Morning Briefs on the Los Angeles Political Machine for Tuesday

The backlash continues to grow against CD 1 City Clowncil Central Committee Member Gil "Broken Deal Cedillo" as longtime Cypress Park Community Activist Art Pulido (wearing cap below) is the latest to take umbrage over alleged Backroom Dealings of Clowncil Member Cedillo and staff.

From ardent campaign supporter to ...........

........., calling out "Broken Deal Cedillo" in writing, over alleged Back Room Deal involving the Cypress Park Community Center and Connected Non-Profit El Centro del Pueblo's Executive Director Sandra Figueroa-Villa.

Its Tuesday and the backlash grows against CD 1 City Clowncil Central Committee Member Gil "Broken Deal Cedillo".

Longtime Cypress Park based Political Activist Art Pulido is the latest to go public in stating their discontent with "Broken Deal Cedillo" and staff.

Pulido's grievance against Cedillo is centered on the selection of an established Community Based Organization to provide services out of the Cypress Park Community Center. Contrary to the wishes of the community, "Broken Deal Cedillo's staff has offer the use of the facility to the Echo Park Connected Non Profit El Centro del Pueblo, headed up by Mayor Garcetti-appointed Police Commissioner Sandra Figueroa-Villa.

It should be noted that "Broken Deal Cedillo Staffer Conrado Terrazas is a member of the Board of Directors for El Centro del Pueblo which has prompted allegations of Conflict of Interest to be leveled against Terrazas by those in and around the Cypress Park Community.

The fact that Pulido has put his allegations in writing is a dire sign of growing discontent.

** Former Pulido workout buddy, turned past Failure Mayor Antonio "Tony" Villar recently returned from Israel with ex New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in a show of support for the besieged Jewish State. Villar then signed his name to a ghost opinion missive in the Orange County Register that called upon the State Department to lifted the FAA Ban on US Airline flights to Israel. 

** LA Wave Newspaper Columnist Betty Pleasant launched a "Written Missive of Disclosure" (WMD) that chronicles LA County Board of Supervisor Mark "Home Renovation-Thomas puppet LAUSD District One School Board Candidate Alex Johnson's ceaseless, vile attacks against Lauded Educator and Challenger George McKenna. 

** Ron Kaye notes at City Watch that after 30 years within the Los Angeles Political Machine, no one should be surprise how former CD 2/7 City Clowncil Central Committee Member Richard AlarCON met his political demise in a LA Courtroom.

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

Scott Johnson in CD 14

QUETZAL on the "COUNCILMAN LAST SEEN PIMPING THE BARRIO AS JOSE HUIZAR"

Can we all just learn to get along in this world ??

We were alerted to this , and will post it here.

Chicano Music Group Boycotts Israel Consulate Concert

By Will

Quetzal

, an East Los Angeles-based group, turned down an invitation to perform at a May 17 concert ("Fiesta Shalom" - seriously) designed to improve Latino-Jewish relations because it was sponsored by the Israeli consulate. The band issued the following statement.

To Whom It May Concern:

Quetzal will not be performing at the Fiesta Shalom on May 17th. When first presented with this performance, it was presented as “an opportunity to improve Jewish and Chicano relations”, which we are certainly in accordance with. When we received the contract, we noticed it was sponsored by the Israeli Consulate. For Quetzal to perform for the Israeli Consulate would mean that we ignore the following:

• Decades of zionist occupation of Palestinian lands and the historically ironic holocaustic genocide of the Palestinian people

• The Israeli/US relationship that has permitted the creation of “permanent” war against people throughout the world.

• Decades of Chican@ solidarity with the Palestinian people and their struggle for Self-determination.

• Decades of solidarity with the non-zionist, non-imperialist peace-loving Jewish community.

• Over 500 years of genocide, enslavement, and abandonment of all people of color as well as poor whites including all the victims of the Jewish holocaust.

Quetzal is but a small part of a massive community of artists that is committed to using art as a tool to redefine and reconstruct our neighborhoods. We hope that elected officials (barrio pimps) such as Jose Huizar begin to see the light of accountability.

Some thoughts, many of us in CD 14 love the music of Quetzal, but the rhetoric espoused above, can be found on the ethnophobic pages of "La Voz de Aztlan".

But most may agree about the Jose Huizar comment.

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

Israel Prefers McCain

John McCain may be down in some of the polls but if he was running in Israel against Barack Obama he'd easily win. A poll conducted for the Rabin Center for Israel Studies shows that Israelis would vote 46 to 34 percent for  McCain over Obama.

In the poll, nearly half or 48.6% of Israelis surveyed believe that McCain's policies would be more favorable compared to only 31.5% for Obama.

While this may be good news for McCain unfortuantely for him Israeli citizens can't vote in our elections.

Palin Derangement Syndrome Hits New High; Epic Fail for Bloggin' Wackos

A number of blogs today reported that Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin made a major "gaffe" in commenting to Israeli ambassador Sallai Meridor "We look forward to working with your Jewish agency."

These blogs were of the non-presence of mind that Palin had referred to either the Israeli Embassy or the State of Israel proper as a "Jewish agency" and that was proof positive that the Alaskan Governor is indeed a brain-dead, Redneck, anti-Semitic, racist Caribou Barbie.

The problem is that most of these bloggin' fools didn't bother to actually read the story from the Associated Press or the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that put the exchange into it's actual context, nor even get the quote correct.

In their meeting, Palin was referring to the organization that Sallai Meridor previously headed, The Jewish Agency, and the actual quote was "I look forward to hearing about your work with the Jewish Agency and all the plans that we have. We'll be working together." (JTA explains a little more here)

The Jewish Agency is a respected organization that assists with immigration to Israel and with issues of the Jewish Diaspora.

But for those who have been assimilated by the Obama Collective, Extreme Palin Derangement Syndrome (EPDS) goes with the territory. Remember, resistance is futile!

Rev Jax: Israel Lower Priority Under Obama

One of the reaons I don't trust Obama - his positions/record on Israel. And this doesn't help.

Speaking at an international conference in France, civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson told participants that in an Obama White House supporters of Israel will have less influence than in previous administrations.

The most important change would occur in the Middle East, where "decades of putting Israel's interests first" would end.

Jackson believes that, although "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades" remain strong, they'll lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White House.

Despite past disputes and battles with the Democratic Presidential nominee Jackson, who was the first major African-American candidate for President in 1984, claimed a long and close association with Obama.

Obama has been "a neighbor or, better still, a member of the family." Jackson's son has been a close friend of Obama for years, and Jackson's daughter went to school with Obama's wife Michelle.

"We helped him start his career," says Jackson. "And then we were always there to help him move ahead. He is the continuation of our struggle for justice not only for the black people but also for all those who have been wronged."

Maybe Sarah Silverman might want to call off that schlep to see all the bubbies and zadies in Florida before it's too late.