Morning Briefs on the Los Angeles Political Machine for Thursday

The reality of life at California State Universities under Governor Moonbeam II's Administration .....

NO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS ALLOW IN GRAD SCHOOL!!

Is this a scare tactic to get Californians to pass Governor Moonbeam II's Prop 30 and raise taxes? You decide. From the Daily News .......

California residents and taxpayers who support California State University are barred from applying for graduate studies this spring because of steep budget cuts.But the door is wide open at Cal State Northridge and other CSU campuses for foreign and out-of-state students - cash in hand."The policy is not one that I embrace," said Harry Hellenbrand, provost of California State University, Northridge. "(But) at the moment, we are" accepting applications."The reason is: These students pay for themselves. But there's still an equity issue. We would love to accept resident students, but CSU says the state is unable to fund them." 

This policy of excluding in state residents was to remain confidential, but thanks to a Northern California CSU Professor of Biology Maria Nieto, this issue has become a liability for Governor Moonbeam II's efforts to pass Prop 30 in November. Nieto states ........

"We either take both kinds of students - or none," declared Maria Nieto, a Cal State East Bay biology professor and coordinator of her department grad studies."It's discriminating," said the professor, a Los Angeles native and teacher of 23 years, of the current university policy. "I'm appalled. It goes against our CSU mission - to educate California residents."Out of state students are welcome. International students are are welcome. Diversity is welcome, is important, but you don't exclude California residents."

For the record, Nieto is the daughter of retire Parole Officer and local law enforcement activist Caroline Aguirre.
** OTHER NEWS:

** On the subject of fiscal reckoning, former Mayor Richard Riordan and the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce have once again, sounded the alarm for pension reform at 200 Spring Street. In their call for a ballot initiative to let the public decide where to cap pension, the duo has done a public service in broaching this critical issue.

** What is becoming of the now former "Weekly of Record"? When not engage as the "Weedleaf of Record Message Board" for the pot heads, whoops, the infirm in need of Medical Marijuana, its has morphed into the "Daily, Fact Devoid, Hatchet Job of Record". This weeks recipients of journalistic agenda hatchet missives include the "Non-starter Mayoral Candidate Kevin James", "the liar and pledge breaker, former District Attorney Candidate Carmen Trutanich" and a "power-clinging CD 8 City Councilman Bernard Parks". There is a rumor that longtime South LA practitioner of "Yellow Journalism" Betty Pleasant has become a "fact checker" at the "Daily, Fact Devoid, Hatchet Job of Record", but I would not want to be labeled a "tard" in attributing that rumor as fact.

** Speaking of Betty, its time for "ANOTHER SOULVINE THURSDAY"!!

** Please note that Betty and the scribes at the LA Wave Newspaper, now require you to create an account to view the weekly missives from Betty, on current South LA issues (fact check pending).

In this weeks installment, Betty, via transit activist Damien Goodman, have the eagle eye on future transportation dollars ...........

ERROR! ERROR! — Eagle-eye Damien Goodmon, chairman of the Crenshaw Subway Coalition, is a keeper. He noted that the informational pamphlet regarding the sales tax extension the county plans to distribute to voters to encourage them to increase their taxes to fund several rail projects had a glaring error in it. The county hopes to raise $90 billion by a tax increase approved by voters in the November election. The public information pamphlet lists the beneficiaries of the additional funds to be seven transit projects, including the Crenshaw Transit Corridor. But this is not true. Almost every project is scheduled to receive funding from the tax increase except the Crenshaw Transit Corridor. Not one red cent of that money will be used for the transit project affecting the county’s largest concentration of African-Americans. The money will be used on projects in the San Fernando Valley, the Westside, the Eastside, the South Bay and even West Santa Ana. But not along Crenshaw. Almost every official in the country has been alerted to this error Damien found and we’re told it’s being fixed so the public information soliciting your vote to increase your taxes will truthfully reflect what you’re paying for.

Your thoughts ..............
Scott Johnson in CD 14

Morning Briefs (or bong puffs for "LA Weedleaf" readers) on the Los Angeles Political Machine for Hump Day

What is in Dennis Romero's bong water at the "LA Weedleaf of Record" (aka LA Weekly)? Does it cause journalistic bouts of lethargic professionalism, rooted in error-based missives, loaded with agenda-styled cliques? But then I would be a practitioner of the Dennis Romero brand of journalism that predicates ideological attacks before reporting the facts, in assuming Romero's latest journalistic malpractice was "bong water based".

According to the "LA Weedleaf's" Dennis "Blog Comandante" Romero in the first paragraph of his latest missive of journalistic malpractice, 2013 Mayoral Candidate Kevin James is a "Gay Republican candidate for mayor who has no shot of becoming leader of Los Angeles (LA) City Hall"....... and the agenda-driven hatchet job is on.

But credit must be given to those who's follow up comments in defense of James, produces this moment of inner-sensitivity (and maybe the root reason for Dennis agenda missive)  from the "Bloggin Comandante".

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 dennisromerosucks So, uh, your argument is that I don't have any facts therefore my facts are wrong? I'll tell you what. My aim in baiting tards like you with this piece worked. Happy commenting.

....... wonder if Dennis would care to elaborate on what type of tards he was baiting (if that was the basis for this hatchet job, then editorial intervention is needed ASAP), but again channeling the agenda-driven, assumptive inner-persona of the "Bloggin Comandante", tards would be white conservatives. But that is not based in facts, right Dennis?

** OTHER NEWS:

** They came from both ends of the political spectrum, labor lefties and business conservatives, but at the end of the PLUM day, PLUM Committee Chair/CD 1 City Councilman Ed Reyes put off a vote on the Chinatown Walmart ICO pending technical review.

** We must credit our bloggin CD 15 friend Councilman Joe "Above Average City Councilman" Buscaino for keeping his promise and removing the business-chasing parking meters from the streets in his district. BTW Joe, we have your back if Herb flips on you ; ).

** What if the world-renowned California University System only allowed foreigners and out of state students into its taxpayer-financed Graduate School Programs. Well that day is here and it could have major ramifications for Governor Jerry Brown proposed tax increase on the November ballot.

** Lastly, the Downtown News Editor and "Scribe of Wit" Jon Regardie has penned his latest "Regardie Report". His latest missive is money based, as in the money raised by the various candidates for the upcoming 2013 Municipal Elections. But as I reviewed the "Scribe of Wit's report, I was left wanting for fiscal commentary on the Mayoral Candidate Kevin James Campaign, none could be found. But then this monetary summery is just that, a report on money raised and not how a campaign dollar is stretched by a fiscally-lean campaign team ..... or in Consultant John Shallman case, how fast you spend it. Right Nuch?

Your thoughts ..............
Scott Johnson in CD 14