The Los Angeles Business Journal endorses Eric Garcetti for Mayor

The Los Angeles Business Journal endorses Eric Garcetti for Mayor, prompting a certain former Mayor Sam Blogger to go over into a bloggin, deep spin spiral of denial.

Eric Garcetti's political tune while not perfect, is garnering more endorsements.

** Blogger's note: We want to thank the male member of the soon to be "Dialogs with Kevin (James) and Jan (Perry) Talk Radio Duo" (debuting maybe tomorrow or Wednesday on KABC 790 AM at 9 A.M.), for forwarding us a copy of the Los Angeles Business Journal Endorsement of Eric Garcetti for Mayor. We will cut and paste the editorial in whole below. Meanwhile one of our former bloggin colleagues Michael "MEAT/ Chief Parker" Trujillo is seeing some wierd political images these days, based upon his comments regarding the LABJ endorsement of Garcetti. From "MEAT's Facebook Page ..........

Michael Trujillo3 hours ago near Los Angeles

Eric Garcetti was endorsed by the Los Angeles Business Journal, hurray! Until you read their endorsement: "We call on the next mayor to stop, and perhaps even reverse, the city’s union activism that has so marked recent years."
So now it is all making sense, while Wal-Mart and Big Oil are supporting one of Eric Garcetti's IE, the other one has a lot of "polluters" supporting Eric Garcetti now. #isthisprogress?

All we can say to the above rant is "Que?" But we can understand if "MEAT", at this late campaign moment, is starting now to suffer bouts of denial over the looming defeat of Mayor Antonio's "Villar Greuel" But rest assure MEAT, there is always Hillary in 2016, but then some State Department Whistleblowers may put a end to that pipe dream come Wednesday----Scott Johnson.

As MEAT cringes in denial, you can read the LABJ Endorsement of Eric Garcetti below.

Garcetti for Mayor

By Charles Crumpley Monday, May 6, 2013

The two candidates for mayor of Los Angeles are much alike. Both Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel are lifelong Angelenos. Both are liberal Democrats. Both have more than 10 years’ experience at City Hall.

But there’s one issue that separates them. And it’s a crucial one for the business community. That’s the backing of labor unions.

Greuel has such enormous financial support from unions that it is unsettling. For example, an insightful analysis in the Los Angeles Times a week ago showed that of all so-called super-PAC donations made to both candidates, close to 60 percent was from organized labor and was given to support Greuel.

The whopping mismatch does more than make a bad impression: It creates the expectation that Greuel would not – could not – act as an effective brake on the runaway power of unions in Los Angeles.

It’s a pity. Greuel is knowledgeable and articulate, and our sense is that she’d be a good and effective spokeswoman for the city. But by so openly seeking help and money from unions, she’s made it difficult for us to support her.

To be clear, the Business Journal is not anti-union. Labor unions serve an important and necessary role. In past decades, they got decent working conditions and wages for aggrieved workers, and today unions serve as an effective deterrent to any rapacious impulses of employers. At their best, unions act as a counterweight to maintain a wary balance between employers and employees. America needs sturdy unions.

Our concern is that the pendulum of power has swung alarmingly in labor’s favor in Los Angeles and throughout most of California. Public-sector unions with their featherbedded jobs, relatively high wages, early retirements and lavish pensions have bankrupted a few cities in the state and are a big contributor to the financial distress of Los Angeles. Instead of making difficult but necessary fiduciary choices, the city’s political “leaders” seem perfectly happy to shovel more of the taxpayers’ dollars to unions to pay them off and to keep their contributions flowing back to City Hall. ** Read the rest after the jump.

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Morning Briefs on the Los Angeles Political Machine for Tuesday

A Better Way LA IE PAC in support of Kevin James gets $200,000 Cash Infusion.

Mayoral Candidate Kevin James.

Morning Briefs on the Los Angeles Political Machine for Monday

Great late morning as our usual political briefs become nearly a mid-day aggregation of election news.

** The Better Way LA PAC in support of Mayoral Candidate Kevin James, has been blessed with another $200,000 donation as Election Day looms on week from today. Thus, ensuring that the reform massage of Kevin James, is broadcast loud and clear.Meanwhile, this political music video should offer a compelling reason to vote "Jamezzzz"

 Kevin James Music Video

** As the Old Gray Collectivist Hag on Spring Street points out, the Jan Perry Campaign has done the best job of dispensing mailers to perspective voters. Lets make no doubt here that Perry Campaign Political Consultant Eric Hacopian, has done the best job by far of stretching campaign dollars into effective mail box pieces.

** The candidates seeking to replace termed-out CD 1 City Councilman Ed Reyes, gather one last time at Lincoln Heights Sacred Heart Church to debates the issues as Election Day nears. Going negative was Jose Gardea, who accused Gil Cedillo of being a shill for Wal Mart and Chevron Oil. Cedillo politely shrugged of the attacks, in mostly a mundane affair.

** As City Attorney Carmen Trutanich and his challengers wrapped up a series of contentious, animated debates, Nuch has released his first TV ad as he seeks to offset the monetary and Special interests advantage of Mike Feuer. Challenger Greg (not Greig) Smith picked up the endorsement of the “Valley Daily Moldy Green Sheet” (aka Daily News).

....... and Bet Tzedek has hundreds of attorneys.

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

Morning Briefs on the Los Angeles Political Machine for Thursday

Los Angeles Mayoral Candidate City Controller Wendy "The Valley Villar Greuel", goes negative with "liar attacks" against Garcetti, Perry and James.

City Controller Wendy "The Valley Villar Greuel".

Oh My God!! 

