00I am for Essel but 10:49 is funny.
Higby: I think...I am for Essel but 10:49 is funny.<br /><br />Higby: I think you got Jon Stewart posting on your site.<br /><br />My compliments.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-57671422092637458202009-10-30T23:24:43.469-07:002009-10-30T23:24:43.469-07:00Just got my third e-mail about this story. Its rea...Just got my third e-mail about this story. Its really getting around.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-50241677670313676502009-10-30T23:24:40.487-07:002009-10-30T23:24:40.487-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Red Spot in CD 14https://www.blogger.com/profile/16316184170326732280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-25371667904286640682009-10-30T23:24:39.719-07:002009-10-30T23:24:39.719-07:00Michael,
10:49 was "Parqueish" in quali...Michael,<br /><br />10:49 was "Parqueish" in quality and deserves its own post.Red Spot in CD 14https://www.blogger.com/profile/16316184170326732280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826939.post-59605581599567358872009-10-30T23:23:37.943-07:002009-10-30T23:23:37.943-07:00MS, Please send Phil to the cornfield.MS, Please send Phil to the cornfield.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com