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This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I'm an ex-mayor. Los Angeles is a magnet for people from all over the world. Some of them run for public office. Inevitably some of them stray from the golden rule and rule for those that have the gold. That's when I go to work. My name is Yorty. I'm a dead pol.

Friday, February 20, 2015

TGIF Briefs on the Los Angeles Political Machine

After multitudes of interviews with the double-digit amount of candidates seeking to replace termed-out CD 4 City Councilman Tom LaBonge, the Los Angeles Times endorses former Councilman LaBonge Staffer, turned Small Business Owner Sheila Irani.

The LA Times Endorses Sheila Irani for City Council District Four.

CD 4 Candidate Steve Veres, staffer of self-crowning, California State Senate President Pro Tem "Kevin de Leon the First", did not even merit "creditable mention" in the Time's CD 4 Editorial.

Here is some papers that CD 4 City Council Candidate Sheila Irani wouldn't mind being served with.

In the much awaited LA Times Endorsement for the City Council District Four Open Seat, the Editorial Board sat through multiple interviews before bestowing its coveted support for the former Councilman LaBonge staffer, turned Small Business Owner.

The Times states of Irani ........., "Irani is intelligent, quick on her feet and has a background in business, real estate investment, city government and volunteer community work, all of which would serve her well on the council. Armed with an MBA from UCLA, she launched a small marketing business that helped public-sector clients across the country promote congestion-easing transportation initiatives. She has a sense of the hurdles faced by small-business owners in L.A. Like most of the candidates in the race, she favors business tax relief, although she's not willing to drain the city budget to do it".

Surprising in the Times Editorial is the lack of "creditable status" given to the top two money candidates David Ryu and especially in the case of Steve Veres, the Staffer to self-crowning political royalty California State Senate President Pro Tem "Kevin de Leon the First".

Apparently, the Establishment Machine's Candidate Veres, did not impress the Editorial Board with his creative scheme of securing free help from "Private Citizen/Volunteer Campaign Consultant" John Shallman before wife Lani's "West Coast Public Affairs" started during work for the IE Campaign (with undisclosed benefactors), supporting his campaign.

** CD 14 City Councilman Jose Huizar took time out of his b-u-s-y campaign schedule to host his first El Sereno Townhall Meeting in recent times at Farmdale Elementary. With the usual assortment of cronies such as Hugo "Comandante" Garcia, Eddie "paid for Honorary Mayor" Santillan, Joe "noted Corner Store imbiber" Cano and Tammy "Maytag" Membreno in attendance, roughly 60-75 Stakeholders (with about 20 Huizar staffers filling the seats), spent about 90 minutes discussing community issues (well ...., mostly Cal Trans related).

Labels: 2015 CD 4 Campaign, CD 14 Discretionary Funds, CD 4 City Councilman Tom LaBonge, CD 4 Discretionary Funds, jack humphreville, LA Times Endorsement, sheila irani, Tony Butka

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Mayor Sam Exclusive, Part Three: The CD 14 Real Property Trust Fund from FY 04 to Present

In Part Three of our Mayor Sam Exclusive on the various Discretionary Funds of CD 14, we disclose the revenues and allocations from the Real Property Trust Fund and Oil Pipeline Franchise Fees, from FY 04 to Present.

Here is $50,000 dollars in fiscal trimmings for the Barrio Action Youth and Family Center (as authorize by then Councilman Villar in 2004).

** Blogger's Note: In the last of our Three Part Report on the CD 14 Discretionary Funds, we disclose the information pertaining to revenue and allocations from the Real Property Trust Fund and Oil Pipeline Franchise Fees from the 2004 Fiscal Year to Present. These funds, in addition to the Exclusive $100,000 Discretionary Fund given to each Councilperson, were the primary source for dispensing Patronage for then Councilman Antonio Villar in 2004 (as noted on the Page 1 data), before the CLARTS Fund started producing revenue. However in 2010, then Mayor Antonio Villar crafted an agreement with the City Council to have each member within the Horseshoe give up $800,000 from these funds, to make an emergency deposit into the city's Reserve Fund during the dark days of the Recession. Thus, limiting the availability of these funds being use for projects/patronage---Scott Johnson.

** Part One of our Mayor Sam Exclusive: CD 14 CLARTS FUND Full Disclosure ....., from FY 04 to Present.

** Part Two of our Mayor Sam Exclusive: Disclosure of CD 14 General City Purposes Funds Allocations from 2008 to Present