The "Valley Villar Greuel" totally attempted to gag her three mayoral opponents by calling them liars.

After weeks of seeing her tired talking points of "Waste, Fraud and Abuse" face factual deconstructing by the old, new media, along with her opponents, the Villar Greuel (along with "Private Citizen/ Campaign Consultant" John Shallman), snapped yesterday.

The Villar Greuel Campaign went "Pinocchilo" in an attack mailer on opponents Eric Garcetti and Jan Perry which resulted in this retort from Perry Campaign Consultant Eric Hacopian.

“The only thing revealing about this mailer is that they just confirmed to the world which candidate is in third place,” he said in an email.

Meanwhile, another of the "Valley Villar Greuel's" opponents Kevin James held a press conference in the shadow of City Hall.

James, a former federal prosecutor, opened a new line of attack against Greuel, saying she was stonewalling in responding to a public records act request for her email with campaign advisors and Brian D’Arcy, business manager of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 18.The union, which represents more than 8,600 Department of Water and Power employees, has put $700,000 into an independent committee backing Greuel.“What do they have to hide?” James asked reporters outside City Hall. “Where are the documents?”At a morning campaign stop in Studio City, Greuel said she would need to ask her city staff whether any email between her and D’Arcy existed on her city account. But she denied stalling any response to records requests.“We’re transparent,” she said. 

Oh Plez! Gag the "Valley Villar Greuel" for good (politically) on Election Day.

** LA Weekly's Patrick Range McDonald has two election-theme missives in this week's print edition. First, is an attempted unscrambling of all the candidates in the crowded CD 13 Campaign to replace Mayoral Candidate Eric Garcetti. Second, is an excellent feature story on the Emanuel Pleitez for Mayor Campaign. Regardless of the fact that Pleitez is not given much of a chance at winning. the mere telling of his life experience is an inspiration for those growing up in similar circumstances.

** KPCC Frank Stoltze provides a written narrative on the ongoing battle between the Villar Greuel for Mayor Campaign and the Los Cerritos News duo of Randy Economy/ Brian Hews. Some of the nasty exchanges.

“This is very strange behavior from someone who claims to run a tight ship,” Hews said online.  “She claims to be the city’s chief auditor, but a review of her record shows she’s really just L.A.’s chief campaigner.”Earlier, the LCCN obtained records of Greuel’s schedule that the paper said was evidence Greuel's controller's office staff illegally worked on her political campaign on city time. Greuel said they were off the city clock at the time.The Greuel campaign also hit back at the newspaper by obtaining and releasing the arrest record of the reporter who did the story.“It was the lowest of the low,” Hews said. "This was a split-second decision that turned out to be an error on our part,” Greuel spokesman Dave Jacobson said.  “Distributing materials highlighting someone’s substance abuse was a mistake."  It's worth noting it takes more than a split second to obtain and distribute an arrest record.

....... and it won't take that much longer to Vote for Kevin James on Election Day.

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

Jan Perry, not Wendy Greuel, is the African-American Candidate for Mayor

Maxine says: Vote for JAN, not
the Valley Greuel!!

Just as Wendy the Pixie was trying to channel the late Mayor Tom Bradley to endorse her campaign, on a double dip historic day of the first African-American President in history (other than Bill Clinton, another FOW {friend of wendy}) being inagurated to his second term on the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., candidate for Mayor Jan Perry wants you to remember she is the real deal. Read more...

Dear Friends,

I was deeply moved to witness President Barack Obama’s swearing in as the President of the United States. It is fitting that it has taken place on the day we commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Both men have had a profound impact on our nation. Both men have asked us to seize the opportunity that America offers and work together to fully realize our potential.

Growing up my mother often shared her experience about taking the bus from Ohio to attend Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. President Obama is right to remind us that working together will make us stronger.

I am honored to have received Congresswoman Maxine Waters’ endorsement. She has been a champion for the people who need our help the most – people living in poverty, veterans, the elderly, and minorities.

I want to honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and build a Los Angeles that leaves no one behind, where all voices are heard and respected. Working together with community leaders, stakeholders and elected officials like Congresswoman Maxine Waters I know that we can build a city that works for all Angelenos.

Sincerely,
Jan Perry

Many of us abhor racial and identity politics. That being said, Jan Perry at least has the honest narrative of personal experience, as opposed to Wendy Greuel who grew up in a pasty white Republican west valley home. And now Wendy wants to throw open the doors of a headquarters in South LA with choruses of "We Shall Overcome." How utterly sickening. 

Breaking News!! Councilwoman Perry states "Wesson is Right!!"

We bring you this rare moment of agreement with video background from 2013 Mayoral Candidate/CD 9 City Councilwoman Jan Perry and City Council President Herb Wesson. 

City Council President Herb Wesson, "the sole protector of  self in the African-American Community.

Dear Friends,

There’s an important story in the Los Angeles Times today about redistricting. Council President Herb Wesson, in the article, notes that there are different factions facing each other at City Hall.  I agree.

There are indeed two distinct factions at play in City Hall, one that fights for the insiders and power brokers and the other that fights for the average Angeleno.

Mr. Wesson and his friends on the Council have done an amazing job protecting the powerful and fighting for their own interests, while systematically betraying the residents of Los Angeles along the way.

The second faction, the one I’m proud to be a part of, fights for the average citizen whose voice is routinely shut out of our political process and who has no voice on how our city is governed. 

I hope you’ll read the story and join me in our fight to make Los Angeles work for us once again.

Sincerely,

Jan Perry

...... and this on the possible future reconciliation between Wesson and Parks/ Perry via Herb.

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

Scott Johnson in CD 14